Day two without coffee and I'm feeling great.
Sleeping better, less jumpy...
I did get off the freeway at the wrong exit yesterday and do a couple of other duh kinds of things... so maybe my brain is missing the Joe, but basically feeling great.
And the no coffee thing has happened by accident. I just haven't felt the need.
I picked up at Costco (who so generously feed my kids lunch in bite-sized samples every Saturday) a box of Zip Fizz. Little tubes of powder you add to water. Lots of vitamins, about 100mg of caffeine (a tall coffee at SBux has 260 mg, for comparison). But somehow, whereas with coffee I needed the morning cup (and by "cup" I mean big-arse travel mug), another when I got to wherever I going to work that day or from 7-11 along the way... with this, I don't.
Maybe it's the 41,667% of your RDA of vitamin B12? Yeah, you read that right- not a typo.
That's a lot of B12.
You don't metabolize it very well, and probably end up peeing most of it away, but I gotta tell you- one tube in the morning (10 calories, 0 Sugar- just mix with water) has kept me going all day long and without that edgy feeling that too much caffeine gives. No headaches, I've been sleeping better, felt calmer... Is this what it feels like to be in a healthy rhythm? Whoa.
You should check this stuff out:
That's cool to hear. Mine don't have a cool name but a couple of multi vitamins seem to have the same effect on me in the morning. :)
Posted by: Aaron | January 30, 2008 at 07:42 AM
I don't know about you, but for me coffee comes with lots of sugar, and the associated crash after a few hours. My current addiction is an energy drink that's similar to the zipfizz, w/ lots of b12 and no sugar, and it seems to do the same thing, without the crash. So now I drink coffee because I enjoy it (rarely) not out of any need..
Posted by: David | January 30, 2008 at 08:06 AM
A cop friend of mine turned me on to ZipFizz a year ago (he had to pull long shifts) and the stuff whacks a wallop. Good energy without the sugar and caffeine. Initially it was hard to find, I had to order it directly from the company, but it seems to have caught on.
Posted by: Bill | January 30, 2008 at 08:57 AM
Huh, interesting. I still haven't found my perfect caffeinated beverage for the morning, so you never know what could work.
Posted by: Anna | January 30, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Dood.....gotta have the java. Kenya AA...Oh Yeah!
Posted by: Joey Davis | February 01, 2008 at 09:51 AM