Caffeine or no caffeine?

what is the website link?

what is the website link?

I think? she meant this site...myfitnesspal

hmm...i thought caffeine actually supressed hunger

i have coffee every morning and it is usually with 1/4 of 2% milk and splenda
and I do not get hungry right away

now on the other hand, if I don't have my coffee .... I am starving in the morning...

I'm not sure if it makes you more hungry.

However, I drink brewed ice-tea all day. If it keeps me from drinking Mt Dew or other pop I'll consider my self ahead.

I use it to suppress hungry. Actually warmth of coffee right before bed seems to calm me and put me to sleep or at least I have associated the two in my mind.

Drink up:drinker:

i quit drinking coffee for about 2 months when i started this site...then i found something that said one cup a day will help your metabolism by the caffine speeding up your heart rate....now i eat breaskfast and drink a cup of coffee and im not hungry at 10 anymore, i eat lunch more around 12:00 or 12:30....so id say its more of a surpressor...

Studies have also shown that coffee and tea DO count towards your daily goal of water drinking. The diuretic effects of caffeine are overstated by most nutrition sites. A regular coffee drinker will retain the same amount of water from coffee as from drinking the same amount of water.

You may have to pee more often, or sooner, but you'll pass the same amount of liquid at the end of the day.

I've never noticed increased hunger, but I'm not all that sensitive to caffeine any way, I could chug a large dunkins turbo (added shot of esspresso) and go to bed 10 minutes later no problem. Weird, is there such a thing as caffeine immunity?

Some people won't experience outward effects of caffiene so much that they feel "accelerated" or woken up, I guess it is sort of a resistance. I'm in the same boat as you. However if you compare how you feel the next morning when you wake up after chugging that espresso versus how you would feel if you didn't its a different story usually (every body is different). It was an interesting test our prof had us do for Psychopharmacology, really neat stuff. You'd be amazed how much less rested you are with the caffeine in your system even if you can fall right asleep. It sticks around for about 5 hours whether you're awake or not, and it screws with your sleep cycle pretty badly.

I'll take your word for it, I don't need to mess up my sleep cycle any more than I already do.

Sorry - I did mean myfitnesspal

I have an immense addiction to tea (black - not the herbals). I don't use cream/sugar but I do drink large quantities of it throughout my day. Another program I tried wouldn't count any part of a caffeinated beverage as part of your daily requirements which only made me drink large amounts of tea AND water. Can only take so many breaks at work, if you know what I mean!

I think the only side effects of having too much caffeine is the energy highs and lows.

You could switch to decaf. Drinking tea is very good for you even if it is decaf. Tea is full of flavenoids, and antioxidants but only the fresh brewed hot or iced not the bottled. White tea has the lowest amount of caffeine, then Green, then Black, then coffee tops them all. Herbal teas are not from the true tea plant like Black, Green and White. Coffee is good too as long as you don't over do it just like dark chocolate. I will stop there, lol.

Also depending on medications, I am on one where it actually increases the effects of the caffeine so I switched to decaf green tea. In the morning I have regular flavored green tea, then by lunch I have decaf green tea so that it won't mess with my ability to sleep. I have 6 to 9 cups of green tea a day with no artificial sweetener just Truvia which is from the Stevia plant, so it's natural.

Demetria

To me, coffee is an appetite suppresent.

I am a cafeine junkie.....I take Vivarin with coffee....

if you weight train caffeine is good to consume because your muscles do not tire as quickly. So I would guess some caffeine before the work out is ok.

it effects people differently.

I have horrible headaches if I do not have some.....having just given up my life long addiction to Cokes almost 3 weeks ago I am having headaches and drink coffee or tea now, I only started drinking coffee in 2007, I was coming to from plastic surgery and smelled it....now an avid coffee hater is addicted to it, before surgery the smell made me sick....now I drink 1 small pot a day....

anyhow, like I said it is good for weight training.......

Caffeine is a no no because it causes dehydration! must add 2 waters for every caffiene drink to balance out the caffeine dehydration.

Stevia, does not spike Insulin. it is not a sugar! It does not affect blood glucose levels.

stupid spellcheck on my computer.... I meant metabolism:laugh:

I have stopped drinking Caffeine. It messes with digestion and materialism.

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OMG Thank you sooooooooooo much for the morning belly laugh

(off the log the LOL calories!!)