![]() ![]() But since fat has calories, it should break your fast right?Īny version of bulletproof coffee will break your fast. Coffee with added butter and MCT oil is used to give you focus and energy in the morning. It’s a compromise I found working the best for me.If you’re regularly reading articles and learning about fasting and keto, you must have heard about bulletproof coffee. In the end rmeaining 4 hours between a moment when I break my “water only” fast and my eating period, I drink coffee and tea, So what I do is simply fast 16 hours COMPLETELY, while only 4 from food. But I don’t care if my “coffee/tea fast” is so long. For me not, because after the meal you are digesting, so you aren’t really fasted. In my case it’s very simple - I am very small eating windows. So decision whether to drink coffee while fasting or not is actually individual - you decide whether you want a 100% water fast or you want some benefits of coffee, while technically breaking the fast. Does coffee help with energy expenditure, fatburning, hunger control? Also yes. So what? Is your body still acting as if 100% fasted state? Yes. On the other hand sure, coffee or tea has to be ingested, but you still get all the beneifts of the fast, while said drinks can actually help with them. In this case do benefits of breaking the fast outclass disadvantages? That’s why I don’t accept ingesting BCAAs or fats or low calorie products during fast - in my opinion they hinder the fasting instead helping. Now the question is - does “breaking the fast” with coffee technically actually breaks the fast? I consider “fasting” the state at which you get benefits of not eating. Not because you want to have pure, uninterrupted fast, but because fasting gives you benefits. However in my opinion in this case “breaking the fast” is just semantics. So am I overthinking too much? Or am I possibly right that even dissolved coffee should still count as eating? No, I understand some people fast this way, but I don’t want to eat anything during my fast. In other words I don’t accept claims that “it is good, as long as it doesn’t have many calories” or “you can eat fats” or “you can drink lemon water”. Please note I am a strict IF practitioner. I mean, if I am not allowed to eat anything, how can I drink coffee only because it is dissolved in water? Following this logic I should be ok drinking protein shakes without a milk (yes, I am exaggerating on purpose). So in the end it’d be the same if I literally ate a tablespoon of coffee. But with instant coffee you put something in your water and it dissolves. Black coffee is basically an infusion of coffee beans. ![]() I mean the difference between a black coffee and an instant is that instant actually means adding something to the water. Now the question is - does instant coffee possibly break the fast? ![]() It helps with hunger, it boosts fat burning, it increases your energy expenditure etc.īut I have always drunk instant coffee, as it’s sadly my preferred choice (sadly, because I know coffee purists would tell I am drinking piss). We all know coffee is good during fasting, period. I myself am a long time IF follower, but recently something struck me, what I myself have never thought abbout. To all experienced Intermittent Fasting practitioners. ![]()
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