Red bull - 12+ cans daily

[Addictedtoeverything]

12 cans at least for as long as I can remember. Started drinking them working long hours in an office, then kept increasing as I need more caffeine and it’s just spiralled out of control as I worked from home.

I am so ashamed of it, not to mention the money spent, living in fear of a heart attack etc etc - but apparently not too ashamed to stop.

I’m now hugely overweight, terrible teeth, aevil anxiety and I desperately want to stop. But every day I tell myself “tomorrows the day”.

I appreciate this isn’t an illegal addiction and some might even question if it’s an addiction at all but I’ve tried (and failed) to “cut down” and “just stop”.

I don’t know why I’m posting here really - part of me wants to post so I have somewhere to be accountable when I stop, but then I’ve tried so many times. I don’t know.

OP you’ve had some really good advice here and it sounds like you really want to make the change. Just a little thing I noticed is that you said you are ashamed but not so ashamed it helps you to stop.
Shane can be powerful in motivating you to action but a lot of the time shame holds us in the behaviours we are trying to break because we then feel bad about ourselves and go back to what we know helps us feel better even we feel bad… so you’ll go back n to the red bull. When trying to break addiction we are prone to negative self talk and that rarely helps.
Try being compassionate and kind to yourself and believing that you deserve to live your life healthily and free from this. Acknowledge it will be hard and you’ll likely have days where you slip up but then just keep going and acknowledge what you’ve done well.
Be kind to yourself rather than focusing on the shame and it might help.

And good for her. I guess it’s a way to get out of “why aren’t you drinking?” questions. Who cares, as long as it works for her.

Good luck OP, I hope you kick the habit. I would definitely consider it extremely dangerous. I can’t handle 1 can of the stuff. See your G.P and see what’s available. I wouldn’t try and just stop on your own.

How are you doing? Hope its going well

How's it going OP?