I decided last month to cut out caffeine while TTC because I don't want to "shock" my body once I find out. It's been going REALLY well up until today. I couldn't keep my eyes open and I caved and got a 16oz coffee.
OMG, I feel like I took speed or something! I'm moving at a million miles per minute and my heart is RACING!
Has anyone given up caffeine only to go back- and did you feel like a crack addict??:)
pear / 1965 posts
LOL! Cant say I have but this totally made me giggle! I dread the mornings when I can no longer have my Coffee. I live in WA where there are coffee stands and places on every block. Going to be torture!
apricot / 403 posts
I started weaning myself off by mixing in decaf with regular coffee. I used to drink two 16oz coffees a day plus a bottle of diet Pepsi. (yeah... A little overboard)
Now I do mostly decaf and only drink one cup a day.
honeydew / 7968 posts
not really. but there was a short period where i took stacker something pills which gave some adrenaline (it was some diet pills). eek! never again!
pineapple / 12053 posts
i'm also trying to wean myself off, but not going cold turkey! i'm drinking tea instead. i remember in college, i could have a quad espresso and go right to bed!
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
I rarely drank coffee before becoming a mom-- I never really felt or appreciated its effects. Then after RJ became a toddler I started drinking a cup in the morning and a cup in the afternoon. HOLY COW, how is this stuff legal?? When it kicks in, I feel like I'm flying, that my life is SOOOO beautiful and wonderful, and I can do ANYTHING! Then when I crash, I want to lay my head down and DIE.
I'm trying to cut down to 1 cup a day (in the mid morning), but it's SO HARD! Right now I'm starting to feel the afternoon slump (hence, I'm on hellobee!) and it's taking all my willpower not to get another cup.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
I drank a latte every day while i was in school. Once I got married I stopped drinking cold turkey because I no longer needed/wanted them.
I never drank coffee for the caffeine, just liked the taste. Maybe that's why I never experienced the withdraw? No idea.
I drink decaf lattes every once in a while now and will have some caffeinated coffee occasionally but I never feel the kick! :T
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
I have never been a coffee or soda person. But when I do drink it, I don't feel like it effects me that much. Maybe that's why I don't bother.
persimmon / 1202 posts
I just sometimes get intense lack-of-caffeine headaches - after several months of not-much-caffeine-at-all.
cherry / 167 posts
I never really felt the "effects" of caffeine either, but I think that since I haven't had it in so long I recongnized them more today. I'm regretting that 11:00am coffee now as I've crashed..... is it 5pm yet?!:)
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I've been weaning myself off, luckily i've never been a coffee drinker, but i'm a 2-3 cans of pop a day person. I have cut myself down to one can and will stop completley after we return from our trip!
pomegranate / 3008 posts
I've found that I have to go back to caffeine slowly if I've been off it for awhile. Even when I drink coffee regularly if someone brews a particularly stout batch, I get the shakes and have to immediately try to eat and flush my system with water to feel normal again.
As an aside, I thought the post from Parenting. Illustrated with Crappy Pictures' blog was particularly appropriate for your thread and @tina:'s comment. http://crappypictures.typepad.com/crappy-pictures/2012/01/the-uppers-downers-of-parenting-or-coffee-wine.html
cherry / 167 posts
@Pelikila: I LOVE IT! As someone who is TTC baby #1 right now, this makes me think that I'm in for a big reality check when we actually have kids:)
pomegranate / 3008 posts
@MrsLMA: That blog hits home for me so often and I love it. I think we all get a big reality check once we have kids. There is no amount of planning that seems to work! 
eggplant / 11287 posts
How come you won't be having caffeine while pregnant?
I have had two doctors tell me that up to 200 mg of caffeine a day is totally fine while pregnant.
cherry / 167 posts
@MRSDAREDEVIL: I was drinking way too much caffeine and I figured that if I could cut it out completely befoe pregnancy then I wouldn't shock my system during pregnancy. I also wanted to prove to myself that I.didn't "need" it as much as I thought I did. I'm sure I'll have an occassional cup during pregnancy;)
kiwi / 545 posts
Haha. There is no quitting coffee for me. I am around it too often. I have cut back since we found out we were expecting, though.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
I was never a major caffeine junkie but I haven't had hardly any at all since finding out I'm pregnant. I had a half-caf latte from Starbucks a week ago and thought I was going to be awake for days. It hit me super hard.... Just half caf!
coconut / 8861 posts
I haven't had any caffeine for about a month. Since I see my doctor this week, I want to know her thoughts on my one cup of black tea a day thing. I don't miss it, but sometimes feel like I might need my tea. Also, I'm going to afternoon tea with my friends this weekend, so I need to know how much I can do on that day.
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