no tea for me.
Posted by lilykarin on maj 8th, 2010 . Filed under: Consumption, Life .On tuesday I decided that I was to try and not drink caffeine, first I decided it was until I noticed I wasn’t tired without it anymore and then I changed it to a caffeine free month, and after that I don’t know. I might start drinking green tea only instead of the black tea, and I’d save a lot of money in school if I didn’t drink coffee. Maybe I’ll skip tea alltogether since I’m not particularly fond of green tea. Or I will just go back to my old ways.. but I think you always have to try to go without your addictions for some time and check it out.
Anyone who knows me and how much tea I drink will know how hard this is for me! It’s interesting though. First I was very tired, got mild headaches and so on. Now I’m in a general state of boredom and not energetic at all, for example I haven’t been writing anything here because I haven’t felt like it & I have skipped a lecture without reason which I normally never do either… I drink about three or four cups of black tea in this size a day…
The picture is from 2007, and taken by Becka in my old kitchen in Råslätt.
This week is also boring because Frej is in Umeå for 10 days visiting friends, and I miss him! Even if we’ve been together for a long time now (2 years soon which is pretty weird, doesn’t feel like that!) I start to miss him after like two days tops. He will be home again on tuesday. I’ve been staying at his apartment watering his flowers, eating all his food and streaming movies on his fast internet. And studying. The course I am taking now is in sustainable development’s history and current context and we have no litterature, only reports and PDF files which is quite frustrating… now I’m going to stop whining and drink some wine instead.
Ps good news; my camera returned to life again after having rested for a week. Maybe it just needs to do that sometimes, I can live with that! Don’t want to get a new one.
maj 8th, 2010 at 9:12 e m
I avoided caffeine for a long time because it tended to make me feel sick to my stomach, but the past few weeks have been very busy for me because of school things and I’ve had to start indulging in lots of tea. I know caffeine is bad for me but it helped me get so much done, with the bonus side effect of doing a lot to help lift my depression. So I’m actually thinking of starting a regular caffeine-consumption regimen, to keep my mood up, though I’m not sure it’s really a good idea. What if I get dependent on it to be happy? I don’t know.
My name is Christina and I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now but never commented before, because I don’t have a lot to say usually. So. Yeah. Good luck with cutting out the caffeine!
maj 9th, 2010 at 4:37 f m
It’d be quite terrible without tea or coffee for me- though mostly tea. I work at a coffee shop and there’s always plenty of abundance of each. I’ve tried cutting myself off on most caffeine except green tea before and I had the same symptoms you described. Don’t give up on your quest to quit the caffeine addiction!
maj 14th, 2010 at 5:36 f m
Have you tried white tea or rooibos at all? My boyfriend works at a tea shop so we have about 20 different kinds in our cupboard at the moment hehe. White tea has way less caffeine than black tea (and has a more delicate flavour). Rooibos doesn’t have any caffeine at all. And have you tried both Japanese and Chinese green tea? I only just found out that they have completely different flavours! I really don’t like drinking Japanese green tea, but love Chinese green tea. It might be worth looking into. :)