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At the beginning of April, I quit coffee out of spite when withdrawal gave me a headache. I later learned that coffee can aggravate hayfever, so I stuck to my decision on those grounds as well.
Now, three months later and just past the end of my personal hayfever season, I noticed that I had put on 3-5kg in that time. I was aware of heightened appetite, but didn't actually weigh in, so this came as a mild shock, though not as a surprise. Since my efforts to exercise more are only very moderately fruitful, and thus CO isn't about to increase, I need to cut CI. And because willpower is a valuable resource, I'd rather spend it where it matters. So back to coffee it is.
Had my first full-size, full-power cup this morning, and man, does it kick. I'm a lot more alert, productive and, surprisingly, social. Better mood, too. In comparison, I spent the last three months brooding and antisocial. I got a lot of work done, and took about a ten-minute break to hammer out a quick lore document for my private project in order to put some random thoughts to paper, then got back to work.
And come lunch, I got a completely oversized portion by force of habit, and regret it greatly - appetite was in fact much reduced; I could've probably skipped lunch altogether.
The jitters are real, though. So I probably need to better calibrate my coffee intake.
I wonder whether I was always going to be better off with coffee (family history of low blood pressure), or whether this is simply a consequence of my having gone 20 years with, and now no longer functioning properly without.
You gotta have a SHARP cuttoff for intake if you want to avoid depndence and keep the benefits of a strong response, I find..
I got super dependant at my first fake computer job; I quit cold turkey and now only have coffee in the morning before 10:30.
Sharp cutoff as in quitting cold turkey (which I did), or daily after initial consumption (which I don't)?
Both. I quite cold turkey, and now I only drink coffee until 10ish at the latest unless it's an emergency; and it's pharmacological effect is STRONG.
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To be honest, I've never gotten a headache from not having coffee. May I ask how much coffee you drank and how bad was the headache? I wonder if I'm doing something different. My average before cutting down was 3 tablespoons and 6 cups of water, which translated to about 4 mugfuls.
Hard to say. I used to drink large quantities of heavily watered-down coffee. At a guess, probably not more than 2 mugs of regular, on a long day.
The headaches were endurable on their own, but persistent, and on top of a flu so I really didn't enjoy them.
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