Coffee Quit Day Comes! 3,2,1,..

PanicAtTheBuffet

How did you two do over the weekend?

Ha ha, Maid it's funny you asked that today. I went with my daughter to an early morning doctor appointment and I did have my green tea on the way. Afterward, we stopped at Panera Bread (BTW the "trail mix" bagel is awesome) and I was really dragging. I think I was actually staring at people, just watching them enjoy their coffee. TwentyTen just said what I was thinking "go ahead have one, just this one time." Monday mornings are hard. But I can honestly say I thought of you two and had water.
You guys are the best. Thanks.

Nice job this morning also, TwentyTen!

TheMaidOfAstolat

How did you two do over the weekend?

Ha ha, Maid it's funny you asked that today. I went with my daughter to an early morning doctor appointment and I did have my green tea on the way. Afterward, we stopped at Panera Bread (BTW the "trail mix" bagel is awesome) and I was really dragging. I think I was actually staring at people, just watching them enjoy their coffee. TwentyTen just said what I was thinking "go ahead have one, just this one time." Monday mornings are hard. But I can honestly say I thought of you two and had water.
You guys are the best. Thanks.

Nice job this morning also, TwentyTen!

Awe, you guys are sweet. :blushing:
Also, in a month or so...try a cup of decaf and see if you even like it anymore. I have decaf (1 cup) about 2-3 times a month...when I'm out with friends and there are no other options. I still enjoy the taste but I only add 1% milk, no sugar, no cream and there is almost no caffeine. It's okay to enjoy the taste...just not the after effects.

muth3rluvx2

I never thought i had a coffee problem before reading your posts and also from filling in my food diary- i have about 8 cups a day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which is waaaaaayyyyy to much .....trouble is i think it is helping me get through my quitting cigarettes , so dare not cut out coffee just yet ..... but i will be interested to see how you get on as its something i would like to stop in the future !!! Good Luck xxxxxxxxx

Quitting the smokes is a bigee! Excellent you are managing to pull that off Sarah, amazing even. i've tried and failed at that several times myself. For me , the coffee and smokes go hand in hand. I don't think I will ever quit the smokes until I can nix the coffee . When I was younger I would drink the stuff all day and all night. Not as many these days but they are way stronger and larger than I used to make them. Trying to keep it at no more than two a day until Sunday.

Yes dax, i know I am going to sleep and sleeeeeep. Wish I could sleep a week! Good for you for quitting the habit. Coke is about as evil I think. Surely you are better off without 20 cups a day in your system, yikes!

Thanks for chiming in everyone!

Jane,

I totally agree with Sara - I'm in exactly the same boat. I see nicotine as being the bigger threat myself (12/1/09) and my coffee went WAYYYYY up and now - all of a sudden in just the last couple of days - it's dropping. A pot a day to 2-3 cups a day... overnight? WHAT??? For the nic, have you used any aids? The coffee is just going to suck, with or w/o tea! I so wish you the best on that one!!

I'll have to read the updates soon - but I MUST get this paper done! LOL (stalling)

PanicAtTheBuffet

Maid, today would have been the perfect day for decaf. I really just wanted to drink out of a coffee mug. Like a grown-up. :laugh:

TheMaidOfAstolat

Maid, today would have been the perfect day for decaf. I really just wanted to drink out of a coffee mug. Like a grown-up. :laugh:

:laugh: I usually have my tea in a mug at work...just so I don't feel too left out by the coffee fiends around here.

TwentyTen

Maid, today would have been the perfect day for decaf. I really just wanted to drink out of a coffee mug. Like a grown-up. :laugh:

Tell me you are not drinking your tea from a sippy cup. :noway:

PanicAtTheBuffet

Maid, today would have been the perfect day for decaf. I really just wanted to drink out of a coffee mug. Like a grown-up. :laugh:

Tell me you are not drinking your tea from a sippy cup. :noway:

That made me laugh. Yup, thanks to you I can now think of my travel mug as a "adult sippy cup."

I like it.

muth3rluvx2

So, Ten - looks like you did it! CONGRATS! Alot better than me! :laugh:

How are you feeling so far? About half-way through the day - you hangin' in there okay? Living by the 5 minute rule?

