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coffee should be considered a dirty habit like smoking or alcohol abuse so 0
Drinking should be considered a dirty habit like smoking too
Fully agree, I was already in the middle of editing my comment when you posted that
Nice. I quit drinking this summer. So far so good and no plans to go back. I still do enjoy coffee though.
Would you be comfortable disclosing your age and profession? My father and grandfather have both quit drinking for health reasons and I am considering the same. The issue of course is there is a tremendous pressure at social events (friends, family and work) to drink. I feel like if I didn’t drink, I would be severely judged
Very late 20s. Work in accounting (non public). I would strongly consider it. Most of the people who would actually judge you are only doing so because they feel insecure about their own reasons for drinking.
That's very much in your head. You'll get judged if you can't not drink. The more you obsess about how drinking appears on the outside, the harder it'll be to step away. No one, in reality, gives a fuck whether you drink or not. The less you think about it, the more normal it'll feel and (following suit) the more normal it'll appear. Been sober a year and a solid mantra among sober people is "the world does not stop because you decide to stop drinking." All that changes is you (almost always for the better), nothing else. Best of luck.
I found Mitt Romney's account.
Put that coffee down!
Get them to sign on the line which is dotted
Coffee is for closers only!
ABC - Always be closing!
6:30 am : 12 oz of espresso from my Bialetti 8:30 am: 2 cups of coffee at school 1:00 pm: 1 cup 3:30 pm: 2 cups 6:30 pm : 3 cups 10:00 pm: 2 cups I usually go to bed around 2 am. If i’m with friends/doing something, i’ll drink another cup or two around 11 pm.
User name checks out. Do you drink all that? Or do caffeine pills?
lol truth about the username. All liquid.
So an espresso is normally 1 to 1.5 oz (like a shot) 12oz is 8-12 servings of coffee. Are you sure that you're not pulling lungos? (long shots, so more water for the caffeine) If not, then you probably shake more than I do when I have the Sunday scaries.
I mean, I love my coffee, but I rarely do more than 6 a day
normally you brew the pot and pour yourself a shot. i just drink it all.
I usually have a cup around 10-10:30am and then maybe another by 2pm at the latest. Might switch that second one up for green tea every so often. Someone posted a thing here a couple years ago about how cortizol levels drop around those times so that's when I opted for it.
I only drink coffee when I’m hungover and can’t stay alert or after a massively slutty/disgusting lunch (think Sophie’s, Chipotle/Dos Toros, chicken parm hero, Chick-Fil-A, Shake Shack, massive amounts of Pho or Ramen.) I’ll have one cup to basically wake me up
Couple bottles of Diet Mt Dew a day. Maybe a cold brew from Starbucks
how’s WEST VIRGINIA
Country roads, my guy, those beautiful country roads
I generally have about 48-60oz of coffee a day. Start in the morning with a cup after my shower, take some for the road, get a coffee on the way home, have some after dinner right up until I pass out. Then do it all over again the next day.
Keg stand. jet black coffee. 3pm.
I use boiled water and powdered coffee; to me, anything beyond that is luxury. Is the taste good? You get used to it; but if you drink it for the taste, we are not on the same page.
I take two tablespoons of powdered coffee in three fourth cup of water. Start my day with this. Take another round in the noon; 4-5 hours away from the first one. I try to avoid taking another one in the evening but if I see it turning into an allnighter, it's pretty much mandatory.
To balance it out - I meditate at least 15 minutes in a day. And take up a fruit salad here or there; I would like to go on a run every morning. But that hasn't happened yet.
I get why some people may call it an addiction. I am pretty sure I can put it down if I want to; but I have to get shit done and my system will take a lot of time to reach equivalent performance levels without it. Plus, I have been following the same routine for about two years now and haven't developed resistance.
2018: 12 shots of espresso, a cold brew or two, a hot coffee or two. I averaged ~1,200 mg of caffeine per day. I also got into Death Wish Coffee towards the end, which I believe was ~700mg a cup or something insane like that.
Early 2019: had a medical procedure because I tore my esophagus and had ulcers from too much coffee
Rest of 2019 and beyond: 0 cups of coffee.
"Death Wish Coffee"
At that moment he knew.... he fucked up. But for real, sorry about your esophagus.
Haha I read it in the appropriate voice too
All good. The human body is resilient and I feel fine now. Thankfully it was light tears and I stopped before it got more serious.
I only drink coffee after 10am to not ponder with my cortisol production and generally not after 12am. I used to drink up to 4/5 cups in that timeframe but that makes me feel a little bad in the afternoon so I cut down to 2 cups.
Could you explain this a bit more, curious about the cortisol linkage etc
4-5 on normals days and 8-10 during crunch time
Start out the day with 16 oz of homemade cold brew 3-6 x 100 mg of caffeine pills throughout the day until 8 pm
I love coffee, especially the cold brew foam type drinks, but I like the convenience and knowing the dosage of caffeine in caffeine pills.
Stay caffeinated and stay woke my friends!
Currently at range anywhere from 3 to 6
single or double Espresso in the morning perc coffee coffee mid day perc coffee in the afternoon especially if carb dense lunch
Never really drink coffee past 4pm. Anyone go from pretty regular use like the above to none at all? What were the benefts?
too much coffee is a sure fire way to make sure your pee pee doesnt stand when you need it to
explanation? lol
So is too much alcohol
as is sitting at a desk all day
this is absolute cap. post red bull weiner becomes that of the hulk
One large cold brew around 9am - used to do a second cold brew around 2pm but have cut that out
One cup at home when I wake up Two at the office during the morning One right after lunch One on the afternoon
Total 5 cups a day
6:30 am -- start the day off right 8:00 am -- Whenever I get to the office 10:00 am -- Keep the morning rolling 3:30 pm -- Pregame before I take on the kids when I get home
Every so often there will also be one at Noon and/or one around 8pm (if it's going to be a late night). If I do have one at 8pm, I do half-caff so I'm not staring at the ceiling at 3am.
Mind you -- this is down from the 7-8 cups a day I'd slug down in B School or as an engineering student.
8:30 - 9:00 AM: Starting the day at work 12:30 - 1:30 PM: Fighting the lunchtime sleepies 3:00 - 4:00 PM: Trying to stay up during inevitable downtime
That's it
So on average, how much money do you all spend on coffee in a day or in a week?
120-240mg each day but I do powered caffeine. I’ve cut down a lot recently too, was on the Redlines hard for a couple months.
Nil
4
3-6 depending on the workload
Have a lot of people quit coffee? What long-term benefits did you see?
I’ve been on about 2 cups a day for most of my adult life but have recently been persuaded to quit through some research. Most tempting of which is improving my quality of sleep.
Certainly underestimated the cold turkey withdrawal symptoms...
Your guys’ adrenal systems must absolutely hate you
3 by 1:00 PM
4th at 5:00 PM
I have 4 shots of espresso with dark chocolate almond milk after I awake.
I used to drink more coffee than that, but typically now just have 5 - 10 cups of green tea or black tea after that during the day.
If it’s the middle of the night and I’m playing poker deep in a tourney, I’ll have 4-8 more shots depending and sleep fine after that.
For those who have 5+ do you really feel a difference between 4th and 5th?
I usually have 2-3 cups a day
0. The most caffeine I have is English Breakfast Tea (or some other Black tea or green tea).
Caffeine will lead to pre-mature death. I would avoid at all costs.
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