Sometimes coffee cravings become painful. Just count, if you drink more than 3 cups of coffee a day, then we are talking about addiction. It can affect your sleep, the health of your heart and nervous system, and it can even impair your digestion. Hence the bad mood, loss of strength, decreased performance – and you are expecting a completely opposite effect?
Caffeine addiction must be abandoned. Here are tips to help you do it gently and quickly.
- Tune in
You need to take it calmly to part with the habit, prepare for the fact that it will take some time, that there will be steps back, but the result will certainly be the one that is planned. Something will interfere and there will be hundreds of reasons not to do this, and you can also prepare for this.
- Reduce the dose
You don’t need to give up caffeine abruptly. Try to start by reducing the number of cups you drink by one, and do not add the rest a little to the usual level. On the one hand, you psychologically will already give up part of the coffee, on the other hand, your body will learn to function with a lower level of caffeine in it.
- Track Caffeinated Products
In your diet, they either should not be (chocolate, Coca-Cola) or may be limited (tea, some medications).
- Adjust the food
A hearty meal is relaxing, but how can you rest if you have half a day ahead? And the hand reaches for coffee again. Build your meals so that the food is light and invigorating – salad, lean meats, light carbohydrate side dishes – and you don’t need caffeine.
- Introduce distracting rituals
If you have a habit of drinking coffee during an action or ritual, you can replace it with another habit. If your morning always began with hot coffee and watching passers-by out the window, leave the ritual of quietly standing by the window, but add, for example, the ritual of making a plan for the coming day or call your loved ones to share your impressions with them.
- Look for a replacement coffee
Coffee can easily replace delicious tea, chicory-based drink or freshly squeezed juice. Find your drink to your taste, the main thing is that it does not cause addiction and does not harm your health.
- Get enough sleep
In the morning you will feel more cheerful if you go to bed early the night before, turn off the night light, reduce the noise level and just get some sleep. People with chronic sleep deprivation are often prone to high coffee consumption.
- Calculate the benefit
If you are not afraid of the consequences of caffeine addiction, calculate the economic benefit – how much you can save if you drink less coffee. For some, this “business plan” is very inspiring!