Daily cuppa coffee, made at home with fresh-ground beans, a French press, about 10-12 ounces, in the morning only, black (like my soul). Once in a while a second cup (but only in the morning, as I have a rule no caffeine after noon). If I am traveling it’s pretty much the same thing only someone else’s method. I will occasionally not have coffee in the morning and skip a day and really do not notice it. And also does not seem to affect my sleep patterns.
Typically, 12-24 oz of hot coffee with either oatmilk or half-and-half in the morning. If I go out, I might have another 12 oz. When I worked, there would be another 12 oz or 12 oz of black tea. No effect on sleep, anxiety, or jitters. That said, I often have none, or a cup of tea later in the day. No tolerance effects from skipping.
I drunk coffee, iced tea and cola regularly up to 10 years ago when my psych doc recommended I stop due to my anxiety. So I stopped completely and my anxiety got better.
Then about five years ago I had a regular coffee for the first time and I was awake for almost 24 hours. I had completely lost ANY tolerance I had for caffeine.
I have a 4 cup coffee maker, that fills my 16 ounce stainless mug twice. I also add a few ice cubes to the coffee to cool it down a bit. A friend opened a coffee stand a few miles from home, if I’m in the area I’ll stop for a small mocha.
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Well… I really enjoy tea, too. But I’m very sensitive to caffeine. So what I have done for many years is brew a pot of tea in the morning if I’m home, or have a cup or so of coffee if I’m not home, and enjoy it mostly at breakfast, but at least before lunch.
However, I fast for Yom Kippur. And this year (like last year) I tapered off caffeine so I could fast without getting headaches. And …This year, unlike other years, I didn’t go back to it. At least, not yet.
So I’m currently drinking a cup of decaf (an overpriced by very tasty brand) with breakfast, or sometimes a pot of roibos, and that’s pretty much it. Well, I also eat some chocolate, and when I brew a cup of cocoa it has enough caffeine that I notice it. But my guess is that most Americans wouldn’t notice that much caffeine.
I don’t really count, but it’s got to be a ton. I have coffee in the morning, usually two cups, but more if it’s cold. Then I drink Diet Pepsi when I’m thirsty. I probably go through 16 ounces a day on average unless I’ve eaten something too salty, then it’s more. And then there’s chocolate, which is not safe in my presence.
I don’t appear to be affected by any of it. I can’t remember not consuming these quantities.
Unless the day begins with leaving immediately to eat out on the way someplace, I’ll make an 6-cup pot of coffee first thing every morning. The first cup has a bunch of half and half or better yet full cream, the second a little of the same, and the rest are taken black. Some days I’ll finish the pot, sometimes about a cup is left. The latter case seems to be becoming more common, but if so that’s by osmosis, not conscious effort. It typically takes about two hours of lazing about (read “Doping”) to finish it. So that’s anywhere from 5-7am to maybe 8-10am. I rarely feel buzzed or like I had too much. But sometimes.
If I am going out immediately for breakfast I’ll typically get through 3 or 4 cups at a restaurant, with the same idea on cream: lots at first tapering to black at the end. Never sugar, never fake “creamer”.
Once in awhile (couple days per month?) I end up with no coffee for the day without obvious effect.
I rarely have coffee later in the day. Once awhile I’ll get a cappuccino mid-afternoon to offset the sleepys. Or the “I wanna indulge in a mini-snack while e.g. wandering the mall, but nothing carby”, and little but coffee fits that bill in that venue.
I rarely do any soda, and don’t really consider Coke Zero (my carbonated poison of choice) to have any detectable caffeine.
Caffeine late in the day / evening used to not disturb my sleep. That happy situation disappeared when I was about 50. So no more after dinner unless decaf.
Overall I don’t feel like I must have it, but I do enjoy it. My PCP suggests 1 cup / day max & I told her that might happen some day naturally, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to ration the stuff. If I want it, I’m gonna have it ad lib.
FTR: male, 65, lean, mildly diabetic, low A1C, low resting BP, no sleep issues.
I used to drink coffee religiously and became something of a coffee snob: I’d buy half a pound of beans from a small batch grower in Hawaii, have them roasted on site, and then priority shipped to Oregon. Brewed in a French press, I’d drink three or four cups a day. Straight black, no adulterants. Repeat at least weekly. It was an expensive habit. Because I finally learned what discretionary income meant by and by I switched to Folgers dark roast, which was surprisingly good although not as good as the Hawaiian stuff.
However, a couple of years ago I developed a sensitivity to coffee and even a small cup or one laced with copious amounts of full cream milk would make my stomach churn. So much to my dismay I had to give it up completely. I still miss it. I tried a breve latte from a local coffee stand some weeks ago just to see if my stomach had stopped hating me and nope, still made me sick. So it looks like I’m well and truly done.
