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This week I have been finding when I fall into a depressive slump that coffee seems to pull me out of it. Monday was a pretty bad day for me until I drank a coffee then I was in a pretty good mood after.
Today walking through the mall my depression got so bad I nearly broke down crying in the middle of the mall but after a cup of coffee I'm fine.

Does anyone else find this? I don't ever recall this happening before but I have been cutting out caffeine over the last few months so maybe 1 cup has a bigger effect on me.

Yes please, XL with cream and sugar. 1 each


Thanks.

Coffee kind of is one of the greatest vices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ83kt4a2-A

Coffee?

Yuck. :icon_blah:

Strong and black for me, none of that stuff people add to it to mess it up.

But as for it pulling me out of depression or a bad mood, can't say I recall that happening. It does work magic on my grouchy morning syndrome, though. :P

Quote from: Pikachu on August 22, 2014, 05:30:59 PM
Strong and black for me, none of that stuff people add to it to mess it up.

But as for it pulling me out of depression or a bad mood, can't say I recall that happening. It does work magic on my grouchy morning syndrome, though. :P

Same for me.

Black coffee,

Peferably Panamanian, Columbian or Guatemalan beans, medium roast.

Heat the water to 93 degrees celcius, 200 fahrenheit, grind the beans course with a conical burr, brew for 5 minutes in a French press.
My favourite is from the Royal plantation in Boquete, just made myself a cup.

How can that not lift your spirit?

Quote from: antonia on August 22, 2014, 06:30:51 PM
Black coffee,

Peferably Panamanian, Columbian or Guatemalan beans, medium roast.

Heat the water to 93 degrees celcius, 200 fahrenheit, grind the beans course with a conical burr, brew for 5 minutes in a French press.

My process is close. I used to use a French Press but I switched to an Aeropress and I use paper filters because I found that unfiltered coffee can raise your cholesterol and mine was high enough that my doc wanted me to take statins. I prefer dark roast also and I add grass-fed butter, stevia, a tiny dash of salt, and MCT oil.

Illy dark roast espresso whole beans into my Miele for a triple latte every morning.  *zing!*

*goes to make coffee*

yikes, some of y'all aren't drinking coffee, you're drinking concoctions.


I like regular coffee, very hot with a little sugar.

I drink too much of it, but its there at work, I'm brewing it for customers and so I drink a lot of it too.

Quote from: Jaime R D on August 22, 2014, 07:19:28 PM
yikes, some of y'all aren't drinking coffee, you're drinking concoctions.


I like regular coffee, very hot with a little sugar.

I drink too much of it, but its there at work, I'm brewing it for customers and so I drink a lot of it too.

Hee hee, she said, "concoction".

Points to the 400$ breville espresso machine in her kitchen.

Dark roast italian espresso grind, perfectly frotted milk with a mix of cocoa and cinnamon and cane sugar on top of the frotted milk.

One of those and I promise coffee nirvana.

Say izzy ask me for one next visit  >:-).

Quote from: dalebert on August 22, 2014, 07:03:50 PM
I prefer dark roast also and I add grass-fed butter, stevia, a tiny dash of salt, and MCT oil.

My "concoction" is a version of something called bulletproof coffee. It's intended as a breakfast substitute that gives a lot of energy via the butter and MCT oil. You have to blend it because those things tend to separate out. It's supposed to be really good for you and I think it is. I can even do iced coffee but ONLY IF I use Kerrygold butter (a DELICIOUS butter from organic and grass-fed cows) which seems to stay melted much better. Regular butter clumps up in iced coffee even after blending and it's gross.

Oh, dear Friends, you're torturing me with this talk about coffee.  I used to drink it by the bucketful, until it started causing me some health problems.  So I seriously cut back on it, for a while even managed to cut it out entirely.  But lately I've been drinking some and have been having to work hard not to drink too much.

I avoid OD'ing on it by not keeping any in the house.  I go to the café for it--but no more than one cup a day, and not every day.  That way I manage to keep my consumption of it within reasonable limits.

