Chris and Sleeping

[SodomyRocket]

Having worked at a McDonald's I can tell you that in the sweet tea we dump a whole bag of sugar, and the container where we hold the tea does not hold as much as it looks like it does. The sweet tea is no improvement from soda, especially since the only cup we give for sweet tea is the size of a large soda. I don't know it's caffeine content, however, the I'm assuming it's pretty high. Nothing is remotely healthy for you at Mikky D's (the healthiest thing on the menu in terms of calories is ice cream!)

I can imagine if Chris makes a habit of sweet teas, it's still hurting his sleep cycle. The lack of calcium/vitamin D is also hurting him. When's the last time Chris talked about drinking milk?

at least its sugar and not corn syrup.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

When's the last time Chris talked about drinking milk?

When he breast fed a stuffed bear.

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[Picklepower]

I hate to admit it but, me and a good friend of mine, also have fucked up sleeping habits. I don't drink as much soda as Chris does though, and I have never drunk an energy drink before, I can't speak for my friend though.

 

[aspirin]

Having worked at a McDonald's I can tell you that in the sweet tea we dump a whole bag of sugar, and the container where we hold the tea does not hold as much as it looks like it does. The sweet tea is no improvement from soda, especially since the only cup we give for sweet tea is the size of a large soda. I don't know it's caffeine content, however, the I'm assuming it's pretty high. Nothing is remotely healthy for you at Mikky D's (the healthiest thing on the menu in terms of calories is ice cream!)

I can imagine if Chris makes a habit of sweet teas, it's still hurting his sleep cycle. The lack of calcium/vitamin D is also hurting him. When's the last time Chris talked about drinking milk?

arent the side salads without dressing like 20 calories

 

[Stalin]

me rambling

arent the side salads without dressing like 20 calories

In the time I worked there I've never met anyone who got the salads without dressing, though. And the side salad is still bad for you, simply because McDonald's. THe lettuce itself isn't the really healthy thing, it's the vegetables on the salad, and the side salad has one tomato and three pieces of carrot, per instructions.

 

[Null]

I have often wondered what the effect of drinking caffeinated soda and no water all day might be on his sleep schedule.

If I have more than a 20oz thing of soda in a day, I'll be fucked trying to sleep that night, and then I'll feel like shit the following day. But he drinks soda all day long, and very little just straight water.

Not my proudest admission, but I drink upwards of 8 liters of coke zero a day and my sleep schedule is completely unaffected. I go to bed at around 10pm to 12am and I wake up between 8am and 12pm. If anything I sleep longer than most people. I do think the caffeine affects the sleep cycle (obviously), but when your kidneys pretty much take on the role of a "Cola to Water" factory, it starts to wear off and your body begins requiring it to keep awake at all.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

...how brittle are Chris' bones?

Oh wow, very brittle, I'd say. Even when he wasn't obese, he was a much naturally skinny boy just like myself. Over the years, someone like him has a high chance of developing something like osteoporosis within the next 5-10 years. Even before his rampant decay it was clear his arms were incredibly thin and weak. Couldn't even curl cardboard lemonade boxes properly. Couldn't do simple pushups properly. Incapable of breaking wooden sticks.

His fatness probably could have gotten him a few muscles - apparently the reason fat people are sometimes really strong is because their muscles build up on their own just to be able to move them - but he all he spends his time on is video games and McDonalds McNuggets, something I am sure is loaded with trans fat and other testosterone lowering chemicals and hormones.

If the only food he eats is McDonalds but does nothing extraneous to use up the calories and energy gained, of course it fucks up his "Biological clock."

Speaking of, I really miss him talking about his Biological Clock. It was so hilarious hearing him explain it to normal people like Alec Bensen Leary and Kacie's Dad.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Not my proudest admission, but I drink upwards of 8 liters of coke zero a day and my sleep schedule is completely unaffected. I go to bed at around 10pm to 12am and I wake up between 8am and 12pm. If anything I sleep longer than most people. I do think the caffeine affects the sleep cycle (obviously), but when your kidneys pretty much take on the role of a "Cola to Water" factory, it starts to wear off and your body begins requiring it to keep awake at all.

8 liters a day? That's not a typo? [mother-of-god.jpg]

I sometimes polish off a 2-liter a day of Coke Zero, especially in the summer, and I feel kind of bad for drinking that much soda.

It doesn't seem to affect my ability to fall/stay asleep also - I still get anywhere from 6-8 hours a night depending on my schedule. I wouldn't say I need it to stay awake, but I do feel sluggish in the morning until I've had a bit of caffeine. I suppose that's no different than the millions of people who have a cup of coffee to get going in the morning. I've gone cold turkey for a week or two at a time, and surprisingly the caffeine withdrawal headaches seem to go away for me after only 3-4 days. I don't get a caffeine buzz off a large soda when I go back, though - it must take longer than that to 'reset' your body's sensitivity to caffeine.

If OPL is putting away a tanker-sized cup of McD's sweet tea every day or every other day, his body's probably quite desensitized to the caffeine's effects by now.

 

[exball]

Also soda has a lot of phosphoric acid which prevents absorption of calcium.

Which begs the question...

...how brittle are Chris' bones?

Only one way to find out

Considering all the shit on the ground of 14BC I'm amazed we don't already know.

 

[Pikonic]

Also soda has a lot of phosphoric acid which prevents absorption of calcium.

Which begs the question...

...how brittle are Chris' bones?

Only one way to find out

Considering all the shit on the ground of 14BC I'm amazed we don't already know.

I'm not saying I want Chris to break some bones, I'm saying I want the inevitable Facebook post about breaking his bones.

 

[exball]

Considering all the shit on the ground of 14BC I'm amazed we don't already know.

