The Tea Diet

What if there was a diet that did not require you to eat less? What if infact, that diet required you to put more into your body than you are doing now--not less. There is such a such a diet. It could variously be called a Tea Diet, Tea Fast or Tea Purge. It's based on the notion that it is a good idea to flush toxins from your system and that tea is filled with anti-oxidants.

Notice that I did not say that you had to stop eating anything you are eating now. So that means if you are eating enough nutritious food now, this diet won't hurt you since you don't need to eat any less of it.

This diet should only be done on days when you don't have to go to work--like Saturday and Sunday. You will be taking in a lot of fluids so you may be running to the restroom a lot. By the way, before considering this or any diet, see your doctor first and follow his advice. Radical changes in diet should only be attempted by healthy people who have no known food or drink allergies.

The main part of the diet is to drink four cups of tea first thing in the morning on Saturday and Sunday Morning. The first cup should be good old black tea. The kind with anti oxidants and caffeine in it . Save the tea bag. The second cup should be green tea. Save that tea bag too. The third cup should be chamomille. After you have consumed the third cup, add the used black and green tea bags and drink a fourth cup of the weakend tea leaves. After you have run to the bathroom a few times, try one more cup of the by now weak tea. Make sure you don't over do it. Stop when you feel you have had enough. Remember don't eat anything until after you have finished the tea.

We each of us have different physiologies but I think you will find this regimen purges more than the bladder. I don't recommend using the chamoille for more than once a week. At least for me it is a strong tea. I drink black tea and green tea on say Saturday and then I do the three teas on Sunday. I am lazy so I mix the three different tea bags together. Accounting for used tea bags is way too much trouble.

Remember to check with your doctor before trying anything like this and stop any time you feel uncomfortable.

They tell us we don't drink enough fluids for optium health. On two days of the week you will. If your stream is clear and colorless, you've had enough water.

By the way, my appetite seems unphased by this procedure.  After a few trips to the bathroom, I have breakfast as usual.