Just learn to like black coffee. It's an acquired taste but once you acquire it, it's easy to do.

Same problem here. I'm also confused because some sources say coffee (black) is OK during fasting, but I've also heard that even black coffee "wakes up" the metabolism enough to lose the benefits.

Could someone who knows about this comment or post links to info: is black coffee during fasting periods OK?

Try butter in your coffee. You get the creaminess without the lactose sugars.

It also helps to have really high-quality espresso-style (extracted for <30 seconds) coffee when trying to ditch milk. You can also transition witu honey.

Plenty of ideas on milk alternatives, but I'd suggest you start fasting and initially keep the milk in your coffee. Once you've built the habit, you can figure out the milk situation.

If you just want the caffeine for awakeness in the morning, try caffeine pills. They are ridiculously cheap at like 5 cents a pill off of amazon and super easy to take. They are especially nice too if you are tired in bed in the morning as I just take a pill from my nightstand, swallow it, lay back in bed for 15 minutes and then I'm usually ready to get up.

What about stopping drinking coffee? When you overcome the addiction it will not be a problem anymore and you will start feeling better

I’m trying out half and half. It’s 4g of fat, 1g carb so very ketogenic. I think it would work great for fasting.

Try adding a pinch of salt, it'll reduce the bitterness of black coffee.