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Re: Ask HN: What do you drink?

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Post by jlees »

smokinn wrote: post #45
ashleyw wrote: post #17

On the average day: • 2x extra strong coffees with sugar (still dislike it really, too sour, but it wakes me up.) • ~1-2 litres of Coke and/or other fizzy drinks (my addiction) • 1-2 Hot chocolate (at night) • ~4x litres of water, sometimes with flavouring

No offense intended but are you overweight? If not, how do you keep the weight off with that much consumption? Daily gym?

My 'no offence intended' reply would be - does the poster have any trouble sleeping?

I used to drink a ton of fizzy drinks - all diet, but I noticed a significant correlation between insomnia and pop. Drank nothing but water (literally) for 6 months and suddenly could fall asleep before midnight...

Re: Ask HN: What do you drink?

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Post by ams6110 »

herval wrote: post #42

Water or green tea! Beware the Coke Zero, its sweeteners are quite harmful, according to some physicists I consulted (and to what happened to myself: got very strong stomach pain for months, and the reason was that I got a reaction to Coke Zero! Switched to Coke Light and it's all gone...)

Did you mean physicians? If not, I would not put much more stock in a physicist's opinion about sweeteners than any other random person's.

Re: Ask HN: What do you drink?

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Post by pasbesoin »

effektz wrote: post #20
omarchowdhury wrote: post #7

Water.

mixed with a little bit of 100% fruit juice

I do this, as well. And during/after exercise, I'll drink a 50/50 mix. I don't know whether it's the "proper" approach, but it keeps my stomach settled whereas a lot of plain water can start to feel "heavy" particularly in the stomach. I'm thinking particularly of long (outdoor) cycle rides, back when I did that.

Re: Ask HN: What do you drink?

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Post by rs »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #7

Water.

True true

2 weeks ago I would have said "coffee" - used to drink about 6-8 cups a day between 3 am and 7 pm (working hours). Over the past 2 weeks I've switched over to mostly water and 2 cups of coffee per day at most and its unbelievably fantastic.

Water for me has to be room temperature though. Not sure why.

Re: Ask HN: What do you drink?

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Post by ashleyw »

jlees wrote: post #61
smokinn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No offense intended but are you overweight? If not, how do you keep the weight off with that much consumption? Daily gym?

My 'no offence intended' reply would be - does the poster have any trouble sleeping? I used to drink a ton of fizzy drinks - all diet, but I noticed a significant correlation between insomnia and pop. Drank nothing but water (literally) for 6 months and suddenly could fall asleep before midnight...

My drinking habits sure do tell a lot about me, huh?

I kind of have trouble with my sleep. I sleep wonderfully (8-17 hours; yes, 17, not very often though, on average 11), but I think (or thought?) I have mild free-running sleep disorder, where I go to bed later and later each day (if I didn't manually control it, I'd have a full 24 hour cycle over the course of a few weeks). But I've never thought about pop being the cause. I'll try and ditch it, see if it makes a difference!

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