If it’s coffee/tea, how do you take it? I typically end up consuming 200-400 Mg a day depending on if I go to the gym or work overnight. I either do black coffee (iced ideally) or sugar free redbull/monster. I’m considering switching to caffeine pills but I know it wont scratch that habitual itch of drinking it down.
Probably between 200-300mg. I would never do caffeine pills, as I enjoy my methods of caffeine consumption.
Typically, I’ll either drink a 2-cup moka pot, or some espresso. I never drink drip or French press coffee. Too bland. Turkish coffee is also good, but I don’t get that too often.
If not coffee, it’s usually Monster rehabs or Celsius. Tea is more for enjoyment than the caffeine content.
I drink three cups of coffee a day, first thing in the morning. If there is caffeine in something else I consume I am ignorant of it.
Fair enough
Ideal amount, 3-5/day
That is what i understand as well.
Occasionally, energy drinks as I like the fruity taste of some of them. Otherwise, I don’t consume heavily caffeinated drinks.
I enjoy a pot of spiced black tea, usually a chai blend with cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Sometimes I will add cocoa powder and pour the tea over that with sugar and milk to make a chai tea/hot cocoa drink that is a highlight of my day.
2 double espressos to start the day, 3-4 more singles throughout the day. Cutoff for coffee is 7pm, and I usually have 1-2 hot green teas in the evening to wind down.
It’s one of my last remaining vices of significance, very tough for me to get going without caffeine and I get a headache by mid afternoon if I don’t get me some by then.
I’m surprised at most of the people in this thread with their minimal intake. Good for you I guess. To the boofers: I get it, but just not for me.
Zero.
There are too few of us.
Found the mormans.
I don’t know man, I can’t really think of many drugs I haven’t done in some form or another. I just don’t use stimulants anymore, as I’ve already enough problems being overstimulated.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
— Ernest Hemingway
Edit Also how do you know we aren’t morwomans instead of mormans?
Also zero, for like 20 years now.
Maybe the occasional sip of coffee if I have a headache
Hahaha
None anymore. It took me a while to realize the the most energetic and level headed people that I know in my life don’t even consume caffeine.
Caffeine addition keeps you permanently tired and getting the next hit just brings you back up closer to to the energy levels of people who don’t consume it.
It is hard as hell to quit because it is so addictive, but the other side is so much better…
This is not true for everyone
de nile is not just a river in egypt
And science is science
I go through periods of high and low caffeine intake, so I have some experience in managing withdrawals.
Let’s say you want to go down from 4 cups to 2 cups. Here’s how to do it:
- Write down how much you currently use. Let’s say you’re using the traditional 60 g/l recipe and a 200 ml cup. Therefore your starting point is: 60 g/l × 0.2 l × 4 cups/d = 48 g/d
- Prepare a daily plan on how do you go from 48 g/d (4 cups/d) to 24 g/d (2 cups/d). I would recommending reducing the does by 1 g of beans per day. So, if you used 48 g of beans yesterday, grind only 47 g today and 46 tomorrow etc. If headaches occur, you need to go slower. If you’re drinking dark roast or if you have a headache resistant head, you can probably get away with 1.5 g/d or 2 g/d reduction rate.
- Don’t switch to another type of coffee while ramping down your intake, since the different caffeine concentration in the beans will change the daily dose. You don’t know the mass of caffeine, but you do know the mass of the beans you grind. Don’t introduce unknown variables. This is hard enough as it is.
- Don’t drink coffee made by other people. You won’t be able to control your intake properly.
That’s how I do it when ramping down my intake. You can also go all the way to zero if you like. The same logic applies to tea as well, but doing it gets a bit tricky. The concentration of caffeine in the solids is much higher in tea, so 1 g/d reduction rate is far too rapid. You also need to have a good scale, and you need to weigh very small masses, which may require some trickery.
I tried to eliminate caffeine to reduce anxiety in combination with my ADHD meds.
My morning routine without coffee was hard; decaf helped a lot though. Ultimately didn’t kick the addiction though.
If I may be so bold, 400mg is a lot. Your body habituates, so why push the envelope?
I don’t
preworkout, 400mg/day before training, ofc not if I rest
Damn that is a lot to be dumping into your system for a workout. Do you not get jitters?
Is it? I use to take more than this every day, Just recently cut back down to 400mg because of medication
Never really got the jitters, but then again I do mostly cardio, I do feel the effects in my train of thought tho and in my breathing.
Yeah it’s nearly three red bulls worth. It’s a lot.
There are studies around caffeine before workouts and from recollection they’re at the 200mg level.
2-3 regular sized coffee mugs a day.
One cup of coffee with milk in the morning
My caffeine intake fluctuates in an almost cyclical pattern. I’ll injest a lot to the point of ineffectivness, then scale back to nothing, then slowly ramp up again. It’s not purposefull, just a natural progression I tend to follow.
Right now, I’m off it completely. I’ll stay this way until I have a day where I’m really tired. I’ll break down and have a cup of coffee. That’s usually the breaking point for me.
At the max, a day could be two Monster energy drinks, four to five 12oz cups of coffee, and an occasional cup of black tea. A few days at this point and I feel nothing from it, and begin to scale back.
I haven’t gotten to that level since starting on ADHD meds. Turns out I was self medicating without realizing it.
100mg from one cup of coffee (in the style of a latte, cafe mocha, cappuccino etc.) on weekdays at work, on some weekdays a tea or coffee 50-100mg after lunch if I am feeling particularly tired. None regularly on the weekends, except for the odd time I meet people on the weekend at a cafe or something like that. …and I don’t drink colas.
I’m trying to keep it to a level that I don’t require it to function.
Loose leaf tea, re-steeped several times over the course of the day. The caffeine content goes down with each successive stepping, but good quality whole leaves will still let you get several cups out of them.
I stop making it at 3, which usually gives me enough time to metabolize it and sleep normally.
