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[flexagon]

I've decided semi-randomly to go off caffeine for a while (not 100%; but maybe I'll cut down to just Saturdays or something, through the summer). I do love coffee but I suddenly felt like doing this; it's one less thing to be dependent on, and I know that I sweat a lot less when I don't drink coffee.

So, today was my first day with no caffeine. It was fine, except that I fell asleep at my desk for a few minutes right before 4PM, and then I missed yoga class because I thought it was only 5:30 when it was really 6:30.

AWESOME.

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Re: Caffeine

[flexagon]

Just wanted to let you know (~3 weeks later) that it went fine! I basically did this:

Friday: 2-3 cups as usual
Saturday: 1 coffee
Sunday: 1 black tea
Monday: nothing

I've had real coffee a couple of times since then -- once last Saturday morning, and once on Wednesday evening when I realized I had to stay up super-late. I suppose it helped. But the next day I sweated on my shirt and was really annoyed. Fie, coffee, why must you do that to me??

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[islenskr.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's pretty cold turkey. I'm impressed! Congratulations!

I've done the coffee thing on and off to stay up late or to wake up after a long night. But it always ends up biting me in the ass - a cup in the morning will cause me to not sleep as well as I might and I"ll need the same cup (plus some) the next day.

Really: congratulations!!

Do you have a sort of ersatz drink in the morning?

Re: Caffeine

[flexagon]

Well, I did have that one day of falling asleep at the desk, but after that it was okay. :)

I don't drink anything besides water in the mornings (and right now Airborne, but that's because I'm a little sick). In theory, the thing that really wakes me up is a few minutes on the elliptical.

I originally got into coffee as an after-lunch thing to avoid the afternoon sleepiness dip. So, if I were to go back to once-a-day use of something, it'd probably be that, not a morning thing. It took me longer to get into mornings, though for the last 18 months or so I was doing both.