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Your Daily Beverages

arguablysamson

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.

Post your own.

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OMADZombie

Today is only my second day, but I have drank only water so far during the fasting period. I used to love those Kool-aid water enhancers (kind of like Mio), would that be ok once in a while to switch up from the water? I am not a coffee drinker and hate tea so these would be my only other option. I do lemon water sometimes too.

LinDiSm26262

I'm printing out your drink list to copy. Thank you!

LinDiSm26262

Morning: Vitamin drink a cup of decaf hot tea.
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

arguablysamson

Adding to the list...

Nettle tea
Jasmine tea

blambo61

From wakeup to about noon I drink about 60 to 80 oz of water and nothing else.

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.

vrojapu

black coffee
black tea
green tea
milk with protein powder (soy/whey)
V8 vegetable juice
water

mittenswillet

From today I'm having one nestle quick chocolate milk after dinner. 2tsp. It's filling, very enjoyable, I pretend it's an after dinner cocktail with my ciggy and pretend I'm a glamorous 1940's film star.

arguablysamson

kittygonzalez3511 wrote: »

From today I'm having one nestle quick chocolate milk after dinner. 2tsp. It's filling, very enjoyable, I pretend it's an after dinner cocktail with my ciggy and pretend I'm a glamorous 1940's film star.

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

mittenswillet

Good role model...I hear he was a pretty cool guy.

ruby_emrald

Ok so how would 50cals in mashed up strawberries in 2ltrs of water be... too much for a day? Really dont want tp do soft drinks or cordial...anyone??? Would 50cals in 2lts of water be bad????

arguablysamson

If you mean for the no-cal beverages, I'd stay no-cal. You don't want your pancreas active in fasting. Will it likely matter? No. You'd actually probably be getting less calories than 50. I can't see it being a big deal. You might try it.

misscarla89

I have coffee with two low calorie whitener tsp and then one tsp sugar which makes my coffee 41kcal a cup. I have one coffee in morning followed by lots of water and very very weak Squash throughout the day. Is it OK to continue with this? The squash I can live without but the coffee I dunno... Lol

mittenswillet

nothing but cola with zero sugar and calories. Sometimes a cup of tea with milk, no sugar with desert

d_boo

I have two go-to beverages, aside from my coffee with heavy cream or blended canned coconut milk/cream in the morning:

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.

mbarnson

A tall glass of water around 06:00 to start the day.
16 oz coffee with a packet of Splenda and a teaspoon of creamer around 08:00. Sometimes a second one, but less often than not.
Fill up a 64 oz mug with ice water to sip throughout the day
Sometimes a Coke Zero, Diet Dew, or Sparkling Water around noon if I start to feel hungry.
Visit the bathroom at least 4-5 times in the afternoon because I had way too much to drink in the morning
A tall glass of around 16 oz water to go with my one meal at dinner.
I'm usually done drinking after dinner. Just no further desire for more liquid and I don't want to be up in the night.

arguablysamson

Nice.

Your beverages are your thing. It's good that everyone personalize them. There is no right or wrong there.

mbarnson

That's really proven to be the key for me with OMAD working on my behalf: there's no "falling off" the plan. At any moment, I can resume my plan by just stopping eating until my next window. And my choice of beverages -- as long as it's not a bunch of highly-caloric stuff -- is pretty wide open. I'm thinking of dialing back the caffeine a bit to ensure my prehypertension doesn't become full-blown hypertension... but in truth, the fasting itself brings both sides down about 10 points for me.

vinyladdict

I've been drinking three cups of fresh ground Eight O'Clock coffee in the mornings. My daily intake of water is at least one gallon, sometimes with fresh squeezed lemon. Having diet soda a few times week is also nice.

willowbas

I'm surmising it's all right to have fruit-infused water? I drink lots of LaCroix bc I love the carbonation burn!!!

arguablysamson

Sure.

willowbas

I'm having beef broth (5cals/cup), LaCroix waters, tea, coffee, water.

etherial1

I have 3 cups of coffee (black) and water for the whole day. I'm confused when people add fruit, milk, sugar, coconut oil to their beverages. Doesn't adding calories stop the fast? I read this on Maria, Mind Body and Health: Keto-Adopted's website. She says the bullet-proof coffee ends your fast because of the coconut oil.

