| [Tags**|caffeine, coffee, starbucks] [Current Mood** |
tired]It's no secret that I'm kinda a bit sensitive to caffeine. I stopped drinking caffeinated coffee 81 days ago (not that I'm counting), and since then my quality of life has been markedly improved.I still drink decaf. Decaf isn't totally "decaffeinated", just mostly, but I figure that's enough for my pharmacological purposes.Now that I'm fully purged and de-caffeined, my endocrine system has decided to beg to differ. Yesterday in the early afternoon, I found my hands trembling an hour or so after I'd drunk a Starbucks decaf lattè, and last night I didn't get to sleep until three in the morning, over twelve hours after the offending drink. This isn't the first time, either—I had the same thing a while back from a different Starbucks. Starbucks decaf ain't.Technically, that breaks me back to "X days since caffeine". But I'm going to maintain the count, since the important thing is breaking the habit of drinking the stuff, and accidental poisoning doesn't count as a breach of habit. And I give myself a licence to test out decaf brands, for the same reason. But Starbucks is definitely off limits from now on, as with any decaf brand that tries to poison me in future.Fortunately the office coffee machine is stocked with Nestlé capsules whose decaffeination seems pretty comprehensive. Now there's just their astringent and diuretic effect to worry about... |