Lemon Hell

Today is day eight of the fast. I'm starting to take to the side effects not so kindly. My tongue is a mucusy white sponge, and it seems to have lost the ability to taste sweet. It's almost become a spectrometer for taste, blocking out all tastes but cringe-inducing acids. This has me very concerned, as I am a chocoholic of the first degree. Now when I drink the lemonade, all I taste is the acid: no sweet, and no hot. I can feel a vague burning sensation in my mouth from all the cayenne pepper I dumped in there this morning, but I've basically been sucking down lemon juice all day. And every one of the last eight days. For future reference, I will NOT take my Hefeweizen with a slice of lemon, thank you much!