Would it be breaking the fast to have a black coffee first thing in the morning? I like the idea of fasting from early evening to the following mid morning. I would find it difficult to go without coffee though… just wondering what others do. Also, how would it affect the fast? thanks 🙂

Crikey I hope not, I have more than one during my fast days 🙂

Paul Jaminet in The Perfect Health Diet allows coffee with MCT Oil in the fasting period.

There’s absolutely no reason to avoid coffee- ideally black coffee- all the evidence is that drinking black coffee has significant health benefits probably related (at least in part) to the healthy changes to the microbiota from drinking coffee