It took a LONG time for me to start really drinking coffee. Before that, I was a Diet Coke drinker.
I decided one month to go cold turkey. First two days, I failed to stop, because habit. If you regularly order a beverage at McD's and go back, you ask for that beverage before you think "No, cold turkey this month!"
Third day, I remembered and I stopped. I was a good boy.
Fourth day, my coworker looked at me and said "If you have the flu, you should just go home". That's what physical addiction and withdrawal are like.
Since then, I've decided on these rules:
coffee and tea and water, no Diet Coke
no caffeine after noon, or on days where I'm not coding
try to keep it under two cups/day
track this mess
I would point out that dropping Diet Coke is the only behavior change I can point to that caused me to drop ~100lbs.
You can see how I do with that. I'm not always 100% on that, but I try to keep consistent. Caffeine is a useful performance-enhancing drug, and has been called the Greatest Addiction Ever, but I don't think it can bear the weight that we put on it.
It took a LONG time for me to start really drinking coffee. Before that, I was a Diet Coke drinker.
I decided one month to go cold turkey. First two days, I failed to stop, because habit. If you regularly order a beverage at McD's and go back, you ask for that beverage before you think "No, cold turkey this month!"
Third day, I remembered and I stopped. I was a good boy.
Fourth day, my coworker looked at me and said "If you have the flu, you should just go home". That's what physical addiction and withdrawal are like.
Since then, I've decided on these rules:
I would point out that dropping Diet Coke is the only behavior change I can point to that caused me to drop ~100lbs.
You can see how I do with that. I'm not always 100% on that, but I try to keep consistent. Caffeine is a useful performance-enhancing drug, and has been called the Greatest Addiction Ever, but I don't think it can bear the weight that we put on it.