None for me thanks, I'm sleepin'.

[vakkotaur]

This post of yakko's got me to thinking about my use of caffeine and how it has become routine again when I had been almost entirely off of it for a while not all that long ago. Fortunately I was only at one or two caffeinated drinks, usually iced tea, a day. Unfortunately, one of them was almost always at supper and it did seem to be having an effect.

So last week I started to consciously change my habits. First by keeping to only one use of caffeine a day and then only around noon or earlier, not in the evening. This wasn't too bad, though at one place at which I had supper a server knew my habits too well and brought me an iced tea before I had a chance to say anything.

The weekend went by without too much trouble (at least in this regard) and I managed to avoid caffeine though I did have a mild headache on Sunday. That might have been from other things. Lunch and a nap later helped. I did get to sleep, or try to, earlier than usual, though the change to Standard Time likely was somewhat to blame as well. I did not sleep very well last night. I expect that as time passes I will sleep better and be more awake in the morning. That's one thing I remember from being off caffeine before - that I was more awake, at least in the morning.

I don't expect to never touch caffeine again, but I want to keep it to a very low minimum so that when it's needed it will have a useful effect and not be a pain to stop using. I'm already used to drinking water most of the time, so no big deal there. Chances are my biggest problem with this now will be convincing a couple people not to bring me iced tea right off.