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Do you find yourself more sensitive to caffeine after weight loss?

cokezerolime
cokezerolime Posts: 14 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I used to be quite a "caf-fiend" back in the day, especially in college. Nowadays, it doesn't take much to get me all jittery. I don't know if I'm older and years of imbibing illegal amounts of caffeine have taken its toll, or because I've lost some weight my body absorbs it faster. Anyone else relate?

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  • gcminton
    gcminton Posts: 170 Member
    In my experience, and from talking to other people who noticed similar things, caffeine seems to be something you can build up a tolerance for. If I stop drinking caffeine for a while then start again, it takes much less for it to have a noticeable effect on me.

    So, I have not seen a difference after losing weight, but have based on my caffeine habits.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    gcminton wrote: »
    In my experience, and from talking to other people who noticed similar things, caffeine seems to be something you can build up a tolerance for. If I stop drinking caffeine for a while then start again, it takes much less for it to have a noticeable effect on me.

    So, I have not seen a difference after losing weight, but have based on my caffeine habits.

    This is exactly what I was going to say.

    I drank a lot of coffee when losing weight, so no, nothing changed. But I go through periods where I quit coffee or limit myself to one cup in the morning, and then I find it seems much stronger when I go back to it.
  • psychod787
    psychod787 Posts: 4,099 Member
    edited August 2020
    Nope, less sensitive. I drink more now.
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