• Scotswoman: 'My 3,000 calorie-a-day addiction to energy drinks rules my life'
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and wait till you find out that's just the AVERAGE scotswoman
I usually can't have more than one cup of coffee without feeling like I'm going to puke. I can't imagine downing that many energy drinks.
How is rebutting the claim of the post he was responding to directly moving the goalposts? I don't think diet sodas are good for you: the acid and coloring are terrible for your teeth, I'm sure, and I always feel better generally when I drink fewer of them. But the aspartame causes cancer thing is a well-known myth, and the science on them with respect to insulin and metabolism is shaky.
At my worst I was having 4-6 cans of soft drink a day, 6 on really hot days. So that would be something like 800-1200 pointless calories alone. I felt awful after 6 not physically but more guilty. I knew it was awful for me. Might sound weak but without weaning myself on other things I would have had a really hard time stopping. I replaced it with watery lemon cordial and having fruit smoothies as part of lunch, eventually I stopped with the watered down cordial too. After a couple of months of no soda my cravings disappeared for the most part.
she is clearly not mentally well and needs help, it would be hard to imagine yourself in her position
Holy shit, 30 cans a day, I can't even imagine drinking that many. I used to drink energy drinks when I was 14 - 16, about 3 a week, and never thought too much of it, I didn't even feel more energized/awake after drinking it, I just liked the taste. That is until I had a particular Monster Energy drink with juice (the yellow one) in it which caused my heartrate to surge. I remember starting to shake and panic because of my heart going that fast and being in such a crowded area didn't really help either. I had to drag my ass back to the tent to calm down. That was also the last time I drank that shit.
Keep in mind while she might still be "healthy" in some regards, this is adding immense stress to her system. It's like obesity, the longer it goes on for the more and more it chips out of your system which is why you very rarely see massive obese people above 60 and never see them at 90.
Pretty bad for your wallet tho, if I drank that much coke it would effectively double my food budget.
I don't even eat 3000 calories a day, I don't see how anybody could possibly consume that much soda and not have some horrible illness.
Sorry for the late reply. I didn't start off on that many, I have ADD so I switched to drinking coffee when I came off of Ritalin and Dextroamphetamine but over time your body builds a tolerance to it. Caffeine acts as dopamine agonist and promotes its production in the brain. It helps me focus, concentrate and relaxes me. I am by no means entirely immune to the effects of caffeine, I will still need to visit the bathroom more frequently and still get restless because it only produces a small amount of dopamine for a short time (hence at one point being at 32 cups/day). I've weaned myself down but occasionally I have days where I drink at least 10-15 cups.
On the topic of sugar-free sodas and energy drinks, I always wondered how people can stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. They always have a very unpleasant "thin" taste to me.
To be fair, Irn Bru is godly.
Man, and I thought I was bad with sodas. This is fucking nuts.
Unfortunately not everyone has good energy levels regardless of how well they sleep or ate, and it can be incredibly difficult to pin down the cause and treat it without resorting to being prescribed amphetamines. I've struggled with this issue since middle school, and tried to use coffee to cope but it took 3-4 cups just to barely keep me awake. I've been on quite a few anti-depressants to see if that was a cause, but SSRIs just ended up giving me severe depression and didn't help whatsoever really. However I recommended Wellbutrin to my psychiatrist and have had a lot more promising results from that, I no longer get tired an hour after waking up, and don't have to deal with the shitty side effects that accompany most SSRIs like weight gain and sexual dysfunction. Wellbutrin/Bupropion is a NDRI, it doesn't act on serotonin. I've also found coffee is much more effective now and never have to drink more than a cup, although I usually try to avoid it unless I'm extremely exhausted.
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