Per request, I am creating a daily beverage thread. Since your beverages are the basis of your fasting, it's good to keep beverages handy and in good supply. Here are mine:
MORNING: 1 to 2 cups of black Maxwell House coffee (with water added and with Splenda).
MID-MORNING: 1 large 44 oz glass of ice-cold water (ice water requires calories from your body to warm up, and because it's water, flushes you and increases loss). I'm no longer losing, but I still do it by way of habit.
NOON: 1 cup of cranberry juice. Yuck!
Or 1 chocolate milk (Nestle's Quik or Oak Farms)
MID-AFTERNOON: 1 large 44 oz glass of mixed teas (this is my favorite beverage of the day). tea consists of 1 regular black tea (Lipton), 1 Hibiscus tea bag (small), and 1 green tea bag (small) or 1 dandelion tea (small). Sometimes I combine all four. Sweetener of choice is usually Stevia, but sometimes nothing but lots of ice. I sip on this for several hours.
EVENING: A diet soda, but mostly just water as I desire it.
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Mid-Morning - Ice Water
Lunchtime - Iced Tea
Mid-Afternoon - usually I'm still drinking the 48 oz of iced tea from lunch
Dinner: - Coke a few times a weeks or iced water
Evening - Hot decaf tea or water
Nettle tea
Jasmine tea
At meal-time, I drink about 12 oz milk with whey protein and about another 8 oz of milk in a fruit smoothie. I might put a little grape or apple juice in the smoothie.
In the 11 weeks I've done this I have also had a couple glasses of orange juice and chocolate milk on some cheat days. That is it.
Water is all I've needed during the fasting part of the day. It makes my drink planning easy! I joke with my wife in the morning about having my breakfast while drinking a glass of water. I think all the water has been good for me.
black tea
green tea
milk with protein powder (soy/whey)
V8 vegetable juice
water
Hey, nothing wrong with pretending. I choose to believe that I am a reincarnation of the biblical Samson who, according to the Babylonian Talmud, could lift two mountains together as easily as a child could clods of dirt! :-p
Fill 32 oz Nalgene (or similar) bottle with bubbly water (I use a SodaStream, but also love Pellegrino), squeeze juice from half a lemon (dump lemon peel half in bottle if organic), add about 5-7 drops of SweetLeaf steviaclear drops, add 2 teaspoons of organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar <-- it all tastes a bit reminiscent of kombucha
The cheesy "Jillian Michaels detox water" which is 60 oz water + tea from 1 bag of brewed dandelion root tea + 1 Tbsp 100% juice cranberry juice + 2 Tbsp lemon juice.
Your beverages are your thing. It's good that everyone personalize them. There is no right or wrong there.