Energy drinks are pretty much the only way my FSAE team functions. Most of us have jobs, some have 2, most of us commute. I worked on the car till 4am last night and had to be at work 7am and worked 10-hrs. I gotta head back to school now for class till 9:15 and I'll probably head back to the garage after that. It's Coffee in the morning, food all day and energy drinks till the work is done.
I'm a Monster fan and the 5 hr energy drinks aren't terrible.
I love a lot of black coffee. I drank a can of NOS a couple of Saturday's ago and was major pumped up.
My stomach hurt later in the evening though. Second time it happened after drinking the energy drinks.
Is it weird to just like Monster for the taste?
I could give a crap about the energy. I'm naturally wired.
I like the taste of the Monster juice (the orange can). It used to be 70% fruit juice, now it's down to 50%. It has less calories than the pepsi I'm addicted to 
.
I have one when I'm working late etc. I can't afford to drink it regularly.
bequietanddrive wrote: Also, if you have a dollar tree near you, I highly suggest Rip It Sugar Free Orange X. Tastes like orange soda. Delicious, and it's only a buck.
That stuff is really good. I usually buy a few cans when I am working long hours. The regular is pretty good even though its loaded with sugar and I stay away with it. The regular sugar free Rip It strongly resembles cough syrup in a can. Can't beat the price either..
Why are they only in funky sized cans? What, is 12 oz. too normal for them?
I drink Viso. 100%RDA of 12 vitamins, 2 minerals, plus 2 electrolytes and calcium. Oh, and 300mg of caffeine It is made in Portland, OR, but I am not sure how far its gotten across the country yet.
I drink Pepsi Max when I need a pickup. I used to drink Monster lo-carb, but energy drinks make my hands shake once they start to wear off (I'm very sensitive to caffene). I'll drink black coffee if I'm in a really bad way- part of what wakes me up is the nasty, sludgy taste.
Worst energy drink ever: Steven Segal's Lightning Bolt. I had a sip of it once; I'm still traumatized by it. This site describes its utter terribleness better than I ever could:
http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Steven_Seagal_s_Lightning_Bolt.aspx
Sugar free Red Bull gets me through the 3rd hour of a 3-hour skate session. So yeah--I drink one a week.
I'm not a coffee drinker, so it perks me up and I avoid the caffeine dependency.
I have been getting more into the monster juice one. But i have started to notice a tolorance, so i havn't had any for a few days. but I still really like Vault soda, had one at work and I'm still going good.
I kicked my coffe habit once i realized that a cup of coffee would make me insanly hungry for the next 3 days
and I'm sensitive to aspertame so diet soda and sugar free energy drinks with it give me horid cramps. thankfully i have pepsi 1
I keep sugar free red bull in the house, it is easy to get the cases at Costco, sometimes I sub out low carb monster.
We do get red bull cola here locally, anyone tried that yet?
Coffee gets saved for the weekends when I can savor it.
But more that 3-4 energy drinks in one waking period makes me want to throw wrenches at grandma.
gamby wrote: Sugar free Red Bull gets me through the 3rd hour of a 3-hour skate session. So yeah--I drink one a week. .
Skate session?
the energy colas are pretty freakin nasty and filled with massive amounts of sugar, i would not recommend drinking those if you are concerned about diabetes or your health.
Like I said I usually stick to the sugar free, no coffee, I refuse to drink the NOS because the sponsor that dipE36 M3 kyle busch
This past week I bought a few store brand fruit nectar drinks because they were cheap and had some real fruit in them. I check the nutrition facts, and wow, 200-250 calories per 12 oz. They are good, though. How can you go wrong with pineapple mango guava?
Now that I drink "good" coffee, the stuff from even most coffee places tastes awfully "thin." Fresh ground, locally roasted, and French pressed makes a really, really good cup. One rounded tablespoon for each 4 oz. Right after I pour the cup, I like to take a really deep whiff, and it's just intoxicating.
DirtyBird222 wrote: coffee to me is disgusting. I can't stand the smell, the taste, anything about it. I think I grew a hatred for it growing up and my parents waking me up in the morning with their coffee breath and the smell of it in the house.
I thought I was the only one. I have Chocolate milk or juice with breakfast and a steady steam of Diet Pepsi the rest of the day.
I am also addicted to cigerretes.Its difficult to get back fom them.
mtn wrote:gamby wrote: Sugar free Red Bull gets me through the 3rd hour of a 3-hour skate session. So yeah--I drink one a week. .Skate session?
is this what you are thinking?
I don't get the sugar free thing. I understand too much sugar is a bad thing, but what is substituted for the sugar in this stuff? An artificicial chemical sweetener? In my mind, that's got to be worse than a little sugar.
Unfortunately, it's really rare to find actual cane sugar in any "softdrinks" anymore. It's all corn syrup and such. I think glucose is the primary sugar in the energy drinks, iirc, is that right?
I'm just sayin' the "sugar free" thing sounds like a legal loophole by the folks who are selling this stuff to the brainwashed consumers.
