Determined to detox...tomorrow??!!

And indeed the explosion has happened. After a month of solid study for exams relying on highly caffeinated products to keep me awake during the day and "sleep aids" to put me to sleep for an average of 4 hours a night, I feel, well frankly, tired!!

The ironic thing is that I promised myself that I would not touch coffee until I really needed it ( I was thinking that this would be my first year actually working) but these exams just forced me to cave.

When I fell into a trance-like coma last evening after a very non challenging day at the beach, I realised I need to fix myself. So a detox it has to be!

The ironic thing about "detoxing" is that it doesnt really exist according to the facinating book , Bad Science, which I got last Christmas. It is just an entire myth made up by the beauty industry to make a quick buck. Think about it, what exactly do they mean by "toxins"?! Bad science did analysis of the urine of subjects on a detox and failed to find any difference between them and the control group. So in short a diet of water and cabbage for a week does nothing for me except perhaps make me faint!

Perhaps I should have realised that before purchasing this??!! I really am a marketing managers dream! Oh well, either way it is a yummy herbal tea, with aniseed, fennel and licorice. It tastes good whether or not it happens to get rid of those mythical toxins.

So what I really need to do is clean up my diet to give me more energy and vitality!! I rarely eat processed foods anyway and so far I have eliminated caffeine. Now all that needs to go is the mountains of chocolate I became accustomed to consuming on a daily basis along with the litres of diet coke. So I will give these up.....tomorrow??!!