As for appetite suppressants, you really shouldn't ever need something like that if you are eating your natural diet and are healthy, but most people aren't of course. This means that the average person always feels tired and coffee seems like the only thing that can get them through the day.
I truly love coffee and won't part with it unless I have to, but this is completely correct. So many people rely on it to make them feel more alive, incapable of understanding that it isn't really helping them but acting as a mere substitute for something else the body is in fact desperately asking for instead.
With coffee I have a very specific routine: I'll have it in the morning, and if that cup ends up being made terribly I will make another to replace it, but once the clock hits 2PM, that's it. No more. From there I switch to water. I drink so much water and eat so much fruit that the two are mostly what I consume. Ever since I started to improve that area of my diet, I felt more alive than ever before. Coffee did (and does) nothing, it's just a simple part of my morning routine that is nothing more than mere enjoyment.
I think the average person fills their body with such trash that it is no surprise that they're fatigued or incapable of maintaining a healthy weight. The boom in food apps (the fact that there are apps for things like McDonalds genuinely sickens me) and delivery foods has caused people to completely forget about balancing diet and eating healthy foods. It's so easy to have someone bring something to you that they forget that the best things to consume are the things prepared from home, fresh.
I loved coffee at one point too, but it seems that love has waned. It’s easy for me to forget about something as nonessential as coffee, especially once I really started thinking about whether it was ideal for me to keep consuming.
It’s good that you at least set a limit for when you can drink coffee and how much. I ache for those that drink coffee in the evening and expect to get decent rest.
As for fruit, I love it so much. I try to stick to fruits with thick outer layers because they tend to have the least amount of pesticides. So I consume a lot of things like cantaloupe, pineapple, dragonfruit, and oranges. One of my weaknesses is strawberries, which sadly even the organic strawberries are usually soaked in pesticides. Somehow they still taste amazing.
You make some great points in your comment. I very much appreciate your valuable input on this topic.
I'm like that with many other things. Sugar, for example: I avoid it. I have zero interest in sugary things. I have nothing to gain from it. I don't know about there but here on food products we have nutritional information printed on the packaging, very easy to see. It'll highlight certain areas based on what's in it: green for good, orange for "Yeah probably not great" and read for "You probably should just avoid eating this." The amount of products that contain so many horrible things you just don't need is crazy. And if you do avoid those things, you notice a massive improvement in general well-being.
I now struggle to eat things heavy carbs or rather dense foods that are fatty, I feel the same. I feel nasty, all heavy and unhealthy.
I do have periods where I'll drop coffee for a while, but it isn't like an intentional detox or anything, it just happens. I know I don't need it. And I know that if my body isn't feeling great, there will be reasons behind it that must be addressed: lack of sleep, poor nutrition, perhaps too much coffee and not enough of the good stuff.
In the UK we have a very good organic selection when it comes to food. Our food standards is one of the few things I will gladly praise about this place. It isn't too expensive, either. The quality to price is absolutely worth it over the normal types you find in most supermarkets.
If you have the space, I absolutely recommend getting your own little set of produce growing. Where I'm at, I have the space (nothing too big) to grow pretty much anything, and I do. It's not only a really rewarding little experience to be a bit more independent, but feels great to see that development of fruit and vegetables that you know are free of any poison. I've actually got some strawberries, blackberries, cabbage, and leek which grow every year in the garden. There's some other things but I can't even remember their names.
We have nutritional info on our products here, but often it is very misleading. We have a major problem with words that make bad products seem healthy. Health buzzwords including “organic,” “antioxidant,” and “gluten-free” often trick consumers into thinking a company’s product is more nutritious than it actually is and creates a false sense of health. Sometimes organic stuff here is good, but sometimes it's still just junk. We certainly don't have the good and bad ingredients highlighted in a color code. I wish it were that easy here, but it's as if they want us to get sick and die early. Oh wait, I'm pretty sure that's the goal.
As long as you continue to be mindful of how you treat your body, surely a little bit of coffee won't be the end of your world.
As for growing my own vegetables, I have zero desire to do that. Fruit however I'd be into, but my current downtown living space simply would not allow it. Plus I think I'd be more likely to have a farm with animals, although that would be even more difficult to do. I really don't eat hardly any vegetables anymore. Mostly just muscle meat, organs, and other animal products such as real dairy. Of course, they make it incredibly difficult to purchase raw dairy here too. It's blasphemous.
I mean, a healthy patient isn't really a paying patient. :^)