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Intermittent Fasting & Drinks

EzRemake
EzRemake Posts: 128 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Is fasting broken by having lemon in your water, or apple cider vinegar? Both are 0 calories if used in normal amounts, is that all that matters when considering whether something will break your fast or not?

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  • Cortneyrenee04
    Cortneyrenee04 Posts: 1,117 Member
    I wouldn't consider that breaking your fast. People use tea while they fast, so it seems about the same to me.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    If it has no calories then you are not breaking your fast. Milk, juice etc would be breaking it.
  • chatnel
    chatnel Posts: 688 Member
    I think you are not meant to have more than 50 calories when you are fasting so you should be ok
  • chatnel
    chatnel Posts: 688 Member
    by the way what does apple cider do for you? sometimes I like to wash my hair in it and tried the tablets once but made no difference
  • EzRemake
    EzRemake Posts: 128 Member
    Apple cider vinegar has numerous benefits when ingested. Probably too many to list here.

    My main reason for taking it is to prevent kidney stones.
  • debbaanne
    debbaanne Posts: 3 Member
    http://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/acvinegar.html
  • daynerz
    daynerz Posts: 227 Member
    An ice cold beer does just fine
  • ithrowconfetti
    ithrowconfetti Posts: 451 Member
    I regularly drink lemon water and plain tea while fasting. I've also had ACV diluted in water. So long as your beverages don't contain too many calories (I've read that 50 is the maximum), you shouldn't be breaking your fast.

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