You should switch from sugary drinks to water and fruit. It takes about 3 weeks to adjust. ( and avoid chocolate milk )
You should switch from sugary drinks to water and fruit. It takes about 3 weeks to adjust. ( and avoid chocolate milk )
The calorie contents of Pepsi is not that far removed from many fruit juice products. Some, like lemonades, can often be higher in sugars than Pepsi.
A lack of that feeling will make you feel less good. Experts say it takes up to a month for that imbalance to normalize.
Great talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWLnlhLNa28&feature=youtu.be...
Until I realised what was going on, when I was taking breaks from using 360mg very other day - so equivalent to 5-6 cups of coffee - to boost my weight lifting in periods, I had week long bouts of diarrhoea, intense headaches, shakes setting in in the evening (so severe I had to time my painkillers, or I'd have problems swallowing them because I had difficulty holding my hands steady enough to drink a glass of water), fever, and night sweats.
Caffeine can be a nasty drug to go cold turkey from if your intake has been high. Best bet is to step down gradually (not a long period - over a week or two), coupled with pre-emptively taking paracetamol/acetaminophen in the early evening.
Often, someone who gets a lot of caffeine and starts experiencing symptoms like above may be experiencing withdrawal without being aware.