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I successfully avoided caffeine (no teas and coffee) all weekend.
And I can tell you it was rubbish.
Absolutely pants. Zero out of ten.
I would warmly recommend Peter schiff and Christine Lagarde try it.
Anyway. Mild headaches, flat mood and the desire to do very little.
I am an addict.
Is it worth trying to cut out caffeine completely? Do you get any benefits?
#Caffeinestr #Coffeestr #Teastr
GM! ๐
Gm Joe
Good morning, Joe!
There was a joke. "Removing caffeine from your life will reduce by 90% your reasons to live."
GM Joe ๐ค๐ผ Coffee is healthy ๐งกโ๏ธ.
Rich in antioxidants. Liver health. Heart health. Physical performance. Mood enhancement.
Donโt take my coffee away ๐ฅท
Addiction = Dependence = Opposite of freedom.
So the benefit would be freedom, right?
Hey legend. Have a good day
I did 21 days with no caffeine earlier this year. It was rather therapeutic, I must say. Last year, I did 28 days with no caffeine, save one day in the middle when I had two lattes. I noticed a marked difference in anxiety levels
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aye up - come for a proper cuppa in Yorkshire
GM Joe have a great dayโจ๐
I love coffee. This will not change.
Benefits? You mean sadness?
Awesome Joe! I've had very bad withdrawal when quitting coffee. I'm now 1.5 years without it and very happy. Coffeine is a toxin for your body, with tiny benefits, big downsides. When you drink coffee your body is trying to flush it away from your system, hence why you need to pee shortly after.
Your body will get clean and restore its natural way to stimulate itself.
If you still want some stimulant, try a good raw cocoa. It has great benefits for brain and heart, while stimulates very slowly and very mildly. Also tastes better (imo) than coffee.
Love raw cocoa or cocoa tea for energy ๐ค
For me caffeine withdrawal lasts 1 day. Substance dependency is not the same as addiction. It can accompany it, though. I switched to good quality 100% arabicas, which have significantly less caffeine than robustas. And taste better. For me it worked well. It's best not to have coffee early in the morning, as it overrides your natural cortisol. Have it between 9 and 12.
I do a full month a year with no caffeine. Partly just to prove to myself I can. Headaches first few days and it wears off. When the month is over im back on 2-3 double espressos a day. I enjoy a good cup of coffee, so I decided not to care about the downsides.
I once read "why we sleep" which basically says coffee is crazy bad for your sleep even if you feel like you sleep fine, you're not sleeping deep enough with coffee after 3pm, I think it was.
Fast for min 3-4 days and you will not want to drink coffe afterwards with no effort.
fasting is for me the most effective way to get back on healthy rails, chemical body reset, and afterwards your body will tell you what is good for you, you will be surprised.
However, fasting on water only for few days is not easy, especially for the beginners.
As always, thre is no lasting results without PoW.
good luck!
Whenever I do a four-day water fast, I make sure to include a fair bit of alcohol just to keep things spicy.
GM and sincere congratulations on this improvement. I am trying to use less internet actually. ๐
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It was very easy to go from 5 cups of espresso to one, then it took about six months of tapering to get down to zero. Benefits: better sleep, less perspiration, more natural feeling of wakefulness, whiter teeth. A few times a year I'll still have a cup, usually at a restaurant, love the taste
im a coffee fiend as well but do do periods off and have the deepest most refreshing sleeps when i do
like wake up feeling actual rested
that's what keeps me going when i quit
You started with caffeine. Next try masturbation & social media detoxing. ๐ซก
I used to drink about 8 cups coffee / day. I went cold turkey, it was horrible for about 2 weeks. Marching up and down the bedroom house at 3am, like a proper addict. Scary.
But I don't drink any tea or coffee now.
Since giving it up, I've drank tea coffee again occasionally (twice last year). I enjoyed it, but I didn't feel the need to keep drinking it, and stayed "water total".
Personally better mood now without caffeine (no extreme ups and downs) and general health too (once you get over the line).
Hang in there, it's worth it.
Biggest downside for me would be if there is a sudden shortage of coffeeโฆ like supply chain issues or worse. Thus I stocked up on an emergency supply that will allow me to wean off if needed.
Drink it black so youโre truly addicted to just the coffee/teaโฆ not sugar or other things.
I once cut down from eight cups to zero over about four months.
But I have a sleep-wake cycle naturally far from optimal for working office hours. I can't be very productive before midday without stimulants.
