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What long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you finally parted from? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 4 days ago by Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Yesbutnotquite@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I gave up coffee recently too, stopped about halfway through March and I don't really miss it at all. It was playing havoc with my digestion and energy levels.

I replaced the ritual with making cups of tea which has really helped, granted it did take me a little while to fully engage with it like I did coffee but it's taken away missing the "ceremony" for me.

My skins cleared up, my bowels are regular again for the first time in what feels like forever and I'm sleeping so much better too. I hope it goes much the same for you pal!