# Dealing with an addiction..

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**Created:** [December 7, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dealing-with-an-addiction/261680 "2011-12-07T22:51:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dealing-with-an-addiction/261680/15 "2011-12-08T08:22:10Z")

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> [@\*\*\*Official: My Bubble Tea Sunday Meets\*\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-my-bubble-tea-sunday-meets/45196/286):
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> Dude, how does that even work? I am 100% serious.
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> I weight 140lbs (yeah FU, I know LOL)  
> I would say 3-5 times a week i get up drive to the store and get a Monster, Redbull, Rockstar, what ever. Sip on that until lunch time at the office. If I didnt get a “energy” drink I get a med cofee from dunken across the street. At lunch I get food and a soda. Rest of the day I sip on the soda. Dinner time I eat and drink a beer, or if I am at the shop a soda or another energy drink if i have one. Daily I get all of 6 hours of sleep.
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> Never once have I felt the physical or chemical “need” to get an energy drink, soda, or coffee. never once have I “crashed” either.
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> Maybe I dont drink enough of the stuff??? Or my skinny ass has some bad ass metabolism or some shit and eats it up faster than I drink it down?

You don’t drink enough, thats nothing compared to my “normal” day over the past 6 months. Your body like any other drug becomes dependent on it, it expects it and when it doesnt get it, it says FUCK YOU

I drink ~6 cups of coffee a day with at least 2 20OZ redbulls… not counting maybe a soda in there, not proud of it at all, its royally fucking up my body, but it gets out of control and you don’t even realzie it.

If i don’t have a cup of coffee when I wake up, or wait til mid morning, i get the worst headache thats damn near impossible to recover from…

This will be the 3rd-4th time ive started to ween myself off of caffeine, this time around im going to make sure I do not go overboard with it again. Going to stop drinking soda, decaff coffee in the morning, maybe a cup of tea throughout the day if I really need it, but in more ways then one energy drinks seriously fuck up your body.

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