Just drink less coffee and alcohol then?
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I never liked taste of alcohol (can tolerate certain brews) but I love coffee. I also havent drank coffee so much in my life. It is numbing my tiredness and making me a bit more irritated for no specific reason. I do drink coffee in cases when I either am poorly rested, had no rest at all or need to perform physically for a long time.
It is funny and annoying when people ask you if you want beer, you refuse and then weird/funny questions come. Latest one was at the friends party. Lady asked me if I am not drinking in solidarity to my pregnant wife.
I am, why do you ask? I do drink occasionally for social reasons, to be polite.
I don't like coffee, so I picked slow news day when the report was how coffee was bad for you and never again read news about coffee.
I've got a friend who was drinking 3 shots of coffee a day just to not melt from exhaustion, if not more. He decided to stop completely, sleept horibly for a week then he was great. Now one cup of coffee gets him really eletric.
I've been almost a year without drinking considerable quantities of alcohol and it feels pretty good. In fact now I dislike drinking. Recently I drank half a shot of vodka and almost threw up.
I'd think it's not about going to 0 coffee and staying like that, but about building a better relation to it. Like medicine. Take it when you need it, don't overdo it.
I did that once, and I discovered that I had been effectively self medicating, and I had my doses pretty much figured out.
Now I try to stay on my substances, and I take care to treat them with respect - neither over or under using them.
I didnt drink often and much, maybe once per two weeks, and max 3 beers or something. But since I stopped completely, and I drink 0 per year I can feel much better. My diet didnt change, I spend less time outdoors, but I feel better…
I've quit everything besides coffee. Once went three months without it, and it definitely wasn't worth quitting for me.
Smoked some synthetic THC a few years ago when I hated myself. I still hate myself somewhat but at least I'm mentally present. No more brainfog.
Determine which habits are good, bad, neutral. Then anything good or neutral, determine good frequency. Then cycle frequency to optimize utility vs. adaptation/addiction/increased requirements. Anything bad, eliminate.
I'm not, only because I think sugar is one hell of a substance
I never had any not because I wouldn't but because it's ridiculously expensive to me.
Never smoked either.
I drink on occasions only.