40 Day Detox

My weight stayed a constant 67.7kg. My body fat dropped 0.1% to 17.1%. My body water and body muscle stayed constant at 56.9% and 43.1% respectively. Both days where I consumed lentil and rice soup during the day my weight, body water and body muscle stayed consistent while body fat only dropped by 0.1%. Whereas when I spent the day consuming mostly vegetable soup my weight and body fat dropped considerably while body muscle and body water also went up significantly. Hmm… interesting. I shall consume mostly vegetable soup again after I’ve finished the lentil soup and see what happens. 

Gluten free pasta with vegatables in tomato sauce

Organic gluten free pasta made from rice, spinach and tomato

In the evening I made wheat and gluten free organic pasta made from rice, spinach and tomato. I had the pasta with a tomato and vegetable sauce like concoction I invented as I went along. It had onion, garlic (a special Italian, one bulb, one clove garlic – tastes incredible!), cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, sweet corn, green peas, carrot, green chillies and the world’s hottest chilli called the Naga Jolokia pepper. 

In 2007 the Guinness Book of Records certified the Naga Jolokia as the world’s hottest chilli. It’s 400 times hotter than Tabasco Sauce. I have to confess I did not know this at the time of consumption. I’m still not sure if I entirely believe it! I knew it was hot, but didn’t know it was that hot.

It smells like it means business. It’s got a very aggressive smell - I don’t know how to explain it. It smells like a bully that’s going to knock the crap out of you. It’s like the difference between the impression a wannabe gangster gives and the first impression a genuine murdering evil bad man gives. Some people just look like pure unadulterated evil. They have this dark presence about them and you dare not look them in the eyes. Sometimes you might walk around staring out wannabe bad boys feeling very comfortable that they will be intimidated because their badness is fake. But then there are some people who just have this look of, well they’ve probably killed people before and wouldn’t hesitate to do so again, and you wouldn’t dare look at them. Well that’s what this Naga Jolokia chilli smells like. It smells like it’s the real deal. Its smells like its going to do real damage if you dare to play with its flames.

Would you have a staring match with these guys? I wouldn't.

I took a bite. It tasted serious. Certainly not a pleasant taste. It’s so strong it tastes horrible. It tasted like it should’ve really been hurting me at that moment. It didn’t seem as bad as I thought. It tasted like it was supposed to be hotter and hence more painful. It smelled and tasted hotter than it actually felt. Perhaps it was so hot that it went beyond what my mouth could sense? Maybe it burnt my taste buds out of action so that my mouth became numb to how hot it really was? While thinking: “Ah it’s not so bad” I noticed that I started to sweat profusely. Maybe it was hotter than I could detect after all? I ate it all with the rest of my meal and took a photo of myself afterwards. Straight after my meal I reached for the rice milk and ended up eating grapes and blueberries to try and soothe my scorched mouth. 

My face sweating after eating a Naga Jolokia chilli pepper

There are many entertaining videos of people eating this chilli raw online. I ate mine bit by bit with a meal and after it was half cooked. I might well do my own video later in the week of eating one raw, just for the crack! I may as well as I have another 25 or so to consume as I bought a £1’s worth. For the rest of the evening I kept belching the horrible aftertaste of this criminally insane pepper. 

My evening food consumption didn’t end there. I had soaked some buckwheat earlier with the intention of finishing the moong daal chilka we had left before I decided I was in the mood for pasta. I didn’t want to waste the buckwheat so I ate that with the daal after I ate the pasta. Then my wife came up with this idea to make apple and carrot soup. She made it and there was no way I was going to give that a miss so I consumed a bowls worth. Will I have to pay for this over consumption, by not burning any fat as a result, or perhaps worse, an increase in fat content? We shall see…