TwentyTen

So, Ten - looks like you did it! CONGRATS! Alot better than me! :laugh:

How are you feeling so far? About half-way through the day - you hangin' in there okay? Living by the 5 minute rule?

Hey yeah, I am on week #3!!!!!! The first one was wicked, as Panic and Maid here can attest to. I was really feeling it for the first 10 days before the fog started to lift at all. Now I am good! I am over it! Panic too, now he is even a morning person. :happy:
I still am a bit tempted, but I know I never want to go through that quit again. No way. The green tea helped a little I think.
Not sure I could have done it without the hand-holding. I have tried and failed too many times before, and this time I really got it licked. It's a good feeling.

TheMaidOfAstolat

How are y'all doing today?

PanicAtTheBuffet

How are y'all doing today?

Hi Maid, I am doing fine. Except for Monday morning, I really haven't even thought about coffee.
How are you?

And TwentyTen, are you still hanging in there?

TwentyTen

How are y'all doing today?

Hi Maid, I am doing fine. Except for Monday morning, I really haven't even thought about coffee.
How are you?

And TwentyTen, are you still hanging in there?

Huh, is it Monday?? :noway: O no.. maybe I am not doin as well as I thought.. I thought.. it was Wednesday!
Oh oh .. ok. you thought about coffee on Monday... whew. OK.. Haha.. maybe I am still not clear of the fog.

I'm doing pretty good I guess , thanks. Still find myself thinkin' about it when the job gets tough and the day gets longer than I was expecting. I will have one on my birthday , oh yes I will and you can't stop me. It's at the end of the month. Just one. I imagine it will be a pretty good buzz!

PanicAtTheBuffet

Of course you can have coffee on your birthday. It's your birthday. You can have whatever you want.

I love the new "It's been a long week and I gave up coffee" picture.

TheMaidOfAstolat

Like Panic said...it's your b-day...you can have whatever you want. :bigsmile:

TwentyTen

Eighteen days coffee free!!!!!!!!!! WOOT! 18!!

TwentyTen

Somethin about Thursday afternoons.. Uhg. Feel like I am just crashing here. Tired. :yawn: I went into get my tea and one of our young interns was brewing a fresh pot of cofffeeeeeeeeeeeee. O man. And I know, a cup would perk me up perfectly for the second half of this ten hour shift. I didn't, but I SO want to. Why is it still hard??! :ohwell:

PanicAtTheBuffet

Hello Friday!

It has got to be that fresh brewed smell that awakens the senses and your whole body starts to scream, Yaaahoooo! I think that was one of the things about Teecino that I couldn't get used to. It really had no smell. Maybe a slight hint of herbal fruit. I made some again the other day and only drank a half of cup. blah.

Hang in there. The weekend is almost here.

TwentyTen

My ten hour work day , turned into 12 yesterday, and I still didn't buckle.

No jazzy aroma to the teeccino,? Yyyeah that would take half the fun out of it for sure.

I am just guzzling the green tea today, trying to make my way to Saturday. :drinker:

PanicAtTheBuffet

Nice new picture Twentyten. Looking good without coffee.

How was the weekend?

TheMaidOfAstolat

Hey guys! How's it going? I'm having a cup of instant decaf...it tastes pretty good (never as good as the real stuff-but I don't want caffeine headaches again). I'll just have tea the rest of the day...but the coffee smelled so good that I knew I would probably cave...so thank goodness I keep a stash of instant decaf in my desk for emergencies like this.

TwentyTen

Thanks Panic. I am doing good. Weekends are always good in comparison.

Good that you were prepared Maid. Now I keep a stash of green tea in my desk in case they are out at work. Still feeling pretty dependent on that, but I sure do not drink it the way I did the coffee.

Thanks for checkin in you guys, Hope you are havin a good Monday.

PanicAtTheBuffet

Happy Monday guys.

Hey Maid, that reminds me to pick up some instant decaf. Do you get the small jars or the coffee brew bags?

TheMaidOfAstolat

Happy Monday guys.

Hey Maid, that reminds me to pick up some instant decaf. Do you get the small jars or the coffee brew bags?

I use the brew bags...just seems to be more authentic and tasty.

