Mossy:
Interesting photo you have of the Perry sisters there Mossy
In an earlier post of yours which I never had/took time to respond to, you mentioned "Oh Brother." That is one of my all time favorite movies. I have watched it something like 30 times. And have bought copies of the DVD and gave them out to friends. Being as I lived close to that era as a child, I can vouch for it's superb accuracy in depicting the language, thoughts, religious ways, superstitions, beliefs and actions of the people during that period of history. The funny thing about it is that was first written as a religious script meant to be so convincing that everyone watching it would be converted
The script was bought and sold a few more times and finally re-written as a comedy. The abject religious theme is all the way through it but done up so tastefully that even an agnostic like me can thoroughly enjoy all of it. The direction and photography were superb. The smooth transition of scenes all the way through are phenomenal, done to a genius level. Yet it incorporates slapstick comedy throughout to make it work which is easily separated from the realities of the other parts for the informed. The laughs in this are almost continuous.
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.
Caffeine's effects are very similar to those of methamphetamine and methylphenidate (Ritalin). As you know, methapmhetamine, or "speed" as it is known on the street is both a prescription drug and terrible street drug. Methylphenidate is Ritalin, which is the drug that is given to ADD children to slow them down. Children with ADD are hyperactive, already with too much adrenalin in them. The Ritalin is given to them and that overloads their system making them "crash." If a person is "normal" and take Ritalin it is the same as taking speed or a lot of caffeine/coffee. That is why they are prescribed this drug, to overload their systems making them "crash" in a more lethargic state. That is also why they say to give an add child coffee if they go hyper and don't have their meds, it, like the Ritalin, send them over the edge, into supersaturated and they crash. Hopefully....
PS: Right here I will say I do not approve of giving ADD children Ritalin.
Drinking coffee starts out stimulating one, making or allowing one to become more active, more becomes hyper-active, more yet becomes jittery and can/does start causing one's mind/brain activity to also become hyperactive. With both the body and brain when we are supersaturated we "crash" the same as the children on Redalin, then become lethargic, heart pounding, needing sleep but often unable to.
Not affect all persons are affected the same, it has to be applied individually to each of us. Each of us have different limits of it and the effects vary from like to this to slightly. When I have gone for a few days without coffee then drink some (several cups) I have felt like being intoxicated.
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
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