Cutting coffee?

I've done it a few times over the years, generally found it miserable for a while and then no big deal.

For me personally I find that coffee doesn't hurt my ability to sleep, negatively impact my fitness goals, or hurt my health, so I just enjoy it.

But if you want to quit for whatever reason, I'd say be prepared to have a few days of headaches, irritation, and feeling more tired than usual (unless you replace it with something else that contains caffeine).

Why would you do this to yourself?!?!?!? My coworkers know that until I have had coffee they do not approach me!

Let me add - I did give up all forms of caffeine several years ago and the only downside that I found was that I had more kidney stones during that period than during the rest of my life while having caffeine - just my n=1 experience and can't explain it (possibly the diuretic effect of flushing my kidneys because of the caffeine, but I really don't know). Also, if you regularly have caffeine, withdrawal is usually accompanied by headaches (sometimes severe) for the first 3-5 days.

I did cut out my love, coffee. I think it's been a couple of years now and I still miss it dearly. I have terrible GERD and no amount of medication allows me to drink coffee comfortably. I drink tea and 0 calorie energy drinks now, so I'm still getting my daily caffeine. Every once in a while I still have about 1/2 cup of coffee, for nostalgia.

brb_2013 wrote: »

I have before and never stuck to it long, but this time is different because I know I don't want to make room for cream anymore

I tried about three weeks of black coffee, love the taste but my stomach couldn't handle it. Started having heartburn for hours, even into the afternoon. Since I switched to black tea I haven't had heartburn and frankly I just don't miss it as much because A. It hurt me, and B. I REALLY like food versus creamer.

Cream (real.dairy, full fat) might be my favorite food. Coffee is a delivery system.

Excedrin helps with the caffeine withdrawal headaches when I cut back or just don't get my coffee for whatever reason.

I've done it for a couple of reasons, but it was never intended to be long-term. It was always because I wanted to temporarily increase caffeine sensitivity or because I wasn't going to have access to coffee and wanted to cut slowly rather than quickly.

The best advice I can give is to cut very slowly. If you consume as much caffeine as I do, this can take weeks or months.

jillybeansalad wrote: »

Excedrin helps with the caffeine withdrawal headaches when I cut back or just don't get my coffee for whatever reason.

Excedrine helps because one of the active ingredients is caffeine...

EXCEDRIN Extra-Strength Pain Reliever (Bristol-Myers) Active Ingredients: Each tablet, caplet, or geltab contains Acetaminophen 250 mg, Aspirin 250 mg, and Caffeine 65 mg.

December 26 I quit smoking cold turkey and had to quit coffee. I always smoked more when drinking coffee and they say to quit smoking you have to quit the vice that goes with it.

I used the crystal light grape with caffeine for the first two days along with a headache med. the headaches eventually subsided to where I didn't have caffeine w/d's anymore

I found that once I cut out sodas I picked up coffee habit. I only drink it during the week in the morning before work... never drink it on the weekend. My nutritionist told me it was a free food, I guess it's what I add too it maybe..Idk...I actually had that same thought this morning

I took out sugar in my coffee and that's helped me keep it to a cup or occasionally two a day.

I feel a lot better about my coffee drinking now.