I think I've reached a plateau at last. Although I still have an intense mental cravings for coffee, I no longer have any physical cravings. I can walk by a coffee shop and not wish I was inside. I even had a hot chocolate at one yesterday and it was no big deal!
Another interesting development: my relationship with chicory drink. At first, I tasted a distinctly coffee like flavour, albeit weaker. After a couple of weeks of drinking it and also not drinking coffee, I find it to taste completely different now. It has more of a wheaty taste and texture to me now, when I taste anything at all. Since I've been drinking so much of it, not only am I sick of it, but I need to add more and more of it to a cup in order to get it to taste like anything. Perhaps when I return to drinking coffee in March, I will need to drink a mix of coffee and chicory, to reintroduce it to my system.
Yes, be careful when reintroducing your system to coffee.
ReplyDeleteMy sister had headaches and an upset stomach for a few weeks when she decided to start drinking coffee again on a regular basis. She had stopped drinking coffee for about 7 months, only drinking water and juice during that time. She now drinks it watered down, and with a load of honey in it.