There are three other things I'm currently struggling with as well: chocolate and food in general, and I won't mention the third.  Lately chocolate has got the better of me to a certain extent, and I'm having to work hard to keep my weight down.  Generally succeeding, but having to keep an eye on the scale.  Some people can put on a few pounds without it doing them any harm.  But for me, when I put on just a bit extra I start spreading out all over the place like a blob of ectoplasm.  Definitely not what a girl wants.

Fortunately, I've never had any real problem with alcohol.  I've always managed to do without that.  But I'm well aware where all my current struggles come from.  Oddly enough, it's because I've come out of the closet.  I've got greedy for life.  Now that I've allowed myself to enjoy one really big, really nice thing, all the smaller nice things have started clamoring for attention.

You might think that coming out of the closet would reduce the pressure you're under and hence reduce the cravings you feel for all the things you've always used as substitutes for genuine satisfaction.  Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case with me.  I want more and more and more, and it doesn't seem to matter what I want more and more and more of.

So perhaps I should ignore this thread.  Or perhaps I'll enjoy some chocolate with a nice, strong cup of coffee.  Any advice?

Well I used to average 12 shots of espresso per day, max 22 (some from an espresso machine black, others mixed into lates and frappuchinos depending on weather)

But I just finished an entire year with zero caffeine. Now I am starting slow with one small iced coffee per week.

It used to calm me down and sometimes put me to sleep, but now it just makes me jittery which I don't like... But it tastes so good!

Well caffeine is a stimulant after all, so it is possible that it may make you feel better. I just drink so much of it that it really don't effect me too much anymore. 1 whole pot in the morning and then sometimes throughout the day. Driving without it, no way. Up the block or200 miles, gotta' have it.

ok, some of you know what i do for a living, and doing years of red-eyes, i had a semi-permanent coffee/blood transfusion, at 8-10 cups a day/nite to stay awake crossing the Pacific..  finally getting to switch back to days, i realized it was just eating me away from the insides.. I cut back to 1-2 cups a day and almost immediately began to feel better, well, after the withdrawl headaches that lasted almost two weeks.. i dont do any of the fruity coffess you all are quoting.. i may throw in a lil hazelnut creamer now and then, but here in the "office", it's, one cream, one sugar please.. just cutting the amount of sugar I was consuming, I dropped a few pounds!  I don't think it did anything for depression, but I can understand how it would tend to fix things, for a time.  i noticed I was able to get to sleep faster after cutting the number of cups, but it hasnt done anything for -staying- asleep during the night.

Quote from: Paula Christine on August 23, 2014, 06:22:46 PM
ok, some of you know what i do for a living, and doing years of red-eyes, i had a semi-permanent coffee/blood transfusion, at 8-10 cups a day/nite to stay awake crossing the Pacific..  finally getting to switch back to days, i realized it was just eating me away from the insides.. I cut back to 1-2 cups a day and almost immediately began to feel better, well, after the withdrawl headaches that lasted almost two weeks.. i dont do any of the fruity coffess you all are quoting.. i may throw in a lil hazelnut creamer now and then, but here in the "office", it's, one cream, one sugar please.. just cutting the amount of sugar I was consuming, I dropped a few pounds!  I don't think it did anything for depression, but I can understand how it would tend to fix things, for a time.  i noticed I was able to get to sleep faster after cutting the number of cups, but it hasnt done anything for -staying- asleep during the night.

Well I didn't cross the pacific but used to criss cross the US and I was about the same. As a matter of fact I was drinking so much, 5 or 6 cups at the truckstop, had an half gallon thermos filled and hit the road. Three hours I was draining the thermos, I was getting heart palpitations. From midnight to noon is when I did most of my driving so running out west on empty roads. Coffee was my friend. Black, straight and if I had to spoon it out of the cup or use a straw like a milkshake I was good. No wonder I was having heart palpitations. :P

Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 22, 2014, 05:29:58 PM
Coffee?

