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I've been trying to do this for years but I like my coffee with cream and sugar. I've tried various sugar/cream alternatives over the years but nothing really stuck. With coffee+lite cream + sugar I fast about 15 hrs a day. Am I getting any benefits at all?

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I am the same way, except I just cream. Every time I have come across a discussion on this topic of having cream in your coffee while trying IF, the anecdata consensus is that any calories at all break your fast, so you are no longer fasting if you consume a small amount of cream/sugar.

Having said that, I still do 18/6 IF with cream in my coffee and in my personal experience I still feel great and have had many positive benefits from continuing IF.

Ignore the bro science. Keep your cream, though you should probably drop the sugar.

I limit my coffee creamers to about 25-100 calories depending on number of cups pre-meal. I’m in better shape than most hardcore IF practitioners.

CICO.

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