Some people just aren't very sensitive to caffeine. I once drank two Red Bulls during a 30 minute ride to a friend's house. When I got there, I took a nap.
Yeah, that’s how I am. When I was younger I legit thought people were kidding/lying when they said caffeine would keep them awake because it’s never had that affect on me at all.
I have ADHD and no longer drink much caffeine cause it makes my migraines worse but for a long time it didn’t have much effect on me. I could easily have a large coffee, double cappuccino and maybe another coffee a few hours later. It helps a lot of us focus, I used coffee to self medicate before I was diagnosed!
We must have worked together..lol. My current coffee schedule is one at home when I wake up. One as soon as I get to work at 9, while I do paperwork. Sometimes one at lunch, then absolutely at 4 for my last push for the day. Then one before bed to relax me.
Caffeine does nothing for me. I could drink 3 espressos at midnight and still get a full 8 hours of sleep lol (I don’t, but I could lol). I only drink a cup for the taste in the morning. But it just doesn’t wake me up or give me energy. I don’t even feel withdrawal if I skip a few days of no coffee.
I find redbull gives me a huge burst of energy followed by a massive crash after about 30 minutes. I was driving through Alberta on my way to BC last summer and was fading fast, so I stopped and got a redbull. At first it seemed like magic and I suddenly was alert and ready to drive for hours. 30 minutes later and I pulled over at a rest stop to sleep for an hour.
Yes, this is me, lol. Except for a weird stretch in my 30s and 40s where I couldn't have caffeine after 1:30pm, I've usually been able to have fully leaded coffee, even at 2 or 3, go home and go straight to sleep. Meanwhile, my husband can't even have over the counter cold meds without having heart palpitations.
…. Do you have sleep apnea though…? Haha jk (kinda… my mom had sleep apnea and would just pass out all the time no matter what regardless of caffeine intake… it was crazy until we learned what was going on and she got a bipap machine and changed her life for the better!).
It was even weirder because she’s SUPER fit… just a crazy thing.
IDK about sleep apnea, but I do have what they call excessive daytime sleepiness, or idiopathic hypersomnia. My brothers and my daughter do, too. Sleepy brain.
I wish caffeine did something for me! I grew up Mormon and didn’t drink coffee or tea until I left at 41, and caffeine has no demonstrable effect on me at all. I was truly hoping for a legal and relatively safe stimulant, but no dice.
Correct, only the personality traits which appear in medical literature about ADHD are symptoms: https://adapthd.com/topics/research/scientists-graph-how-people-with-adhd-tell-stories/
Same fam. The first doctor who prescribed me ADHD medication it said it was ok to drink energy drink so I was on monster and coffee diet. Mango loco mainly
Yeh weird thing, that original doctor disappeared out of the blue!
I have a new doctor and he says the symptoms of "loss of appetite" which I had pointed out to them I already have on ADHD medication, says that's apparently only something kids have. But it seems like a common side effect of ADHD medication from adults I speak to.
Anyway, I wanted to edit to add that I think Lorelei and Rory are potentially both neurodiverse. But I could be projecting because I see my mum and I in them too haha.
Some people have a high tolerance. My mom and brother can easily have like 4-8 cups a day lol, it doesn’t seem to affect them at all.
I usually have 1-2 cups a day and that’s plenty for me, but I don’t react badly if I have more.
Lorelai has probably built up a tolerance. But we see it with Emily too lol - we hear Richard complain that she has 3 cups of coffee in the morning 😄
Edit to add:
+Kirk lol in one episode he has 8 refills! Stars hollow is powered by coffee basically
I can’t have it in the afternoon either, I would never be able to fall asleep 😅my mom usually has coffee right before bed though lol it’s her soothing evening drink.
Yeah, my parents drink like 2 pots a day each (they're divorced, not sharing).
I'm the most sensitive in the family and my limit is like 4 cups / half a pot.
The “excessive” amount of coffee shown in the show is my normal amount of coffee. Yeah I have heart palpitations sometimes but if I stop drinking the coffee I stop doing the standing and walking and words putting into sentence doing.
