<p>So I have been drinking energy drinks, (red bull, nos, monster, etc), for 3-4 years now, almost daily and recently, I have came to the conclusion that I need to lead a more healthy life style so I have tried to stop drinking energy drinks, </p>
<p>BUT</p>
<p>I just feel so drained everyday and am basically a walking zombie, </p>
<p>So I was wondering if there are any "healthy" energy boosting drinks I can explore?</p>
<p>Water. Adequate sleep. Healthy diet.</p>
<p>Water + Sleep = Happy</p>
<p>I would assume that your body needs some time to get used to functioning on less caffeine. After that regular sleep, a healthy diet and exercise should do the trick.</p>
<p>Of if you just want caffeine in a “healthier” form than red bull, try tea (green or black).</p>
<p>Water, sleep, and pop a vitamin B pill if you want.</p>
<p>Water and sleep is the best alternative, but caffeine from other sources in limited quantities in OK. As someone said, green tea is a good choice and coffee is fine too. Coffee (NOT Frapps) has very few calories and doesn’t have any of that other junk they put in energy drinks.</p>
<p>FRS is good</p>
<p>It’s going to take you some time to get used to it. I went one week once drinking energy drinks every day and when I stopped, I thought that was rough! </p>
<p>Why do you need energy drinks everyday anyway (either healthy or unhealthy)?</p>
<p>Sleep is the most healty thing for you, but if you really cared more about what’s less expensive and not necessarially what’s healthier, you could try caffeine pills and ephedrine. Ephedrine may be illegal where you live (or may be very expensive due to restrictions put on it), so that may not work, but you should be able to get caffeine pills anywhere, cheap. Nutrabulk.com has them very cheap.</p>
<p>Only tips I can give you is that</p>
<ol>
<li><p>You have to find your “sweet spot” in terms of hours of sleep. I think people have different cycle REM cycles, and if you wake up in the middle of one, you feel tired.</p></li>
<li><p>Eating a lot of food, aka digestion, can make you feel tired.</p></li>
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<p>I’ve never heard of water making you feel more rested; I have to look into that.</p>
<p>You can get some wicked discontinuation symptoms from stopping caffeine abruptly. Usual symptoms are headache and nausea, along with fatigue and low energy. To make it easier to go off the stuff, you might try smaller amounts of caffeine containing drinks- like black or green tea. At the same time, get the adequate sleep and extra exercise that many other posters have suggested</p>
<p>Yeah, you can’t quit any addictive substance (nicotine, alcohol and caffeine are the three legal ones) cold turkey once you’re addicted, which you very very probably are. Wean yourself off.</p>
<p>A couple packs of vivarin caffeine pills got me through college…the red bull costs were stacking up real bad…a pack of 40 vivarin tablets costs the same as two cans of red bull</p>
<p>Losing weight while keeping up your energy can be done by eating high energy bars for a breakfast or lunch (or both) while also drinking plenty of water (at least 3-16.9 ounce bottles a day) and getting fruit in the morning, a salad at lunch (with just a light salad dressing), and a low-fat or nonfat yogurt snack in the afternoon. Then east a low-calorie dinner (290 to 350 calories is best) regular (meat or fish, vegetables, and some rice or beans) meal, and have a 140 calorie to 170 calorie dessert. Note: If you have an energy bar for breakfast, get some tuna or something for lunch, if you have an energy bar for lunch, eat an egg and a grapefruit for breakfast. Having coffee for breakfast is okay, but only if you use non-sugar sweeteners (equal or other diet sweetner) and lowfat (or preferably nonfat milk). In fact, you should have no full fat milk ever–it is terrible for you. It takes time to switch to lowfat and then nonfat, but once you do, you’ll never need to go back. Full fat milk and cheeses are also considered to be a major cause of acne in teenagers, anyway. (Also, buy some nonfat cheese slices as snacks, in addition to what I’ll list below–but only eat one to two a day, tops.)</p>
<p>If you need to snack after dinner, get nonfat jellos and low-fat popcicles and cottage cheese. Eat popcorn once a week at night as a treat that has no butter at all on it. Stay away from breads, crackers, cookies (except nonfat ones), potato chips, and tortilla chips–these will all do you in–especially if you have these right before sleeping at night. If you have any of these in your house or apartment, take them to the trash can and dump them right now. These is how you will avoid the temptation to cheat later.</p>
