Its been a while since I last blogged but I haven’t been wasting my time.

Some time ago Barry and I decided that we wanted to make some major life changes – basically, to cut back on work, downsize, explore a bit more of the world and also examine what improvements we could make to our health and lifestyle.

So, we  tidied up some loose ends and set off to San Diego, USA for three months to escape the British winter. Our aim: to relax,think about our plans for the next two years and beyond and to investigate raw food.

So, we’re here, we’ve been in our rental apartment on the beach for a month now and we are certainly chilled, but what of our lifestyle changes?

Perhaps now I should explain that we’ve always espoused a healthy lifestyle, but nobody is perfect, bad habits creep in – working crazy hours, eating on the run, late nights, early mornings, too little fresh air or sun. Do I need to go on? I’m sure you’ve fallen into at least some of these traps.

So, raw food, Well, we said we’d be flexible in our plans and, having researched extensively and finally found an holistic nutritionist, we arrived on her doorstep, jetlagged and exhausted and were told in no uncertain terms that neither of us should even consider a raw diet.

I still love the idea but, as I suspected, our health issues and the fact that we live in a cold climate are against us.

Our nutritionist looks the absolute picture of health so we decided to take her advice for the time being.  Despite being part of a wellbeing cooperative that has a complete service of consultants, testing and therapists, she suggested that we keep our costs down as much as possible and start out by following a “Clean Eating” plan.

So off we went with a couple of bottles of pills (more about this later), a tub of protein shake and a list of instructions to follow.

So, how did we get on?   Be patient and I’ll tell you in a few days.

Lorraine Terry