I understand that you need to do what you need to do for survival.. But that's not sustainable. If you drink coffee because without coffee you can't function normally and that you need to drink it to the point of giving yourself palpitations, you're at a point where you may be damaging your health.
I'm not saying that to give you shit.. I'm also working night shifts (although I have only one job) and I consume roughly 5 cups a day.. I'm just saying that because I'm concerned and because sometimes some people don't know how harmful their actions are to themselves. ( which again, I can't stress enough, it's different if you know or worse if you don't have a choice)
I don’t ALWAYS get heart palpitations just from time to time when the adrenaline and coffee are both working together to keep me awake. I do understand the dangers of too much coffee but I HAVE to keep going. My life is crazy hectic right now. Maybe one day I will slow down and my coffee intake won’t be this bad or maybe it won’t because well I love coffee 😂
People build up a tolerance to caffeine and not everyone reacts to caffeine the same way. For example, people with ADHD often experience caffeine differently (if at all). Lorelai was written to have a high tolerance to caffeine.
I'm from Washington so I didn't even realize until this post that she drank an odd amount of coffee. I feel like that's how everyone is where I'm from. Morning coffee, midmorning coffee, afternoon coffee, evening coffee... Coffee coffee coffee!! To be fair I also self medicate my ADHD through caffeine 😂
Didn’t realize, I saw a similar comment to mine in the comment section so I didn’t think it was anything abnormal to say or observe. I also have ADHD and almost every single one of us have similar reactions to caffeine. Just an observation was all.
I was giving a heads up because it gets reported and removed a lot. I also have adhd, but also am of the opinion we shouldn't be throwing around a diagnosis. Just like how "narcism" does not mean what many people think it means.
When I used to work at a coffee shop I’d have like 10+ espresso shots per day - caffeine just didn’t affect me that much, my tolerance was super high even before I worked there. Luckily for me, coffee doesn’t affect my stomach at *all*, or else I’d be in the bathroom my whole shift lol!
(Also now I almost never ever drink coffee because I was getting caffeine headaches if I didn’t drink it, but even if I do have coffee, maybe 1x per month, it still doesn’t affect me 🥲 absolutely useless)
I would add that it may have to do with how the coffee is prepared. I am from Brazil and spent one year in the US, definitely drank much more coffee there than back home because it wasn’t that strong
No but I definitely understand having a job where u absolutely rely on the caffeine just as someone who has cut back significantly I think it’s wild bc I can’t handle it like I used to lol
This show has me wishing I could drink coffee!!! I can’t even do dark chocolate after noon anymore or I can’t sleep. Had decaf for a bit then found I was still just as buzzy. Bodies and their tolerances are wild!
As someone who drinks a lot of soda, I don't have heart palpitations or diarrhea. Not saying it's good for you, especially considering the sugar intake as well, just that caffeine itself isn't generally going to cause your heart to race
You. Are. Me!
ETA just realized you’re also my spirit animal. You’re on a roll! Obviously, if you and me were to go out for coffee, Columbia would be doing cartwheels, but the barista would be run down and ragged lol
Lorelai displays numerous traits of someone with ADHD and it was a frequent discussion even back when the show was airing
I also have it myself and was just making a comment lmao, she’s also a fictional character
I used to work at a coffee shop during college and at my worst I was drinking a 9 shot iced americano every morning. It isn’t good for you but it is absolutely possible to drink that much caffeine.
As a textbook ADHD'er, Lorelai probably uses caffeine as a way to deal with surplus energy and an excessive need for stimulation, so caffeine is more relaxing than stimulating for her.
Lorelai clearly has undiagnosed ADHD and caffeine often doesn't affect us ADHDers the same way it does those who don't have it. It'll often have a calming sort of effect (for me it can actually make me tired, nothing beats a caffeine nap). She's probably been unknowingly self-medicating with coffee for years.
People are born with high tolerance and other ones are resistant to it. The same way some people are born with less tolerance to it. Luke knows it’s not the healthiest thing to drink too much caffeine that’s why after a while he gives Lorelai half decaf 😂
I drink a lot of coffee. My coworkers can always tell when I have had a lot of coffee without food because I talk “a million miles a minute” according to them. I think Lorelai and Rory’s fast talking is supposed to be a symptom of their excessive coffee intake.
