Tea For Two?

I thought I'd better do a quick update in case anyone's worried that my caffeine abstinence has killed me, or in in case anyone's actually reading. I'm now onto day five of my caffeine seige, and I must admit I feel pretty good. I think I'm over the lack of caffeine now, although it's still taking me a good while longer to properly wake up in the mornings. The thing I miss the most is a nice hot drink to warm me up, so I have been experimenting with alternatives. As I mentioned in an earlier post (I think), I tried some Rooibos tea which isn't too pleasant, but I'm starting to warm to it. It looks like tea, it's warm, it just doesn't quite have that lovely tea taste but it will do until Monday. I also tried some lemon and ginger tea which I found somewhat deceptive, it smelt like Lemsip (other hot lemon drinks are available), it looked like Lemsip, but it tasted like a squirt of lemon juice in hot water. I concluded that they must put a lot of sugar in Lemsip, which is probably half the reason it makes you feel good. Hot chocolate is my other hot beverage of choice, but if I drank it with the enthusiasm that I embrace tea with I'd be dead and thirsty. I find it's a bit like eating a chocolate bar, and when I'm trying to wash down a chocolate bar, it really isn't pleasant. So the winner is Rooibos tea, which was a phrase I thought I'd never use.

All in all, I actually feel healthier, and surprisingly, more awake without caffeine. This must have something to do with caffeine perking you up for a limited amount of time, so if you neglect to top up your levels you ultimately crash and feel exhausted. Another habit I've had to get out of this week is eating bananas after lunch. I found out that when you eat a banana with any milk product, the tryptophan in the banana mixes with something in the milk (some sort of protein no doubt), and forms melatonin, which makes you sleepy. So for the past few years I've been having a banana after lunch with a cup of tea, and then wondering why I end up having an afternoon nap. Well now you know.