• Victor@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I still haven’t started drinking coffee, 35+ years old. I feel tired all the time but that’s what two kids do to you.

    I’m just happy I don’t have to depend on any substance to keep me normal.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s bad. I was at a wedding once, and feeling under the weather. Headache and flu symptoms. My friend brought me a hot tea to help my throat, and as I drank it, I started to immediately feel better. Then I realized I hadn’t had my morning tea, or my lunch iced tea, or my dinner iced tea… that’s how I found out I was chemically addicted to caffeine, lol.

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        2 months ago

        Dang, do you add caffeine to your tea? Or is there really that much in tea naturally?

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          2 months ago

          I think it was the regularity of me drinking it. 1 large, hot lipton black tea in the morning, maybe an iced black tea before lunch, one at lunch, maybe 1 after, 1 at dinner, and maybe 1 more after. I was using unsweetened tea to ween off Gatorade which helped me ween off soda at the time.