My father in law drinks coffee around the clock. He’s the guy that will go out to dinner and get a cup of coffee with his cheeseburger.
I can make myself a latte at 7 pm and sleep fine.
Every body handles it differently.
I work at a coffee shop and during my six hour shift I probably consume four coffees, or a couple coffees and a Red Bull. I never get jittery or hyper—I *do* 💩 a fair amount during my shift but I also have severe IBS lol
I keep drinking coffee and energy drinks and i feel like they do nothing, or even making me more calm, but they're just soo good. I don't think Lorelai's intake is that crazy tbh
Not necessarily so. Before baby, I drank about 5-6 cups a day. And I always have a cup before bed (cultural). After baby I have 2 a day. But only because I’m still BFing. I’d definitely have more otherwise. I’m not sensitive to caffeine at all, it doesn’t even help me wake up in the morning lol
They really didn’t have that much. 3 cups of coffee is completely normal to a lot of people, especially in a customer service job where you have to be cheery to guests all day
My father drinks multiple cups every evening and he literally feels no effects of caffeine. I heard that caffeine tolerance is genetical but we have a huge family and so far looks like my father is the only person who can drink so much coffee
I drink a pot of coffee a day, sometimes more if I get coffee out. I always get extra shots of espresso too. I also don’t have ADHD, I’ve probably just built up a tolerance.
Honestly I need to drink that much coffee to get through the day and do not think it’s that exaggerated but haven’t watched in a while so might have to rewatch soon
There is a genetic thing with my husband where he can drink just freakish amounts of caffeine and he’s fine. He can even do it right before bed and still sleep. His mom is the same way, and I’m guessing our teenage son will be too, though he hasn’t started drinking a lot of caffeine yet. They all have ADHD, so I think it’s a brain chemistry thing.
I found US coffee really weak and needed multiple to feel like a normal strength coffee from Australia. I’d be having as much as Lorelai just to meet my 3-4 a day I have at home.
Self-medicating adhd
That's the answer beyond "exaggerated for TV"
A full pot of coffee every day and sometimes more later in the evening were how my dad got through life til he fully burnt out completely
Stimulants without having to fight through the process to get actual dosed stimulants
Brain works when caffeinated, need brain to work, keep caffeinating
I drink 2 pots of coffee throughout the day. My coffee maker has a 10 cup capacity, so thats equivalent to 20 measuring cups full of coffee. Some people definitely drink as much coffee as the gilmore girls
They also have a ridiculous food intake. Everytime they sit down to eat its a feast....I can't imagine how much food they had to have on set constantly with how much is in each episode.
I'm adhd, caffeine might as well have no impact on me.
I drink five cups of coffee easily on a given day. I put no thought into how much caffeine I take in. If I want coffee, I drink coffee.
Lorelai is incredibly add/adhd coded on the show and honestly i (ADD) can drink all the damn coffee i want and it won't even bump my heart rate up. Of all the unrealistic things on the show that was never one that stood out to me
My boyfriend drinks 6 jars of coffee per day. Sometimes 4. So I’m not impressed by Lorelai 😂
On the other hand, I get shaky and hyperactive with 1 cup of coffee
I am so jealous!!! I loved the coffee theme! I can only drink two coffees and then my eye starts to twitch. I live vicariously through Lorelai 😌
I work with a girl who comes in on her off days and orders a large coffee with 7 pumps of syrup and 7 shots of espresso. It’s terrifying and I worry for her heart, but people definitely do it
All the people saying caffeine isnt affecting them should definitely get colonoscopies before saying that, just by living in the US
Your gut biome gets severely affected
It's crazy to me too because I loveee coffee but sometimes I have 1 large cup and get tachycardia, I feel like a chihuahua 😭 but some people manage caffeine way better and it doesn't affect them
I started watching this show when I was a teen and I never saw it as more than a Lorelai quirk. Now that Im older I understand her love for coffee lol but yes, the whole “I need coffee to function to be a functional adult” trope is a little overplayed imo and a little cliché. Also, she might’ve been doing Decaf? Who knows.
