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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2014 13:23:10 GMT
I drink coffee and or tea on a fairly daily basis and have so for over 40 years.
There are days though, when I do without.
I will sometimes go for two days without a.m. coffee and later in the day I will have a iced green tea at the local cafe while out walking my dog.
I have never experienced what so many others describe as caffeine withdrawal. Headaches, irritability etc.
I don't know why this is.
Do others experience these symptoms and how long does it take before they manifest themselves?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2014 17:58:55 GMT
Caffeine seems to have absolutely no effect on me, even which I wish it would. I would love it if coffee woke me up, but it doesn't. And I can drink three espressos in a row just before going to bed and still sleep like a baby.
When I was in university, I tried pills like No Doz for "all nighters" and I would still go right to sleep when I didn't want to.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 12, 2014 0:15:02 GMT
I drink tea every day. Can not imagine a day without it. I was raised with it. My mom would brew a pot each morning while making porridge and toast for breakfast. We would wait until my day had his couple of cups and then we would all get a little in the bottom of our milk glass and add a little sugar. It was always nice to have some hot tea before our walk to school as most mornings were cool or cold. A few years ago my mom gave me her brown betty tea pot.
I now drink it with just milk unless having an herbal tea. I can drink tea when ever I want, the caffeine does not seem to bother me.
I love the smell of coffee percolating but have never acquired the taste for it. Nor do I like coffee flavored ice cream, candies or chocolates.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 12, 2014 9:53:19 GMT
Is there that much caffeine in tea once it's been made? I seem to remember being told all that stuff about tea having more caffeine than coffee related to the solid article before it's brewed into the drink. I'm never aware of withdrawal symptoms, or any particular buzz from drinking either, but I do like my routines, so I do feel lacking when I don't drink either at a time when I normally would. But I think that's just force of habit. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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Post by mich64 on Oct 12, 2014 17:34:49 GMT
Good question, I do not know the answer to that Patrick. They do sell decaffeinated tea so I have assumed there must be enough of it in there to warrant making that product? Perhaps I am gullible to marketing strategies and accept that if they say so, it must be. I as well do not suffer any withdrawal symptoms when out of my routine but do recognize when people seem to need that coffee.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 13, 2014 2:39:53 GMT
I'm very much addicted to coffee. Not that I drink a lot - usually just a couple of hits of espresso in the morning, but I definitely get a headache if I have to go without it. Tea doesn't have nearly as much of an impact on me, and while I love tea as well, it doesn't compensate for the morning jolt of espresso. But then, a friend from Northern England does the same with her strong "builder's tea".
I've always taken tea and coffee neat, unless I'm having a cappuccino.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 14:04:00 GMT
Two "hits" of espresso would have me so agitated and hyped up I wouldn't be able to sit still.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 13, 2014 23:58:57 GMT
Doesn't do that to me at all. Helps me concentrate. It is very rare that I drink any more coffee after my wee pots.
When I was much younger, I drank a hell of a lot more coffee. I was working in the communications department of a trade union confederation here. It is probably a good thing that I went back to university to do my graduate degree, and just worked freelance for them and other clients.
Fortunately, I never smoked cigarettes. The caffeine, alcohol and tobacco diet killed some former co-workers in early middle age. I never was a really heavy drinker (unlike more than a few) but certainly drank more than I do now, and I still like my wine.
It is also fortunate that a groundswell towards a more salubrious lifestyle emerged. I'd always gone everywhere on my bicycle, and wasn't alone. Some of the more hardcore types thought that petit-bourgeois, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 6:19:39 GMT
At work I regularly went to the coffee machine, but for the same reason as most of my colleagues -- to get away from my desk for 10 minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 10:58:03 GMT
I go through phases with both tea and coffee, and at the moment I drink mostly tea, simply because it is hard to get coffee the way I like it. But many, many days can go by without either.
Several years ago I went through an herbal cleanse (yes, something I tried back in the day) and after three days with no food or caffeine, all I would fantasize about was a cup of strong black tea. My head was pounding from withdrawal. So after five days the fast got ditched.