<p>This may sound weird, but it is basically the type of diet used by groups like Nutrasystems and Jenny Craig, although they make you use their food. You can do the same thing, though, simply by substituting low-calorie healthy TV dinners available at any store, or packing yourself a simple lunch, with lowfat meats and vegetables you buy yourself.</p>
<p>NOW–HERE’S THE REALLY IMPORTANT PART: Be sure that when you get the energy bars you buy the ones that have at least 10 to 11 grams of protein, while having only 2.5 to 6 grams of fat. Most of these have 140 to 170 calories each. Don’t buy the normal “protein bars” you see in the store that have only 1 or 2 grams of protein, and advertise low fat (usually 1/2 to one gram of fat.) Most of these are 90 to 120 calories–but you will feel tired all the time–because you are getting no protein. Usually, the good ones are found in the nutritional aisle of the grocery store, not in the “cracker/protein bar aisle”–which is just more “junk food”. Consider eating one of these right before going into a midterm or final exam–it keeps you alert (and also having one the night before when studying).</p>
<p>P.S. I lost 27 lbs on a diet like this in about 4 months–and have kept most of it off for about six months (although I did “slide” a bit and cheat a lot and started eating junk food and brownies about a month ago–and put on 5 lbs, which I then had to diet back off). I currently weight 175 and at 5’ 10" I am in better shape than I have been for a long time (like about 3 years).</p>
<p>Use the following fat-index calculator to figure out what your weight should be:</p>
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<p>ugh, full fat milk is not terrible for you. can we please stop being obsessed with calories and accept that fat is an important nutrient?</p>
<p>egolikestomach,</p>
<p>How Much Fat Should You Eat?</p>
<p>The American Heart Association and the United States Department of Agriculture recommend that you limit your fat intake to no more than 30% of your daily calories. Of that 30%, 10% or less of the fat calories should come from saturated fat. Check the Nutrition Facts labels of the foods you eat for information about fat from saturated and unsaturated sources. </p>
<p>Textbooks and the labels on milk tell us that it contains only 4 percent fat, and most people read it to mean only a very small amount. However, milk consists of 87 percent water, and only 13 percent solids. The actual, honest-to-goodness food part of whole milk consists of 26.7 percent fat, which by any way of reckoning, means that it is a very fatty food. Whole milk is just as fatty as an average pork chop. It gives you twice as much fat, ounce for ounce, as you get in the average green olive; more fat than you get in the average frankfurter. And, shockingly, even more of the calories that come from drinking whole milk come from fat–at least 53 percent of the calories provided by fresh, whole milk are derived from fat, and supersaturated fat, at that.</p>
<p>Look around and about you. Watch men, aged 25 to 35, faithfully drink “healthful” whole milk. Then remember that for each man killed by alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver (that is, liver disease from drinking too much alcohol), more than 2500 will die because their coronary arteries are choked with cholesterol and fat. </p>
<p>It is an entirely different story with skim or low-fat milk. It is immensely good for all of us, and perhaps entitled to the accolade, the “most nearly perfect food”, especially considering the amount of calcium and vitamins it contains.</p>
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Only if you ignore that prepared meat is still more than 50% water… </p>
<p>You cannot just ignore the water content, because after all you do drink the entire milk and not just the nutritional part of it.</p>
<p>You probably don’t need to take Vit B pills unless you have like GI problems and have problems absorbing it. People usually have stores in their liver that last for a month.</p>
<p>Sleep, exercise, healthy diet. Try to maintain a low-stress lifestyle. I know that’s not always possible, but the long-term effects on your health will be great.</p>