Yuck. :icon_blah:

*gasp* but coffee is so so good!!!! You'd like it if you tasted how I make it. I convert people regularly :)

Quote from: dalebert on August 23, 2014, 08:42:10 AM
My "concoction" is a version of something called bulletproof coffee. It's intended as a breakfast substitute that gives a lot of energy via the butter and MCT oil. You have to blend it because those things tend to separate out. It's supposed to be really good for you and I think it is. I can even do iced coffee but ONLY IF I use Kerrygold butter (a DELICIOUS butter from organic and grass-fed cows) which seems to stay melted much better. Regular butter clumps up in iced coffee even after blending and it's gross.

I have the occasional bulletproof coffee myself as I have mentioned here before. I only did it to lose weight but was not too tremendously successful. I don't understand how some people can drink black coffee. I must have creamer and sugar, preferably Sugar in the Raw.

LOL, for me drinking coffee with sugar and milk would be like drinking red wine with sugar and milk, ichhh :)

Quote from: Christine Eryn on August 24, 2014, 12:36:10 AM
I have the occasional bulletproof coffee myself as I have mentioned here before. I only did it to lose weight but was not too tremendously successful. I don't understand how some people can drink black coffee. I must have creamer and sugar, preferably Sugar in the Raw.

Ha, this thread again. Reminds me that it's time to go brew a fresh pot to help open my sleepy eyes.

Coffee <3

Quote from: muffinpants on August 23, 2014, 07:55:39 PM
*gasp* but coffee is so so good!!!! You'd like it if you tasted how I make it. I convert people regularly :)

Only drink it black without anything in it. Can't stand it any other way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lYo7gXuhg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lYo7gXuhg)

Black, preferably Costa Rican, 1/2 tsp honey, please.

Quote from: antonia on August 24, 2014, 08:35:15 AM
LOL, for me drinking coffee with sugar and milk would be like drinking red wine with sugar and milk, ichhh :)

I like all 3! And I like cheese with my wine.  ;)  I once asked a coworker about mixing foods and mentioned beer in cereal. He replied "it's not too bad"  :icon_blah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdCslFcKFU

I haven't been able to stand even the smell of the stuff since starting on hrt.  I used to absolutely love the stuff but it makes me wretch now...I miss mochas :(

Wow, that's quite a reaction, I probably drink less and I'm more picky but I still love my coffee :)

Quote from: Kaylee on August 24, 2014, 03:07:07 PM
I haven't been able to stand even the smell of the stuff since starting on hrt.  I used to absolutely love the stuff but it makes me wretch now...I miss mochas :(

Quote from: Kaylee on August 24, 2014, 03:07:07 PM
I haven't been able to stand even the smell of the stuff since starting on hrt.  I used to absolutely love the stuff but it makes me wretch now...I miss mochas :(

When Sweety was pregnant she couldn't stand the smell. Same kind of hormonal upheaval.

Quote from: Dee Walker on August 24, 2014, 03:39:40 PM
When Sweety was pregnant she couldn't stand the smell. Same kind of hormonal upheaval.

Yeah I figured it'd be something like that, it really made things difficult before I came out - being the closest person on the floor to the coffee machine at work, trying to think of excuses.why I randomly had to run out of coffee shops with my hand over my face, that kind of thing
.

not since I became an insomniac...

Coffee's great. Except I hold off on caffeine drinks the afternoon of an electrolysis session.

C -

Quote from: CynthiaAnn on August 24, 2014, 08:24:18 PM
Coffee's great. Except I hold off on caffeine drinks the afternoon of an electrolysis session.

C -

Why?  If you don't mind me asking.  That could be helpful when I start electrolysis...

Hi, having caffeine does increase my sensitivity to the hot needle as she works on my face, makes a big difference having a full stomach and no caffeine the afternoon of treatment for pain tolerance.

