Okay how much coffee or other caffinated products do you drink each day to keep you moving? I drink about 4-6 cups of coffee per day. I usually make four cups in the morning and make half decaf and half regular. Then I do that later in the day too. I've been trying to space them out more instead of drinking all of it at once. I definately have more than that sometimes when I stop for coffee but I try not to do that too often anymore. Just curious how much everyone else consumes daily.
I said I would NEVER EVER drink more than 2 cups of coffee/day. Since the twins I drink 3 cups every morning haha never say never... AND I always crash in the afternoon so I allow myself 1 diet coke to pep me' up a little. I swore I'd never drink coffee. Thought it was the nastiest thing ever. Didn't start drinking it til I was 35. I'm 40 now and so addicted to it. Could not live without it and Go to bed at night looking forward to waking up so I can drink my morning coffee. Haha! I need rehab.
None. Nada. I know. I'm weird. I don't like coffee. Nor tea. Nor wine. And I drink diet caffeine free coke. My friends STILL don't know how I do it. Most days, me either! :laughing:
Oh you sound so much like me!!!! I never drank coffee on a regular basis until I had the twins! I probably could count on one hand the times I drank coffee when I was younger. lol I was always a Coke drinker. Since I like drinking my coffee black I try to look at the bright side and say at least I'm cutting calories WAY back. When the twins were first here I was drinking six cups every morning and usually another two to four in the afternoon. Now I make four cups in the morning and again in the afternoon and half is decaf so I'm only getting four regular cups a day. I know there's a little caffiene in the decaf but I'm not going to worry about that.
I probably drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day with an occasional pepsi thrown in too! We joked we had no idea how Hannah slept at all when we first had her with all the caffiene I drank!
Unfortunately, caffeine has NO effect on me. I can drink a soda, go to bed, and sleep all night. There have been many days since our boys came along that I wished caffeine would give me a boost! :lazy: So, since it doesn't do anything to me, I don't drink much. I don't like coffee or soda - I mostly drink decaf tea and water.
This is me, as well. I don't like the smell of coffee and can't drink it. I tried it when the twins were a few months old and still couldn't drink it. I even stopped drinking coke after the twins were born. Now I only drink water or sprite. Weird! Some day I don't know how I'm getting through it either!
4-6 large cups, well more like large soup bowls-LOL. Love my coffee, need my coffee and it definately makes me a much peppier person-LOL.
About four cups every morning. I never thought caffeine had much effect on me since I can go to sleep after drinking coffee, but when I had to quit drinking it during my pregnancy? Woah. Withdrawal migraines like I never imagined! I LOVE coffee. I love the smell, the taste, the warmth, the ritual. Mm. Maybe I'll go make an afternoon pot now...
I still drink 4-6 cups of coffee a day. Plus the occasional diet coke. Stephanie, put on that pot, I'm coming down to visit!!
I used to drink alot when in school. But I quit when I was pregnant t he twins. And now I'm still pumping for them, so still no coffee. But yeah love love the smell of fresh coffee My body really surprised me. Before couldn't focus if I didn't have a cup of coffee first thing I'm he morning. If pol walked in my office b4 I got 1, I'd get cranky lol. Now no coffee, but I wake up at 6 and end the day at 10 (work and take care of the twins)
I will be weird with you! No coffee(YUCK) no tea (stopped sugar in January and I can't have artifical sweetner) no soda (stopped that in January) so just water and milk here
i usually have an extra large half coffee, half hot chocolate from Tim Horton's - it's an almost daily ritual. i pack the girls up, i get my coffee and they get their treats (a TimBit each). anyway, when they were just newborn though i avoided caffeine like the plague. it definitely affects me & i figured i was having enough trouble sleeping that the last thing i needed was for both of them to be napping & me unable to take advantage & nap myself because i'd just finished a cup of coffee. :laughing:
One cup a day. Every once in a while I'll splurge and get a latte or something in mid-afternoon, but as a general rule I try to keep it to just one cup. I love it, but if I have an extra cup (or even a half) in the morning, I feel agitated after a couple of hours. It makes my blood sugar crash too. (Even just one cup does that, but I consider that a worthwhile trade.) I quit drinking it while TTC (for a couple of years) and for most of my pregnancy -- I did drink a small cup a day from about 5 months on because I was soooo tired, I needed it just to get through the day. I was so happy when I was able to drink it again!
While I was pregnant and bf'ing I was drinking almost no coffee.. I'd treat myself to maybe 1 a week. Then it started 1/day, then my husband started making coffee at home every morning and drinking 1 cup out of the pot and I'd polish it off! I started getting pretty jittery though and I am an insomniac so I am trying to cut back to 1/day again and when DH goes back to work just not make any in the morning.
Yeah, me too, I can't drink coffee. The only effect coffee has on me is that it makes me sick and makes me throw up. Even the smell bothers me and it was really bad while pregnant also. I am not a soda drinker either. I am drinking water a lot. The only thing that wakes me up in the morning is taking a shower, even if it's a 2 minute shower, I have to take one.
Thought I should share this story...maybe I drink more than I think I do!! Playing kitchen today with the boys I asked JT for some water. So he gets the tiny glass and "fills" it with water and brings it to me. Jack proceeds to pick up the pot meant to cook with and "gives Mommy coffee" LOL!! :laughing:
Can I just ask how you all find time to drink your coffee? My DH makes fun of me because he comes home from work and there are usually about 5 or 6 cups of tea/coffee around the house with a few sips out of each....so in total I probably only drink one cup! HAHA oh well.
Are you kidding? Coffee is important! I may not have mastered many parenting things, but I know how to hold on to my coffee mug while doing just about anything else! He he.
I go to work to drink my tea. Weekends I get zilch. I drink 1 cup of tea 2-3 times a week and I need 1 diet coke every morning. I also now have one for lunch. I am trying to ween off the diet coke. If I drink caffeine after 2pm, I don't sleep well so I limit my intake. Before twins, I had 1 diet coke a day and that was it.
I've been pretty lucky that the kids have been sleeping later. The twins get up early like 5am to eat and go back to sleep. The bigger kids have been sleeping until about 8am. So I try to get up around 7ish and drink my coffee, play on the computer (facebook & farmville) and eat. It's been so peaceful!!! I love getting up before the kids.
