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Now this is a real thread, none of that beer nonsense...

10+ cups of tea a day.

I don't function without two cups of tea before work each morning.

2 or 3 mugs of tea a day. Coffee if I've run out of tea.

Not a drop after 6 on school nights, maybe 6:30 at a push.

I have a pint mug of coffee when I get up. Then probably a couple more normal cups during the day particularly if it's cold. Have the odd cup of tea but not a regular drinker of it.

10 a day when i'm off booze. And one tea bag can stretch to 2-3 cups if squeezed to its full potential

If im working nights about 20 machine coffees at work and 3 or 4 at home.

If Im off about 6 of either tea of coffee.

Tea is an appalling beverage.

4 or 5 proper coffees through the course of a work day. One instant coffee in the morning on a Saturday.

One hot drink an hour I'd say, 60/40 tea/coffee split

Two teas and a coffee a day at home, far more if I'm at my parents because they are caffeine fiends, hourly minimum.

Tea is the wet stuff of the Gods.

I've never mixed the two, what does it taste like?

1 on a Monday morning at work, 1 on a Saturday morning before football (and beer) and then 1 on a Sunday morning to 'sober me up' if I've been out the night before!

Easily 10 plus teas a day, has to be Yorkshire Gold. Coffee is rancid.

Agreed. Coffee gives a prevailing rancid taste to the palate.

Too much. Its all i drink other than the occasional glass of squash or hot chocolate.

Ah the old cuppa cofftea. Lovely stuff. Much nicer than teaffee.

Any man who drinks hot chocolate should be checked for a vagina

I drink at least four or five cups of tea a day and a couple of cups of coffee. Some days it's a hell of a lot more.

I hardly drank tea before I moved here, I think that tea with milk and sugar is a homesickness thing.

This thread is more like it!

Probably 2/3 cups of tea a day most weekdays, last thing I do before I go to work and usually one when I get up or when I get back from the gym.

Weekends, alot more - dont always go to sleep Saturday mornings so have a few there. On sundays it seems rather than snack on food I just drink tea instead had 4 cups and now after this thread I want another one...

1 mug of instant coffee every morning when I get up, very rarely I'll have a tea in the afternoon. If I'm out for a meeting etc. I'll also try and grab something like a Costa on the way. I'm quite happy to use any brand of coffee or teabag.

I've got one of those stove top espresso makers but hardly ever use it. However, if I'm in Italy or somewhere else in the Med, I drink loads of it. Must be the climate?

Best instant coffee I've found and my one of choice is Aldis Columbian. Kicks the premium brands arses

1/2 cups a day, either tea or coffee. No set routine. Tea and coffee should both be drank black, no sugar.

I must drink about a liter of perculated (?) black coffee a day, can't be without the stuff!

To be honest I don't know anybody here who doesn't drink coffee. 

Usually get a Starbucks/Costa on the way into work and then have 3 or 4 cups of instant over the course of the morning. Tea in the afternoon.

Have taken recently to drinking more Green Tea - mainly as our office consistently runs out of milk by lunchtime.

1 cup of coffee a day - used to be a lot more but I kept having recurring throat infections and I finally worked out that coffee reduces your immune system.

For the rest of the day its redbush & water/squash.

Poof

That was my initial reaction, but it turns out green tea is the business. FACT!

I had some green tea toothpaste once. It was fucking disgusting.

To be fair its fucking grim but good stuff. I drink M&S version with lemon - makes it slightly more pallatable.

Plus if you drink it before exericse you burn off more fat.

I can only drink loads of coffee at home, plus the occasional tea in the evening.  Here I can only drink it in air-con, so maybe a couple of cups a day.  I'm on the ice coffee at the moment but it's too sweet for me.

Italian espresso is my coffee heaven.

Don't listen LR.  They tried to bully me when I confessed this the other week but be strong.  I can heartily recommend peppermint and licorice tea.  Us poofs have got to stick together.

You're worse, you're a middle class poof.

I should probably move to Brighton.

Ha ha

Your disgust with me cant even compare with the disgust I felt with myself when I found myself just back from the gym trying to decide which herbal tea to drink.

I think the first cup of green tea I had was when I was in your neck of the woods and had a thai massage (no happy finish and from a bloke!) 

I was glad I came out drank booze and talked about football.  It slightly delayed the move into the complete middle class tosspot I've become.

Next you'll be eating health foods from the Peruvian Andes that nobody else has ever heard of before.

Green Tea is pretty hideous. Masala Chai on the other hand, there's a quality drink.

I'm a big fan of Yerba Mate... it's a green tea of sorts which is quite mild, and smells a little bit like cigars.

Fruit tea is great. Green tea is fine but only with lemon.

I had no idea the TEF had so many bumders.

This thread has definitely taken a turn for the homosexual.

I rarely drink coffee, when I do I drink latte. I usually have a few cups of tea a day. Strong AND milky, no sugar.

Yoga class? ;)

WTF is that...is it the guaranteed child slave labour variety.

I gave up coffee years ago, like chocolate, no desire to be an accessory in the exploitatation of children by multi-nationals.

But that's what makes it taste so damn good...

Don't call me mate!

I've never been a big coffee drinker, but recently cut it out altogether because it was doing weird things to my stomach. I'll happily indulge in a couple of cups of tea per day.

Sounds as though there are some people well into a spot of caffeine dependency on here. After a while of heavy use your brain starts to require a certain level of caffeine to function at its normal level.

I had to cut down on my coffee intake because my bowels were fucking screaming at me.