These days, I'll have one cup of coffee before I go to work, because I heard that caffeine is supposed to boost your IQ by a couple of points, and I need all the help I can get.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 15:59:00 GMT
I drink tea occasionally. Mostly in the winter months or when I have company and want to go and sit outside and visit in the garden. There's something so civilized about sitting at a table in the garden with a tea tray, lovely tea pot and old fashioned tea cups.
I have a whole shelf in my cupboard full of all different types of tea, most all of them gifted to me.
For some reason people must think that I am a rabid tea drinker.
Many of them I'm sure have lost their potency by now. Many of the packages remain unopened.
I don't know the shelf life of tea leaves.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 15, 2014 1:18:47 GMT
There is something EXTREMELY civilised about being able to go out and sit in the garden with tea, in the wintertime!
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 15, 2014 12:49:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 13:01:03 GMT
Yes, indefinite, but if it's been stored in a non-airtight container the tea may have become stale and lost its aromatic qualitites and just taste like dust.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 13:21:07 GMT
I would imagine that it would be much like herbs and spices. Exposure to heat, light, moisture, and not properly sealed would likely have an effect on it's potency.
I've had coffee (ground) go stale on me that was kept in the freezer.
I store my tea in tins.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 6:05:32 GMT
So, recent studies have shown that attraction to coffee and caffeine is genetic. That makes it much clearer to me why I am not a coffee drinker, except socially.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 15, 2016 11:52:57 GMT
I'm on my second "espresso allongé". I'd only have another if I happen to meet up with a friend and have a true espresso or macchiato at an Italian caffè in my neighbourhood. As the weather grows colder, I'll often have herbal tea or a light tea such as a white or green tea to warm me up later in the day.
Livia is complaining about something (she has food and water in her dishes) and I don't quite understand what she wants. I'm used to part-Siamese, and little Livia has the higher, squeaky voice of "normal" cats. I'll understand her vocabulary eventually...
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Post by chexbres on Sept 15, 2016 19:34:57 GMT
kerouac - this might also explain why you don't care for chocolate.
I sometimes have severe migraines, and caffeine is one of the best treatments for that.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 16, 2016 10:11:15 GMT
But the thought of coffee is what gets me up (along with a very small but peristent cat), and I don't particularly care for chocolate. I don't hate it, if it is dark and not too sweet, but I don't have one of those "girly" loves for chocolate.
I've just had my first sip of coffee... 6 a.m. here
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 16:40:19 GMT
Of all the things that my husband missed to the most during his three month absence from home was his very special particular "proper" cup of coffee.
I tried on several occasions to bring him coffee brewed at home the way he likes it prepared.
He tried to be appreciative and grateful but, I knew it just wasn't the same.
(part of the reason come to find out much later was he had no taste buds and nothing tasted the way it should. The syndrome he had attacked the sensory nerves that affect the taste buds. Therefore accounting for his dramatic weight loss, (160-120 LBS.).
The look of delight on his face after sipping that first cup of coffee at home was so special.
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Post by htmb on Sept 17, 2016 18:06:53 GMT
Wow, Casimira. That's a lot of weight to lose. I trust he's getting stronger and putting back on some weight with your TLC.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 0:24:03 GMT
Oh, I assure you HTMB, it was indeed dramatic and he and I were just discussing as much a bit ago over supper.
He has regained at least 20 LBS. since his last weigh in (we don't have a scale here at home.).
The discussion revolved more around whether or not to take his suit to the tailor for alterations before our NY trip.
(He has always been such a keen dresser despite not being a trendy dresser, he takes great pride and has always been a classic dapper kind of guy when it comes to clothes).
In any event, back to the OP, I remain fairly sensitive to high octane caffeinated drinks.
The occasional espresso or cappuccino, never after 2 p.m. or I will be up all night.
I adore dark chocolate and those who know that often gift me bars of supreme imported dark chocolate (the only chocolate IMHO) but, I find that I cannot imbibe save but a wee taste/sample of them after a certain time of day for the same reasons.
(I have umpteen bars and boxes of such that kind persons left for me during the past few months. It will take me months to devour then all.).
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