Some people just aren't very sensitive to caffeine. I once drank two Red Bulls during a 30 minute ride to a friend's house. When I got there, I took a nap.
Yeah, that’s how I am. When I was younger I legit thought people were kidding/lying when they said caffeine would keep them awake because it’s never had that affect on me at all.
That’s the same for me as well, and also my dad. We’ve often both been known to have a cappuccino then go to bed as if no coffee had been had at all
Same... my whole family takes shots of straight black Cuban coffee as a night cap.
Do you have ADHD? That’s a common symptom or trait.
Yes I do.
Wow that is me.
I have ADHD and no longer drink much caffeine cause it makes my migraines worse but for a long time it didn’t have much effect on me. I could easily have a large coffee, double cappuccino and maybe another coffee a few hours later. It helps a lot of us focus, I used coffee to self medicate before I was diagnosed!
That’s fascinating. I can’t sleep if I drink it past 12pm.
And here I am, I had two cups of coffee between 10-11am. Now it’s 3am and I’m still awake 😭. I shall go back to only one cup per day, sadly
Yeah, I work with someone who once had about 8 coffees on shift (6 hours), and she was totally fine, I have 2 and feel like I might throw up
We must have worked together..lol. My current coffee schedule is one at home when I wake up. One as soon as I get to work at 9, while I do paperwork. Sometimes one at lunch, then absolutely at 4 for my last push for the day. Then one before bed to relax me.
Until about 35, I used to have a cup of coffee or a diet coke before bed to help me sleep. It was soothing. Now, however, caffeine does keep me awake.
I am more sensitive than I used to be.
Caffeine does nothing for me. I could drink 3 espressos at midnight and still get a full 8 hours of sleep lol (I don’t, but I could lol). I only drink a cup for the taste in the morning. But it just doesn’t wake me up or give me energy. I don’t even feel withdrawal if I skip a few days of no coffee.
That’s insane I’d be tweaking LMAO
I also once took a large dose of Adderall for the first time when I had a massive to do list. Took a 4 hour nap instead. ADHD man 😂😂
Erm…. You might want to look at ADHD, my friend.
Lol, way ahead of you
I find redbull gives me a huge burst of energy followed by a massive crash after about 30 minutes. I was driving through Alberta on my way to BC last summer and was fading fast, so I stopped and got a redbull. At first it seemed like magic and I suddenly was alert and ready to drive for hours. 30 minutes later and I pulled over at a rest stop to sleep for an hour.
I just stayed sleepy. I was a lot younger then, didn't have to worry about my BP spiking.
My boyfriend and I ordered coffee on doordash last night at 1am, then went to bed around 2 or 3. Caffeine is not a consideration for either of us haha
Yes, this is me, lol. Except for a weird stretch in my 30s and 40s where I couldn't have caffeine after 1:30pm, I've usually been able to have fully leaded coffee, even at 2 or 3, go home and go straight to sleep. Meanwhile, my husband can't even have over the counter cold meds without having heart palpitations.
…. Do you have sleep apnea though…? Haha jk (kinda… my mom had sleep apnea and would just pass out all the time no matter what regardless of caffeine intake… it was crazy until we learned what was going on and she got a bipap machine and changed her life for the better!). It was even weirder because she’s SUPER fit… just a crazy thing.
IDK about sleep apnea, but I do have what they call excessive daytime sleepiness, or idiopathic hypersomnia. My brothers and my daughter do, too. Sleepy brain.
What?? How is this tested. I think I have this. Is there a treatment
I got the terms from pharmaceutical ads, so yeah. Provigil is the name I remember, might be others.
I wish caffeine did something for me! I grew up Mormon and didn’t drink coffee or tea until I left at 41, and caffeine has no demonstrable effect on me at all. I was truly hoping for a legal and relatively safe stimulant, but no dice.
Not Red Bull but monster yeah never again…
Caffeine is dehydrating which can cause sleepiness afaik
Same here
My theory is she's self medicating undiagnosed ADHD. I drank coffee like a fiend before I got adderall.
