In the daily fast, meals are consumed during a certain eating window, and the rest of the day is not eaten. Fasting is a favorite method for many to lose weight or maintain weight loss.
There are different versions of fasting, all united by the same idea. Eating consists of fasting periods, with no or very little food, and periods of normal eating. > British nutrition expert Jeannette Hyde introduces a simple method in her new book The 10 Hour Diet - Feeling Light and Boosting Vitality: At the name of the book, meals a day are eaten in 10 hours and the rest of the day for 14 hours is not eaten.
Another version of the same principle is the 16: 8 fast, where meals are enjoyed during the 8-hour eating window.
Can you eat or drink anything without breaking the fast?
Everything you eat or drink during the hours of fasting (except water, herbal tea, black tea, or coffee) interrupts fasting.
Hyde reminds you that if you drink or eat something during fasting hours, you can't expect to get all the benefits of fasting. If you drink a sip of wine or grab a handful of popcorn in your mouth at nine in the evening, your fasting hasn’t started yet, he says. Also note that a drop of milk in coffee ends the fast.
According to a nutritionist, a very common mistake during fasting for his clients is to add a small sip of coffee or tea to a herbal milk drink, such as unsweetened almond milk, which has fewer calories than skim milk.
If you drink a cup of tea from seven in the morning and you add a drop of milk to it, the milk ends your fasting, Hyde says.
He also doesn’t recommend adding stevia to coffee or tea. Although herbal stevia is a calorie-free sweetener, its effects are not well known enough to be recommended during fasting, he argues. It's worth noting that some people's caffeinated black coffee or tea can boost the production of the stress hormone cortisol - which can make you lose weight, especially in a stressful life.
- So you should listen to your own situation and decide if black tea or coffee is right for you. option, or could you get better results if you switched to decaffeinated herbal tea.