My Caffeine Detox

My Caffeine Detox

Ok, I feel lousy.

I’m tired, unmotivated, my head’s foggy, I have half a headache, and I’m cranky. Why? Well, thanks for asking. Yesterday I decided to start a caffeine detox.

For several weeks I’ve felt the need to reset my “caffeine clock”. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, its the time before I had such a tolerance of caffeine. A wonderful time where one coffee would bring feelings of elation and joy, leaving me ready to take on whatever task was before me. Unfortunately, the occasional coffee turned into one a day, then two a day, then mixed with energy drinks and chocolate covered espresso beans..Wham, I was hooked. I soon noticed that I wasn’t really getting the benefits of caffeine anymore and really just needed it to maintain a normal level of tiredness so I decided to detox.

Yesterday I cut back to one coffee when I woke up and Its been over 24 hours without any caffeine. The cafeine withdrawal symptoms that I opened this article with are making it very hard to get my work done today, but I’m plugging on as the receptors in my brain learn to readjust from their caffeine fed state. Caffeine Detox isn’t as easy as one would think and I can definitly see the ties to addiction caffeine possesses, along with that little voice that keeps telling me to make a pot of coffee and all of this will go away. However, I’m listening to the bigger voice telling me how great a cup of coffee will be at the end of my two week detox from caffeine.