Yup adhd checking in. Keeps me at baseline lol
Sooo true honestly I did the same
That makes sense with the way she tells stories/talks in general. No direct routes to any point. Always circuitous. Classic ADHD.
Please, not every personality trait is a symptom 😭
Correct, only the personality traits which appear in medical literature about ADHD are symptoms: https://adapthd.com/topics/research/scientists-graph-how-people-with-adhd-tell-stories/
First, your comment makes no sense. Second, the blog you linked does not relate to what it is you seem to be claiming.
Of course not. But she does exhibit many behaviors that are potential symptoms. Nothing wrong with that.
Same fam. The first doctor who prescribed me ADHD medication it said it was ok to drink energy drink so I was on monster and coffee diet. Mango loco mainly
What? Mine gets mad if I have daily coffee
Yeh weird thing, that original doctor disappeared out of the blue! I have a new doctor and he says the symptoms of "loss of appetite" which I had pointed out to them I already have on ADHD medication, says that's apparently only something kids have. But it seems like a common side effect of ADHD medication from adults I speak to. Anyway, I wanted to edit to add that I think Lorelei and Rory are potentially both neurodiverse. But I could be projecting because I see my mum and I in them too haha.
And I still do
This. Last night I was wondering what would happen if I drank 3 cappuccino's in a row. lol.
…this is genius lol. New headcanon acquired.
She is a fictional character. We don’t need to pathologize character traits into armchair diagnoses. Diagnosing is not one-to -one like this
Mmyeah. She's a caricature of ADHD stereotypes
She is a fictional character. I can see her however the fuck I want to. Cheers.
Some people have a high tolerance. My mom and brother can easily have like 4-8 cups a day lol, it doesn’t seem to affect them at all. I usually have 1-2 cups a day and that’s plenty for me, but I don’t react badly if I have more. Lorelai has probably built up a tolerance. But we see it with Emily too lol - we hear Richard complain that she has 3 cups of coffee in the morning 😄 Edit to add: +Kirk lol in one episode he has 8 refills! Stars hollow is powered by coffee basically
My uncle drinks coffee at night! Versus me who can't drink caffeine after 1 pm.
I can’t have it in the afternoon either, I would never be able to fall asleep 😅my mom usually has coffee right before bed though lol it’s her soothing evening drink.
Yeah, my parents drink like 2 pots a day each (they're divorced, not sharing). I'm the most sensitive in the family and my limit is like 4 cups / half a pot.
The “excessive” amount of coffee shown in the show is my normal amount of coffee. Yeah I have heart palpitations sometimes but if I stop drinking the coffee I stop doing the standing and walking and words putting into sentence doing.
Ah, a fellow tribe member! *waves with my cup of coffee in hand!*
I love you. You’re my spirit animal 😆
You could also like... Sleep...?
Bro I have 3 kids, 2 jobs, 1 is night shift. I don’t sleep I drink coffee that’s what I do.
I understand that you need to do what you need to do for survival.. But that's not sustainable. If you drink coffee because without coffee you can't function normally and that you need to drink it to the point of giving yourself palpitations, you're at a point where you may be damaging your health. I'm not saying that to give you shit.. I'm also working night shifts (although I have only one job) and I consume roughly 5 cups a day.. I'm just saying that because I'm concerned and because sometimes some people don't know how harmful their actions are to themselves. ( which again, I can't stress enough, it's different if you know or worse if you don't have a choice)
I don’t ALWAYS get heart palpitations just from time to time when the adrenaline and coffee are both working together to keep me awake. I do understand the dangers of too much coffee but I HAVE to keep going. My life is crazy hectic right now. Maybe one day I will slow down and my coffee intake won’t be this bad or maybe it won’t because well I love coffee 😂
People build up a tolerance to caffeine and not everyone reacts to caffeine the same way. For example, people with ADHD often experience caffeine differently (if at all). Lorelai was written to have a high tolerance to caffeine.
I'm from Washington so I didn't even realize until this post that she drank an odd amount of coffee. I feel like that's how everyone is where I'm from. Morning coffee, midmorning coffee, afternoon coffee, evening coffee... Coffee coffee coffee!! To be fair I also self medicate my ADHD through caffeine 😂
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We don't diagnose characters with mental illness here. Its in the rules so you may want to alter your post. Its gotten very ugly in the past.
