Caffeine

I don’t normally drink coffee, but for some reason I had a hankerin’ for a cup this morning. It was regular coffee and not decaf (I know, bad girl). Anyway, I got to thinking – since alcohol gets into the system faster after WLS, does caffeine do the same? Will a post WLS get the affects of the caffeine faster and on less amounts than a pre-op? I will be changing to decaf, but that is all I had in the house this morning. BTW, I am amazed at how my tastes are changing.  I loved the coffee!  Thanks - Jacque

Good question! 
I sure like my protein drinks with coffee!
Gina
 

Gina, do you drink decaf or regular?

I drank decaf until I hit normal BMI. I probably should go back to decaf, or at least 1/2 decaf and 1/2 regular.

I'm a coffee drinker too.....love the stuff!

I love my protein coffee !!

This is a great question- I kind of wondered this myself.

I was a HUGE coffee drinker pre-surgery, I loved my Starbucks, twice a day, triple venti latte (in Starbucks-ese that is 6 shots of espresso...yowzers).
I still love the stuff, I go decaf now most of the time and I try to keep it to 1-2 a week.
I would do the regular, full strength, high octane more often but I don't for 2 reasons- #1 I used to be a major Advil-popper around that time of the month because my cramps were so bad. I'm talking maybe 20 Advil over a day and a half? At least. I found that since I gave up caffeine my cramps are almost non-existent. Since I can't take Advil, I can't risk the cramps coming back.
#2 reason- I am prone to migraines, which have come with a greater frequency post-surgery, and when I feel one coming on, that's when I do, actually get my double tall skinny latte, full strength, and the headache is gone.

This is probably WAY more information than you wanted, but since I'm a total coffee junkie, I thought I'd share.

I was at a support group meeting this past Wednesday, Bariatric advantage was there speaking and the one thing she mentioned was to not do vitamins and coffee together regardless if it is decafe or reg.  She mentioned the coffee kills 50% of the vitamins so to do them 2 hours apart.

Brenda

Well, I guess I'm back to my first protein drink of the day being without coffee. Thanks for the tip Bren!
Gina

Oh go****hought you of all people would have known that, sorry to mess with your morning coffee.

I don't do coffee period so it didn't matter to me so i thought i'd share the insight.

Brenda