How much tea/coffee do you drink?

[sonicyouth]

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

[Ginginho]

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.

[Samdy Gray]

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.

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.

[jutty274]

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.

[Bewster]

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.

Headaches can be caffeine withdrawl symptons

[wiggy]

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.

[ghanimah]

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

[Honkytonk]

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...

[Bukkake Regiment]

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.

[Saxondale]

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...

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.

[Bukkake Regiment]

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

[Honkytonk]

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.

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.

[Saxondale]

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.

[donkey]

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

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

[cheltred69]

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.