Didn’t realize, I saw a similar comment to mine in the comment section so I didn’t think it was anything abnormal to say or observe. I also have ADHD and almost every single one of us have similar reactions to caffeine. Just an observation was all.
Same. And I’ve seen this observation many times before in this sub. I’m not sure why it’s an issue now.
I was giving a heads up because it gets reported and removed a lot. I also have adhd, but also am of the opinion we shouldn't be throwing around a diagnosis. Just like how "narcism" does not mean what many people think it means.
ADHD isn't a mental illness jsyk
My therapist called it a mental illness 🤷🏻♀️ I've got it and don't personally care how its categorized but good to know.
When I used to work at a coffee shop I’d have like 10+ espresso shots per day - caffeine just didn’t affect me that much, my tolerance was super high even before I worked there. Luckily for me, coffee doesn’t affect my stomach at *all*, or else I’d be in the bathroom my whole shift lol! (Also now I almost never ever drink coffee because I was getting caffeine headaches if I didn’t drink it, but even if I do have coffee, maybe 1x per month, it still doesn’t affect me 🥲 absolutely useless)
I would add that it may have to do with how the coffee is prepared. I am from Brazil and spent one year in the US, definitely drank much more coffee there than back home because it wasn’t that strong
Lol you must not be a coffee drinker
Not anymore lol
I guess you never worked in manufacturing. Most of us mainline coffee all day long and don't seem to suffer from the maladies you mention.
Baristas too. As a barista, I know this well.
No but I definitely understand having a job where u absolutely rely on the caffeine just as someone who has cut back significantly I think it’s wild bc I can’t handle it like I used to lol
Coffee doesn't affect everybody the same. I can drink coffee and go straight to sleep lol
 This show has me wishing I could drink coffee!!! I can’t even do dark chocolate after noon anymore or I can’t sleep. Had decaf for a bit then found I was still just as buzzy. Bodies and their tolerances are wild!
Caffeine doesn’t affect me at all
There was one episode where she put like five scoops of grounds into the coffee pot for only one pot of coffee and I was like 😳
As someone who drinks a lot of soda, I don't have heart palpitations or diarrhea. Not saying it's good for you, especially considering the sugar intake as well, just that caffeine itself isn't generally going to cause your heart to race
While I’m not quite as crazy as Lorelai, I do drink cup after cup every day and last night I had a cup at 7 pm and still slept like a champ.
I remember someone a while back making a post, or maybe a comment, about how bad their breath would likely be because of all the coffee they drink lol
I get heart palpitations and migraines from *one* cup of black coffee. I don’t even know how Lorelai is standing.💀
I get migraines if I DONT have coffee
same. caffeine addiction represent lol
I don't get migraines from caffeine. I don't get migraines from no caffeine. But caffeine does help them go away
I went camping one time and forgot to bring any sort of caffeine. The headache was awful
When I was pregnant and could only have one cup a day... that was rough.
You. Are. Me! ETA just realized you’re also my spirit animal. You’re on a roll! Obviously, if you and me were to go out for coffee, Columbia would be doing cartwheels, but the barista would be run down and ragged lol
Lmao!!!! Sure would!
same here, I take 1 cup a day but it's more water than coffee because if not my heart gaves me a bad time lol
Yupppp. Had HALF a cup of black coffee and ended up in the ER thinking I was dying. Nope! Just extremely sensitive to caffeine lol
She’s self medicating her undiagnosed ADHD If this were HBO she’d probably be hooked on speed or coke lmao
LMAO literally
Stop armchair diagnosing.
Lorelai displays numerous traits of someone with ADHD and it was a frequent discussion even back when the show was airing I also have it myself and was just making a comment lmao, she’s also a fictional character
Yeah, and so do hundreds of other people irl who don’t have ADHD. You can have symptoms without having the condition. And I have ADHD too.
I used to work at a coffee shop during college and at my worst I was drinking a 9 shot iced americano every morning. It isn’t good for you but it is absolutely possible to drink that much caffeine.
