Greats on the switch, Scott! Limiting consumption of coffee is a good idea. Your post made me recall an article I read a week ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1283421/Coffee-does-NOT-wake-Its-mind.html" rel="nofollow">
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12834...
My coffee consumption usually goes down in the summer (down to 6-8 cups, from 10-12 in the winter), but I should start looking at tea, too.
Unlike you, I get massive headaches if I don't get my caffeine fix. Maybe I'll find a tea that can give me that hit, and has some health benefits.
But that coffee is just so good!
White Jasmine tea has a high caffeine level, I drink it every morning :) It is also very high in antioxidants. I've been drinking it daily since November. Many of you saw me with my portable tea cup at Affiliate Summit :)
Matcha green tea has 3 times the caffeine of coffee and it is a better caffeine that is more "level". Even if you replace a couple of those cups of coffee with a cup or two of tea (loose tea, the good kind) you will see a reduction in the "caffeine headaches" and an overall increased fitness level.
Scott, did you not get any tea samples from me at summit? I know I gave a few die hard coffee drinkers some!
Like anything else, cravings for coffee is all in your head. At the same time that i've been running like a fiend, to get and stay ahead of you :), I've been trying to dramatically improve my eating habits.
Ice cream every night is SOoo good too, but I've kicked that and other routine sweets and fast food (though not entirely).
[...] 3. Drink better - For the most part I usually down 4-6 cans of soda a day and maybe have 2 glasses of water. That will change. I am gonna do my best to limit myself to one can of regular soda per day. For the most part I hate diet soda but diet Mt. Dew isn’t terrible so I might have a couple of those. But gone are the Super Big Gulps. Also I will try to drink more water. And taking a cue from a friend of mine try drinking more tea. [...]
Holy crap, Joe. There's like 1/4 cup of sugar in a can of Mt. Dew.
You can make some pretty tasty tea with a fraction of that sugar.
Heck, you could even make coffee taste good to you with half the sugar that you're drinking when you "do the dew".
Personally, I like black coffee and unsweetened tea so it's not an issue here.
Scott, Oh good for you! The diversity of tea makes it such a great year round beverage.
I love sun tea in the summer.. just make the tea in a big drink canister and let seep in the sun - then add some ice to drink - yummy! Green tea is awesome, I like to combine it with other flavors, especially raspberry zinger by Celestial Seasonings.
Eric, sometimes drinking a lot more fluids will help with the caffeine fix - I've been coffee free for about 3 years now, the headaches eventually stop.
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For the first time in as long as I can remember (maybe forever), I have stopped drinking coffee for the past 4 days now. With only a few missed days here and there, I think I can safely say that I've been drinking coffee every day of my life for the past 20 years, and a lot of it at that.
After reading some fitness books that don't so much bash on coffee, but expound on the virtues of tea, I've decided to switch to tea for a while.
I'm not giving up on caffeine, though this will result in less consumption.
Though when I do go an entire day without any caffeine, it doesn't seem to affect me. I hear that some people do experience headaches and other adverse effects. Not here, thankfully.
The health benefits of drinking tea are what have attracted me to it, the antioxidants attacking the free radicals and all that (sounds very scifi), but I also wonder if I stand to benefit from drinking less coffee as well. I do suspect that it may be contributing to some GI issues (stop,TMI).
So, this week, I'm drinking Numi Jasmine Green organic tea.
I've learned a lot about coffee over the years, but I have to admit, I know next to nothing about tea.
Perhaps I'll have to lean on my friends over at American Tea Room (in the affiliate program, specifically) to help get me started.