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Originally Posted by CRussel
The faux San Pellegrino was my solution to getting off Diet Coke. I find it difficult to drink sufficient flat water to get my required level of liquid, and with two of the medications I'm taking, that's not a good idea. Besides, I enjoy the carbonated, slightly mineralized, water, and since I know _exactly_ what is in it, I am not concerned.
As for coffee? I'm fine with tea, but one or the other is required. I don't love coffee sufficiently that if I had to give up caffeine for some reason I'd switch to decaf. But giving up tea would be way harder. (And decaf tea is simply disgusting, IME!)
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I gave up all caffeine when I was in my last year of law school, which served to kick my Diet Coke habit as well as the general ickiness associated with the dependency on the drug. I was having a handful of troubling health issues, almost all of which disappeared when I gave up the sodas and other stimulant-laden drinks.
I did not start drinking coffee again until I had been in practice for more than six years, and I still make sure never to have it more than 2 days consecutively so my system does not get used to the caffeine. I never went back to the sodas.
I drink gads of water because we workout 6 days a week and I am a natural sweater. I have to pre-hydrate and re-hydrate a ton. That pushes out most everything else. I do enjoy teas, but am fine with the herbal/non-caffeinated varieties.