Hi my 1st fast day today and I had coffeethis morning but used half spoon – its the only one I had today though. The sugar counts as food as it contains calories but I suppose it depends how frequently you have them. As I understand it during the fast you are supposed to not have any food during the fast period? Except when you’ve planned to eat. So for me I last ate last night at 8pm, then my, coffee this morning at 8am which is the first 12 hour fast period I did, I then had an apple at 1pm and dinner at 5pm and I,ll have another 14 hours now until my next coffee in the morning. During the 36 hour period I will have had about 550 calories in total. I’ll be using this method for a month and then review it as I may have to cut the lunchtime apple out! I’m not sure if I got it right yet! But…… I can’t have coffee without sugar so decided to allow myself one in the morning 🙂