No More Caffeine

I for years have been a major coffee-drinker.  A cup in the morning before leaving for work, then I'd buy 'a cup' when I got to work, typically 16oz.  Then at lunch time I would buy another 16oz.  That is a lot of coffee already, but I wasn't always done--sometimes I would have coffee in the afternoon/evening.  On the weekends, no trip from home of any consequence could be started without a trip to a Dunkin Donuts.
However, about 3 weeks ago I kicked the habit and I am happy that I did.

  

 

 I wake up au natural, have no ups and downs anymore; it helps keep me more even-keeled.  I don't think coffee ever agreed with my stomach, but you use it to stay awake or more alert than you normally would be and you don't mind that it is burning your stomach lining away.

I think the first week or so was a little difficult and I didn't feel great, but now it is great.  No desire to have caffeine (although still not 100% done with coffee--slowly weaning off with Decaf coffee) and I no longer have to live from coffee to coffee, crashing out really hard at the end of the day, and re-entering each morning with a need to get coffee to get started.  It is so crazy to me that now I get up and just have a glass of water instead of hot black coffee.  I guess it was getting out of hand though--the above sequence lists out about 40 oz of coffee that I was pretty much definitely having every single day.  I think you can get away without being moderate in your intake in one day (say binge drinking, overeating, drinking too much coffee to name a few simple immoderate possibilities) but long term I tend to try and find my way to moderation.  And I clearly had gotten away from that with all that coffee so I am quitting it for now, and hopefully I can reintroduce it as a treat.  I may occasionally have a coffee now and again, or a soda, or whatever--but the days of getting up and jonesing for the java are behind me.  Sorry Juan Valdez, you'll have to find some other sucker to pick up the slack on your donkey payments!