Sipping black coffee while doing intermittent fasting

Hi everyone. I have being doing intermittent fasting since 2020/Jan. I started with 16/8 and changed it to 20/4 in 2020/March and never looked back. (Now more than 3 years) I have lost around 51kgs now and able to put my diabetes to remission. I only drink black coffee. (No cream nor sugar) It plain black coffee. (Black as midnight), in Germany I use the word “cafe crema” to buy it. I only drink Cafe crema during my eating window. I was thinking to drink the same during my fasting window. I would love to hear any advices, pros, cons. Thank a lot SW: 134kg, CW: 83kg. No goal weight.

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Congrats on your hard work!

I drink A LOT of black coffee - I love it! When people ask how I take my coffee I usually joke “black as my heart!”

There are other ways of thinking but I don’t see black coffee as breaking my fast and it didn’t impede losing about 100 lbs in 18 months.

But! Mind your teeth! I thought I was fine just sipping all day long since there was no sugar or milk … but my dentist told me I should be drinking the coffee down, not sipping all day because I am just bathing my teeth in acid! I try never to let it get cold and take a drink of water afterwards. (It’s a good thing for ALL teeth but if you are unlucky like me and are prone to cavities no matter how well you brush and floss, save yourself pain and $$$ by drinking it down and following with a glass of water!)

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I only have two cups in the morning of black coffee but after that it’s just water. I only drink it for the caffeine in the AM and then just drink water through the morning till 12pm. I can’t handle caffeine as much as i used to so just the two cups and that’s it, sometimes I don’t even finish it. 24 ounces.