April began with a nice outing. We visited Lanzarote and spent a few days traveling around the island to discover all the interesting spots.

I released two updates for Mushroom Mayhem. First version 1.4, which adds an in-app store and a statistics page. At the end of the month version 1.5, which basically simplifies the app. Less options more play.

This was also the month of my experiment.

April 0.0 – Results: A month without went surprisingly well; thanks to alcohol-free beer I completed this challenge easily. It took Ana about four days to notice that I had suddenly switched to 0.0. There were three situations where I would normally drink a bit, which made things challenging: our trip to Lanzarote, a farewell party for a colleague, and a dinner with the guys. In Lanzarote I switched to 0.0 perfectly. During the other two events I sinned a tiny bit, but in my opinion that fell reasonably outside the scope of this experiment, so it was allowed.

My coffee stop went unnoticed by my family, because I drank 99% of my coffee at work. I noticed it myself though, and quite strongly. I kept my coffee ritual exactly the same, but instead of coffee I grabbed water. Same cup, same ritual, that should be easy, I thought. During the first few days I had a slight headache in the evenings; on the third and fourth day I was genuinely surprised, because I had a strong headache the entire day, and after that it slowly got better again. I definitely hadn’t expected that.

The first week I had headaches, the second week I felt normal again, though I still occasionally had a strong craving for a cup of coffee. Monday mornings were the worst, and at the end of the workday I often felt like I needed a little boost, but I held back and stuck to just water.

The experiment is now finished, so I think I’m going back to my normal rhythm. I am going to drink less coffee, and maybe a few more 0.0 beers. I was actually a bit disappointed that there was so little to notice from changing my behavior. Apart from the headaches, the only real difference was a small social adjustment because I drank less, but that honestly didn’t amount to much.