Orange juice will just spike your blood sugar for a temporary boost too.
Small meals throughout the day of quality protein, healthy fats and some whole grain carbs will provide a more sustained energy. But you'll have to get used to that kind of energy too. It's better for you long term though.
Also, Brewer's Yeast is a good energizer.

I started out hating the taste of Red Bull. Now that I need it to function a lot of times, I've grown to crave the taste. Weird how that works.

I eat about 150 grams of protein per day at minimum.

It's a messed up system they have out there in energy drink world.

I drink them sometimes. Usually sugar free Red Bull if I do.

But all energy drinks pretty much taste like cat piss. I definitely wouldn't say the flavor is anything most people enjoy.

I weigh 183 right now. If I get off them I could probably get down to 10% body fat like I'm wanting. That's a big factor to me.

Quality protein in small quantities throughout the day?

Mix an energy drink with anti-freeze.
That'll kill your addiction.

I'm someone who also has an addictive personality, so I feel I can relate to you to an extent. You need to find something positive and healthy to take the place of your energy drinks, while taking care not to replace them with something equally/more destructive.

I'm also not one who is in fantastic tip top shape, but I've been working out quite a bit lately, and I feel great. Even a simple walk around campus seems to give me extra energy and puts me in a better mood.

Not small quantities necessarily. Quality, I'd say yes. It's not McDonalds protein and ish like that.

Anyway. I'm probably not going to be of much help in this thread. I've never really developed a dependency for anything.

But, I can say that more than 2 or 3 energy drinks per week is most definitely unhealthy for you, and you are doing the right thing by trying to stop. Good luck to you.

I am usually guaranteed to have one right around 8am after I get to work. Maybe coffee or just water would be a possible replacement.

Honestly, the more water you drink in a day; the more anything sugary/sweet tastes awful to you. Force yourself to get a gallon of water down a day and it may help your taste buds get back to normal.

That might help eliminate one aspect of your craving/addiction.

Thanks. I need to stop, and I'm tired of feeling fatigued for no reason.

If you want to save money, the Hy-Vee in Olathe off of 151st Street has Venom for $1.25 each. I don't actually like Red Bull that much. I love Monster & Venom though, and sometimes drink Full Throttle, Amp, and Rockstar. Unfortunately Red Bull is probably the least bad for you, it has the least amount of caffeine than any of them.