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Inspired by the excellent thread on giving up booze for a year, I've successfully been dry for getting on for 6 months now and it feels really really good.
The one thing that would not go away though were once weekly debilitating headaches that were all consuming until I got back to bed that night. When I was drinking, I used to put these headaches down to hangovers and lack of quality restful sleep because of the drinking.
As a side experiment now I've got the alcohol under control, I wanted to try giving up Caffine and just let my body do its own thing and find it's own rhythm.
I'm about a month into this experiment now and aside from an almighty withdrawal headache about 24 hours in, I've noticed the following;
1. I was a little hungrier to start off with. This has faded with time. (Caffine is an appetite suppressant)
2. Those debilitating headaches have GONE. I can only assume that this was to do with keeping the body in a state of constant agitation. Caffine basically hypes up the nervous system.
3. My body now seems to evacuate when it wants but instead of needing a coffee in the morning to prompt a dramatic shit, a cup of hot water with lemon or a herbal tea or an orange juice also works. My body now just shits when it needs to.
4. I feel calmer and I'm making better more rational decisions.
5. I feel like I have more energy. I can pretty much go all day and my body seems in tune with the natural cycle of the day rather than pressing the turbo boost of the coffee button.
6. I sleep like a log.
The downsides that I can see are that when I go out to bars/cafes now, my options are limited to orange juice, herbal teas or soda water.![[Image: undecided.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/undecided.gif)
. I feel like a monk.
Has anyone else tried this? I realise that this forum is fairly US centric so I might be a heretic as far as some of you are concerned.
Inspired by the excellent thread on giving up booze for a year, I've successfully been dry for getting on for 6 months now and it feels really really good.
The one thing that would not go away though were once weekly debilitating headaches that were all consuming until I got back to bed that night. When I was drinking, I used to put these headaches down to hangovers and lack of quality restful sleep because of the drinking.
As a side experiment now I've got the alcohol under control, I wanted to try giving up Caffine and just let my body do its own thing and find it's own rhythm.
I'm about a month into this experiment now and aside from an almighty withdrawal headache about 24 hours in, I've noticed the following;
1. I was a little hungrier to start off with. This has faded with time. (Caffine is an appetite suppressant)
2. Those debilitating headaches have GONE. I can only assume that this was to do with keeping the body in a state of constant agitation. Caffine basically hypes up the nervous system.
3. My body now seems to evacuate when it wants but instead of needing a coffee in the morning to prompt a dramatic shit, a cup of hot water with lemon or a herbal tea or an orange juice also works. My body now just shits when it needs to.
4. I feel calmer and I'm making better more rational decisions.
5. I feel like I have more energy. I can pretty much go all day and my body seems in tune with the natural cycle of the day rather than pressing the turbo boost of the coffee button.
6. I sleep like a log.
The downsides that I can see are that when I go out to bars/cafes now, my options are limited to orange juice, herbal teas or soda water.
. I feel like a monk.Has anyone else tried this? I realise that this forum is fairly US centric so I might be a heretic as far as some of you are concerned.