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You’ve Been Drinking Too Much Coffee When….

• ► Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.
  ► You can take a picture of yourself from ten feet away without using the timer or a selfie stick.
  ► You lick your coffeepot clean.
  ► You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee.
  ► You’ve built a miniature city out of little plastic stirrers.
  ► People get dizzy just watching you.
  ► Instant coffee takes too long.
  ► You want to be cremated just so you can spend the rest of eternity in a coffee can.
  ► You go to sleep just so you can wake up and smell the coffee.
  ► You’re offended when people use the word “brew” to mean beer.
  ► You name your cats “Cream” and “Sugar”.
  ► You get drunk just so you can sober up.
  ► Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position.
  ► You can outlast the Energizer bunny.
  ► You don’t even wait for the water to boil anymore.
  ► You introduce your spouse as your “Coffee-mate”.
  ► You think CPR stands for “Coffee Provides Resuscitation”.

-"BB"-

I can't relate to the addictive nature of caffeinated coffee.

I can drink a mug of the stuff ten minutes before retiring for the night and sleep like a log. Maybe because I don't load it up with 'yucky' cream and sugar.

I quit coffee a few months ago - it was starting to disturb my sleep, even when I drank it in the late morning. I used to study at the coffee shop in college until well into the late evening and still go home and right to sleep. I'm still drinking tea, but not as often as I should. Once I got past the withdrawals, I don't really miss coffee all that much.

Moved my post over to here.

Joe Guy wrote:... Maybe this should be another thread?
Uh.... oh well....

And don't forget about Alexa Hente (El Exigente) “the demanding one” and the Savarin coffee he used to push.

RayThom wrote:

Joe Guy wrote:... Maybe this should be another thread?
Uh.... oh well....

And don't forget about Alexa Hente (El Exigente) “the demanding one” and the Savarin coffee he used to push.

I interpreted that as a yes you should...

I'm like Ray, I can drink a triple espresso right before bed and the caffeine doesn't bother me, but I know people who are the opposite. BSG--if you still would like to try, there are some excellent decaf coffees out there--a giant step away from the old sanka. I imagine decaf teas as well, but I am no certain.

I read a few sources that asserted that the decaffeinating process does something that causes decaf coffee to raise cholesterol levels, even when filtered through paper - not that it matters, because I always used a French press and got the full cholesterol.

But in any case, I do still on rare occasion order a cup of decaf with dessert if I'm eating someplace that offers really good coffee, and I'm not averse to the occasional cup of high octane in the morning - but I make it an occasional treat now because as much as I like coffee, I don't like being dependent on it and it's easy to slip back in - I know because I've quit a few times before. I know there are physiological reasons for that - I think the body can get addicted even to the 3% caffeine in decaf coffee, and to tea as well - but for some reason I don't get so addicted to tea. I really want to develop a green tea habit for the health benefits, but I forget to drink it more than half the time.

I loathed coffee until my early 20s, then I drank Folgers and Dunkin' Donuts and thought that was coffee until I joined Gevalia in college and got a taste for really good coffee. Then I was addicted to really good coffees, grinding the beans, investing in a Bunn, the whole nine yards of coffee connoisseurship - but again, I've recently quit for health reasons more than anything else - not so much because drinking it disturbs my sleep, but because my neurologist recommended I go without and see if that helps to reduce the frequency of my migraines and it has. Ironically, sometimes when I have a bad migraine that won't respond to meds, a triple espresso shot coffee helps knock it out - one of the earliest migraine meds I was prescribed 25 years ago was Cafergot, which is essentially a mass dose of caffeine in capsule form that often helped the headache but made me feel horrible, like I'd drank 3 or 4 pots of coffee on an empty stomach. So caffeine is both evil and angel to a migraineur; I'm choosing to keep just the angel aspect.

I do sometimes miss good coffee, but it's expensive and gives me migraines, so I don't mind making it a rare treat now instead of a habit. I'm really focused on treating all of my health issues - as much as possible - through healthy diet and lifestyle choices, with minimal pharmaceutical consumption. It means sacrificing some of my former pleasures, but I'm developing new ones, so that's a consolation.

For instance, I've only just recently discovered real extra virgin olive oil, after years consuming substandard, likely adulterated versions. I decided to invest a little more into olive oil sourced from a family-owned California olive grove, and was totally wowed when I tasted it - it's completely different from anything I'd tasted before store-bought, even when I bought the more expensive brands. UC Davis (I think? or some other UC campus) recently tested and found that 70% of the olive oil for sale in the US is adulterated with soybean, canola, etc. and is not actually pure EVOO - talk about a scam! Olive oil is the only kind I use and I use it sparingly, so I'm putting my former coffee investments into that instead.

Nescafe instant

The answer to all questions of expense and pseudo-coffeenistas

Instant coffee is sacrilege!

Yeah, I take my sacrilege with a little cream.

I'm not a fan, but in her later years my grandmother used Nescafe instant (really freeze dried) in a pinch (after the pot was done in the afternoon and she didn't want to make a new one)--but then age does affect one's taste buds.