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People who cannot function in the morning without their coffee..

When I was in my 20's, I was a major league coffee addict at 15 mugs (30 cups) a day. These days I have only 3 mugs (6 cups) when I get up in the morning. I cannot function without coffee.
 
I usually drink coffee in the morning and thru out the day, but I wouldn't say I'm dependent. It's more habit to go to Starbucks, etc.

I can function without it.
 
I do usually drink coffee most mornings, because it's so readily available at my office. But honestly, it's just because I like it. I don't notice any effects from it.

When I work from home I just have tea, since I don't have a coffee machine, and I feel the same. Mornings suck either way! 😀
 
anjinha said:
I do usually drink coffee most mornings, because it's so readily available at my office. But honestly, it's just because I like it. I don't notice any effects from it.

When I work from home I just have tea, since I don't have a coffee machine, and I feel the same. Mornings suck either way! 😀
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While I do enjoy the little kick coffee provides, I really do drink it for the taste also. I only drink dark roast black coffee; love the bitterness.
 
Mr. McMac said:
How do you brew yours? I use an 8 Cup Farberware Percolator.
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I realize you were *not* specifically asking me, but I use this style and it works beautifully. Basically the same as a Moka, but I've had aluminum Moka pots that sometimes give a bad taste to the brew. This model is stainless and brews very consistently.

If I feel like being adventurous, I'll use my all-conquering French Press.

Scepticalscribe said:
Two hours, a long steaming hot shower, preferably little to no conversation at breakfast (or, rather, preferably none directed at me), a pot of coffee, some freshly squeezed juice, and I begin to feel remotely human.

Each morning, when I awaken, it is almost like being born again - you have to re-learn so many things in order to get to grips with the fact that you are supposed to be a sentient being assigned a role that requires participation in life.
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For being a staunch coffee nut, I'm oddly different... I love mornings; but I do still need some quiet time (it's my time to "collect" for the day). A cup of coffee and some time to collect and I'm all set. It bugs the bejesus out of me when that routine is shoved out of whack... that when I get cranky.

The second or third cup that comes later in the day only makes me happy and conversational. Coffee in the morning helps me settle and adjust to a new day, or gets my mind awake and clear for a work project; in the afternoon, it makes me banterous and borderline flirty.
 
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Not all addictions are bad--and coffee for most people falls into that category. I always have coffee in the morning with very few exceptions. maybe once or twice a year for some reason I will miss my morning coffee. I have three cups usually--and one is decaf. Probably more of a mental addiction for me--but it is a harmless addition.
 
Vacuum brewing is the only way to make good coffee. I had a Bodum electric that lasted me like 8 years before the carafe finally cracked, but it was darn fine coffee.


Not paying thousands of dollars for a Royal Belgium device, though.
 
For those of you with a coffee addiction there is an answer....
 

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I greatly enjoy starting my day with a mug or two of expertly-made, high quality coffee.

However, its important to recognize that - no matter how excellent the coffee - feeling physically or mentally unwell in the morning is a signal that something might not be right with your overall lifestyle.

A great many people try and function with a serious sleep deficit. Blame the internet, overly garrulous friends, cable TV, or just plain bad habits - many of us simply don't get enough sleep on a regular basis. Most normal humans need between 6 and 8 hours a night. If your schedule isn't giving you this most nights, you are inevitably going to suffer. Physical and mental problems will inevitably arise. Many people try and catch up on weekends, but lying abed till noon on weekends only serves to further disrupt ones sleep cycle.

If it is the prospect of spending your waking hours at a job or institution of higher learning that fills one with dread - then it seems you might want to reassess the path you are following in life.

I need hardly mention the fact that if one awakes with a throbbing headache, disordered bowels, jaundiced complexion and bloodshot eyes as the result of overconsumption of alcohol - on a basis that is in any measure "regular" - then you need to make lifestyle modifications.

Coffee is great. Its health benefits are becoming more apparent. But its not a bandaid for a broken lifestyle.
 
vrDrew said:
I greatly enjoy starting my day with a mug or two of expertly-made, high quality coffee.

However, its important to recognize that - no matter how excellent the coffee - feeling physically or mentally unwell in the morning is a signal that something might not be right with your overall lifestyle.

A great many people try and function with a serious sleep deficit. Blame the internet, overly garrulous friends, cable TV, or just plain bad habits - many of us simply don't get enough sleep on a regular basis. Most normal humans need between 6 and 8 hours a night. If your schedule isn't giving you this most nights, you are inevitably going to suffer. Physical and mental problems will inevitably arise. Many people try and catch up on weekends, but lying abed till noon on weekends only serves to further disrupt ones sleep cycle.

If it is the prospect of spending your waking hours at a job or institution of higher learning that fills one with dread - then it seems you might want to reassess the path you are following in life.

I need hardly mention the fact that if one awakes with a throbbing headache, disordered bowels, jaundiced complexion and bloodshot eyes as the result of overconsumption of alcohol - on a basis that is in any measure "regular" - then you need to make lifestyle modifications.

Coffee is great. Its health benefits are becoming more apparent. But its not a bandaid for a broken lifestyle.
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Irrespective of lifestyle, some of us are just not morning people. We are owls….

Even as a small child, I never 'got' the hang of mornings. Summer time is better, summer time in warm, dry, sunny, light-filled climate, country or environment makes getting up in the morning well, if not, quite, a pleasure, (it is never that) but tolerable, quite tolerable.
 
For me, I'm normally a one cup of coffee per day person, in the morning, with the occasional second cup in the late afternoon.

I think I have a small caffeine addiction because if I skip that morning coffee for any reason, I get a headache by the afternoon.

But as for energy levels, I never notice difference in them whether I have caffeine or not.
 
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My first cup of coffee in the morning is usually an hour or two after I get to work, and I drink it throughout the day.

On the weekends or otherwise non-work days, I often have a cup about an hour after getting up and then maybe sometime in the afternoon.

Although I do enjoy the taste and smell of a good cup of coffee, at work it's almost the equivalent of a "smoke break" for me(I've never smoked). It's a chance to get up from my desk, walk down to the front office, and spend a few minutes socializing and breaking up the monotony of the day. Of course, during cold weather I find it a good way to warm up after I've been outside.

I don't drink either, and my co-workers often joke with me about coffee and Dr. Pepper being my substitutes for alcohol 🙂 . I'm currently in the North Carolina town where my grandfather lived for 20 years, and one of the "perks" of being here is that there is a local Dr. Pepper/Schwepps bottling plant that bottles Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, Nehi, and a couple of other things in glass bottles with real sugar. I filled the trunk of the car up with Dr. Pepper earlier today. I also picked up a couple of bottles of Mt. Dew(the only two things they had at the store).
 
I like to have some coffee. I had to have an energy drink today as I was insanely tired for some reason (four hours should have not been that bad) sometimes my coffee has a lot of caffeine, last cup had about 600mg of it.
 
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