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polak · 02-10-2015, 10:09 AM

If anything, this thread makes me want to drink more Coffee.

If Tim's had a bigger size than XL I'd get it.

Reaper · 02-10-2015, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by polak

If anything, this thread makes me want to drink more Coffee.

If Tim's had a bigger size than XL I'd get it.

"Sir, Bucket is not a size we offer."

AcGold · 02-10-2015, 12:57 PM

I'm clean and I feel so much better. By a million. Threw out my coffee maker.

undercoverbrother · 02-10-2015, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by AcGold

Clean since Thursday. Decaf with cream is like non alcoholic beer.

####ing useless?

AcGold · 02-10-2015, 02:31 PM

pretty much

blueski · 02-10-2015, 02:39 PM

I had a real problem with caffeine/coffee at one point. Just a little and I could not sleep, no matter what time of the day. Mentioned this to my doctor and he said "drink more of it". Reason being, your liver won't actively remove it from your system when it is under a certain threshold. The threshold varies by individual. Two cups a day and I sleep like a baby.

djsFlames · 02-10-2015, 05:10 PM

I don't drink coffee, except for the rare occasion when I'm offered it. Never really have.

I quit drinking coke over a year ago. Well pepsi, coke, dr.pepper, all the dark pops. I found I always drank them for the sugar and sweetness, but it's not good for you. So I just have vitamin waters and iced tea/green tea for that now.

Every random occasion that i've tried drinking any of those things again, I just feel like #### after. Coffee wrecks my digestive system. And I'm a healthy young guy. I don't know how people can drink that crap day after day. How people can actually say they 'need' it seems sad to me.

I'm able to stay up late and get lots of work done when needed, without a drop of coffee. In fact, my mind is even more active at night. I do struggle the odd time early in the morning but that why there's this wonderful thing that comes in a bag called tea that doesn't bring any of those side effects. Even decaffeinated teas that are hot can wake you up just fine. Also freezing cold showers.

mrkajz44 · 02-11-2015, 02:03 PM

The wake up call for me was when I started feeling like a bag of crap in the morning at work. I'd need my green tea fix and then the rest of the day went pretty good. I hated being dependent on it, so I just weaned off it over the next week or so. Now everything is fine and I drink mostly herbal tea, with some green or white thrown in every once in a while.

I used to not understand people when they'd say "don't talk to me before my morning coffee", but now I totally understand. But wouldn't the better solution be less caffeine rather than feeling awful prior to the first coffee/tea? At least that's how I saw it.

troutman · 02-11-2015, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by djsFlames

So I just have vitamin waters

Coke: Wait, People Thought Vitaminwater Was Good for You?

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philp...-water-obesity

Back in 2009, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola for making "deceptive and unsubstantiated" health claims about the products. In 2010, a US federal district court judge rejected Coca-Cola's motion to dismiss the suit (document here), noting that Coke's lawyers had made a remarkable argument: "At oral argument defendants suggested that no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

So what Coke is passing off as "enhanced water" is mostly just sugar water; or as CSPI has put it, "vitamins + water + sugar + hype = soda - bubbles." Granted, there's less sugar in vitaminwater (19 grams per 12 oz.) than in, say, Coca-Cola classic (39 grams per 12 oz.). But it's still pretty sugary.

Coke charges about twice as much for its vitaminwater as it does for Coca-Cola Classic.

What about the other 0.5 percent of vitaminwater—the vitamin part? It includes electrolytes—the stuff found in sports drinks. It turns out that electrolyte-laden drinks are mostly hype. As for all those vitamins, there's little or no evidence that vitamin supplements do much to improve health.

N-E-B · 02-11-2015, 04:59 PM

I cut caffeine out of my diet and it was the best move I ever made. I feel better in the mornings when I wake up and I sleep way better at night. I used to drink a solid 2 or 3 cases of coke a week. Never was a big coffee drinker. Still don't get why people drink it, the stuff tastes like poison...

polak · 02-12-2015, 10:36 AM

To you? I love how coffee tastes.

I drink decaff all the time. Had one last night.

Maritime Q-Scout · 02-12-2015, 12:24 PM

I love the taste of coffee. Your generic fast food coffee tastes good to me. Premium coffee at the local coffee shop is better. And if you ever have the chance to have a freshly roasted, freshly ground, properly pressed coffee (for the PEIers I'm thinking of Leonard's I think the name of the German bakery is) then you'll experience the nectar that Jesus himself sips on before church on Sunday mornings.

polak · 02-12-2015, 03:14 PM

The cafe at the middle level of the Eiffel tower, I don't know if it was the scenery or what, but damn. I don't know how anyone could drink that and call it poison.

wooohooo · 02-12-2015, 03:20 PM

Yup tried to quit for two days. Not happening. Couldn't even last two days.

Aleks · 02-13-2015, 04:07 PM

Who the heck uses a beverage for caffeine? Skip the middle man, go straight for the kick

Aleks · 02-13-2015, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by polak

If anything, this thread makes me want to drink more Coffee.

If Tim's had a bigger size than XL I'd get it.

Um, buy the box

MrMastodonFarm · 02-13-2015, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by troutman

Coke: Wait, People Thought Vitaminwater Was Good for You?

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philp...-water-obesity

Back in 2009, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola for making "deceptive and unsubstantiated" health claims about the products. In 2010, a US federal district court judge rejected Coca-Cola's motion to dismiss the suit (document here), noting that Coke's lawyers had made a remarkable argument: "At oral argument defendants suggested that no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

So what Coke is passing off as "enhanced water" is mostly just sugar water; or as CSPI has put it, "vitamins + water + sugar + hype = soda - bubbles." Granted, there's less sugar in vitaminwater (19 grams per 12 oz.) than in, say, Coca-Cola classic (39 grams per 12 oz.). But it's still pretty sugary.

Coke charges about twice as much for its vitaminwater as it does for Coca-Cola Classic.

What about the other 0.5 percent of vitaminwater—the vitamin part? It includes electrolytes—the stuff found in sports drinks. It turns out that electrolyte-laden drinks are mostly hype. As for all those vitamins, there's little or no evidence that vitamin supplements do much to improve health.

I used the vitamin water to ween me off the pepsi addiction. But yeah, those things aren't great for you. Since Christmas I've only had a handle of them (been off pop for a while now) no coffee (was never a huge coffee drinker) no energy drinks. Trying to just have water as much as possible.

Not going to wax poetic too much here but feeling good just because of that. The mornings are much better. No desire to have something to give me that morning "kick".

Maritime Q-Scout · 02-13-2015, 06:54 PM

I don't understand people saying "I kicked the caffeine habit and mornings are better now."

I'm not saying it's not true for you, or that you're clearly lying.

But before I had daily caffeine mornings were rough, I was quiet and lived in my head. When I don't have caffeine I go back to that.

I can't comprehend stopping caffeine and feeling great in the AM.