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A Week Without Coffee!
There she goes
There she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can’t contain
This feeling that remains
- from There She Goes by The Boo Radleys
I first heard that song in the Mike Myers movie So I Married an Axe Murderer. I didn’t know at the time that it was about heroin (naïve little me). I’ve been fighting this coffee addiction for a while now, and I think that the song can be applied to caffeine, too. You can read the rest of the Coffee Chronicles by clicking these links:
The Unthinkable: Giving Up Coffee
Progress Report: Giving Up Coffee, Part 2
I used to get a real pick-me-up from drinking coffee. It fueled my workouts, jump-started my mornings, stirred me up in the afternoon, and kept me company while my newborn son screamed from colic pains all night. It kept me awake on the four-hour drives to and from business meetings at my company’s headquarters.
There she goes
There she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can’t contain
This feeling that remains
But coffee hard a dark side. It made me cranky. It kept me awake rather than alert. I wasn’t getting enough sleep as it was, and coffee compounded the problem. My fuse grew shorter. I would sweat alot. ALOT. Having a cup of coffee in the afternoon usually justified a trip to the candy machine for some fat pills. I started looking like Tweedledee.
So I decided to try a new lifehack, and to cut coffee out of my life completely. I can happily report that my experiment has been successful. Today marks one week with not even a drop of coffee. I’m satisfied with my progress, and hope to keep the caffeine monkey off of my back for good.
So long, sweet java! It’s been nice knowing you. But your negatives have come to outweigh your positives, and it’s time to say goodbye.
There she goes
There she goes
There she goes
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Down to One Cup of Coffee
I’m almost there. I’m down to one cup of coffee per day. What a long day it is! I’m almost ready to break the caffeine addiction that started in high school. But I have a feeling that I’ll stick to the one cup for a little while, because old habits die hard: I’d been stuck on two cups a day since the end of March.
Don’t talk to me before my morning coffee…
If you’ve followed my progress here and here, you know my backstory. Giving up this habit is no small sacrifice. I have my one cup, really a mug, in the morning before I go to work. I fill that sucker up almost to the rim, because I know that it’s the last coffee that I’ll taste until the next morning. I also drink it black, so it’s 100% caffeinated goodness.
It makes sense cents
I can’t ignore the financial benefits. Where we used to go through two cans of java each week, now we buy one can every two to three weeks. Given the price of the stuff, I can estimate a $300 - $400 savings over the course of a year. Not too shabby! Now, if I could give up cigars, we’d be talking some serious money. But one bad habit at a time. So much for the economics. Has it improved my demeanor?
I’ll be seeing less of you, old friend
Giving up the cup after dinner was torture! I’m glad I didn’t put a time limit on this goal, because each step has been a struggle. Sure, it’s made me less jittery, helped me sleep better, and saved me some money. I find that I don’t sweat as much. Even my teeth are whiter. But this is COFFEE! It was a dear, old friend. It’s been with me through all-night cramming in high school, and term papers in college. It’s resuscitated me in the morning after a late night of bar-hopping. It’s been an afternoon pick-me-up at work. It kept me alert during my baby son’s nighttime feedings, lest I stick the bottle in his ear.
A grouch with a capital “G”
But all relationships lose their spark over time. You start to notice flaws in the other party. Coffee was no exception. Java also brought out some of my less-than-charming qualities. I won’t miss those. Neither will the people that have to put up with me on a daily basis. Hopefully, in two months or so, I can report that I’ve finally gotten the monkey off my back. It’ll be tough, with all of the iced coffee commercials that arrive just in time for Summer. I’ll just have to suck it up and ignore them.
Besides, it’s barbecue season. Hello, Sam Adams Lager…
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