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I have decided to go against the grain and slowly trying to give up coffee Feel like crap no energy and headaches someone said best thing to do is eat apples but can't have these as carbs are so high but taking 1x 200mg Caffeine Pro tablet 30 min's before workout which is helping me a lot been 4 days without coffee and I feel quite proud of it

Gidday, good on you. It can help with changing habits, to totally change the way we look at things. For instance, many people try to give up things, whilst thinking in deprivation mode. As we naturally seek pleasure and avoid pain, that can make it very difficult. Its the bane of many people trying to lose weight and give up sweet things. As long as they feel deprived, it makes the project much more difficult. However the thinking can be totally reversed. For example, rather than thinking and then feeling like 'going against the grain', you could think, then feel like the opposite, going with your body's natural grain, natural flow, that is, optimum health. Placing your focus on optimum health, the natural choice of every cell, and viewing coffee as detrimental, changes the attatchment to deprivation. You deprive yourself of optimum health, of feeling fullfilled, awesome, by having coffee. Then coffee really is viewed as non pleasurable, detrimental, a pain. You could also focus on the powerful benefits, the incredible confidence and pleasure of not needing workout stimulants.

We have the ability to totally change and condition our thoughts. It is our thoughts, our conditioning, subconcious and conscious that make things pleasurable or not. For instance many cultures think about and feel about different foods, as delicacies to be savoured... such as different types of live worms and insects.

http://jungle-hut.blogspot.com/2007/08/ ... worms.html

The exact same food can make someone with different conditioning, thus different thoughts and feelings, physically ill, even just thinking about it.

We can choose, condition, change or strengthen our thoughts just like our bodies and muscles, to our advantage or disadvantage. Also, just like a lack of physical exercise and conditioning, or the wrong type, can begin to show itself and effect our lives, or catch up with us, the same applies to mental conditioning.

Yikes, why the hell are you going cold turkey?! You don't have to suffer those headaches if you gradually phase it out! I got myself off of caffeine back in May and took over a month to do it. But I didn't have to suffer either. The plan I found online suggested to cut out the equivalent of 1/2 a cup of coffee per day (like 40 mg) until you're caffeine-free. I had to step down gradually, like drop 40 mg, stick at that level for 2-3 days, then drop some more.

I remember the day I got down to one can of Diet Coke with Splenda, which came out to 35 mg for the day. I enjoyed that coke so much, and was so excited knowing that the next day I wouldn't need any at all! I'm not going to mess with trying to supplement caffeine at workouts right now since I fought so hard to get off it in the first place. I have been able to have a couple of glasses of iced tea since then and they didn't make me start drinking caffeine habitually again, so that's a wonderful feeling, knowing if I get stuck somewhere without my caffeine-free splenda soda I'll still be able to have a drink.

Thanks for the advice guys appreciated. You no what marochka_raduga your right I might just give me self a present today a nice cup of coffee Must say today I feel much better than I did on Tuesday also we the UK have been having a heat wave so drining water and not whating anything hot to drink like coffee has been a bit easier.

krs wrote:Thanks for the advice guys appreciated. You no what marochka_raduga your right I might just give me self a present today a nice cup of coffee Must say today I feel much better than I did on Tuesday also we the UK have been having a heat wave so drining water and not whating anything hot to drink like coffee has been a bit easier.

Then again, if you do go cold turkey, you'll probably be completely free within seven days. And then you get to pop the pills before the workout and enjoy the jitters...

I can still do that as I haven't had that coffee yet

krs wrote:I can still do that as I haven't had that coffee yet

Ah! Fight the urge (as I sip my double-shot espresso) Between the coffee and low-carb, you should find your self-control growing faster than your muscles.

Didn't have that coffee had me tab was a beast in the gym today, also it was carb-up day so leg workout went well had a big coffee after workout god is was one point behind sex