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How much coffee and alcohol do you consume daily?
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Coffee: 3-4 cups per day (my coffee mugs generally hold two cups of coffee though)
Alcohol: None.
My wife got me started on coffee. She can easily consume one pot or more a day.
As to alcohol my wife says I'm a cheap date because it only takes about half a beer to make me sleepy. Tried drinking some sort of brandy once and couldn't even get it down. I usually manage maybe one beer every one and a half to three years, depending on when I may feel like one. Alcohol holds no attraction for me really.
Soda on the other hand is my failing.
Up until a few years ago I could drink a case of 48 cans of soda within a day or two without trying.
Eventually that led to GERD and then Omeprazol twice a day. A few years back I got a Schatzki ring because of the additiction to soda. It required an endoscopy to cut it. Not being able to swallow the food you eat (steakhouse syndrome) becomes a problem at some point.
The omeprazol and cutting out soda entirely is pretty much a part of my life now.
Alcohol: None.
My wife got me started on coffee. She can easily consume one pot or more a day.
As to alcohol my wife says I'm a cheap date because it only takes about half a beer to make me sleepy. Tried drinking some sort of brandy once and couldn't even get it down. I usually manage maybe one beer every one and a half to three years, depending on when I may feel like one. Alcohol holds no attraction for me really.
Soda on the other hand is my failing.
Up until a few years ago I could drink a case of 48 cans of soda within a day or two without trying.
Eventually that led to GERD and then Omeprazol twice a day. A few years back I got a Schatzki ring because of the additiction to soda. It required an endoscopy to cut it. Not being able to swallow the food you eat (steakhouse syndrome) becomes a problem at some point.
The omeprazol and cutting out soda entirely is pretty much a part of my life now.
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Well, look at it like alcohol. Alcoholics can consume large amounts of the stuff, but they didn't start that way.
That is impressive! I would be burping all day lol.
I started drinking more soda than normal when I was 15. When I got a car at 16 and had my own money that increased. It's sweet, I like sugar (way too much) so I just consumed it.
Other long term effects included muscle cramps and spasms, potasssium deficiences, sensitivity to hgh fructose corn syrup, cavities, etc.
At a certain point so much of it makes it start to taste like drinking cough syrup. At that point you've gone too far.
The cure for that is sufficient hydration; I usually drink a large glass of water per alcoholic drink irrespective of whether it is beer or wine.
Coffee not that much. Most days zero coffee. I prefer tea and cocoa.
Perhaps 3-5 cups per month, if that.
Alcohol even less. There are months and months before I have any alcohol and then within a week I might have a bottle of (insert any).
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Perhaps 3-5 cups per month, if that.
Alcohol even less. There are months and months before I have any alcohol and then within a week I might have a bottle of (insert any).
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By soda you mean Soda Water or things like Pepsi etc?
I start the day with a Lungo and have 2 or three more during the day along with lots and lots of (black) Earl Grey tea. I very, very rarely drink alcohol (apart from the odd glass of beer when I'm on holiday)
Colas mainly.
Coca-Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Jolt Cola, etc.
Eventually I discovered Sam's Choice cola (made for Walmart) which for whatever reason was something I just really liked - a lot. It comes in flats of 48 cans each.
I like other soda, Dr. Pepper, 7-Up, Sprite, etc but not Mountain Dew. Orange and Grape soda is another one I like.
Pepsi I used to hate, but after the sensitivity to HFCS it's the only product I can find locally that has real sugar. Additionally it's less harsh. There's the Mexican Coca-Cola but they want $1 a bottle wherever I find it. One of those bottles would be gone in less than 5 minutes with me so pricewise not worth it.
Oh yeah, being pre-diabetic is also another thing that came along.
4-6 cups of coffee, two bottles of water and about 10 bowls of pipe tobacco a day
for the last 35 years or so.
for the last 35 years or so.
1 x 1.5L pot Chinese Green Tea (Black, no sweetener)
3 - 4 Coffees (Cream, no sweetener)
1 glass red wine (weekends a few more glasses wine or bubbles)
4L water (non negotiable)
Haven't drunk anything from a can in the last 20 odd years.
Cannot understand how people consume so much sugary fizzy drinks.
3 - 4 Coffees (Cream, no sweetener)
1 glass red wine (weekends a few more glasses wine or bubbles)
4L water (non negotiable)
Haven't drunk anything from a can in the last 20 odd years.
Cannot understand how people consume so much sugary fizzy drinks.
Well there are other forms of alcohol.
I hate poor coffee (if I really feel I need the caffeine then I chuck sugar and cream in but prefer to go without).
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Must be very good tobacco - not a smoker but love the smell of pipe tobacco.
aaah yes you're right lol, don't know why I assumed just beer... I will drink hard liquor like a mixed drink or somehting along those lines in social situations, but not on a daily basis and certainly not while just sitting at home.
Zero coffee - hate the taste and see no point in making it a “meal” with a bunch of cream/milk/sugar
Rarely any alcohol. I only drink it in social settings since I don’t see the appeal of drowning my senses when I’m alone.
Not very exciting of course, but I’ve hurt my body enough with sugar over the years that i might as well stay away from some of the other “bad” substances. I prefer to stay away from too much caffeine so that I don’t become dependent on it.
Rarely any alcohol. I only drink it in social settings since I don’t see the appeal of drowning my senses when I’m alone.
Not very exciting of course, but I’ve hurt my body enough with sugar over the years that i might as well stay away from some of the other “bad” substances. I prefer to stay away from too much caffeine so that I don’t become dependent on it.
I'm suprised by the number of none alcohol drinkers there are here on MR. Where I work you are considered weird to not end the day with beer or wine.
On to my second glass of red wine tonight… the first glass spilt all over the coffee table and floor… *sigh*
On to my second glass of red wine tonight… the first glass spilt all over the coffee table and floor… *sigh*
Oh, if I'm going to spill a beverage, it will almost always be red wine, and a full glass
