If it’s coffee/tea, how do you take it? I typically end up consuming 200-400 Mg a day depending on if I go to the gym or work overnight. I either do black coffee (iced ideally) or sugar free redbull/monster. I’m considering switching to caffeine pills but I know it wont scratch that habitual itch of drinking it down.

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    3 days ago

    I don’t know the mg, but probably too much. In the morning I drink 2 big mugs of coffee, in the afternoon 1 big mug of leftover chilled coffee from the morning brew, sometimes I’ll drink a cup of oolong or green tea in the evening.

    I just make sure everything else I drink is pretty much just water or seltzer. I only drink soda when dining out, which is very infrequent, or if I mix a cocktail at home, which is still usually seltzer based.

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      3 days ago

      you are probably drinking close to a 1000mg a day dude. that’s a lot of caffeine. the rec daily dose is like 400mg, which is 3 8oz cups.

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        3 days ago

        So what I call my big mug is only 10oz, they just look a lot bigger than my partner’s smaller mugs. I drink 2-3 of those a day. My biggest big mug is 12oz and I typically don’t finish 2 of those in the morning. And the chilled afternoon coffee is often split with my partner. I don’t need it, I just like coffee 🤷‍♀️

        I don’t drink tea every day, just more in the winter and I don’t usually have it when I have the afternoon coffee. I also drink 1-2 seltzers and I always have my water bottle with me wherever I go.

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          3 days ago

          10oz is a normal mug. a big mug is 20oz.

          unless you use tea cups as your ‘normal’ mug or something? tea cups are 4oz.

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            3 days ago

            Your reaction makes way more sense now lol. I don’t really use big and little for ounces, but for the mug size.

            These are what I call little mug vs big mug. The left is the little mug, the one on the right is the 10oz big mug. When I drink something like oolong, I’ll have 4-5 brews using the same leaves in the center cup.