I've been drinking it for almost 2 months now. I use butter and mct oil with it, as well as collagen. Personally I'm in love with it... I shed off the extra belly fat I've always had within a week or two and have been watching a six pack slowly accumulate though I haven't done any exercise other than walking around town and a light routine for the first time today. I've been on the whole diet however, not just the coffee.

But it does feel like the real deal. Very filling and warming, improved focus, reflexes, mood, energy, you name it.. some mornings I get very creative after taking Aniracetam with it.

My new favorite thing to do is add raw eggs and upgraded whey protein to it in the early afternoon for an awesome portable lunch, perfect for after a long morning when the first two cups begin to pass their half-life.

And as to Provigil, that worried me too. I researched it to the best of my ability before determining it is in fact very safe and legal. In my opinion d-amphetamines, ritalin and the lot should be schedule 1 and discouraged with Modafinil prescribed in it's place.
Wouldn't at all be surprised if big pharma bashes Moda for that very possibility. I've tried it now, and can say with no doubt in my mind after trying all sorts of things that this is the cleanest and most effective "pharmaceutical" I've seen. It's simply a very powerful nootropic is all and doesn't deserve the bad rap it's got IMO.

Hope that helps!

BryCoe's experience is much like my own. My GI tract isn't always happy with the MCT oil, but it's not happy with a lot of things (I'm working with the FODMAP elimination diet). I lost 25 pounds the first half of the year, then gained back 5 as muscle. My body fat percentage has dropped from more than 22 (I stopped measuring it quite some time back!) to about 18, and a six pack is peeking through. For me it appears that the most important part of the diet is not eating carbs before 2 PM or after 8 PM or so. No other food tracking seems to be necessary other than calories in and out.

I don't believe that the special coffee is necessary, but have not tried it. Can't afford it anyway, so why bother? NOW MCT oil, ordinary sweet butter, Costco coffee (whatever's on sale), and Kara coconut cream (makes it more palatable and seems to extend the no-hunger zone) seem to do the job. I'd rather spend the money I save on our garden, which is providing more and more of our food, including a wonderful self-fermenting "wine cooler" we make from our Syrah grapes: harvest, freeze in gallon bags, put one bag at a time in the refrigerator for 3 weeks, and you get a great fizzy drink. I think it's helping to tune my biome, too, since it relies on natural yeasts that are also on the fruits and veggies I eat.

As for Modafinil, my doctor was willing to prescribe it (she helps me manage all my psychotropics, although of course she can't supply shrooms or cannabis), but said that in her experience, no one has ever refilled a prescription for it except Hep-C patients who need it for special occasions, like long-distance driving. Provigil is not covered by my insurance unless I've had a recent sleep study verifying OSA, so it's too expensive. I am curious about it, though.

Fasting and only drinking coffee? That would definitely not work for me. I can't drink just coffee without a fair amount of fat in it, I get the jitters pretty fast. It crashes my blood sugar.

I do 24 hours of this once a week and it has helped me lost weight faster, I follow this by doing a 24 hour fat fast and then continue on with LCHF.