PanicAtTheBuffet

Happy Monday guys.

Hey Maid, that reminds me to pick up some instant decaf. Do you get the small jars or the coffee brew bags?

I use the brew bags...just seems to be more authentic and tasty.

Thank you, I'll pick some up today. :drinker:

TwentyTen

Well hell. I caved today. I am just so freakin' exhausted, and the green tea wasn't cutting it, and work is a madhouse, and...

Excuses , excuses... I know. :embarassed:

It was just there, and I have no room for not being a max speed today.. and its another 10 hour (at least ) shift of this.

*sigh*

Very disappointed in myself. It does NOT mean I will return full throttle to the habit. I just really needed SOMEthing with a kick to wake me up so I can keep my head above water here. Dumb tho, since know fill well, the brief boost is just going to lead to a crash. Grrrrrr :grumble:

Lame.

Back to the water!!

Sorry guys. :ohwell:

llyndon

Ya know til I read this I didn't realize there was a whole world of people out there wantign to "quit" coffee!! Which made me reflect on the fact that coffee is the one thing I told my husband I would not compromise on. I drink decaf but still! 3 splendas and a half a gallon of half n half and it never crosses my mind that I should nix the habit entirely. Sneaky addiction, tippy toeing around in my mind. I quit smokes, I'm on a diet but the thought of cutting out my one cup of decaf coffee that I mostly have every other day seems like too much to bear! Oh well, good luck twenty ten!!! I'll send good vibes your way.

TwentyTen

Ya know til I read this I didn't realize there was a whole world of people out there wantign to "quit" coffee!! Which made me reflect on the fact that coffee is the one thing I told my husband I would not compromise on. I drink decaf but still! 3 splendas and a half a gallon of half n half and it never crosses my mind that I should nix the habit entirely. Sneaky addiction, tippy toeing around in my mind. I quit smokes, I'm on a diet but the thought of cutting out my one cup of decaf coffee that I mostly have every other day seems like too much to bear! Oh well, good luck twenty ten!!! I'll send good vibes your way.

Thanks. Congrats on tthe quitting smokes, that is a biggee!
Yeah, I am kicking myself, because I was so close to a whole month free. I guess, I cannot let one slip up send me backward.

Appreciate the good vibes! Everyone send me energy!!!

TheMaidOfAstolat

Twenty- You're expected to slip up every once in a while...it happens to everyone. It's only coffee...not illegial drugs.
llyndon-yep...there are a bunch of us out here. I stick to decaf and only have maybe 2-3 cups a month with 1% milk and no sugar.
Panic-where are you? How are you doing?

PanicAtTheBuffet

Panic-where are you? How are you doing?

I'm still at the store buying decaf. These lines are really long. j/k

Hey Maid! Thanks for thinking about me. I am good(I think). This week has been really crazy. I had a 400 mile drive today and the only reason I didn't get coffee was I didn't feel like stopping.

TwentyTen don't worry about it. I really think you can have a coffee now and then. Maybe do a half decaf, half coffee. Heck I'll even send you this crappy herbal coffee. :laugh: Please don't sweat it, you'll be fine.

llyndon, welcome to the club. I really do have more energy in the morning now without coffee. Good luck with whatever you decide.

I'll check back in the morning on you guys. I'm beat. :yawn: Hang in there.

missmelfina

Hey guys! Sorry I've been absent for a while. It looks like you're all doing so well! Panic, that happened to me too once my body got over the coffee. POOF! Instant morning person for a while. I haven't been keeping track though of if I still am, though. Does that sound weird? I had a coffee today, but coffee for me is now a normal social thing rather than a need... Except when I have the night shift four days in a row. I think if that becomes normal, I should clean out the coffee pots sooner, as I am the only one who works at night.

See, TwentyTen? I screw up, too. I read this great article in fitness magazine one time for binge eaters (which is another addiction I'm well on my way to quitting... well not today) that said that part of the reason you mess up is because you're too hard on yourself the first time you make a mistake. Let it happen, be glad you got to enjoy your mistake, and roll with it. soon you'll find yourself making fewer and fewer mistakes. In your case, you went nearly a month (read through what I missed, btw. quite a journey) without slipping up. You'll be fine in no time.