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> mood swings Friendly advice: drop the sugar first. It's really really hard, I know... Caffeine is most likely to mess up your mood when you also consume sug

by nnq 9y ago

> mood swings Friendly advice: drop the sugar first. It's really really hard, I know... Caffeine is most likely to mess up your mood when you also consume sugar, or alcohol. That's why green tea for example works much better: it's disgusting to oversweeten it, to mix it with sweets, or to have it immediately before or after a pint or two ;) Coffee otoh can even be delicious in combo with fries, ice-cream and beer. Hence I only have it in the morning when I'm not tempted to mix it in such disastrous combinations.

taneq 9y ago
I eat very little sugary stuff. Plenty of booze on the weekends, which I'd originally suspected as the cause of the mood problems. Cutting the alcohol didn't change things significantly, though, while cutting the caffeine gave me two weeks of feeling awful (and I mean seriously bad), followed by a significant improvement in both mood and energy. (Would have posted this last night but I hit the rate limiter, heh.)