Coffee - How much is too much?!

[Sysman]

My fave is this NE bloke who worked with me at a Nuclear Power Station, all PV'd - DV'd in modern parlance, site doc checked us (and our balls - cough!) every month. Asked him....

Doc: Who much alcohol do you drink?

NE Bloke: About 17....

Doc: Units!!!

NE Bloke: No, - Pints....

Doc: Blimey. A week?

NE Bloke: No - a night....

Yorkshire farmer visits doctor.

Doc: How many beers do you drink a day?

Farmer: Two

Doc: Two a pints a day should be OK.

Farmer: Nay Doc. Two gallon.

[Cliphead]

Only do decaf these days, one strong cup of coffee and I wouldn't sleep and feel crap all day.

[IR35FanClub]

Ive cut my caffeine addiction so now i just have just one cup of fresh made filter just after lunch when its needed most. That and setting an alarm at 10:30 at night ... to get to bed means I now dont feel like im about to die whilst looking at yet another screen full of mind numbing database extracts.

I realised at weekends I was bombing out in the day time as I was so addicted to the black stuff i was dependent on it. Cold turkey isnt good, best to have a morning, post lunch and late afternoon cup. Then cut the morning cup, then the late afternoon. I wont give it up, just in case it does cure cancer. But then im b(gg)red if it causes cancer!

I found the same with alcohol, that feeling of needing a drink in the evenings, was just dehydration, Somebow my brain was interpreting a drink to mean wine, cider or real ale. Its been retained now and ive lost a stone in a year without excercising.

Trouble is im now a crack smoking, gambling pimp.

[EternalOptimist]

Ive cut my caffeine addiction so now i just have just one cup of fresh made filter just after lunch when its needed most. That and setting an alarm at 10:30 at night ... to get to bed means I now dont feel like im about to die whilst looking at yet another screen full of mind numbing database extracts.

I realised at weekends I was bombing out in the day time as I was so addicted to the black stuff i was dependent on it. Cold turkey isnt good, best to have a morning, post lunch and late afternoon cup. Then cut the morning cup, then the late afternoon. I wont give it up, just in case it does cure cancer. But then im b(gg)red if it causes cancer!

I found the same with alcohol, that feeling of needing a drink in the evenings, was just dehydration, Somebow my brain was interpreting a drink to mean wine, cider or real ale. Its been retained now and ive lost a stone in a year without excercising.

Trouble is im now a crack smoking, gambling pimp.

you wear it well

[doodab]

You need to get addicted to something that's good for you. Like invoicing.

[SimonMac]

You need to get addicted to something that's good for you. Like invoicing.

I work to live, not live to work!

[Cliphead]

I work to live, not live to work!

Is that a life philosophy?

[vetran]

I make a pot in the morning 50-50 full bore & decaf, try and switch to decaf after 6pm.

its better.

[suityou01]

I think a complete detox is needed to see if it's the coffee causing my problems or I have bowel cancer

Fresh blood, most likely rockfords. Black tarry stools, get along to the docs.

[Scrag Meister]

For about a year back in the early 90s I had a pint mug, and used to drink mugfuls at the same rate as those with smaller mugs, probably equated to about 6-7 pints a day!!!!!

Come the weekends, saturday afternoon would arrive and I would get a splitting headache, initially I had no idea why, I switched to Decaf and the headaches went away, so it was caffiene withdrawal.

These days I tend to have 1 caffinated coffee first thing, maybe 2 on a busy day, other than that I drink decaf and the headaches haven't reappeared.