I’m cracking myself up here.
So I got this chocolate mint tea. And some Imperial Earl Grey tea. And I already have some cinnamon tea. I got them all from the same maker I’m fond of – Harney & Sons – and my rule is I get them in a pretty tin and in ‘sachet’ form, which is loose tea, but put into little mesh bags so you can use it like a tea bag.
I can’t drink it sweetened of course since I’m fasting. I’m not a big tea fan anyway I admit but I’m four hours into day 8 here so my standards for flavor are low. Even though I’m not hungry (nor have I been) at all, sometimes still my brain thinks it feels like eating.
I haven’t drank any of it. Rather, I open the tin, and SNIFF it.
The chocolate mint is pretty damn good.
The cinnamon is absolutely divine.
I think tea-sniffing is the ultimate zero-carb diet.
Reminds me I used to joke that I should invent the “Cinnamon Toothpick Diet” and write a book about it – this joke was a riff on people with utterly insane starvation diets – where you don’t eat, you just chew on cinnamon toothpicks. Now I have the “Tea Sniffing Diet” to add to the list.
Meanwhile, I was reading about people putting some cayenne in the drink mix they use while fasting. I have a mix that is sea salt, phosphorus, a thing that is three kinds of potassium, a couple tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. (I ordered a sodium supp so I can get it out of my water. It gives me some runs, even though I only take a few gulps of this every few hours through the day.)
I figured actual cayenne – I have tons of hot pepper spices – would have carbs, though. So I got some cayenne ‘extract.’ I figured a little flavored alcohol would probably have less carbs.
I put a dropper of it into the last ~half of my daily water-bottle – it’s about 20 oz, so half is about 10oz. HOLY CATS! Well that is certainly enough to wake up the mouth!
Geez that water concoction just keeps getting better…