Giving Up Coffee

[Tru]

One suggestion I've received is to basically try switching over to cold-pressed coffee, I'm excited about trying that option as I work my way down. :)

[montyloree]

It's amazing... maybe not that amazing that coffee gets this much discussion.. lol..

It's a hard one to give up... that's for sure...

It took me 2 weeks of headaches and no productivity, and then 4 months of cravings to give it up.. that's pretty difficult considering.

I don't miss it now... however there are some days that I could use the rush.

[DawnD]

I have been wondering what my story will be about giving up coffee. I have been raw for about 11 months now and know that I need to break the habit but each day I say, "Not today". I do love my coffee time first thing. I have been oil pulling for about a month (thanks to the wonderful thread on RFT) and sometimes I forget to make the coffee because my mouth is occupied with something else. I oil pull the very first thing in the morning. This may be the thing that helps me change up my habit.

Another thing about coffee (and I don't know if it has been discussed in the thread) is that it is so acidic to the body. Raw food alkalizes and then we put coffee in there to set us back. We need to strive to raise our alkalinity for healing and continued health. Anyway this is my motivation to try to give up the habit once again. Maybe I will oil pull and then have a cup of warm lemon and water. That's definately alkalizing and cleansing.

[annabella]

I tried giving up coffee a week ago at a bad time.... I am finishing up an independent project involving a lot of computer work/focus and I feel like I need to put off kicking this habit in order to get everything done.. it is a bit frustrating but I'm not willing to compromise my work for it just now! Going on a 10 day juice fast after this is over and hopefully will see the light at the other side.. I've found this to be by far the hardest thing to give up when switching to mostly raw...

[rawtobe]

I don't drink nearly as much coffee as I used to yrs ago (I used to start the day with double Turkish coffee, that would give me heart failure now) but now I drink Krakus Instant coffee substitute (a couple times a week) it contains extracts of roasted barley, rye, chocory and beet roots ...

[topazbreath]

I wanted to continue having coffee socially as a treat while going raw. Yesterday I had cup of coffee with a friend and it took over my body and I reacted like you would to alcohol. It made me really hungry and I overate and then my digestive tract was so messed up from dealing with that and the toxins in the coffee that I couldn't eat for a day and felt incredibly ill. I think my bodies already become to sensitive to toxins to endure coffee anymore. Goodbye good old social pass time.

Has anyone tried consuming commercialized soy-milk after going raw? I had alittle bit of that in my coffee and processed soy milk's always creeped me out a bit so I'm wondering if it wasn't that.

[aviatrix79]

A good way to quit coffee is to slowly replace it with roasted dandelion tea, which tastes a lot like coffee but has no caffeine. Say you have four coffees every day, have 3 coffees and one roasted dandelion tea. Then start making those three coffees weaker and weaker each day. Eventually, your dandelion tea's going to taste better than your coffee and you'll look forward to that one. Then switch to two coffees and two teas then next week, then one coffee and three teas until you give it up completely. Then if you want to go completely raw, switch to a normal dandelion tea (not roasted).

[climbing]

I used to drink 3 pots of coffee a day... POTS, not cups. I'm amazed I didn't die. Before that, way back in the day when I was still really unhealthy and a SAD eater, I drank like.. no kidding up to 10 Dr. Pepper a day... (god I can't even imagine it now)...so my caffeine issues are long and strong.

I'm over it though. Especially after I got a lump in my breast from the coffee. I have a cup once in a million years now on a special occasion but never more than that. It's just not worth the nasty things it does to your body. When I have coffee I can SMELL it on me... not a coffee smell but this nasty acidity smell...

Fasting helped me get over pretty much every unhealthy food habit I had. It's amazing what fasting will do for you.

[MysticTree]

My mother gave up coffee last week and has switched to high raw. I'm so proud of her.

[breathless]

That's wonderful, Georgina!

[Bobbo]

I don't drink coffee anymore. It's amazing how my body doesn't want things that I use to have regularly now that I have started eating raw. I am loving hot water now and sometimes I will add some honey.

[climbing]

It is amazing isn't it? The more raw I eat, the more my body lets me know exactly what is good or not good for it.

[househugger]

This may be a dumb question but here we go anyway. . . Does decafeinated coffee still count as coffee? Sure there's no caffeine but are there any other possible harmful affects to it -I'm particularly concerned about my vascular health.

I was coffee free for about a month then I decided I'd have a cup of decaf. Now four months later I'm still raw but having a cup a decaf a day.

I watched Forks over Knives yesterday. Absolutely fascinating.

[MysticTree]

Decaf is, I think, worse than regular coffee because of the processing. Since you are drinking decaf you could probably switch it out to something else quite painlessly. Most of what you have is a psychological need for it. Water really does taste good and juices also. Really good looking watermelon slush puppy type drink on raw on $10 a day yesterday or was it today . . . Not sure!

[househugger]

I had no coffee today and didn't miss it. Maybe I'll go for a month without coffee again, like I did in January, then it'll be another month and hopefully it will continue on and on. Right now though it's one day at a time.