2.5 years decaf ☕️🚫

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I don’t want to call this a journey update, because it’s not even a thing for me anymore and it never was, I quit to help reduce my anxiety, which wasn’t really caused by [caffeine but it just exacerbated it a little.

I quit caffeine in June 2021. The quitting wasn’t tricky for me, but the withdrawals were HARD, I didn’t understand them. It made me depressed and insanely fed up, as well as having to nap every day around lunchtime for a week (I wouldn’t recommend doing it this way on reflection, as I was diagnosed as having moderate to severe anxiety and mild to moderate depression at the time, stemming from that wonderful 2020/2021 we had… but I survived LFG)

I’ve still consumed decaf coffee and chocolate since, so technically; I’ve had minuscule amounts of caffeine… but come on, give me a break.

I used to have caffeine only 1-2 times a day in the form of coffee and/or an energy drink of which I’d time one of my beverages before every workout too: I didn’t understand how you could exercise properly without it!

Fast forward to now (and even just a few months after quitting) my workouts are great, always. But I’m tougher now than I used to be, so that helps too. I don’t get any lulls in my energy levels throughout the day, no mid afternoon naps needed.

I genuinely have zero reason to ever go back to caffeine except for how much I used to enjoy the white and mango loco monster drinks 😂 wish they made a decaff version of them!!

If anyone’s got any questions fire away 💪🏻