Quitting coffee: day 7

I decided to write down the time whenever I feel a coffee craving.

8:30Am

9:25AM

11:16AM

11:52AM

12:29PM

12:58PM

I think I am safely past the withdrawal phase and can say that there are no caffeine in my system left. Therefore, whatever I do now are not affected by the substance.

Immediately I noticed three physiological differences. My muscles get sore after a work out 12 hours later compared to 24 hours later. It could be from my higher water intake or it could be from the absence of caffeine.

The second one is quite surprising. I kept on waking up naturally at 6:30 AM instead of the designated 7:30AM refreshed with less grogginess.

The third impact is that I am gaining weight, especially around the stomach area. To quote a certain person:” You now have a man’s body.” This is most likely because caffeine kept my metabolism at a higher rate than normal.

Compared to others, I think I had it easy. I searched the web and compared the caffeine content of each of the coffee chains and found that Timmy’s only contain 200mg while Starbucks and etc. go as high as 300~400mg. With the standard safe daily intake at 300mg, I am lucky that I never went beyond that with only one cup of Tim Hortons. They might be the most health conscious one out there.