Best of luck

C -

Quote from: Kaylee on August 24, 2014, 03:07:07 PM
I haven't been able to stand even the smell of the stuff since starting on hrt.  I used to absolutely love the stuff but it makes me wretch now...I miss mochas :(

Never had any interest in those.

I used to get a piece of cheesecake and a coffee with cream and use the cheesecake as the sugar, now I don't usually bother with the cheesecake although the coffee has to be a decent recently ground brew.

I go off and on coffee, usually because I'm too picky/too broke to afford good coffee continually. Lucky for my picky side, I live in Portland and have a seemingly unlimited amount of local roasters to choose from.

I feel bad though because I'm worries about it affecting my development on hrt...

I absolutely love coffee, all types, but am a bit of a boring cappuccino stalwart. I found out something the other day which may be a bit of useful knowledge to some girls, although it may only apply to some of us or just me. Being an addict (to coffee) my intake was slowly increasing. Around the same time I noticed a lot of hair loss. I did a bit of research, admitedly google based, and it suggested that it could be excess caffeine. I cut down to one proper one in the morning to open my eyes and switched to decaff ( :icon_blah:) for the remaindeer of the day. Within a few days, my hair loss reduced dramatically and all is good again. This may be useful information and appologies if it is all old news.

This is what happens when a smartypants orders a macchiato and gets something they did not expect.

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1375.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fag452%2Fnikkinoo72%2F2014-08-30135644_zps6ca4db0d.jpg&hash=97e3e78e4dba9d6c1db585502da78f0c6e4fb085)

Mine is the cappuccino on the right. Me  ;D Her  >:(

Black coffee for me  ;D
Acquiring a taste for black coffee was a lifelong dream of mine, ever since childhood I idolized coffee and the whole culture that goes along with it. So I'm very happy that I've finally achieved it and usually drink a cup every morning right when I get into work. It's really a wonderful beverage; it puts people in a better mood, gives them more focus, and also has the added bonus of making them look a little cooler.

Ah, coffee! I had to cut it out for about a year because of food intolerance issues - there wasn't a day when I didn't think how much I'd love to have one. This may be the only addiction I have. I can have two cups a day now :D

I think caffeine stimulates dopamine or adrenaline or something on that axis.

I love coffee and drink at least 3 cups a day, but it's never had much impact on my mood.  I'm just always fatigued, so coffee keeps me up and going. As for what type, it depends.  I love the flavored kind and then I am fine with black coffee and expresso.  The best coffee I've ever had was the cappuccinos I used to get in a hotel in Rome; although, I would miss having old fashioned American coffee when I was there. 

I spent a lot of time in Paris as a child, and I grew up in the American south, so ive always loved coffee, but moving to Miami sparked my passion. A colada is now my morning ritual

No thank you!

I'll stick to tea!

I've unfortunately decided to cut back on coffee.

I've taken a combined blood pressure med, half of which is a diuretic. My endo put me on spiro, which is also.

I'm almost afraid that coffee on top of that will have me looking like a mummy by next friday.

That said, I'm currently in an emergency room with a client. It's after 11:00 pm. I'm gonna need one just to get home tonight.

Quote from: Myarkstir on August 22, 2014, 07:27:17 PM
Points to the 400$ breville espresso machine in her kitchen.

Dark roast italian espresso grind, perfectly frotted milk with a mix of cocoa and cinnamon and cane sugar on top of the frotted milk.

One of those and I promise coffee nirvana.

Say izzy ask me for one next visit  >:-).

C'était un café vraiment délicieux et j'ai bien hâte au prochain.

Quote from: Myarkstir on August 22, 2014, 07:27:17 PM
Points to the 400$ breville espresso machine in her kitchen.

Dark roast italian espresso grind, perfectly frotted milk with a mix of cocoa and cinnamon and cane sugar on top of the frotted milk.

One of those and I promise coffee nirvana.

Say izzy ask me for one next visit  >:-).

Yuk - not for me!

Quote from: mac1 on September 08, 2014, 07:41:34 PM
Yuk - not for me!

You have no idea of how good it was. tres bien