If J.Lo Shirks Caffeine, Maybe I Should, Too?

I’ve now read in a couple of places that gorgeous, shapely, fit J.Lo does not let caffeine enter her beautiful body and has not done so for decades. The woman is 53, for goodness sake, and looks like a goddess. I wonder if she ever has decaf, or herbal tea?

Now, I definitely do not get up anywhere close to 5 a.m. to run on a beach, as Jenny from the Block sometimes does, or to run anywhere else, for that matter. I do not have a fitness or beauty routine--or disciplined meal plan--that approaches hers even a tiny bit.

Yet I do the opposite, drinking a fair amount of coffee--say, 3 or more mugfuls per day, mostly at home. As I try to avoid refined sugar sweets and treats, I have upped my coffee-as-treat game. I get good beans (organic and fair trade if possible), add half and half, organic milk and/or a splash of organic heavy cream. Diet coach nightmare. It is quite a decadent cupful. Sometimes I sip it out of our wedding china, or my parents’ wedding china, and that’s fun, too. (Gosh, the coffee portions are so much smaller in formal china cups.)

I read in W Magazine that the effects of coffee are controversial. Some experts say the antioxidants in caffeine are good for the skin. Others ponder that if coffee is feeding a stress cycle, cortisol levels could be higher, not good for the complexion. 

But J.Lo, she drinks water all day. Water and water and water, but sometimes a healthy smoothie in the morning.

I’m just saying. Is J.Lo on to something with that no caffeine? I mean, she is stunningly youthful and her skin looks so smooth. Should I put down one of my three cups, to start?

Time for a soothing bubble bath. See, I like beauty routines that involve putting my tired body in a tub and lying there, doing nothing. Haha. LOL.