Caffeine Suggestions

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  • madisonamanda
    madisonamanda Posts: 78 Member
    I, like many people on this thread, drink coffee. There are other natural sweetners (like stevia) and flavored creamers.

    Plus, drinking coffee has recently been linked to living a longer life!

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/health/coffee-drinking-longer-life/index.html
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    coffee?!

    But what do you sweeten it with? My diet mountain dew is zero calories but has the artificial sweetener in it, is the general consensus here that diet soda is bad?

    No, that's not the consensus. It's a much debated topic. I think diet soda is fine. I've tried dieting with and without it. It had no effect on my weight loss. I get regular blood work done, it's had no effect on my health. However, if you don't want to drink it, you shouldn't.

    So, what to put in it's place? I drink black coffee. If you need it sweetened, you'll have to use something like sugar, splenda, stevia--all processed, all have studies saying they are bad for you and studies saying they are not bad for you. Stevia and splenda don't have calories, so you could get the same effect as diet mountain dew using either of those.

    There are caffeine pills, but if you like your drink in the morning, the pills might not make up for the beverage loss.
  • petiteLady89
    petiteLady89 Posts: 198 Member
    I recently gave up coffee almost a week ago. I was drinking six cups a day. It was a rough first few days, but then I bought some Yogi Green Energy Tea and have been drinking two cups of that. It's definitely helping take some of the fatigue away. My body is getting adjusted to less caffeine.

    Don't get me wrong. I LOVE coffee, but I cannot drink it black. I use a tablespoon of creamer in each cup with a truvia sweetner. THAT'S just not so healthy.
  • wolfchild59
    wolfchild59 Posts: 2,608 Member
    Probably not the answer you're looking for, but for energy I just try to fit in a decent amount of sleep (though I often barely get five a night during the week), eat well, and take daily B12, and a multivitamin. I only have a caffeinated beverage probably three to four times a year.

    What I love about it is that then, when I really need the caffeine for a purpose, like staying awake on a long road trip, then it doesn't take much to really have an impact and get me alert. :)
  • ashleew1117
    ashleew1117 Posts: 158
    It's not caffeine but you could do like the crystal light packets, those are good (:
    I usually do like strawberry lemonade or raspberry lemonade, and then that also counts as a water for the day (:
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