Fortified Coffee and Tea in no-sugar, keto diet

I have a hard time drinking black coffee, I have tried Starbucks, Caribou, and other, smaller outlets and they all taste somewhere on the spectrum between acidic to burnt.

To maintain a no-sugar, limited calorie diet (I lost 8 pounds since my Chrismas weight) I drink fortified coffee or tea.

When out, in Starbucks I simply ask for "black coffee with heavy whipping cream".

To my surprise, a tablespoon of Organic Valley Heavy Whipping Cream has about 6g of fat and almost no sugar, or proteins. Tasty and perfect coffee, or tea addition.

Of course, the commercial outlets may not have organic grass-fed cream so your mileage will vary. last time I asked Starbucks had "Prairie Farms" brand, which is not organic as far as I know.

At home, I have an option of blending the cream, coconut oil (or pure MCT) and grass-fed butter for optimal whole day goodness. When I want to feel like a young God, I add a teaspoon of Maca powder which gives it a specific, however, not disagreeable taste.

The fortified coffee makes easier to skip meals. This is not true fasting, but better than no fasting at all.

The benefits of intermitted fasting, no-sugar diet are already well known and studied:

- prevents (and kills) cancer
- prevents hypertension (ADD kids) and food comma periods
- prevents degeneration of brain that is a primary concern in the aging population
- is one of the few ways to promote production Human Growth Hormone and creation on new brain cells for adults
- balanced fat calorie input diet prevents diabetes 2 and white fat deposits
- coffee, black tea and especially Japanese powdered green tea is full of healthy anti-oxidants

The above take care of the MOST of the reasons why adult people die, so if you do not smoke and look both ways when you cross the street (that should include no texting and driving) you increase your chances of healthy life by at least 30% percent.

No sugar diet is very pleasant as you do not feel hungry all the time and you feel your energy levels to be very constant. The switch to no sugar diet can be quite painful for the first few days, sugar is an addictive substance very similar to heroin. Limiting the refined sugars is a good first step, after a while, you can start cutting other sugar sources (in order):

- refined sugars including high fructose corn syrup
- rice
- grains (pasta)
- potatoes
- corn
- grains (bread)
- natural maple syrup (has many health benefits)
- honey (has many health benefits)

I have grown on bread, so cutting it was very hard for me, but it is worth it.

Feast Days

Some people call it "cheat days", but I do not like this terminology. Every week, usually on weekend I feast which means eating what I crave. In my case that would be a fresh Polish donut with raspberry filling. This is very natural to feast after fasting, people are adapted to that and it was a natural process over the last couple of million years of evolution.

People fasted when hunted, or migrated, then fasted. Note, the modern humans who managed to wipe out mammoths, and our meat loving cousins Neanderthals started to split at least 250,000 years ago. You are not supposed to marry your cousins, but we know our ancestors did, hence they were not truly different species. We have been the fat-eating, ketone-buring hunters for a long time!

Finally, it is very important to note that our ancestors would constantly snack on leafy vegetables, nuts, and roots as they were able to find them while on the prolonged hunt, or move to a new area. You should not skimp on vegetables in your diet.