Herbal Tees

[Al]

I had been really sluggish for the last month. A week ago I really started lowering my carbs and at the same time started drinking about 6 cups of various herbal teas per day..green, white, various blends. Mostly add just a tad of honey..yes honey has carbs. Anyway I can not believe the energy I have. Don't know if its the tea or the carbs. I will just steady as she goes.

 

[gman2304]

Tiger Woods used herbal tees at the masters today......didn’t help him.

 

[simple_gifts]

Perhaps a bit pedantic, but 'herbal teas' don't contain tea. Tea does. lol.

Regardless I may take the same course of action...

 

[demarpaint]

My bet, it's the honey/carbs.

 

[Rolla07]

Try cold brew green tea. 1 teabag in 1 quart of cold water, leave in fridge for 1hr and stir. Pour in a glass as is or over ice. If you are drinking alot of teas, id leave out the honey. Your energy is likely from reduction of carbs and from the honey and caffeine in the teas. Green and white tea both contain caffeine.

 

[Wolf359]

Originally Posted By: gman2304
Tiger Woods used herbal tees at the masters today......didn’t help him.

Was he wearing an Herbal Tee shirt or was he using Herbal Tees for his golf balls?

 

[Dyusik]

Herbal tea

Herbal tee

Cutting out caffeine will level you. The feeling you get 5 hours after your first cup of coffee will be with you the first 10 minutes after you wake up. Feels good, and the best part feels good always.
Cutting carbs (refined garbage) will give you a similar effect. I tried to prove to myself that I will feel like a pile of excrement in a short order if I did not eat protein and fat. So my breakfast consisted of veggies fried with vegan meatballs (tasted like balls of bread, wife buys weird stuff and never uses it). Anyway, my experiment backfired. My only guess is that with all the fiber in there, my body had to work to get the calories out, not spiking the blood sugar (besides all the nutrients that I actually need). I ended up going 8 hours before realizing I needed food, in this time I used my brain (testing), did about 100 miles on my R1, and did a bunch of work in the yard and the garage.
So it's where the carbs come from is the focus, carbs in general are good.
A tip for the sweet toothed diabetics (stereotype, but true for many), agave is a good substitute. It is sweeter than sugar or honey per calorie, but it is also 6+ times lower glycemic index, it won't spike you out like table sugar, so the crash is less likely.

 

[SZR48207]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Perhaps a bit pedantic, but 'herbal teas' don't contain tea. Tea does. lol.

Regardless I may take the same course of action...


Correct. Herbal teas are made of flowers and stuff, but typically don't have the Camellia Sinensis leaf that makes actual tea (orange pekoe, black, green, etc).

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Perhaps a bit pedantic, but 'herbal teas' don't contain tea. Tea does. lol.

I believe word usage in French actually differentiates that, without the "herbal" qualifier. In any case, I like some herbal teas, but generally prefer loose leaf black teas. I do agree with the assertion that we rely a little too much on caffeine, to our detriment. But, something has to be fun in life.

 

[das_peikko]

I'm using one teaspoon of palm sugar in my tea before adding the honey. Using the honey by itself gives the tea a strong honey taste. Using palm sugar by itself gives the tea a bland taste. Using them together makes it just right.

 

[Sierra048]

I gave up coffe years ago. Now just two hot green teas in the morning and one decaf hot green tea after dinner.

I was just diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic three weeks ago. So carbs are a major factor for me going forward. Never really paid much attention to them before now. I think Ms. Sierra048 kept a decent handle on them through her meal planning. My doctor set me up with a dietician to help me learn how best to cope with this going forward. One good thing coming out of this so far is I've already shed 10 lbs. Can't believe how much better I feel just by losing the 10 lbs. Only downide is I have to give up, or signficantly curtail, some foods I really enjoy. But I can live with that since "living" is the ultimate goal in all of this.

 

[Boomer]

About twenty five years ago, I bought some herbal tea bags at the grocery that were "caffeine free". First one I brewed almost put me in the hospital! My heart started to race, I began to sweat profusely and finally got so dizzy I almost passed. Finally wore off and I went to the doctor. He told me I was not the first person in his practice to experience this and told me never to drink these teas as you really do not know what is in them. So, plain old tea for me and coffee. Just a thought.

 

[pandus13]

Let me be the one off:

-you hydrate more
-you relax while drinking your "tea"/potion/brew
-Queen Bee sends her kind regards

P.S. may i suggest some mint brew to cool-off and also visit a polish/eastern european grocery for their fruit based "teas"

P.S.2 : Don't drink "Tchai" with a russian... he will out-drink you at any hour of night or day...

 

[Al]

Originally Posted By: Boomer
About twenty five years ago, I bought some herbal tea bags at the grocery that were "caffeine free". First one I brewed almost put me in the hospital! My heart started to race, I began to sweat profusely and finally got so dizzy I almost passed. Finally wore off and I went to the doctor. He told me I was not the first person in his practice to experience this and told me never to drink these teas as you really do not know what is in them. So, plain old tea for me and coffee. Just a thought.

I think If you stick jto known good brands you will be fine.

 

[mightymousetech]

Originally Posted By: Al
I had been really sluggish for the last month. A week ago I really started lowering my carbs and at the same time started drinking about 6 cups of various herbal teas per day..green, white, various blends. Mostly add just a tad of honey..yes honey has carbs. Anyway I can not believe the energy I have. Don't know if its the tea or the carbs. I will just steady as she goes.


It's the caffeine.

 

[BearZDefect]

Originally Posted By: Dyusik
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A tip for the sweet toothed diabetics (stereotype, but true for many), agave is a good substitute. It is sweeter than sugar or honey per calorie, but it is also 6+ times lower glycemic index, it won't spike you out like table sugar, so the crash is less likely.


Table sugar is sucrose, which is half glucose and half fructose. The glucose half will provoke insulin release.

Starch digests to 100% glucose, so eating a significant amount of starch provokes a greater insulin release than a similar amount of sugar. I think this is why quick-digesting starch causes blood sugar crashes -- too much insulin causing too much glucose removal from the blood.

Agave syrup is mostly fructose, so it barely provokes insulin. But that does not make it healthy. If it did then HFCS would also be a healthy sweetener.

Fructose cannot be used by muscle to replenish glycogen stores, it can only be processed by the liver to store as liver glycogen. So frequently eating a lot of fructose can easily overload the liver's glycogen storage capacity, causing the liver to convert it to fat that can be safely stored.

 

[andyd]

does nuking a glass of lemonade turn it into a tea?

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: andyd
does nuking a glass of lemonade turn it into a tea?

technically it has to be in a carafe....