Having reduced my coffee intake, I’m still trying to reduce it even more. I’ve reached a plateau whereby I take an afternoon coffee almost everyday. I’ve decided to try a different approach to break this. I’m now leaving it up to chance — literally. I let my smartphone’s calculator choose a random number. An even number means I can have a coffee. An odd one means I must wait until the morning for a coffee. This approach is just recent, so I can’t say whether it is successful yet.
I allow one cup in the morning no matter what. My afternoon intake was three days on, one day off. That’s a 75% chance that I’ll have an afternoon brew. Now factor in the random number approach (theoretically a 50% cut). It’s been reduced to about 40% chance (2 days of coffee every five days). This may stem my afternoon coffee to just occasional because the want will be tamed.
I’m hopeful this works.