AMA #11: All things fasting

When I fast, I don't drink coffee—at least for the first five days. Sometimes, as a treat, on days 5-7 of those longer fasts, I'll drink a black coffee... Truthfully, I think I do it just to break up the boredom. A black coffee has never tasted so good as it does on day 5 of a water-only fast.

The term 'fast mimicking diet' is to that what the term 'Kleenex' is to the actual tissue that's branded Kleenex. So, there are an infinite number of tissues that you can blow your nose into; there's only one Kleenex. There are an infinite number of ways that one can do a reduced-calorie fast that approximates some of the metabolic benefits of fasting, but there is only one fast mimicking diet.