Can I drink my unsweetened almond milk? I have chocolate and vanilla. I sweeten them with Swerve, no-calorie sweetener.

Thanks, everyone.

PS-Can I have a glass of red wine with my dinner everyday or will that stall me?

etherial1

I have my answer about the wine. Yes! Also, I drink herbal fruit teas, sweetened with EZ Sweetz or Swerve.

thebobogrind

Would added zero-calorie flavour enhancers like Dasani drops or MIO be ok? I can drink tons of water that way....any pointers?

arguablysamson

thebobo6740 wrote: »

Would added zero-calorie flavour enhancers like Dasani drops or MIO be ok? I can drink tons of water that way....any pointers?

Feel totally free to do so.

caradack1985

I keep water handy throughout the day and at night so I won't bother posting about that!

Black coffee when I get to work (around 8.45) and another mid morning.

Coke zero or another low calorie drink like flavoured ice tea or cactus water at lunch.

Black coffee mid afternoon.

Sometimes I drink a green smoothie with my main meal if I don't feel there's enough veg in the meal, other times I just drink water.

Maybe one more black coffee in the evening.

At a weekend I may have an iced black coffee which requires a bit of sugar or low calorie syrup to make it taste ok.

Once I've been OMAD ing a while I'm going to try and swap some of my coffees for herbal teas, purely because I find coffee very dehydrating. I know it's not but it leaves a taste in my mouth that isn't pleasant. I have some really nice herbal teas but I still need the caffeine boost to make it 23 hours without eating!

caradack1985

Incidentally, if you want you're frozen blended drinks, then asking for an iced black Americano with a shot of no sugar syrup is the way to go. I know Costa are more than happy to do it and I'd assume most other coffee places will as well. All the fun of a summer morning coffee with friends without the massive calorie intake.

susieqpatti126

arguablysamson wrote: »

thebobo6740 wrote: »

Would added zero-calorie flavour enhancers like Dasani drops or MIO be ok? I can drink tons of water that way....any pointers?

Feel totally free to do so.

You're right, I do find that I'll drink twice as much with a couple of squirts of the flavour enhancers (I think they are a bit addictive!). Walmart brand has a couple of flavours (and they are about $1 less a bottle). Nestea has a great iced tea one that I'm especially enjoying this summer.

OMADing1

I fill up all day with water (now cold and ice water....thank Joe) all throughout the day. When I first started, I drank a LOT of green teas, slimming teas, oolong teas and various zero calories herbal and medicinal teas. Now that it's been 2 months, I've slowed down my drinking a lot of teas and only have about 2-3 cups per day now and my main source of beverages is good ole H2O.

Everynight, After my mealtime (between 6pm-10pm), I'll have two caloried drinks:
Water mixed with Braggs ACV (w/Mother in it)--about 2 heavy tbsps or so, a heavy dash of cayenne pepper and some fresh squeezed lemon-about 2 heavy tbsps or so( --that's about 7 calories and before go to bed, I'll have water mixed with Ceylon cinnamon (about 1/2 teaspoon) 1/2 teaspoon or so of Manuka Honey and 1 teaspoon of Black Seed Oil--that's about 46 cals or so.

On my "splurge" day, I may have a Thai Ice Tea sometime---when I'm having Asian food.

jjrogalski73

I buy Polar, San Pelligrino, Perrier sparkling water and drink that all day long. Sometimes I use Mios to flavor them. I pour them in a huge mug with ice. I drink black coffee. My favorite tea is this one called TAZO the green tea called ZEN. It has an excellent flavor. Its really good iced. I use Truvia to sweeten everything. Sometimes the supermarket has Pure Leaf Tea on sale and Ill buy them and drink the unsweetened version. I find sweetening unsweet tea with Mio flavors of some kind is good. Also these drinks called True Lemon that make many flavors are good with water as well.