What are your coffee habits?

I start my day by making my iced vanilla americano at home. I basically only like americanos, so I have devoted time and resources to getting the proper equipment for the right price to dial in the flavor and save me money at home. I pop that in my to go cup, fill up a water cup, and commute in to work. I drink the water in the car so I feel like a responsible adult, and save the coffee for work. I rarely drink another americano during the day because I'm SUPER paranoid about getting addicted to caffeine, but I will sometimes snap a yerba mate drink from a nearby store. So yeah, one and only one americano per day. Usually.

It took a LONG time for me to start really drinking coffee. Before that, I was a Diet Coke drinker.

I decided one month to go cold turkey. First two days, I failed to stop, because habit. If you regularly order a beverage at McD's and go back, you ask for that beverage before you think "No, cold turkey this month!"

Third day, I remembered and I stopped. I was a good boy.

Fourth day, my coworker looked at me and said "If you have the flu, you should just go home". That's what physical addiction and withdrawal are like.

Since then, I've decided on these rules:

• coffee and tea and water, no Diet Coke
• no caffeine after noon, or on days where I'm not coding
• try to keep it under two cups/day
• track this mess

I would point out that dropping Diet Coke is the only behavior change I can point to that caused me to drop ~100lbs.

You can see how I do with that. I'm not always 100% on that, but I try to keep consistent. Caffeine is a useful performance-enhancing drug, and has been called the Greatest Addiction Ever, but I don't think it can bear the weight that we put on it.

3 spoons of Turkish coffee in a big mug with very hot water 7-8 times a day.

I drink one cup a day. I try to avoid drinking coffee on weekends even if I'm working.

Americano on the train in and a double espresso after lunch 🤩 Caffiene gets the noggin ROCKIN

One espresso in the morning, then mate (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beve...) until lunch time. Sometimes I’d drink another espresso after lunch, and then more mate. After 7 PM I usually don’t drink caffeinated beverages.

I jumped off the coffee train about a year ago. My habit got so bad I was drinking a large cold brew every morning just to get back to baseline.

I've been drinking yerba mate and tea since then. I still get my daily dose of caffeine, but my consumption doesn't seem to increase from week to week like it used to. Also I feel better overall and my skin looks much more healthy.

I can highly recommend making the switch to tea and mate for anyone else struggling to control their daily coffee intake :)

I drink coffee everyday at the morning beginning i just can’t live without it. I need it to focus and to code.. a day without it its an improductive day for me.

I get pretty jittery if I drink coffee, but recently switched to breakfast tea with some cream and sugar, and I absolutely love it. A good black tea gives me the caffeine kick I need without the jitters, and the taste/ritual of making it is very soothing.

Now my morning routine is basically: Make a small pot of tea, check emails and PRs, read new Slack messages, post status for standup and then settle into work for the day.

‪I drink a couple mugs of mild-to-medium strength coffee in the morning, but I cut it off after eleven or noon so it’s out of my system by bedtime. I have learned that late afternoon coffee is not a good idea for me, but the caffeine does give me a little jumpstart to the morning.