Afternoon Pick Me Up

[ajarvis]

So I am a 2-5 cup a day coffee girl lol. Now that I'm pregnant I'm cutting down to 1 seriously sad. What is an afternoon pick me up I can turn to?

 

[SpringCrane]

I know it doesn't sound nearly as appealing as a cup of coffee... but exercise is a good way to get a little boost of energy. Not that I feel like taking that little piece of advice myself... ;-)

 

[ajarvis]

lol. I run most mornings, and a couple evenings a week. I just need something for sitting at my desk. Tricky tricky.

 

[Julesillini8]

Mints or mint gum?
Hahaha I have no idea, I'm not a coffee drinker myself, and I feel like only an energy drink could replace caffeine in coffee if I were you haha.
But since you wanted to limit the caffeine, I was just trying to think of SOMETHING. I feel a blast of mint is kinda refreshing, or chewing the mint gum....
I have no idea. Just a thought. Good luck! The afternoon lull is horrible

 

[ajarvis]

Gum might be handy. May have to try that - I usually chew gum on the car ride home anyways.

 

[Julesillini8]

Get a strong mint flavor to blast you awake! Good luck, there's nothing like good ol caffeine hehe

 

[ajarvis]

Nope. It's irreplaceable. Today is day one of cutting back and I'm dying

 

[mimomma]

I once read that eating an apple is like drinking a cup of coffee for energy. I've been having one around 2 pm when I'm super tired and it kinda helps.

 

[Captain]

I've been trying to replace my afternoon cuppa's with a granola bar or something similar, sometimes even a small piece of chocolate!

 

[THart]

I'm not a coffee drinker do maybe this suggestion is just sill, but try tricking yourself with decaf in the afternoon?

 

[too_scared]

How about a banana? I think they are supposed to give you energy.

I am only a one cup of coffee a day kind of person and I even gave that up I miss it SO much! Going to start drinking it again when I get to the 2nd tri.

 

[ajarvis]

tHart that is going to be my first try or maybe a half decaf half regular in the am and again in the pm was a fancy idea I came up with on the way home tonight haha

 

[too_scared]

I have been told that you should be careful with decaf coffee. (Decaf was my plan, too.) I think that you need to look for Swiss Water Process decaf because the chemicals they use to make mainstream coffee decaf could be dangerous to pregnancy.

 

[ajarvis]

really? Never heard of that before!

 

[FarfromHome]

I feel your pain. I'm a multiple cups a day coffee drinker too. Instead of drinking one cup of coffee in the am, I've been doing a drink with a lower caffeine dosage so that if I need a pick me up in the afternoon I can have another caffeinated drink. So I'll have a cup of the Awake English breakfast tea ( Tazo brand) or a Latte in the Am ( around 60-75 mg caffeine) and then I can have another cup of tea or an iced tea in the afternoon and still be well under the 200 mg.

 

[too_scared]

really? Never heard of that before!

That's what the ladies in the natural parenting forum told me. It makes sense to me. I just giving up coffee altogether until I get to the second tri. Bit that's easier for me because I only ever drank one cup a day.

 

[ajarvis]

I can't find anything about that. Just that decaf still has some caffeine and to be careful between decaff and regular and the total over amount.

 

[too_scared]

Sounds good. I drank decaf tea my whole pregnancy with my son. Everything was perfect.

 

[ajarvis]

I drank decaf with my oldest only. Youngest I did a bit of both - but I wasn't as much of a coffee fiend yet. It's been building for a while haha.

 

[too_scared]

Haha! I wonder if my coffee habit will get bigger when I gave two kiddos.