I love my caffeine, fact. It makes me feel good and gives me a great boost when I'm starting to flag. As I'm not a great morning person either, I would be unbearable if I didn't have my cup of coffee to make me feel human in the mornings!
How many of us have spent long nights stuck in the office while we trawl our way through a particularly tough project? Too many of us to mention I'll bet, and not many of us can say that those caffeine boosts haven't helped us to get through it.
I find the evening the hardest part of the day to get through without my caffeine. Saying no as the end of a meal is particularly difficult.
Now you may be asking why I'm denying myself something that I enjoy so much, because of the experts, that's why. You know the ones; they tell us that drinking caffeine late at night will stop us sleeping.
Caffeine is supposed to hang around in our systems for anything up to ten hours. So on that premise; if you have your last coffee at 4 p.m it will still be there at 2 a.m. Although this open to debate depending on the individual and the fact that everyone's body acts differently without the caffeine boost.
I don' t know if you have ever notice, but those who take sugar experience what can only be described as a crash. The odd thing is that this crash might actually aid sleep.
As we are all different, we have really have to work out for ourselves where our cut off point is. This is easily done by having a drink a bit later every day.
Don't get impatient and only have the last drink a little later each day. If you skip a couple of stages you may well end up in being in a cycle of sleepless nights and gallons of coffee to keep you going while you're awake.
How many of us have spent long nights stuck in the office while we trawl our way through a particularly tough project? Too many of us to mention I'll bet, and not many of us can say that those caffeine boosts haven't helped us to get through it.
I find the evening the hardest part of the day to get through without my caffeine. Saying no as the end of a meal is particularly difficult.
Now you may be asking why I'm denying myself something that I enjoy so much, because of the experts, that's why. You know the ones; they tell us that drinking caffeine late at night will stop us sleeping.
Caffeine is supposed to hang around in our systems for anything up to ten hours. So on that premise; if you have your last coffee at 4 p.m it will still be there at 2 a.m. Although this open to debate depending on the individual and the fact that everyone's body acts differently without the caffeine boost.
I don' t know if you have ever notice, but those who take sugar experience what can only be described as a crash. The odd thing is that this crash might actually aid sleep.
As we are all different, we have really have to work out for ourselves where our cut off point is. This is easily done by having a drink a bit later every day.
Don't get impatient and only have the last drink a little later each day. If you skip a couple of stages you may well end up in being in a cycle of sleepless nights and gallons of coffee to keep you going while you're awake.
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