For an explaination for what the current 30 day experiment is please refer to the sidebar under "addicted to coffee"
Caffeine: A bitter white alkaloid derived from coffee (or tea) and used in medicine for a mild stimulant or to treat certain kinds of headache. The drug contained in coffee, which alerts the mind and reduces fatigue or sleepiness.

I’ve found that my sleep patterns are changing, mainly depended by when I have my daily coffee. If I have a ‘morning coffee’ with breakfest or walking to school, usually by 3 in the afternoon I’m dead tired and tend to say up much later in the night. If I have an afternoon cup, I eat much less dinner and get tired around 10. However, if I drink one at night I go to bed perfectly but wake up a few times in the night randomly... Above is a picture I took a few nights back when I was sitting up in my bed, isn't amazing quality, but it at 5:54 I didn't really go for the artisitic approach.

This change in sleeping reminded me of past exam times where I’d been drinking Red Bull regularly, to keep alert or awake. I was very curious about the caffeine contents in coffee as compared to other drinks, and I decided to do my own research on caffeine.

Major Corporations

The first place I decided to venture online for some caffeine research was the companies whose coffee I was drinking... Both Starbucks and Tim Hortons. It amazed me when after some time searching I couldn’t find the caffeine intake in a coffee anywhere on there respective webpage’s.

So, I decided I would just check in store whenever I went to get my next cup. The next day I spent a good deal of time looking around the stores to find a nutritional guide for coffee somewhere in the store… I thought, hell... even Mc Donald’s as one, Starbucks and Tim Hortons have to... But just like the internet after some time in the store and a few dirty looks by people I couldn’t find anything related to the amount of caffeine I was being served.

I finally broke down and asked the girl behind the counter, how much caffeine was in a large coffee. Her response was a weird one, saying that “There isn’t that much, just more in the extra large”.

I thought... well no shit.

Google

So when I got home I ventured onto Google, it has become my new expert to anything I need to know.

Bam... first website I opened was titled Coffee and Caffeine FAQ. And there was the answer I spent the last 5 days looking for... The amount of caffeine on average in a normal store drip coffee is a shocking 130-150 milligrams (can be as low as 90-100 for certain blends). That was for an ounce and a half serving size. I can tell you right now that a large Tim Horton’s coffee is more then an ounce and a half, and I couldn't image what an extra large would consist of. To put this in some sort of perspective most energy drinks have between 70-80 milligrams and pop almost half that. With this knowledge I've decided to cut everything else which would contain caffeine, in hopes that it will cut down my caffeine.

This means I will ingest 4,500 milligrams of caffeine in 30 days (if a large is considered an ounce and a half drink). That is the equivalent 56.25 red bulls, 90 cups of tea or 132 Coca-Cola drinks.

No wonder I can’t sleep.

The Statistics:
Days Completed: 10
Cups Of Coffee Consumed: 10
Amount Of Money Spent: $17.11
Times I've Bought More Then A Coffee: 5
Money Spent On Coffee + Misc: $26.34
Longest Time Waited For A Coffee: 11 min
Favorite Kind: Tim Horton's Original Coffee
Least Favorite Kind: Iced Coffee

http://wilstar.com/caffeine.htm
http://coffeefaq.com/site/