Hi,
So I understand through doing various 16/8 and omad fasts that after several hours you enter different phases (catabolic, fat burning, ketosis, etc) but I have a question regarding fasting state and breaking your fast.
If you break your fast with a proper meal, I understand it can take several hours for your body to enter fasting state again, I assume these prolonged hours is your body digesting the food and going through the normal process.
However.
If you break your fast in the morning with a milk coffee, how long until you enter fasted state again? surely because you only had a coffee it doesn’t require as many hours as say, a full proper dinner?
hope this makes sense.
thanks.
You lose the race. You must wait 24 hours before restarting your fast because you cheated by adding milk to your coffee.
j/k! (I put sugar free almond milk in my morning coffee. I’m a dirty woman!)
I think the question might be how long before you return to ketosis or whatever magical thing people think is going on several into a fast. If our fasts begin the moment we finish eating dinner, then wouldn’t a new fast begin the moment we finish the morning cup of milky coffee? But how long before it becomes a “real” fast?
Debates like these overlook the beauty and simplicity of time restricted eating. Fasting in between meals (or coffee with milk) is just as beneficial as fasting by skipping meals. It’s an entirely different thing to drink coffee with milk in it all day than it is to just have a cup in the morning after fasting for 10 hours overnight and before another 4-6 hours of fasting.
I admittedly swapped out the higher calorie oat milk I was previously adding to my morning coffee when I started 16:8 “fasting” for the low-cal almond milk, for a couple reasons. First - the oat milk was loaded with sugar and delicious, so I added a LOT more to my coffee than a tablespoon. That was 100+ extra calories daily that I’m no longer drinking. Almond milk tastes like dirty water so I use a lot less of it and I’m rarely tempted to have a second cup of coffee for this reason. It’s also 30 cal and 1 carb for a whole cup and I use perhaps 1/4 cup. When I have access to real cow’s milk I’ll put so much of it in my coffee because it’s delicious that it’s basically a latte. I prefer to avoid this as a habit because of the extra calories, not because i care about purity in fasting. I do this to stay slim, not for those “added benefits” I cannot see or feel.