Hi Big Bobby,

Yes and no. Tea and coffee without milk should be zero calorie, but the apples aren’t going to give you any protein, which is recommended for fasting days.

I too hate counting calories so 9.5 years ago I worked out 2 separate meal plans for the fasting days and I’ve just stuck to them ever since, as I’m not that fussed about having much variety. In winter I start off with a small helping of porridge with blueberries, in summer its granola, yoghurt and blueberries. Lunch is just some fruit in a small helping – maybe strawberries when in season, but otherwise 2 kiwi fruit or a couple of medium size apples. For dinner, one day I have 2 poached eggs on a slice of unbuttered toast; the other day I have 2 slices of bacon, and a small helping of baked beans on unbuttered toast. (And sometimes when we’ve had a really hot summer like this year I stick to salad in the evening – and in fact that’s the same meal as on non-fasting days. With a bit of quiche and pork pie or sausage roll its quite possibly a bit more than I should have, but it still seems to work ok.)

The above has proven to take minimal effort and and has also been very sustainable over almost a decade.

Hope this helps.

(FYI – calorie amounts assigned to different foods are averages only and, in the UK, labelled calories are legally allowed to be up to 20% out from what the food actually contains – so getting too hung up on exact calorie counting is probably a waste of time anyway. As long as you are eating a lot less on your fast days the approach should still work.)

Best of luck with it.