As long as you count the calories you can drink whatever you like. I don’t drink anything but water on fastdays myself (until my sugar & milk calorie counted cup of tea with my 400 calorie meal) and rarely have anything other than fruit juice on non-fastdays, so I can’t really help with specifics but I believe there are calorie free fizzy drinks like Coke Zero(??) – they’d be fine although your dentist probably wouldn’t approve.

🙂 Kateis48 I too love a G&T, and you know that you can have one on your fast day as long as you count the calories in it as part of your 500 cals for the day.
The only problem with doing that is alcohol is empty calories so on a fast day when you are eating low calories it does seem to be a bit of a waste of calories to consume them in alcohol. The choice is of course totally your own One thing to keep in mind though is that as you are having it on a very low calorie day the alcohol will affect you more strongly than it does when offset by food.
Dang – I’m fasting today and now all I want is a G&T and being such a nice warm day here in Melbourne one would go down a treat. (Grumble, mutter, walking away stamping my feet.)

misswaspee, can you add lemon or lime juice to mineral or soda water – that’s what I do.

You’ll need to look at your orange squash bottle and read it’s Nutritional Information label to see what it is for that brand as there may be some variation. What the label says is for the concentrate. So for example Robinsons Orange Fruit Squash has 56kcal per 100ml of concentrate.

You’d need to incluce any calories in your 500 total if you use it.