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Worth it to point out that coffee (and anything you ingest really, including water) will activate bits of your metabolism and having it will not be equivalent to a complete fast for certain purposes.

Not that you're wrong having it, just something to realize. Will almost certainly have a negligible or even positive effect on weight loss.



Generally (and certainly most of the recent fasting trends) fasting is referred to as no more than 500 kcal intake, which is of course different to a ‘true’ definition which would be nothing, except maybe water


500 Calories!? That’s so much.

1 large boiled egg is 80 Calories. So like eat 5 or 6 eggs and you haven’t broken your fast??


500 calories is my breakfast most days. that's not a fast!


500 cal doesn't constitute for water only fasts.


Fasting definition keeps changing. There is water only and then there is water only and less than 500 Cal.


I guess that depends. 500 calories is 1/3 of my wife’s maintenance calories.


totally agree!




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