The Dutch Slayer
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This don't eat trash and I make it out just fine from 5 am to 5 pm every day without coffee.Water, good nutrition, workouts, plenty of sleep?
This don't eat trash and I make it out just fine from 5 am to 5 pm every day without coffee.Water, good nutrition, workouts, plenty of sleep?
I work in a mental health hospital, which can be quite stressful. But I don't turn to coffee or other drugs to relax me. Walking around London, or going to the cinema are more my thing.To those who don't have caffeine, what do you guys do for a living? I'm a preschool teacher and afterwards I need a cup of joe because I'm drained.
Cutting out the caffeine gave me a more consistent level of endurance throughout the day, at least after the initial withdrawal effects went away.
Every day, usually between the hours of 2 - 4pm, I get unbelievably sleepy. My energy quickly drains away. Motivation and productivity hit rock bottom. I have to fight against the urge to close my eyes because I know I'll start nodding off at my desk if I do. I know I'm not unique in this, and that's why so many of us turn to coffee/tea/energy drinks to power through the mid-afternoon drowsiness.
During tax season I drank coffee basically all day and it was giving me shaky hands and making me feel strung out by the end of the day, so I haven't drank any since the deadline. But I'm back at the office today and goddamn I'm dying here. As soon as ~2:30pm hit I got so tired I lost all motivation to work.
So that's why I gotta know: How do you non-caffeine people function? Do you not get super drowsy in the mid-afternoon like the rest of us? Or is there some secret to powering through it naturally? Are you all on coke/meth?
Have you been to the doctor about this? Seems like a condition. Thyroid related?
If you have a desk job, maybe its just the fact that your sitting around doing nothing. I don't mean that in a your not doing your job way, I mean your just sitting all day.
i just don't eat much at noon, most of the time it's just fresh vegetables and fruits, uncooked! (apples can give you more energy than cafeine) It's only if i eat a lot, like a steak or something, then the digestion hit in the afternoon and i get sleepy
i never drink coffee, never liked the taste (and i don't like hot drinks in general, even if tea is pretty good, i don't like the feeling of it)
The withdrawals combined with the body crashing mid-afternoon is rough.
Adjusting to non caffeine lifestyle takes time after being dependent on it.
After going caffeine free, it took about a couple weeks before overcoming it in my experience.
Keep it up.
I always felt coffee was just a morning wake-up thing and not effective as a stay awake thing. If anything, drinking caffeine all day is just a habit. A bad, addiction habit.Caffeine isn't helping you stay awake like you think it is.
I'm equally baffled by the people in here who can make it through an entire workday with zero caffeine, and by the people who say that coffee has no effect on their energy. Half a cup of coffee makes me feel wide awake; a whole cup of coffee makes me feel like I can run a marathon.
This. Caffeine isn't helping you stay awake like you think it is.
Every day, usually between the hours of 2 - 4pm, I get unbelievably sleepy. My energy quickly drains away. Motivation and productivity hit rock bottom. I have to fight against the urge to close my eyes because I know I'll start nodding off at my desk if I do. I know I'm not unique in this, and that's why so many of us turn to coffee/tea/energy drinks to power through the mid-afternoon drowsiness.
That's probably it. Caffeine is the cause and not the cure. It's the addiction that causes afternoon energy drain. Without the addiction, there is no energy drain.Basically, not being addicted to caffeine means that when late afternoon hits, my energy level doesn't drop like that.
Water, good nutrition, workouts, plenty of sleep?
With the help of one of those wake-up lights that simulate a sunrise. Gradually lightens up and once the time is to wake up, it puts on radio.Never mind the afternoon, how the hell do you even get out of bed without the sweet promise of coffee!?