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"Yesterday afternoon I broke my no buying coffee rule and splurged on an iced latte at DD. I got a small skim one and four munchkins (which don&amp;#x27;t equal a whole donut, right? Especially since Nick ate one...) and, it only cost $2.08. Either the counter guy thought I was cute and gave me a discount (I did have makeup on for the first time all week) or DD is more amazing than I thought. But I digress. The reason I bring it up is that I chose to have a decaf. I just didn&amp;#x27;t feel like getting all speedy and heart-beaty at 4 p.m. Normally...I love that feeling. Well, I love that it curbs my appetite. When I was losing weight for my wedding I had an iced latte or iced tea every day and it worked wonders. But now all that caffeine just seems wrong. But is it? A recent study talked about caffeine reducing the risk of skin cancer and there is a link between lower breast cancer risk and caffeine . Well, here is my current daily intake (on average): *A cup or sometimes two of home-brewed Dunkin Donuts coffee in the a.m. *Maybe a can or more likely half a can of diet coke with lunch (we bought the big case of them from Costco but when it runs out I&amp;#x27;ll probably quit...I&amp;#x27;m not really addicted these days). *Occasionally a cup of tea in the afternoon&amp;amp;#8212;normally I drink decaf, but I&amp;#x27;m out and I love the PG tips I have in the cabinet, anyway (but perhaps this is why I&amp;#x27;m waking up at 3 a.m. lately?) I don&amp;#x27;t eat enough chocolate to matter (isn&amp;#x27;t that sad? I literally can&amp;#x27;t remember the last piece of chocolate I ate...helps that Alex is so allergic to everything we didn&amp;#x27;t even have Easter candy in the house..) And that&amp;#x27;s it. Not a lot, is it? And here&amp;#x27;s the truth: I honestly think I could go without it. When I was first diagnosed with CML I switched to decaf (there was no medical reason to, it just felt more cancer-patienty to drink the low-test stuff) and then my whole pregnancy and breastfeeding journey was pretty much decaffeinated as well. (Although I did drink two and half diet cokes at lunch at the Bellagio when Nick and I were in Vegas when I was seven months along and it was amazing...I felt like a crackhead!) My parents are pretty strongly anti-caffeine (for various health and conspiracy theory reasons). When I&amp;#x27;m with them in the a.m., my dad is always trying to get me to drink decaf (he&amp;#x27;s also always trying to get me to eat rare steak, so it&amp;#x27;s not like he&amp;#x27;s quite the health nut he aspires to be...). But I feel OK with my intake. Of course if I do have another baby, I will have to go on the wagon. And if the headaches start, I suppose I&amp;#x27;ll know I have a problem. OK, how much caffeine do you consume a day? What are your thoughts on it?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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