Why not try a thing?

Hi Everybody.

I don't like the whole detox thing. It's down with dieting in my books; an unhealthy and unhelpful way of thinking about how things, particularly things in your body, work. Don't only eat maple syrup and hot peppers for a week to clear out your body, just make an effort to not pollute your body most of the time. Don't take a month off drinking so that you can justify binge drinking the rest of the year. And don't not eat what you want to eat. You want to eat it for a reason, your body wants something, you should listen. But listen like a parent. When your body says: I need chips. You say, what's that, body? You're craving carbs and salt? Okay, we can do that. Here, have a pickle in a pita. Or something along those lines.

So, it maybe doesn't make sense that I've decided not to eat sugar this month. This February (shortest) month. So, I though I should warn you all. I'm not doing it as a detox. Or as a diet. I honestly think that, in moderation, like all things, sugar is a _good_ thing. We have a good, uncomplicated relationship. So, why, Emma, why?

Because I like:

a) Science. I like to change one thing and keep everything else the same and see what happens. (That's science, essentially, right? Right.)  I want to see what will happen. Will I be hungry all the time? Will I even notice? I will I swell up huge? Get curly hair? Etc.

b) To make life longer: I mean, I plan on living a long time, yep, but, in this case, I'm talking relativity. Any time you make a fairly big change in your day-to-day life (moving, big hair cut, holiday, new housemate...) your memory demarks that time, apart from the otherwise often blended blur of your days, weeks, years. A friend of mine once shaved his head for this reason. It looked terrible. I asked, why? And he said, to make my life longer. I liked that.

So. See you on the other side.