[timarie]

Timarie, green tea will not keep you awake. Black tea or more coffee will do that. I also had a personal experience with Maca. I used to take some before bed time, well I could not go to bed-sleep for a long time after my Maca. So I stopped taking Maca at late evenings, and it helped me to go to sleep sooner. I think it gives so much energy to the body that you can not sleep immediately. Just a thought.

Wishing you a normal sleeping pattern. POM

Thanks for your input Pom!

A couple things, though. 1- I don't take maca. Are you suggesting that I do for the sake of staying awake? 2- I am taking green tea for it's low doses of caffeine but mostly for it's well-known reputation for a healthy metabolism, which can potentially result in more energy (even though I already have a high metabolism. I don't get it!). 3- No way on God's green earth will I drink ANY black tea, coffee, or anything with a high dose of caffeine on any day other than my lower-body workout day. I say this because I get NO sleep (see above, I mentioned that I have had sleeping problems in the reverse and I actually was not even on any caffeine at all at the time) when I have any caffeine throughout the day. Honestly I'd rather get too much sleep than too little sleep, which is why I am not fighting this full-force (because if I did, I would have "fixed" this problem once it started. My default problem is sleeping too little, so I can easily go right back to that if I wanted to). I am trying to work myself slowly to a happy medium, instead of wildly swinging the pendulum to the other side of sleeping issues again- which is what caffeine would do for me. I currently only drink a pre-workout drink before my lower body workouts once a week and literally get NO SLEEP that night It is amazing for helping me kick ass in my workouts (I don't think I could lift the weights I lift without it), but it keeps me running until the following afternoon! Yes, I am not even sleepy the following day until after work. So, caffeine is not what I am looking for unless it is in very, very small doses. But I suspect that my issue is more complicated than that.