For the past 3 days, I’ve brewed 6 cups of coffee before work. Planning ahead, I purchased a new 16oz Contigo Extreme stainless steel mug from Target. I mean business.<\/p>\n
The first day I woke up around 415 am to help with Lucianna. I jumped back into bed around 515 am and didn’t sleep. I wish I could have. Woke up and had a breakfast shake, made my lunch and then brewed 6 cups of the Maxwell House French Roast. I poured the first bit into the new mug and the remaining into a coffee mug. I thought I’d get one mug in before going into work. I had about 7 minutes to spare before I had to hit the road. This day I mixed some French Vanilla lactose free creamer (and 3 tablespoons of sugar into the 16oz mug and 1 tbsp into the smaller coffee mug). I was scared I guess.<\/p>\n
The next day (Friday) I didn’t mix as much sugar but everything else was the same. This morning…6 cups again with no sugar. Yes…it’s bitter but not unbearable. I was still mixing the creamer in during these days. I was using about 4 heaping tablespoons of beans to 6 cups of water.<\/p>\n
I will say that the last three days have been wonderful. I haven’t been tired or lethargic. I actually feel like myself. I haven’t felt like that in several years! My mind seemed to work much better, I was sharper and able to complete numerous tasks without getting confused or losing my train of thought (which usually happens a lot. Just ask Lisa!). Anyway – I’m so pleased with the results, I believe that I will start each day like this.<\/p>\n
If I had to compare it to another caffeine drink….I would say that it gave the me the feeling after drinking Rock Star – Sugar Free, Full Throttle, and Monster (not all 3 together…I mean just one of these drinks gave me this type of “energy.” I am trying coffee because it’s probably better for me. No aspartame, to artificial stuff, etc. I also read that the antioxidants in coffee help slow or stop the onset of alzheimer’s…which runs in my family. Here’s a link to that story<\/a>…and pretty much the “mind opener” for me.<\/p>\n Came home today and ran 3 miles at pace speed. Ended up running about 7:47 min\/mile pace. I finished in 23:21 and felt pretty good. I’ll post my graph soon that includes my heart rate and elevations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past 3 days, I’ve brewed 6 cups of coffee before work. Planning ahead, I purchased a new 16oz Contigo Extreme stainless steel mug from Target. I mean business. The first day I woke up around 415 am to help with Lucianna. I jumped back into bed around 515 am and didn’t sleep. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antcav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}