Mine is coffee. As of today, my coffee drinking days are over. I’ve had been drinking coffee for what feels like 14 some odd years. I used to have, on average, 2 ~ 4 mugs and on some days where I just pushed myself, 6 mugs. I would always have my coffee coupled with powdered creamer because I can never drink coffee straight.
However and for the past 4 years now, I’ve been noticing some health issues with it both mentally and physically. Mentally, I’ve noticed my anxiety is driven up the wall after having had coffee. Physically, I could not stop going to the bathroom to piss, for coffee accelerates your need to go to the bathroom since it is also a laxative.
And also in turn, kept interrupting my naps and times where I had a nice string of hours to sleep to. A few weeks back, I had thought that it was maybe the usual caffeine-based coffee grounds that was causing it. So I discarded them. I went to Decaf because I felt I wasn’t just ready to discard coffee entirely. But since the same stuff is happening again with even Decaf, even when trying to be more moderate about my intake, I’ve officially tapped out.
I’m going to miss it, all the times where when I was in a place of solitude and a nice warm mug of joe added to the feeling, helped make things feel right. And all the times when coffee actually did help me, but I guess I just over-indulged and spoiled badly what was.
Gosh, I’m a little jealous. My soda addiction has got a right hold on me. Specifically Barq’s root beer lol. I’m trying to wean myself off slowly by cutting caffeine first and then hopefully transitioning to the less sugar sodas and then off soda entirely.
But hey, I’m happy for you, that’s excellent!
Try making your own sweet drinks just boil up some water dissolve the amount of sugar you want and add sparkly water and lemon. You can make really good ice teas or lemonade like that. You’ll be consuming a lot less sugar. I love sweet drinks as well luckily I was raised in a pretty strict house where my parents usually refused to buy me sodas or they were a very special treat, hell when I was a kid even Orange juices or whatever was diluted with water.
I wouldn’t really say I was addicted to soda, I just don’t like the taste of water and soda was kinda the only alternative that I liked until my body decided ‘nah fuck it, let’s do something different’ on me.
And yeah I drank mostly Mt Dew, so the super sugary/caffeine-loaded stuff. Blech. I can still drink it, but only in small quantities, vs where I was before, going through 4 2L bottles a week of the stuff.