00:00Hey guys, I'm Lucy Fink.
00:01This is five days of no coffee.
00:07I love coffee.
00:08I myself started drinking it at about age 15.
00:11I drink about two to four cups of coffee every day, but I don't think that I drink it only
00:16for energy.
00:17I genuinely enjoy coffee.
00:19Coffee is such a huge part of social culture around the world.
00:24I mean, think about it.
00:25When you go to meet up with a friend that you haven't seen in a while, where do you go?
00:29To get a cup of coffee.
00:30There are so many proven benefits of coffee, but there are also some drawbacks.
00:36It can be dehydrating, it can disrupt sleep patterns, caffeine increases your stress hormone,
00:41and also coffee tends to lead to unplanned trips to the bathroom.
00:46Side note.
00:47So I'm going off of it this week, and we'll see how my body responds.
00:54I have a garbage can here.
00:55I didn't just pour that on the floor.
00:57Gotcha.
00:59I have a really bad headache, and I've had it all friggin' day.
01:04It was almost as if the moment I started thinking this morning, my head started hurting.
01:12Happy Monday.
01:13Good night.
01:16Hi.
01:17The sun hurts.
01:1824 hours with no coffee.
01:21I didn't think I needed coffee, but let me tell you, I was wrong.
01:26Yesterday's headache was just the tip of the iceberg.
01:29Today's is even worse.
01:31Yesterday I felt really disorganized.
01:34I had a couple of morning meetings that I just could not pull myself together in.
01:38Papers were flying around my desk.
01:40People would come over to talk to me, and I continuously forgot what I was about to say.
01:44Blame it on the fact that it was Monday, or blame it on the lack of coffee.
01:48Who knows?
01:49But instead of just giving in and assuming I must be addicted to coffee, I decided to do
01:54some research about foods that naturally will energize my body and make me feel more alert
01:59and awake.
01:59So here's what I got.
02:01Some fresh fruit for natural sugar.
02:03Trail mix.
02:04Dark chocolate.
02:05And in the fridge I have coconut water and, get this, raw sauerkraut.
02:10Let's do this.
02:11Ouch.
02:14I made a mistake this morning.
02:16The point of this five days was to give up coffee, which naturally led to me giving up
02:21caffeine, considering coffee is my biggest source of caffeine.
02:25So I thought I was being so good, and I poured myself a cup of tea instead of coffee.
02:29You know, I had another cup, and another cup.
02:32Later in the day my co-producer asked me, what are you drinking?
02:36And I said, tea.
02:38She looked at me and asked, can I see the label for that?
02:41As it turns out, and I'm so ashamed, I was drinking caffeinated black tea.
02:46Since one cup of black tea has half of the caffeine content of a cup of coffee, and I had
02:52three cups of tea.
02:54I have, today, had one and a half cups of coffee's worth of caffeine.
03:00Needless to say, my headaches are gone.
03:03If nothing else, this grand mistake of mine has taught me that the headaches and the irritability
03:08were from a lack of caffeine.
03:10Even still, without the headaches, and even with all the food I've been eating to keep my
03:15energy levels up, I still want coffee.
03:18Today, I ran out in the rain, and I went to a coffee shop, and I just sat there and
03:25inhaled
03:26the fumes.
03:27Do you see how crazy this week is making?
03:32My five days of no coffee challenge has turned into a big buzzing topic around the R29 office.
03:39Everyone's got a coffee story.
03:41This person drinks coffee for two weeks and then goes off of it so that they don't get addicted.
03:45This other person drank so much coffee that she became allergic to it.
03:49That is a true story.
03:50My focus this week was to really dive deep and understand my personal relationship with
03:55that dark, steaming roast.
03:57As we saw on Monday and Tuesday, I'm kind of addicted to caffeine.
04:01To be honest, even though the caffeine got rid of my headaches, caffeine alone doesn't cut it.
04:06That feeling for me of holding a cup of coffee and just inhaling and breathing deeply, taking
04:14that first sip, it's a mind, body, and soul experience.
04:19So, I'm not sure that I'm addicted, as one would say, but I might be in love.
04:30What's up?
04:33Interesting.
04:37Happy Friday, guys.
04:39Wow, what a week!
04:40Am I right?
04:41Let's break down how the week went, shall we?
04:44Cons.
04:45Massive headaches, irritability, and the inability to form sentences.
04:51Pros.
04:52I was able to get to sleep a little bit easier than I am normally, and potentially made fewer trips
04:57to the bathroom.
04:58So, where does that leave me?
05:01Clearly, some addictive personality traits that I didn't even know I had came shining through this week.
05:07So, I really learned a lot about myself and my addiction.
05:11Nothing in my life can really replace a cup of coffee.
05:14Now, I want to know what you could not give up for one entire week.
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05:23Let me know what you want to see me try.
05:25Hey guys, it's Lucy from Try Living with Lucy.
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05:38Why can't I f***ing speak?
05:40It's because I can't have coffee!
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