I fast pretty easily from 6pm to noon the next day. So I would be getting an awesome 18 hour fast daily however I have coffee with milk at 8am. Am I cancelling out those last 4 hours?
I hate black coffee so I’m not sure what I could do.
I hate black coffee so I’m not sure what I could do.
There are lots of definitions of fasting and it’s not perfectly understood which consequences line up with which behaviors.
It’s pretty clear things are different once you break down the different ideas of “fast” and build it back up. In a dry fast, nothing enters your body except air. Now switch to a water fast and your stomach and kidneys are going to start doing something with that water. Have some coffee and now your liver is processing that caffeine and other chemicals. Add some calories (milk) and more organs are doing more. And then once you get past 500 calories in a day, you’re not really fasting by just about any definition.
So your coffee is doing something, the milk is doing something, but I don’t think it’s perfectly clear what happens at each threshold.
It’s hard with a family though if they’re on different schedules.
My approach was that the kids ate things I wouldn’t and so it wasn’t difficult for me to be present and not eat.
And pedagogically it was apparently better than eating, say, just salad or a minuscule serving of the meal, as their mother was concerned about modeling behavior that might encourage diet pathologies (e.g. anorexia).
The coffee is fine though. Maybe try it iced?
I don’t feel like eating after dinner and I don’t feel hungry in the morning.
You’d think there would be something calorie free to make coffee taste good.