So three cups a day and useful is my compromise :)
I quit cold turkey 16 months ago after 30 years of heavy use. also quit caffeinated stuff like sodas. Still eat chocolate though. The first week was flu-like; muscle pains, apathic, depressed. Then it all went away.
The initial benefits i experienced were - better sleep, less feelings of stress, harder erections, no crashes during the day.
however, all the initial benefits seems to have gone away by now, or they have been incorporated as normal by me, or was it placebo? dont fucking know.
Still much less stressed during the day though, must be the lower cortisol levels.
I can greatly recommend quitting, it's just a waste of time drinking coffe. Your body didnt need it before you began drinking it, not after quitting either.
We all need things to live. Water, air, food, connection.
The idea of needing one more thing, is nothing to be afraid of. I need my coffee, and thatโs OK.
Good morning ๐๐ซ
I think it is worth it to tackle any addiction.
Doesn't matter what: caffein, alcohol, debt, etc.
Simply the fact that you could observe your body reacting the way it did is quite a message, isn't it?
Gm Joeโ๏ธ
Have a productive week โ๏ธ โ๏ธ โ๏ธ
Good morning
Moin ๐ฅ
Have a bit of fun.
All humans have always used some sort of recreational drug.
Coffee is one of the least harmful.
Life lived by dogma is no fun.๐ฅ
If you want an interesting alternative, try matcha. You need to drink it at higher quantities than you will find in a Starbucks (or similar) matcha latte, but it's the best caffeine experience on the planet if you do so and make it yourself at home - with good quality powder and water that is not quite boiling point.
Bro, nothing wrong with caffeine if used correctly. Just make sure it does not impact your sleep and you are good! If you are injured and can't exercise I think tea and coffee are needed more just as a mood uplifter.
A double one after getting up with saw palmetto, colostrum, creatine, collagen peptides and grass-fed butter, and then a single one with a shot of milk at breakfast after getting back from a one hour hike and swim in the sea, but that's it, no more coffee for the rest of the day. That's just unbeatable. โ
You can have the same with cocoa.
Iโve been caffeine free for the the last 241 days and counting. The first few weeks are pretty crappy but after that itโs been all good. I definitely sleep better, better focus and sustained energy throughout the day. I think itโs worth it to be honest. Plus how many people do you know that donโt drink caffeine? Itโs cool to be the rebel too
Iโm not a fan of trying to cut things out. My inner rebel always got too, well, rebellious with that.
Iโm a big fan of substituting things in that I find work for me better.
If the goal is to work out how to feel more energized and youโre feeling curious, you could experiment with other things that are reported to lift energy and verify whether it works for you personally.
When I managed to do it for 2 months i felt much less anxious and more energetic in the morning (that is versus before the time I got coffee)
Cold Turkey is asking for trouble; you're just going to feel terrible and get nothing done.
The easiest way I found is tapering off.
Get some caffeine pills and a pill cutter. Halve the amount every 5 days or so. If you feel headaches coming on you've gone too fast or too much.
It works with basically no discomfort or loss of time.
In my experience, cold turkey works best. Shortest path to success. Also mentally very strengthening and rewarding.
There is no benefit in making yourself suffer.
I've never used the phrase "absolutely pants".......but I'm gonna start ๐
why do you want to stop drinking coffee?
I did 100 days off caffeine last year.
The experiment is done.
I wonโt repeat it.
It got a little easier after 2 weeks but never got back to baseline
I like caffeine.
Now try going sugar free for 2 months (no foods with sugar as an ingredient)
That's the big one
Arguably more important to cut out sugar, and much easier to do in my view
It's worth it; keep going. You become independent of a liquid to live. Coffee addiction is like cigar addiction after getting used to caffeine. You only use it because your brain is asking, and not because you really need it.
On the 7th week without coffee you experience ego death greater then that associated with an Ayahuasca trip. So please stay strong.
tbf 2 days isn't enough to get over any withdrawal symptoms. But as long as caffine isn't affecting your sleep or ability to focus, why give it up for puritancial reasons?
I have no idea if the results from those experiments with spiders can be related to humans but the outcome with caffeine on the ability to build their web was quite remarkable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_on_animals#Spiders
Saying and being just in the process of preparing my morning cup. (But I reduced my intake drastically)
GM!
tolerance break for about a month, every once in a while
has some benefits and increases caffeine appreciation when it's done
Caffeine is a drug, right? Why consume it?
