Have you ever been on a diet?

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Originally Posted by RedCherry

I truthfully haven't had any side effect of not drinking it this time, other than a little tiredness

You are so lucky, I have twice tried to give up, and twice stayed a few days with someone who doesn't believe in caffeine, so won't serve drinks containing it. About 24 hours after going without I get a migraine to end all migraines, and a further 24 hours after that I get depressed, ratty, argumentative, and become a complete uncaring bastard. On the only occasion I did not 'giving up at giving up' at that point I eventually ended up sitting on the floor in the corner crying because the shirt I had just tried to iron was dirty, no one could console me and I genuinely believed that the shirt being dirty was the worst possible thing to ever have happened to anyone in the world.

Since then, for my own health, and for the good of mankind, I have never tried to give up (and when I stay with anyone I always pack a jar of instant coffee in my wash bag just in case).

In my own defence; Robert Downey Jr used to be an alcoholic and a junky. He has since 'gone clean' but in an interview said that giving up coffee was much harder than giving up alcohol or hard drugs, and he described the side effects of giving up coffee as "loosing the will or any desire to live". Although he is now off coffee, he still drinks tea which has some caffeine in it.