To ask if this is an excessive amount of caffine?

[TraceyTheHamster]

I don’t think so, but someone today acted totally shocked when I told them how many hot drinks I have a day.

On a workday, I’d usually have:

• 2 or 3 cups of coffee before I set off in the morning; depends how early I get up.
• 3 or 4 cups of tea at work spaced through the day - one when I first get in, one mid morning, one at lunch and sometimes one mid afternoon depending on how late I take my lunch
• A cup of tea when I get in from work
• Sometimes a cup of Horlicks or chocolate before bed.

Seeing it written down now, I acknowledge it’s not a small amount but surely not enough to warrant a literal “Oh my God!” response?

are you trying to fill yourself up with liquid rather than food?

how often do you wee in the night?

Sounds ok to me!

Sounds about normal to me. On a giod day, I would have a tea then a coffee before leaving for work, a brew in arrival, another at around 11.00. Tea with lunch at 1.00ish, tea at 3.00 ish. Then a tea after my evening meal at 7.00ish. Occasionally a drink before bed, but not often.

No, I usually don’t have breakfast but eat a normal lunch and dinner. I’m not one to regularly weigh myself but I reckon I must be a healthy weight or not far off?

And mostly I don’t get up in the night… if I do on the odd occasion it’ll be once per night? I go maybe 4/5 times in the day?

It's just the 2 or 3 cups of coffee before work that I'd maybe raise an eyebrow to. The rest is normal I'd say.

do you live alone?
if not, has your partner ever commented?

you sleep well?

Well for reference I think they say 400mg per day is the max “safe” amount of caffeine for a typical healthy adult.

An average cup of coffee is around 80-100mg.

An average cup of tea is around 50mg.

So if in your average day you’re having 3 coffees and 5 teas you could be consuming way over the recommended caffeine each day and I would say that’s a “oh my god” amount to be honest yes.

It sounds like a lot of individual drinks but caffeine wise I probably have more.

I 'only' have three coffees a day and then lots of water - but my favourite coffee mug is like a small bucket 😂 so it's provably more like 6 actual cups of coffee.

Sounds like a lot to me. I'd be up all night but I'm super sensitive to caffeine. I had to drastically decrease my intake to 1 or 2 cups a day as it was also causing restless legs at night.

I'd be peeing constantly if I had that much tea and coffee in a day!

Do you drink instant coffee or cafetière/filtered? I think there is quite a difference in the caffeine content.

That’s way too much for ME - I would be an anxious mess. If it’s fine for you, it’s fine??

Side note, hot drinks ≠ caffeine though. I’ve lately switched to decaf tea as well as decaf coffee - always thought decaf tea was rank but Yorkshire is the key I find. I have 1 or 2 normal teas and 1 normal coffee, and then total free rein on the decafs throughout the day. Obviously they do still have trace caffeine in.

I'd also be shitting through the eye of a needle with that much coffee in the morning!

2 or 3 coffees before work sounds normal to me. I can down the first 2 very quickly 3rd is a travel mug.

It's a lot but I'm the same, so meh

Well I don't drink coffee and I often have 7 or 8 cups of tea before lunchtime! Then I swap to herbal or rooibos, but I can do caffeinated all afternoon with no noticeable effects on sleep!

the amount of coffee you have before work made me think it was a lot, but i guess it depends how long you are up for befroe you go to work. 3 cups in half an hour is a bit much, if you are someone who needs to be up 2 hours before leaving, not so bad. but even so, if you arent ill from it, drink what you want.

Wow I'm in aww of the posters who can chug all that caffeine with no noticeable side effects.

I rarely drink coffee, but I reckon I get through 8 mugs of tea in an average day so it wouldn't bother me.

My OMG would be 3 cups before you leave home in the morning. My bladder is not as obedient as it once was, and if I need to go, then I need to go. So i would always have a drink before I left home, but just the one.

Awe*

I have one caffeinated coffee a day and then the rest is decaff coffee & tea as I'm peri menopausal so my sleep is chaotic atm. You cn buy half caffeine ground coffee from Sainsburys to reduce your dependency on coffee.

I don't drink coffee but usually have quite a lot of tea.

1 when I get up
1 when I get to work
1 mid morning
1 at lunch
1 mid afternoon
1 late afternoon
1 when I get home from work

I then switch to decaf.

So that's about 8 caffeinated drinks a day. I do think it's a lot. I have 3 caffeinated drinks a day. I'm constantly drinking tea and coffee but decaf.

No side effects here, but I started young (mid-teens) so probably hardened to it now

I have at least 3-4 coffees before work. Sometimes I don't drink it for the rest of the day, sometimes I drink 6-8 total.

Sounds totally normal to me.