Does anyone else have a HUGE problem eliminating coffee? I am chronically sleep-deprived (between my husband's night-time teaching, the kids' really early mornings-I get 5-6 hrs sleep and any daytime naps leave me cranky and grogged out) and chronically fatigued. This aching fatigue is constant, and has been increasing since I was a teen, and may be caused by malabsorption of nutrients as well as stress. Exercise used to make it better, but now makes it much worse.
I cannot even sit up in the morning until midway through my second cuppa joe, and by 1:00pm I'm falling asleep wherever I happen to be (sometimes behind the wheel of the car!).
So, at about 2pm I need another large coffee with a shot of espresso added, whether I feel like it or not, just to get through the evening (I have 5 kids). If I have had a workout-the exhaustion gets trippled! I'm often in bed by 4:00pm wiped out. Coffee also reduces my hunger, (which is stress induced rather than nutrition-based) which causes overeating in the late afternoon/evenings and contributes to the great pm bloat.
So how will I get through any part of the day w/o caffeine? I know, I'm a real mess, but I'm trying to disentangle it strand by strand. Does anyone have any info?
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does anyone have advice on replacing caffeine?
