No judgement needed but, how “much” would it change your fasting if you have a Starbucks cold brew with cold foam every morning —— otherwise doing OMAD (window open at dinner time). Yes I know the coffee will break the fast, however can someone explain it more in depth to make me change my current coffee habit.
When you say with foam, what do you mean? Are we talking Starbucks foam, or just a froth on top of the coffee? A milk froth? Any sugar? The iced coffee by itself is fine on a fast if it helps you with the fast, but sugar/cream additives can affect different aspects of fasting (autophagy being a prime one).
Also, what are you fasting for/aiming for as a benefit?
I’d be happy to go more into specifics, I just need a bit more info first.
I don’t think this would count as fasting, since you’re going such a short period of time without food. You’d basically be just skipping lunch, since that foam alone is 100 calories in the smallest size, I believe, which would definitely give you a good insulin spike.
Your diet could easily work if you make sure to keep your dinner calories low, though. Personally, sugar (like in foam) gives me bad cravings, but if you can do it, then give it a try.
I learned recently that Starbucks adds sugar to all their dairy. Like, if you get milk, they’ve made the milk sweeter. Absurd.
I would stick with black coffee, no foam, or support a non-union busting local coffee shop where you could add 1T of undoctored half and half, if you’re just fasting for weight loss, according to Dr. Jason Fung. (If you’re fasting for autophagy, no cream.)