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.
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None of the canned energy drink blood thinners and aspatame /acesulfamine sweeteners, none of the sugar since theyve replaced it with sucralose, none of the Lead found in other energy drink powders, they actually pay their artists and outright refuse to use generative images.
I don’t, so zero
2 mugs of 10 oz dark coffee, black, extra strong. I’m currently moderating, trying to stick to that.
I’ve found that k-cups have a similar advantage to soda cans when you want to moderate. You can’t fill up a super-mug and there is no pot/2L bottle to finish. Portion control is crucial
fuck off, bot.
140mg daily within about 15 min of waking up by way of ZOA, which is like a seltzer drink, similar to Celsius but less caffeine and no aspertame which I have a sensitivity to.
I pretty much stick between 100-200mg daily though, less and I feel like a zombie, more and my anxiety goes through the roof.
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.
One cup of coffee with milk in the morning
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.
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 used to drink nearly 2 litres per day. Then I got an allergic reaction to it, including sudden coffee aversion. I no longer drink coffee, because it gives me eczema, not worth it.
Do not overdo your coffee drinking if you like it!
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?
Zero.
There are too few of us.
Found the mormans.
Also zero, for like 20 years now.
Maybe the occasional sip of coffee if I have a headache
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…
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.
This is not true for everyone
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.
