Congratulations!! It's not easy!

After mainlining Diet Dr. Pepper for years, (I can easily drink over 100 oz of it a day), I went cold turkey about a month ago.

It sucks, but I'm sticking with it.

Imago said:

I love making shakes with frozen bananas. Whenever I have overripe bananas, if I don't bake something with them I slice them up and freeze them in Ziploc bags. They give a delicious, ice-creamy consistency to blended shakes. My favorite is frozen banana, plain organic yogurt, cocoa powder, honey and peanut butter.

RenHoek said:

I really don't miss it that much. I feel a lot better. I drank way too much of it and was truly addicted. I'd get headaches, irritable, the whole nine, if I didn't have any.

I haven't gotten a single "Congratulations" yet!

Fuckers!

Okay, okay you win... now I feel bad...

PunkMistress (if that is indeed your real name...) congratulations on the weaning from the bean! Seriously, if it really made you feel like crap then good on ya for givin' it up...




you better not be fuckin' wit me...

PunkMistress said:

you know you're gagging on that stuff right now!

PunkMistress said:

Well don't think you are gonna here it out of me after typing that sacrilege!

Most GREENS products taste absolutely horrible. I mean like you are drinking fresh earth taken from a cow farm. I may have the try the brand you are taking.

YAYYY!!

I quit the juice yesterday!! no more coffee for me either I'm going to try to just drink tea instead

and that green stuff you're drinkin looks gross!

thekidsgirl said:

PunkMistress said:

I need to give your green stuff a try cause I'm sluggish like a corpse right now I miss my joe already, but unless you fall off the wagon, I'm not going back

thekidsgirl said:

I cheated. I was really sick for a few days and couldn't drink any, so that kind of took care of the withdrawal and I took advantage of that.

NO FALLING OFF!

PunkMistress said:

well damn! I'm off to The Daily Grind then for a large black coffee!

thekidsgirl said:

NOT!!

PunkMistress said:

I'll resist!

ThreadBare said:

NOOOOO

PunkMistress said:

That was for Muse.

I've been trying to ween myself through chai teas and smaller coffee sizes.

That and the local drive-thru barrista dudes calling me "man" and "bro" and complimenting me for listening to jazz (I kid you not -- this 20-ish Seth Rogen-looking cashier actually heard my music playing and said he was "proud of me" ) are going to cause me to go a similar route really, really soon...

ThreadBare said:

You should have punched him.

Weaning would totally not work for me; I'm too much of a hardcore addict. I even have to drink decaffeinated tea or the monster would awaken. Which sucks, because I love good, strong Irish Breakfast tea, and decaf Lipton is like watery piss.

PunkMistress said:

Yeah, I nearly snapped like Wayne Brady. I had to pause, pray and force myself to move on. I told Adisa about it later that day and how I'd really almost had a angry black man moment, and how it wouldn't have been worth it to lose it. Cat half my age calling me bruh, man and praising me for music I've been playing longer than he's been walking... wooooo. Jesus, keep me near the cross.

All of which helped me see I need to walk away from the very bean I was there to buy. I've been getting too deep into the coffee rut, have started getting the twitching eye -- and my tolerance is probably ridiculous...