I have one or two coffees in the morning, then probably 6 cups of tea after that throughout the day.
I have tried green tea and fruit teas and thought they were horrible.

I've reduced my coffee intake as I gave up smoking (again) a couple of months ago and coffee and cigarettes are almost akin to alcohol and cigarettes.

Massively so. I realise I need to cut down, but I get bad headaches if I don't get enough caffeine, which often develop into full blown migraines.

I only drink tea, but i have about 4/5 cups a day at work & 2 a day at home. My mum has to drink de-caffinated tea for her health & i was surprised at how nice it was.

Headaches can be caffeine withdrawl symptons

First and last drink of the day are tea (white  no sugar).

A couple of black coffees during the day, everything else in between is tap water. If I juat have tea or coffee during the day I feel like I am dehydrated.

Never drink coffee, has to be tea of the Yorkshire Gold variety or Earl Grey 6/7 a day.

3/4 strong coffees a day, I've cut down a lot from about 6 months ago, when I was unable to function before I'd had enough caffeine. Can have anything between 3-12 cups of tea a day, depending on how hot it is/how thirsty I am.

I don't drink much else apart from water during/after exercise.

And the Green tea before exercise thing is something I do. Seeing as I've blown 4" off my waist since I started doing it about a month or so ago, I think it works...

Tell me more.

Good work HT.  Whats the diet??  Ive dropped from struggling into 36 inch waist to very comfortably in size 32 since October as well.  Maybe this Green Tea thing is the way forward.

I have never lost weight in my life. I've always maintained my weight, slightly gained, maintained again..

No specific diet. I haven't had junk food for a few months, I have spent a lot of time working hard in the garden/walking/running (go for a half-hour run at least once every two days). Lack of a missus now has also meant less vegetating, plus I am feckless and unemployed so feel I need to do something with my day so I don't go insane.

I've been staying up stupidly late some nights too, I don't know whether that has bearing on my waistline though...

Green tea was something I'd been drinking for a while as an indigestion cure. It was purely by accident I heard about it as a way to boost burning calories. Decided to start drinking it before doing exercise just to see what happened, and I like it. Especially as I like going running after I've eaten, and am impatient, so it does two things at once.

I'd like to add I'm hardly a fitness nut. I'd never bother with protein shakes or supplements or whatever. It's a bit 'tryhard' for me.

So basically the 'Honkytonk Plan' is:
1.Eat what you normally eat
2. Drink Green Tea before you do some exercise.
3. Don't try too hard by going for shakes/supplements because it's expensive and makes you look like a tool.

I hasten to add this is not a scientifically proven way to lose weight.

Kind of similar to what Ive been doing then.  Just stopped eating crap and started doing exercise.  Ive tended to eat a lot of soup and scrambled eggs, eaten 3 times a day with no snacking, gone to the gym when I can and hey presto 5 stone gone.

Didnt know about the green tea thing though.

It felt good on saturday going through my clothes and putting them away in the attic as they are just tents now.  Including a suit that I bought in May which made me look like an advert for before and after.  Or Barry Bethel if you can remember him. Makes a big difference to the ego buying medium shirts when some I had were triple xl.

I was like that...till about 25. Not so slim now...:-)

Always start the day with a coffee and try to restrict to just one more a day, after dinner. I used to drink coffee constantly through the day but gave that up about 15 years ago.  Had terrible headaches for several weeks when I cut down.
Now I'm one of the poofter gang on green tea, preferably jasmine. Started drinking this when I went to China in 1997 and find it refreshing but can't say I've noticed any impact on my weight.

I used to drink lots but I'm trying to just have one cup of tea a day - normally at morning break at school.
Have taken to fruit and green tea recently on my health kick
Particularly like green tea with peach and cherry blossom! Tastes like bake well tart!

A cup of tea with breakfast, maybe one mid morning if i'm tired. Other than that i'll only drink water. Can't understand how people need so much caffeine (well I can), and coffee is rancid

Absolutely, i could eat and drink all sorts of shit when i was young. Once I started approaching 30 my diet started having an effect on my weight and adjustments were made accordingly.

This. Although I occasionally have a cup of tea of an evening, very rare though.

I'm not sure it's even the caffeine factor for me. I just don't generally think to drink anything else. It's always "I fancy a drink so i'll make a cuppa".

This is the beer thread minus the dick waving.

I'm astounded by the amount of caffeine some of you lot consume. I thought I was bad with 5 cups of tea, and maybe one posh coffee a day. I now realise I'm slap bang middle-of-the-road.

Yorkshire Tea is the dogs. Strong, dash of milk, and absolutely no sugar whatsoever (sugar in tea is devils work)

Pot of Earl Grey in the morning. Builders tea can be disgusting but I suppose it depends on what brand and whether it is stewed to death.

Proper filtered coffee is ok but it's not often i get to brew some at home.

5 pages in and I'll be the first to say that I dont drink either tea or coffee. Never liked the taste of coffee and went off tea in my 20s.

In a previous job where I travelled around the UK a lot, I used to stay in hotels and breakfast time would get me some really strange looks as I turned down the constant offering of tea/coffee refills. In the end I used to get them to pour me a cup of something just so they'd leave me alone.

During the day I just drink water with a juice or squash with meals. TO be honest I probably dont drink enough, but thats got to be better than having a dependancy on having so many cups of tea/coffee before I can function in the morning.

Now, where's that real ale thread..... :pint:

So you spend some of your dinner money at morning break?  :)