Hi KetoPescatarian, it’s a hard journey you’ve been through, hoping it will get easier as you heal. I agree with what you say about how hard it is too find a diet that works, as this is all so very individual, we each walk our own path in life. I have decided to finally close the dairy chapter in my life, after romancing about it for far too long and making excuses to still be eating it, and this leaves me with the lion diet - beef and lamb, salt and water - but for the eggs I still consume. I do find, for me personally, that my body is only truly happy when I eat red meat (beef and lamb) but I don’t think this is the norm. And also unnecessary for most people. But when we have a lot of healing to do then it becomes a combination of listening to our bodies, as well as listening to science. We end up leaning on studies, anecdotes versus our N=1 experiments. Regardless of which WOE one is on to heal, healing takes time. Years, depending on how much damage has been done, and how much inflammation is still in your body. Only you can know how your body feels, how the food you eat makes you feel, and how it affects you. If a WOE entirely based on fish and seafood makes you feel your best, then that’s the right WOE for you. Fish and seafood doesn’t seem to agree with me which just goes to show how different we all are. As to coffee, I felt that when I consumed it, I would become jittery, more easily stressed or irritated, my brainfog was worse, and my sleep was affected. It took me a week to lose the withdrawal symptoms, and then I did feel much better. I am certain now I am better off without caffeine.
Why I gave up Coffee and Caffeine - Is coffee toxic?
I’ve given up caffeine since the new year. All the cramps I used to get (they used to wake me up!) are gone and I feel much more healthy and relaxed.
As someone wrote though I found it difficult to moderate.
Irrespective I wouldn’t have even one cup a day.
I switched to Decaf two weeks ago after a change in medication. I only drink about 1-2 per day before 2pm otherwise I will not sleep. I do not metabolize caffeine well. I believe the caffeine was giving me high blood pressure. I will test again tomorrow.
The psychological aspects of ‘deprivation’ are trending these days.
Restriction or deprivation, without replacement, for addiction, is fraught.
I wonder what Dr. Cywes would say?
Let’s find out.
I wondered about abandoning this but I just write here that I just wrote about my current thoughts about my own coffee quitting…
It’s my no coffee day #2 again… And it’s my proper carni time too so I don’t have cocoa either (coffee and cocoa are great replacement of each other for me though I prefer to use them together. my homemade chocolate is especially coffee-y, the one I make for my SO has way less, one doesn’t feel it but it’s tastier that way)… No big deal but I definitely miss it for some seconds sometimes. I can’t replace it with anything due to carnivore. Egg milk is the closest but it still lacks something (that’s why I typically put coffee or - when I am more serious about no coffee than carnivore and I am aware coffee is a plant too - cocoa) and all my ideas are even sweet…
So I drink water, mostly. Sometimes tea for variety but it gets old and it doesn’t replace coffee at all, they are way too different.
I feel exactly the same with and without coffee (except the nice feelings about doing it and all the saved time when I quit. I have zero physical health reasons to quit coffee, I probably wouldn’t have this habit otherwise, I am a hedonist and not feeling right if I can do anything about it isn’t my thing). And when I don’t quit coffee, I try not to drink any until 3-4pm at least if I haven’t written that before. I am way better at not starting something than stopping and sleep gives me a clean slate, not perfectly but it’s very helpful.
So, day 2. I hope I have a bigger momentum instead of a bigger feeling of missing now… These are the good days, weekend comes with stronger freedom loving tendencies and I will be too happy with myself doing 5 days without coffee so I probably will drink some? But maybe not unless I buy some okay coffee, my options are extremely limited now (I got bored of the big mess my only real option means and the other, expensive and lovely option almost run out and I keep it for chocolate, my SO needs the stuff even more than I need meat).
I had gastritis from epilepsy meds. Lions mane supplements! Slippery elm seemed to help too. Nothing in the pharmaceutical arsenal helped. Most anything made it worse.
On this subject of coffee & caffeine:
DETOX !
Coming from a family caffeine junkies. I don’t see how ppl don’t try a caffeine detox once or twice a year. You really need to detox to appreciate coffee and tea. And I really appreciate coffee and tea. Especially after gastritis and epilepsy. 
