Well you know, Jet is our Health Chef. When I started at Amayzine, Jet and I didn't know each other yet. May was a bit worried, because not long before my first day, I wrote a glowing piece on I Love Fashion News (where I wrote a weekly column for two years) about how I was so against all those health things, while Jet has been much more conscious about food and drink her whole life. Would that work out? Would we click? As it is now clear, we clicked just fine, and in fact, Jet has managed to get me quite on her green path as well.

Last year we did three months of Destination Killerbody, I started detoxing, suddenly doing things with pans in my kitchen (which had been gathering dust unused in my house for five years) and caught myself realizing that I actually quite enjoyed cooking and exercising. Until last December when our personal trainer stopped. Health issues made it impossible for him to train with us for another two times a week. Jet continued with other trainers, I stopped. Totally. And I started eating ridiculously unhealthy again and my pans were and are again motionless in their cabinets.

“because I felt so good about it last time”

Fine, I am just less disciplined and I mainly exercise for the fat, not for the fun. But lately, it has been itching at me again. So I signed up for BBB, a kind of exercise for idiots but still quite effective (I hope) and this week I am going to do the Innerwave detox with Jet. It actually lasts 17 days, but I am doing a shortened version and starting tomorrow with juices. Five days of only juice, in combination with powders, pills, and supplements that are supposed to keep me going.

Of course, I tell everyone that I do it “because I felt so good about it last time” (which is really true), but the truth is that I mainly do it for my figure. And yes, I know that any lost kilos will be back within three minutes, but it’s mainly about a kind of reset for my mind. That I am forced to be aware of what I put in my mouth and not mindlessly shove a spoonful of peanut butter in or polish off a stack of cookies..

Aside from eating, the biggest challenge will be not drinking, because alcohol and detoxing obviously don’t go together. Now with the sunny terraces it's quite a thing, but I will do my best. Tomorrow Jet and I will start the day with our new juicer and blender and whatever else from Philips, Saturday the last juice day, Sunday a little build-up day and then from next week Monday a slightly healthier and more conscious life again. Wish me luck.