Clem
Wally wrote:DirtyBird222 wrote: coffee to me is disgusting. I can't stand the smell, the taste, anything about it. I think I grew a hatred for it growing up and my parents waking me up in the morning with their coffee breath and the smell of it in the house.I thought I was the only one. I have Chocolate milk or juice with breakfast and a steady steam of Diet Pepsi the rest of the day.
Yup, I usually drink a 20oz bottle of water with breakfast with maybe 8oz of orange juice, followed by my one-a-day multivitamin. Then usually followed by a energy drink lol.
ClemSparks wrote: Unfortunately, it's really rare to find actual cane sugar in any "softdrinks" anymore. It's all corn syrup and such. I think glucose is the primary sugar in the energy drinks, iirc, is that right?
It's actually sort of making a comeback. Adirondack (they sell this brand up in New England, I don't know if it's available elsewhere) has a new line called "Naturals" that uses only cane sugar and natural colorings, and costs less than Coke or Pepsi for a 2-liter. Pepsico is also planning a new version of Pepsi and Mountain Dew called "throwback" that will use cane sugar, it's supposed to show up on shelves this summer. I guess some of this is a response to the recent popularity of Mexican and Passover Coke, which have always been made with real sugar.
Indeed, it's out there. I'm not a big soda drinker, in general, but I have noticed the non corn syrup stuff coming onto the radar. Still, it's rare at this point.
Corn is a touchy subject for me since I have a little one who has an allergy and I am now very aware of its presence in mainstream processed food. An interesting phenomenon to say the least.
Clem
Unfortunately, it's really rare to find actual cane sugar in any "softdrinks" anymore. It's all corn syrup and such. I think glucose is the primary sugar in the energy drinks, iirc, is that right?
Every once and a while, you can find "Mexican Coke" in glass bottles, usually in messican neighborhoods. Otherwise you're sucking down the high fructose corn syrup nastiness. I had my first bottle on the way to NC last year. Not sure if I actually tasted the difference, but if the corn allergy thing is a concern, it might be a good option.
An article on the subject:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041109/news_1b9mexcoke.html
I'm an off and on energy drink user. If I'm working long hours, like the last two months, it's Rockstar Sugar Free (white can) and Zero Carbs (blue can). They're 2/3bucks at my local gas station - one in the morning and one in the evening.
I try to stay away from them normally, though, and that's grown to include soda and the like. I was up to 5 per day at one point and I realized it just can't be good for you. Especially the diet/sugar free energy drinks - it's basically a collection of chemicals suspended in carbonated water with some vitamins thrown in. No idea what it's doing, but I'm sure the long-term effects aren't good.
ClemSparks wrote: I don't get the sugar free thing. I understand too much sugar is a bad thing, but what is substituted for the sugar in this stuff? An artificicial chemical sweetener? In my mind, that's got to be worse than a little sugar. Unfortunately, it's really rare to find actual cane sugar in any "softdrinks" anymore. It's all corn syrup and such. I think glucose is the primary sugar in the energy drinks, iirc, is that right? I'm just sayin' the "sugar free" thing sounds like a legal loophole by the folks who are selling this stuff to the brainwashed consumers. Clem
A 24 oz monster will have 300 calories per serving (2x servings a can) A 24 oz Locarb has 10 calories per serving that's the sugar free deal.
ClemSparks wrote: I don't get the sugar free thing. I understand too much sugar is a bad thing, but what is substituted for the sugar in this stuff? An artificicial chemical sweetener? In my mind, that's got to be worse than a little sugar. Unfortunately, it's really rare to find actual cane sugar in any "softdrinks" anymore. It's all corn syrup and such. I think glucose is the primary sugar in the energy drinks, iirc, is that right? I'm just sayin' the "sugar free" thing sounds like a legal loophole by the folks who are selling this stuff to the brainwashed consumers. Clem
Its a pick your poison kind of thing. You can drink the one with sugar (or corn syrup in most cases) and accept the hundreds of calories added to your diet. Any calories that you don't burn during the day will be converted and stored as fat. Its not fatty foods that make you fat, its a calorie overload. If it were physically possible to eat enough lettuce to cause a calorie overload you could get fat eating only lettuce.
On the other hand you have artificial sweeteners which have little or no calories but offer up a load of chemicals that may or may not be healthy depending on who you ask. Artificial sweeteners are produced in many different ways and are not sugar though some are created with sugar. They are a chemically engineered product.
So yes a sweetened drink can be sugar free, it is just sweetened with chemical compounds that don't contain carbohydrates, or contain very little as compared to their sweetness. Glucose, fructose, cane sugar, corn syrup, are all naturally occurring sugars, so if the drink had more than a microscopic amount of any of this in it it would not be legal to call it sugar free. Sort of like how non-alcoholic beer actually has about .5% alcohol in it, the government says that any drink below a certain %ABV can be called non-alcoholic. The rules for product labels vary depending on the wording used, so using words like "X Free" or "Low X" have specific limits on amounts per volume.
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