How to quit coffee and wine?!

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Please help. I need to quit daily coffee and wine drinking and don’t know where to start. I have two young kids. Coffee and wine get me through the day. I’m spending a fortune and stuck in a vicious cycle. One of my kids is 11 the other is one. Too very demanding ages.

PLEASE HELP?! 😅

I can understand the wine, but is the coffee actually having a detrimental effect on you?

I was highly gratified to read that it's actually good for you, according to Tim Spector. Full of polyphenols, don't you know.

As for the wine, try having 2 consecutive days off a week. Increase that to 3, then 4.
(I appear to have got stuck on 3 myself 😳)

I think the OP is talking about the money, though in a way though coffee is thru the roof in terms of price, I guess £7 for a jar in B&M is still not much compared to wine - unless we're talking takeaway coffee which is madly priced now. Gone are the days when you could get a coffee for £1 at Pret.

Decant coffee granules into a boring plastic container and bin the jars - it's the lovely colours and gold foil lid you tear to open it that has a sensory effect?

Is the wine to help you sleep? Because it could be the coffee wakes you up so the wine has to knock you out...

Switch to caffeinated or decaf tea in the morning, it is less glam but imo less addictive in the same way, less stressy. Tea is soothing.

I'm assuming the wine is a Friday night thing, not a drink every day I have a problem thing?

If so, buy some expensive cordials and sparkling drinks for a Friday night. Get a takeaway and relax without alcohol.

Cut down the coffee to one a day, make it something to enjoy and look forward to. Get some luxury hot chocolates or milkshakes or something to replace it

Thanks. Unfortunately I’m drinking two glasses a night so it’s a daily thing 😔 and takeout coffees / Pepsi max. It’s like always need to be drinking something …

Same issue here OP. I have realised that too much coffee equals not enough water in my life, and so makes me feel shit. So rather than try to reduce coffee, im increasing water, abd water BEFORE coffee.

Wine - well too much wine also makes me feel crap in the long term. I bloody love wine and could happily drink a bottle every night. If I do that though, I stay up too late, wake up in the night and start the next day feeling tired, thirsty snd generally crap. Wine is a short term fix.

You have to see the benefits of not partaking .

Don’t see the problem with a daily coffee OP? Fairly standard, I’d say. As for the wine, if you really can’t give up then perhaps try AA or similar? I don’t mean that flippantly btw; if wine is really getting you through the day then you may need some external support. 1 and 11 is a tricky combination of ages - it will get easier.

Get a thermal mug and take your own coffees. I have a fancy coffee machine and I take a coffee out in the morning I make in that, but for later in the day at work or whatever I think the Nescafé latte/cappucino sachets are OK

wine I binned off along with all other alcohol 4 years ago but I can’t do without my coffee!

Abandon the wine, and get really good quality ground coffee. I have two cups in the morning and no more in the day. Cut down alcohol consumption and I find I don't crave it when I get in from work now. Prefer a cup of tea. Skin and head clearer in the morning and saved loads of money. A bag of ground coffee will last ages.

I believe in titrating. When DH and I realised we drank too much coffee, we bought fresh decaff and every time we make a pot of coffee now, it is half decaff, half fresh, so way less stimulant effect and no jitters.

You could also buy herbal or fruit teas or rooiboos tea. When you make a coffee, get another mug out and put a bag of fruit tea in it ready for next time you boil the kettle.

If you are worried you are spending too much on coffees while out and about, make a cafetiere full of half fresh, half fresh decaff, and pour some into a flask or travel cup so you have free coffee on the go during the day.

When you pour a wine, pour it in a small 125 ml glass then put the stopper in the bottle and put the bottle away. Transfer the poured wine into the biggest glass you have and top it up with sparkling water and ice. At the same time, pour yourself a soft drink with ice. When the glass of wine is finished, there is another drink waiting for you, already chilled, to discourage you from drinking a second glass of wine.

Stop buying it.
Put the money you would have spent on it into a jar/separate account and watch it accrue. Then buy something you really want with it (that isn't consumable)

I don't understand why people drink instant coffee. It tastes like shit. I always thought it was because it was cheaper, but the ground coffee I buy in Lidl and use with a £10 moka pot is half the price.