One more cup of coffee?
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009I loooooooove coffee.
I love the smell of the beans. I love the warm cup in my hands. I love the excuse to have half-and-half. I love the nutty chatty buzz it gives me.
But besides 2 random cups of coffee in the past 2 months, I have been coffee-free since late June. I had my last cup right before I was hit with the flu, and haven’t gone back. But I think my brain wants me to go back on it… I can smell a fresh pot of delicious coffee brewing in the kitchen. But I haven’t made any coffee, and it is not the work of coffee elves. It’s just my mind playing tricks on me. But I won’t give in. I have too many reasons not to go back to coffee, and not enough reasons to cave.
1. Coffee makes me sweat. As an unfortunately sweaty person (even my NOSE sweats), I don’t need more sweat in my life.
2. I am lactose intolerant, and half-and-half claims my daily limit of milk. Maybe I could have ice cream every once in a while if I didn’t spend all my lactose points on half-and-half.
3. The amount of half-and-half I need to use to make a cup of coffee that I like is just ridiculous. I don’t count calories (but probably should), but this is an obvious place to reduce calorie intake.
4. I get so dependent on caffeine after having one or two cups of coffee per day that I experience terrible caffeine-withdrawal headaches if I don’t have it.
5. When I get used to having one cup of coffee a day, I start increasing to two cups per day… then three cups… then I’m drinking a whole pot. And if you have ever seen me after drinking a whole pot of coffee… you know it is not a good thing!
There are more reasons (cost of good coffee beans, weekly purchases of half-and-half, physical wear and tear of daily coffee drinking), but I think these five should be enough to stop me from having another cup.
Instead, I have been drinking green tea. My favorite green tea is Good Earth brand green tea with lemongrass. It has none of that bitter green tea taste. It isn’t as delicious as a good cup of coffee with yummy half-and-half, and it doesn’t fill the house with the wonderful coffee aroma, but it has less caffeine, so I can have three cups and still be less juiced than having one cup of coffee.
But as the weather turns colder… I’m still tempted to make a pot of coffee. Maybe I will experiment with some other teas to see if there is one that feels like a more satisfying replacement of coffee.
Are you a coffee drinker, a tea drinker, both or neither?
