That Dreadful Coffee Addiction

So about two months ago I decided I needed to cut my addiction to caffeine, needing coffee every morning just starts getting irritating after awhile. I decided that the easiest, well, fastest, way to do this was by stopping completely for at least four days and then not having it more than once within every three days, enough to allow me to drink it if I want but not often enough to make me feel like I need it. I figured this should be easy enough, I had to quit like that when I was traveling this summer because we weren't allowed to have caffeine on the farm in Spain where we volunteered. That hadn't been too bad, so why should this time be any worse?

Well, lets just say that the guys at work weren't necessarily joking when they kept trying to give me chocolate every day at work that week. I never got too much of a headache but I certainly felt fuzzy enough and I must say, my craving for sugar went way up. After that week though, I was fine, didn't need coffee in the morning, didn't get headaches with out it, life was good. Except for that fact that coffee still tastes delicious...

My trick now was if I felt the need for caffeine at home, I'd make some tea, not enough to have too much of an effect, but still something. If I still wanted coffee I'd buy it while I was out or have it at my parents, that way it was a special occasion thing that cost money. This worked fine and dandy, except for the fact that this morning...I turned on my coffee pot...oops. I have opened the dangerous door to my coffee cravings again by proving how easy and delicious coffee is when all you have to do is plug in the pot, dump in the water and coffee, and press start.

As wonderful as this cup of coffee is that I'm drinking right now, I will keep from sliding back into the world of caffeinated beverages every morning, afternoon pick-me-ups of coffee, tea or soda and the pounding headache if I oversleep and go right to lunch skipping the coffee. Maybe to fool myself I will buy the stripped version of everyone's favorite caffeinated morning beverage called "decaf." It tastes the same, but no caffeine, it's like giving a dog a bone that's merely flavored like meat, but is in all reality just dry crunchies.