Prior to OMAD I would routinely drink a liter of fruit juice a day, sometimes even more. 200 fewer calories per day (I’m being conservative as it was usually the healthier, home-made kind of juice – but then again it was overwhelmingly fructose, thus likelier to end up getting stored as fat than ordinary carbohydrate) constituted half of my estimated TDEE decline of 400 kcal/day, from 2,300 at my SW (97 kg / 214 lb) to 1,900 at my CW (63 kg / 139 lb), in other words responsible for at least half of my weight loss. And the craziest part is that those calories weren’t even particularly useful for mitigating boredom or catering to some other emotional need – they were just the utterly mindless action of a smoker wanting to keep his mouth moist (and sadly brought up to view fruit juice as the embodiment of health; probably on some subconscious level assuming that gulping down juice around the clock would somehow compensate for the harm inflicted by cigarettes, lol). Nowadays all I allow in terms of liquid calories is a glass or two of hard liquor maybe half a dozen times a month, strictly in the context of social occasions.
Speaking of nicotine, I’m currently utilizing IF as “intermittent smoking”, in the hopes of finally quitting after a long decade and a half. It’s a slow process bound to last for months still, but also one surprisingly easy, owing once again to the fact that absence of choice tends to be perceived as more bearable than grayer ambiguity (“you may, but probably shouldn’t”).
Great to hear! Alcohol is a challenge for me and my diet, which is a polite way of saying after a few glasses of wine my food choices default to college level. But I have noticed after a really good long series of fasts that I have a lot more control over everything.