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Made it a Month with No Caffeine

October 20, 2009 By Ian Sidden

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I completed my month without caffeine, and it wasn’t too bad. Occasionally the thought would pop into my head “Coffee sounds good” or “Ooooh, look at that shiny Coke bottle”, but I managed to resist.

This last week, the opera scenes at NMSU went up, and I was tasked with conducting them at the last minute. I had a Coke the night of my first rehearsal with them. Yesterday, I bought my first bag of coffee. Truth be told, I really like coffee and soda. I’m a vegan, so I have the capability of letting go of certain foods, but gosh it would be hard to totally stop drinking caffeinated beverages.

That being said, I do plan to seriously lessen the amount of caffeine that I consume. These are my reasons:

  • I was using way too much at all points of the day.
  • The crashes did stop once I let it go.
  • The frequency of muscles aches declined.
  • My anxiety dropped considerably.
  • I saved money.

As for my singing, I didn’t notice too much of a difference. When I drink too much caffeine, I can sometimes feel a shortness of breath during very strenuous singing, but aside from that, I feel and sound the same using or not.

If anything helped me improve this last month, it was my regular yoga practice.

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