I know I am obsessing today....I called folgers 800# to find out how much caffeine I am getting in Folger's Singles (like little tea bags, individual servings). 116.7 mg caffeine per Folgers Single. Hmmm....now I have to figure out if I am getting any less caffeine than the drip coffee I was drinking. (Maybe or maybe not!) Trying to defrazzle here as much as I can.
Was at work the other day and I saw this funnel with a big long hose attached to it. First thought that goes through my head is beer bong. Yeppers. Then I was thinking .... what would happen if I threw a pot of semi-warm coffee in there. Hmmmm.
One thing about me is if you see the words I was thinking, something crazy is about to be posted. LOL!
When obsessing... caffiene or no, chocoloate or no, picking at nails or no, cleaning kitchen tile with toothbrush or no....
when I am obsessing, I need to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE and get to a meeting or a recovering person's house, or just a friend whom I can safely talk to!!! With coffee... to go!!!
Don't really know if this is an OCD or coffee Post, LOL
Listened to a tape once that my son gave me in a collection of Overcoming Anxieties.
There was a tape on Overcoming OCD. it stated that if we are Obsession over any thing, we are refusing to look at something, (we have to figure out "What" that is) and if we do that, we will stop obsessing, HATED THAT TAPE AND DECIDED TO NEVER, EVER LISTEN TO IT AGAIN................ ROFLMAO!
On the coffee thingy, I was just getting sick and tired of being sick and tired of Caffeine, was drinking maybe 5 - 6 cups a day of Starbucks. Up and down, and up and down. Also putting 2 spoons of sugar in each cup thru the day.
I made a decision to just stop, I put my coffee maker in the cupboard, and got this little pot for boiling water, and used a filter over one cup, added a teaspoon of sugar, not two, and have been feeling so much better, No more internals rides on the rollor coaster, feels really great.
And those little Folger's round bags of coffee, did you know they are 50 % coffee, and 50% instant coffee, at least the last time I looked. Never use them, the coffee comes out looking too much like tea! LOL
If your going to drink coffee at least drink Good Coffee. Folgers contains lots of nasty Rubusto beans which have more caffeine then the more expensive Arabic beans. Get a coffee grinder and some good beans, use a single cup Melita cone or get a little Expresso maker . Don't drink the swill at the meeting from the 50 cup urn!!! I used to swill lots of bad coffee, now I have One large cup a day, 2 on the weekends. If your trying to quit caffeine taper down first don't go cold turkey, you'll get a Massive headache that nothing but caffeine will cure.
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Hi all. Coffee.......mmm, used to love it, but I can only drink de-caf instant now. Real coffee starts me off shaking........best avoided...........De-caf instant......best avoided!
Hope everyone here is having a good and sober day!
Best wishes
Chris the cabbagehead.
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Chris, same with me. NO caffeine of ANY kind. I shake, my heart races and my chest begins to hurt! Never happened before I got sober. Funny eh, how booze can 'change' us in sooooo many freaking ways.
And I really love a loose leaf Assam or Yunan, but I guess I didn't quit drugs and alcohol to be stuck with dehydration, over-frequent restroom visits, lack of sleep, and withdrawal headaches- Maybe one day I will be well enough to have a cup of tea now and then, but for now, it doesn't add up-