Now I drink black tea, brewed British style: water at full boil immediately poured over Tetley or PG Tips tea bags or Twinings or Typhoo loose leaf in a preheated teapot, brewed for 4 minutes, then poured into a mug or insulated tumbler with the milk in first, of course, because I’m a snob like that (it actually makes dosing the milk easier when I’m still half asleep). A pack of Splenda in the mug, 2 in the tumbler. The mug is a standard American bigger-is-always-better 11 oz mug, the tumbler – it’s right here on my desk, how convenient – is 20 oz. I usually drink one of each each weekday. According to the interwebz an ounce of brewed black tea has about 5.8mg of caffeine. I figure I drink 20 oz of tea a day, so that’s 116mg per day.
I don’t touch sodas anymore, don’t eat chocolate, and very rarely drink energy drinks, so that’s basically my caffeine intake each day but with one caveat: there is the occasional morning I will wake up and I can feel that I’ll be half asleep most of the morning if I don’t do something drastic. On those days I take a Vivarin (200mg caffeine) as soon as I hit the head, and then do my usual morning routine. So on those days its over 300mg of caffeine. That happens probably twice a month, and only on weekdays. If that feeling hits on a weekend I just go back to bed or schedule two naps that day instead of my usual one.
I might cut back on caffeine after the new year, but that remains to be seen. I’m going to all but eliminate my caffeine intake during Christmas break just to see how I do; if I can handle it without issue I’ll stick with it.
My wife only consumes caffeine if she has a headache and my two older teenage sons don’t touch it except for whatever sodas they drink, and I think only my older son drinks caffeinated sodas. Regardless neither one drink much soda so even that caffeine consumption is occasional at best.
One big glass of sweet tea +/- once a week when we go out to the diner. I don’t drink coffee or sodas.
Maybe caffeine from choco chip cookies?
I have one decent sized cup of coffee every morning at home with breakfast. Most days, that’s the only caffeine I’ll have all day.
I make it in a Keurig. Fast and convenient, even if it isn’t the best tasting. I’m far from a coffee snob, so it tastes good enough for me.
Straight black coffee and lots of it, every morning starting around 6:00 and ending around 10 or 11.
Diet Mt. Dew or other diet drink later in the day, less consistently.
No effects at all that I’m aware of.
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ETA: And after I posted this I realized that I am sipping on what will likely be my last cup of the day, and it is after 1:00 pm.
I drink water mostly, but if I need a little pep I will drink sweet tea. Doesn’t perk me up nearly as much as it used to. I also allow myself an energy soda twice a week.
Hello from the Home of Tea! - I don’t drink it. Nor Coke etc. I don’t eat (or drink) chocolate.
A cup of black coffee, no sugar, at breakfast and one mid-morning. If we’re heading out, I’ll miss the mid- morning one and probably have a coffee with lunch. That’s it - no other caffeine that I am aware of. Are there any sneaky sources that I might have missed?
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Generally speaking my caffeine consumption is as follows:
Usually a 12-14 oz cup of fairly strong coffee (about twice the amount of grounds the can calls for) with cream and sugar. We used to be coffee snobs and buy whole beans and grind them, etc… but during the pandemic we just got used to cheap coffee (Maxwell House), so that’s what we drink now.
Then maybe 2 or three12 oz diet sodas (Coke/Pepsi/Dr. Pepper/Mountain Dew) over the course of the day.
No caffeine after about 5, if I can help it.
I figure that’s probably somewhere in the 200-250 mg range for the coffee, and another 80-120 from the sodas for a grand total in the 280-370 mg per day range, which is under the ‘generally considered safe’ threshold of 400 mg per day.
My wife is a big coffee drinker, she makes a pot in the morning and has at least 3 cups before noon.
I used to drink two, but lately it seems to be irritating my stomach a bit so I cut down to one.
It’s not something I crave… if she’s off visiting relatives or whatever, I don’t usually bother…
1 can of Diet Mt Dew every morning. I think it’s the equivalent of about 1/2 a cup of coffee.
On a typical work day I’ll have one cup of coffee with breakfast, and a second cup mid morning. Then a can of (sugar free) soda with lunch. And a cup of tea or another soda mid-afternoon (depending on the weather and what I’ve in the mood for). If I find myself in particular need of an extra energy boost I might have one more tea or soda later in the afternoon, but that is rare. I try to avoid caffeinated drinks after 5:00.
I drink two mugs of Folger’s when I wake up, sometimes three if I wake up super early. I’m usually done by 7 am. That’s approximately 240 mg. It doesn’t affect me at all, unless I drink 4! Which I never do because it makes me jittery. It doesn’t even wake me up. I can go back to sleep after drinking it. I don’t drink any during the day, I prefer water. And bourbon and coke zero at night.
I drink 4-6 cups of black tea every day (including weekends). My wife sometimes makes coffee and pushes me to have it instead, but I much prefer tea.
This is my exact experience, one too many cups and I feel like crap. I usually have a cup of coffee going all day but after my initial morning priming, I slow down to maybe 1 cup every couple of hours. from what I understand caffeine has a half-life of about 5 hours. that would explain why I start to feel a little jittery in the late afternoon.