Tag: coffee

• September 4, 2015

  Loving Coffee Again

  I start­ed drink­ing cof­fee in August. I had a cof­fee every­day except Tues­days. It took a lot of men­tal ener­gy to con­tin­ue not drink­ing cof­fee. I missed the rou­tine more than caf­feine. And I could­n’t find a sub­sti­tute rou­tine. I tried very hard. I wast­ed more than fair share of my day’s cog­ni­tive bud­get on just decid­ing whether to have cof­fee. How sil­ly… Read more

• July 23, 2015

  Quitting Coffee Struggles

  As much as I would love to think that I am not a cof­fee addict, it looks like I am on the verge of giv­ing up on my attempt to quit cof­fee. Since decid­ing to quit cof­fee in the last week of April, I drank one cup in May, two in June and two so far in July. In a way… Read more

• June 4, 2015

  Quitting coffee

  I did pret­ty well last month learn­ing to stop drink­ing cof­fee. I had only one small cof­fee in all of May. This is a sig­nif­i­cant slash giv­en I was hav­ing one cof­fee every work­day. It was­n’t too dif­fi­cult to give up cof­fee, part­ly because I am not a cof­fee addict. But I had few urges. Once I even walked halfway to… Read more

• April 30, 2015

  Learning to stop drinking coffee

  After about two years of learn­ing to make and drink­ing cof­fee, today is the first day to stop that habit. As a first step, I left my cof­fee mug at home last night. I would love to drink cof­fee but it is bet­ter I stop need­ing it every week­day. Read more