Guus Bosman

I want to cut back on the amount of coffee I drink. Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed that I crave coffee, especially on the weekends, even if I had quite a lot of coffee that day.

My goal is to only drink a large of cup coffee in the morning, and not drink coffee in the afternoon. This is the pattern I used to have, until about a year ago. Now I drink coffee both in the morning and the afternoon, combined with drinking a lot of water.

So this morning I got a Starbucks Grande Coffee (372 milligrams of caffeine) and drank it slowly over the morning, and told myself: that's it for today.

Right after lunch I caught myself thinking about a second cup, but I remained strong. Sure enough, around 2.30 pm I started getting a headache. I had small zip from Sasha's coffee when I came home, but at 9.45 pm I still feel the headache, though milder.

I've done this before, and it usually takes a couple of days.