I guess I could have just said I liked it also
Coffee. Your coffee question.
" Any of you have a problem with coffee messing with your adrenals/metabolism/thyroid?"
Short answer, "Yes." The second part is your request
"Please share any experience with coffee keeping you in a holding pattern."
I am not sure what you call a holding pattern. But I will tell you some of what I know about coffee from my experience. And I will be bouncing back and forth in time about what I write to attempt to impart info more easily understood.
First, I love coffee. I have thought several times I should give it up, and sometimes I have had to stop drinking it for a few days to allow my system to regain some normalcy. Because I drink a LOT of it. How coffee has or does affect me has changed throughout my life. When I was in my teens I could drink unlimited amounts of it right up to bed time, lay down and go right to sleep and did so until my mid thirties. For the past several years I had to give up coffee after my morning 12 cup pot because it got to where I could not sleep if much was in me.
With this weight loss thing and all, one of my major problems was what I could drink. Due to the sugar soft drinks were out. I simply cannot tolerate the aftertaste from diet drinks, nor artificial sweeteners in any food for that matter. Nor can I drink too many/much fruit juice because of the sugar in them though I love fruit juice of almost any kind. Anyway, it came down that other than water coffee was about it for me. Though I like a good unsweetened tea I do not like what drinking a lot does to my teeth, so I seldom drink ice tea now. I tried iced coffee and found I love it. But I had problems with the overload of caffeine. So I tried mixing de-caf coffee with regular coffee and now drink it all day long, starting out with hot coffee then switching to iced coffee. By going de-caf I keep it within reasonable limits, however if I exceed too much in a given time I suffer the consequences of jittery, loss of short term memory and inability to focus well enough on a project to avoid problems.
They say it is the caffeine in the coffee that does it. I am sure that caffeine is a major part however I think some of the other chemicals which make up coffee contribute much to it's affects on us.
The effects of caffeine/coffee are not linear. They are like an arc starting with low end/energy climbing to a summit of both physical and brain hyperactivity then like falling off a cliff dropping off into lethargy again when too saturated by the coffee.
For me, coffee is both a plus and a minus. On weight loss, it's effect for me is that of furnishing me with something I like to drink. Other than that, I cannot attribute coffee to affecting my weight loss. Whether it does or not, I don't know.
I could write way more about coffee but I think that covers the major part. I know that is not a definitive answer to your request, but it is best I can do.
Good luck with it Mossy
Thanks for that....I think coffee is so darned good. A person gives up soda, energy drinks, fruit juice - coffee sure is nice to have.
You're a history buff. I'll have to spring some photos on you here and there for fun. 
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But it will be nice to see old friends and catch up and remember our friend.
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