I'm not saying I want Chris to break some bones, I'm saying I want the inevitable Facebook post about breaking his bones.

Isn't that the same thing?

 

[A-№1]

Not my proudest admission, but I drink upwards of 8 liters of coke zero a day

And your most recent heart attack was when?

But seriously, that's a lot. Never mind the caffeine, all that sodium isn't doing you any good. Even when I'm doing hard physical labor for a day I'll drink no more than 4 liters, and I usually switch over to half strength orange juice (or gator aid) for the second 2-liter at noon. Consider switching to something else gradually (don't go cold turkey).

and my sleep schedule is completely unaffected.

It probably is, actually. See below.

I go to bed at around 10pm to 12am and I wake up between 8am and 12pm. If anything I sleep longer than most people. I do think the caffeine affects the sleep cycle (obviously), but when your kidneys pretty much take on the role of a "Cola to Water" factory, it starts to wear off and your body begins requiring it to keep awake at all.

Caffeine functions primarily as an adenosine blocker. Adenosine is one of the primary neurochemicals that lets your brain relax so you can go to sleep. Caffeine blocking adenosine temporarily keeps you up and active, but your body is still producing the adenosine, and extended caffeine use can cause your body to up its production of adenosine to compensate, so when you metabolize the caffeine you end up with a surplus of adenosine trying to put you into a torpor. This is part of the reason for the so-called "caffeine hangover" upon waking up and also why some chronic caffeine consumers sleep longer than they otherwise would need to and need extra caffeine to fight off the adenosine induced torpor when they do wake up.

tl;dr: Learn to appreciate water.

 

[Mourning Dove]

I've found a comprehensive list of the caffeine content in all caffeinated beverages, if anyone wants to continue speculating on how Chris's caffeine consumption contributes to his quality of sleep.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

It's turning into an anecdote thread a bit, isn't it? I mean, I empathize. I wanted to jump right in with trying to find why one Starbucks chai (which are only worth three-quarters of a toss during the season when they sell pumpkin-spice syrup in the drinks, but that's another story) is like meth on me, when I'm well-habituated to caffeine, and blah blah etc. about the deviant academic lifestyle.

 

[Zim]

Not my proudest admission, but I drink upwards of 8 liters of coke zero a day and my sleep schedule is completely unaffected. I go to bed at around 10pm to 12am and I wake up between 8am and 12pm. If anything I sleep longer than most people. I do think the caffeine affects the sleep cycle (obviously), but when your kidneys pretty much take on the role of a "Cola to Water" factory, it starts to wear off and your body begins requiring it to keep awake at all.

That's an impressive number. When I was a kid and if I had access to it I'd easily put down about 4L of Dew a day if I could get away with it. My friends and I also had an "energy drink" for when we went on really long bike rides together that consisted of a 1L bottle of Dew with a bag of skittles dissolved in it. It was just perfect when it got a sugar film on the top. We were maybe 12 or so when we were adding in the skittles and back then it was awesome. Now, I'm pretty sure if I drank skittles and dew I'd be dead within the hour! lol

 

[CWCissey]

Not my proudest admission, but I drink upwards of 8 liters of coke zero a day and my sleep schedule is completely unaffected. I go to bed at around 10pm to 12am and I wake up between 8am and 12pm. If anything I sleep longer than most people. I do think the caffeine affects the sleep cycle (obviously), but when your kidneys pretty much take on the role of a "Cola to Water" factory, it starts to wear off and your body begins requiring it to keep awake at all.

That's an impressive number. When I was a kid and if I had access to it I'd easily put down about 4L of Dew a day if I could get away with it. My friends and I also had an "energy drink" for when we went on really long bike rides together that consisted of a 1L bottle of Dew with a bag of skittles dissolved in it. It was just perfect when it got a sugar film on the top. We were maybe 12 or so when we were adding in the skittles and back then it was awesome. Now, I'm pretty sure if I drank skittles and dew I'd be dead within the hour! lol

And I thought it was nasty enough when I see kids putting skittles in vodka!

 

[MetroidJunkie]

Speaking of Chris' sleeping, it's well known that eating the wrong kind of food before sleeping can give you really twisted dreams. I wonder if that's true for him, given his really poor diet.

 

[SodomyRocket]

Speaking of Chris' sleeping, it's well known that eating the wrong kind of food before sleeping can give you really twisted dreams. I wonder if that's true for him, given his really poor diet.

that explains the dream about crystal weston chandler

 

[TrippinKahlua]

Speaking of Chris' sleeping, it's well known that eating the wrong kind of food before sleeping can give you really twisted dreams. I wonder if that's true for him, given his really poor diet.

One usually doesn't have the power to speak to Death, directly. You may be onto something here.

 

[Holdek]

Chris took Napoleon too seriously when he said 'a man sleeps 6 hours, a woman 7 and a fool more than that'

I do hear that a segmented sleep is meant to be better for you than 8 hours all at once. I tend to catch 5 hours on average myself (damn night shifts!)

Segmented sleep is apparently more natural. It was common to pretty much everybody until the industrial revolution. The space between first and second sleep was well-regarded as the prime time for reading, thinking, or lots and lots of sex.

Three things Chris definitely isn't doing.

I have often wondered what the effect of drinking caffeinated soda and no water all day might be on his sleep schedule.

If I have more than a 20oz thing of soda in a day, I'll be fucked trying to sleep that night, and then I'll feel like shit the following day. But he drinks soda all day long, and very little just straight water.

Not my proudest admission, but I drink upwards of 8 liters of coke zero a day and my sleep schedule is completely unaffected. I go to bed at around 10pm to 12am and I wake up between 8am and 12pm. If anything I sleep longer than most people.

Dude assuming you are awake an average of 13 hours a day that's drinking like a can and 3/4 of coke every hour you are awake.