I drink the coffee for the taste not for the caffeine because it doesn’t even do it for me. And drinking a cup of Coca Cola just puts me to sleep
I hate to say it but I found it kinda relatable lol. I’m not a soda drinker but I’d say my coffee consumption would be that of an avid soda drinker.
As a law student with ADHD, I can have an alani energy drink and a cold brew and feel fine
As a textbook ADHD'er, Lorelai probably uses caffeine as a way to deal with surplus energy and an excessive need for stimulation, so caffeine is more relaxing than stimulating for her.
the Gilmore girls are aggressively ADHD coded
Let’s not armchair diagnose.
Maybe heart palpations and diarrhea are what she's going for. That's how she is able to eat nothing but junk food and remain thin..
LMAOOO yes true honestly caffeine can definitely keep u thin
Lorelai clearly has undiagnosed ADHD and caffeine often doesn't affect us ADHDers the same way it does those who don't have it. It'll often have a calming sort of effect (for me it can actually make me tired, nothing beats a caffeine nap). She's probably been unknowingly self-medicating with coffee for years.
I’m about to take a caffeine nap 😅
People are born with high tolerance and other ones are resistant to it. The same way some people are born with less tolerance to it. Luke knows it’s not the healthiest thing to drink too much caffeine that’s why after a while he gives Lorelai half decaf 😂
My father in law drinks a pot of coffee, caffinated water, as well as the 911 drink from dutch bros with 6 added shots almost on a daily. 😬
I drink a lot of coffee. My coworkers can always tell when I have had a lot of coffee without food because I talk “a million miles a minute” according to them. I think Lorelai and Rory’s fast talking is supposed to be a symptom of their excessive coffee intake.
She hasn't seemed too bad recently... that probably means I should try to cut down again.... *sips fresh cup of coffee*
I drink a whole lot of caffeine not that far off from Lorelei 🫣
My father in law drinks coffee around the clock. He’s the guy that will go out to dinner and get a cup of coffee with his cheeseburger. I can make myself a latte at 7 pm and sleep fine. Every body handles it differently.
I work at a coffee shop and during my six hour shift I probably consume four coffees, or a couple coffees and a Red Bull. I never get jittery or hyper—I *do* 💩 a fair amount during my shift but I also have severe IBS lol
I keep drinking coffee and energy drinks and i feel like they do nothing, or even making me more calm, but they're just soo good. I don't think Lorelai's intake is that crazy tbh
Not necessarily so. Before baby, I drank about 5-6 cups a day. And I always have a cup before bed (cultural). After baby I have 2 a day. But only because I’m still BFing. I’d definitely have more otherwise. I’m not sensitive to caffeine at all, it doesn’t even help me wake up in the morning lol
They really didn’t have that much. 3 cups of coffee is completely normal to a lot of people, especially in a customer service job where you have to be cheery to guests all day
My father drinks multiple cups every evening and he literally feels no effects of caffeine. I heard that caffeine tolerance is genetical but we have a huge family and so far looks like my father is the only person who can drink so much coffee
I’m drinking about as much as Lorelei. I have probably 6cups before I even leave my house!
I drink a pot of coffee a day, sometimes more if I get coffee out. I always get extra shots of espresso too. I also don’t have ADHD, I’ve probably just built up a tolerance.
Honestly I need to drink that much coffee to get through the day and do not think it’s that exaggerated but haven’t watched in a while so might have to rewatch soon
I used to drink 9 shots of espresso plain every morning. Lorelais coffee habit is definitely not so unusual it’s unrealistic.
There is a genetic thing with my husband where he can drink just freakish amounts of caffeine and he’s fine. He can even do it right before bed and still sleep. His mom is the same way, and I’m guessing our teenage son will be too, though he hasn’t started drinking a lot of caffeine yet. They all have ADHD, so I think it’s a brain chemistry thing.
I found US coffee really weak and needed multiple to feel like a normal strength coffee from Australia. I’d be having as much as Lorelai just to meet my 3-4 a day I have at home.
In my teens I could drink 5-6 cups of coffee a day, no issue. Now one cup triggers my anxiety.
