The people who say they need 3 cups of black coffee to start their day are just addicts with a high tolerance that experience mild withdrawal symptoms each morning.
If you feel like that, it’s your body crying for you to take a break.
If you like an occasional cup of coffee or energy drink to get through something, then that’s fine. But if you ever feel like one isn’t working like it used to, you should take a break from caffeine to reset your tolerance, not up the dosage like an addict.
I’m a coffee person because I enjoy coffee. I love the taste, I love making it, steaming milk, taking my time with espresso, and trying different brewing methods.
It’s not about the caffeine. That’s just a useful side effect.
At the same time, you’re probably not drinking 3+ cups a day. There’s a reason you have a spit cup when cupping coffee.
The struggle of loving coffee and being a very caffeine sensitive insomniac is real.
A ‘spit cup’?!?! WTF are you talking about. It’s not chewing tobacco.
real coffee aficionados don’t lower themselves to actually taste it - quel horreur!
I cut down to one cup a day, and so now I treat that one cup like a fine wine; I do all the fancy prep, have good beans, and take my sweet ass tiiiiimmmme drinking it. I savour the hell out of it haha
I love coffee and recently had to go to one cup when I wake up and then no other caffeine for the day as part of working through a sleep disorder.
It’s been really, really beneficial for my mental health. I am sleeping better, interrupting less, and generally have more appropriate appetite for food (I have issues with late night eating that are essentially gone).
I didn’t want to do this but it’s been pretty good.
I still enjoy a decaf Americano every so often in the afternoon.