If you don’t currently drink caffeinated drinks, an entire coffee is probably overkill for you right now. Start slow and build your way up. I find black tea and caffienated sparkling water (e.g. https://www.drinkaha.com/products/mango-black-tea) to be good pre-coffee drinks (which also don’t have sugar)
Try to aim caffeine intake for periods where you can be heads-down working. I find caffeine less effective when I’m running meetings or being interrupted constantly.
Unfortunately, sometimes your body doesn’t give you a choice! If you use caffeine once a week, maybe you can avoid acclimating to it, but in my experience, drinking black tea went from “whoa, lots of caffeine” to “slight boost” over ~2 years of drinking it 5 days/week.
And you haven’t been able to reset your tolerance with a break? Or would it not be worth it? (I can’t provide any details about what the benefits would be sry)
My experience:
If you don’t currently drink caffeinated drinks, an entire coffee is probably overkill for you right now. Start slow and build your way up. I find black tea and caffienated sparkling water (e.g. https://www.drinkaha.com/products/mango-black-tea) to be good pre-coffee drinks (which also don’t have sugar)
Try to aim caffeine intake for periods where you can be heads-down working. I find caffeine less effective when I’m running meetings or being interrupted constantly.
Why work your way up at all? The lower you can keep your tolerance, the better, I’d guess?
I don’t intend on ever switching away from my sencha/japanese green tea.
Unfortunately, sometimes your body doesn’t give you a choice! If you use caffeine once a week, maybe you can avoid acclimating to it, but in my experience, drinking black tea went from “whoa, lots of caffeine” to “slight boost” over ~2 years of drinking it 5 days/week.
And you haven’t been able to reset your tolerance with a break? Or would it not be worth it? (I can’t provide any details about what the benefits would be sry)