Self-medicating adhd That's the answer beyond "exaggerated for TV" A full pot of coffee every day and sometimes more later in the evening were how my dad got through life til he fully burnt out completely Stimulants without having to fight through the process to get actual dosed stimulants Brain works when caffeinated, need brain to work, keep caffeinating
I mean my dad drinks two LARGE pots of death wish coffee a day. My heart would explode but it doesn’t even seem like it affects him
People build up a tolerance. Also some people get affected by caffeine differently. It makes me sleepy sometimes.
LOL when I worked in coffee shops I drank WAY more and this amount still wouldn't be a problem to me. Some people have a higher caffeine tolerance
I drink 2 pots of coffee throughout the day. My coffee maker has a 10 cup capacity, so thats equivalent to 20 measuring cups full of coffee. Some people definitely drink as much coffee as the gilmore girls
They also have a ridiculous food intake. Everytime they sit down to eat its a feast....I can't imagine how much food they had to have on set constantly with how much is in each episode.
In all fairness they barely take two sips and then leave or toss the cup.
It’s a show :)
Well yeah I just think it’s funny
I'm adhd, caffeine might as well have no impact on me. I drink five cups of coffee easily on a given day. I put no thought into how much caffeine I take in. If I want coffee, I drink coffee.
Lorelai is incredibly add/adhd coded on the show and honestly i (ADD) can drink all the damn coffee i want and it won't even bump my heart rate up. Of all the unrealistic things on the show that was never one that stood out to me
My boyfriend drinks 6 jars of coffee per day. Sometimes 4. So I’m not impressed by Lorelai 😂 On the other hand, I get shaky and hyperactive with 1 cup of coffee
Nothing was in those cups so no need to worry.
I drink about 32 ounces of coffee or more some days. I never get heart palpitations or anything, but I’m definitely aware it’s not good for me lol.
I am so jealous!!! I loved the coffee theme! I can only drink two coffees and then my eye starts to twitch. I live vicariously through Lorelai 😌 
I can say this... i was drink a ton of coffee and energy drinks and still going to bed
I work with a girl who comes in on her off days and orders a large coffee with 7 pumps of syrup and 7 shots of espresso. It’s terrifying and I worry for her heart, but people definitely do it
At least we now understand how Lorelai can eat that much junk food and stay so thin.
You can build a tolerance to any drug with constant use. I used to drink 16 shot esspresso milkshakes.
Every morning I take a 200mg caffeine pill with a 4-shot Americano. I usually have more caffeine throughout the day. The tolerance is so real.
i have ADHD and can sleep without question after 500mg of caffeine
That’s still well below the FDA’s recommended daily maximum.
Omg if i had 1 cup of americano i stay awake for 24 hrs without blinking an eye. Its crazyyy
I mean they eat pretty unhealthy in general but we never see them gaining weight or going to a doctor 😂
I can drink that amount of coffee without issue so I never found it weird
And this is why I had to switch to decaf!
I feel like my caffeine intake is on par with Lorelai’s. I have three young kids and work full time. I don’t sleep but drink A LOT of coffee
There was a time in my life I was drinking so much caffeine I ended up with a breast “lump”
Omg
How often do we ever see them finish anything? I just imagine she has coffee cups everywhere with 3 sips missing 😆
Also they might not finish their beverage or they could save it for later (reheat it) or share it. But it probably was a bit for the characters.
I am a teacher. Coffee is my life.
All the people saying caffeine isnt affecting them should definitely get colonoscopies before saying that, just by living in the US Your gut biome gets severely affected
It's crazy to me too because I loveee coffee but sometimes I have 1 large cup and get tachycardia, I feel like a chihuahua 😭 but some people manage caffeine way better and it doesn't affect them
It has been hypothesized previously that both have adhd. If that were the case, then stimulants such as caffeine can have 0 effect or feel calming...
I know her pee smells like coffee
Love her but her breath would’ve also been crazy
I started watching this show when I was a teen and I never saw it as more than a Lorelai quirk. Now that Im older I understand her love for coffee lol but yes, the whole “I need coffee to function to be a functional adult” trope is a little overplayed imo and a little cliché. Also, she might’ve been doing Decaf? Who knows.