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Unironically recommend Gamersupps, despite their whole marketing schtick of ridiculous art on some of the flavours, the actual drinks themselves are undeniably good.
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.
Papa meat shills it and I've always wondered.
If you like watermelon sweets his flavour is top tier (and the art is way less nsfw than some)
Honourable mention for the flavour called snake oil, don't watch JFJ but the drink tastes like a top tier apple pie
Right now I have 3 sources:
So I'd guess 100-150 mg on average on days where I'm having caffeine. I try to do long breaks between a couple weeks of having it. So like a week or two of drinking caffeinated drinks and a week or two not having it. Not too stringent but just something I'm cognizant of to not get dependent.
The last day I consumed a ridiculous amount of coffee was a triple shot long black, two double shots long blacks, and an extra strong cappuccino (or two). All before 2PM. Bad day at work.
Realised I was drinking it way too often and too high of a concentration to be healthy, and it was really affecting me negatively. I quit cold turkey, and I haven't looked back.
Now I can drink matcha and chai (both made at home... Can't justify $8+ for either at a cafe). Only one or the other per day. Coffee is cheaper at a cafe, but unsure if I want to go down that road again.
Rectally, to mix things up!
I don't, so zero
If I don't need it, I don't take any, or maybe a single can of soda in the morning.
If I need it, I take as much as needed to stay as alert as I need to be.
Pump based Liquid Caffeine and flavored water is my preference. That way I don't dink caffeine because I'm thirsty and I don't drink until I have to constantly pee if i'm sleep deprived.
If you just take it all the time, your body relies on it, it's better to reduce when you can to get a better return when you can't
I sometimes drink a glass of cola. I’ve never had coffee in my life and I hate the smell of energy drinks.
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
I like to boof a pot of coffee in the morning.
The silent majority has been real silent in this thread — but thank you for speaking up for proper technique.
I somewhat recently found out my SO thought boofing was just chugging. The revelation and explanation changed the meaning of a decade of jokes in an instant.
It's not just chugging, it's butt-chugging
TIL
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.
When you say good quality whole leaves, where exactly does a person get that?
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.
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:
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.
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
400 Mg? sounds orders of magnitude beyond lethal. How do you even shove all that into your system?
Completely random amounts of black coffee and espresso, ranging from an entire pot or 4+ shots of espresso a day to months without bothering.
Between this and your name, you are my kind of people loll
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.
One cup of coffee with milk in the morning
2 16-oz cups of coffee with non-dairy creamer to start my day, followed by a pre-lunch SF Rockstar, followed by a post-lunch SF Rockstar, an occasional (1-2x weely) afternoon triple shot latte, finished with an occasional dinnertime 20oz Diet Pepsi... all interspersed with 22 sticks of nicotine.
Might be ADHD, maybe narcolepsy. I still get 10 solid hours of sleep, so it clearly doesn't interfere with that.
2-3 regular sized coffee mugs a day.
However much is in the chocolate bar I eat once or twice a week.
