Ask HN: How Much Alcohol/Coffee Do You Drink?

That said, I probably could stand to cut down even further. What I have been slowly trying to do is move to not consuming any caffeine after about 5:00pm or so, to avoid having it affect my sleep. I read something here on HN that mentioned that even people who can fall asleep after consuming caffeine late, may not experience the the quality of sleep they need due to the caffeine effect. So cutting out Coke Zero after work will help with that, and reduce the total caffeine quantity a bit.

Getting off caffeine was much harder than giving up alcohol because coffee is free in almost any office.

Getting off sugar in addition to caffeine helped my health, reasoning and sleep significantly.

Coffee: Again, I don’t like the taste, possibly again due to the supertaster factor (Coffee tastes way too bitter for me). I hardly ever drink coffee. I do, however, like mildly coffee-flavored ice cream, candy, or desserts sometimes. I usually drink water (not soda, and especially not caffeinated soda) with meals. Most of my caffeine intake comes via Sweet Thai Ice Tea which I usually order when eating at a Thai restaurant a couple of times a month. Also, perhaps once every two months I will order a sweet iced chai. Also, I generally can’t eat chocolate due to its theobromine being a migraine trigger for me.

Since, for the above reasons, I am exposed to caffeine so rarely, I tend to be lot more affected by it than other people are. One cup of something caffeinated can make my heart race and make it hard for me to concentrate.

These responses seem very biased given that they are public and associated with our public identifiers (usernames). I'm curious how biased. Obviously, the people who drink very little are more willing to share than the alcoholics, but they are also more likely to take the time to respond than the "average" drinker.