I'm home from two glorious weeks in Kalkan in Turkey and I will be writing a post about it soon.  But first I wanted to fit this post in about Magnesium and the benefits of taking a supplement especially as we get a bit older.  

I have been taking a Magnesium supplement on and off for a few years as well as adding magnesium salts to my evening bath from time to time.  However, I am not always good at maintaining the habit and will often run out and then not take them for a while.  When I was researching and learning as much as I could about how to be healthy and the best exercise to do, Magnesium was one of the supplements recommended again and again as essential and worth taking.

A few months ago I was contacted by Future You Health, a supplement company based in Cambridge and I agreed to try out some of their supplements.

Above: Swimsuit is the Calasetta from Boden

I am about to depart for my annual sunshine holiday, we are heading back to Kalkan in Turkey for two weeks, so I have a week ahead of planning my holiday clothes and finalising my outfits.  Kalkan is quite a dressy resort, it is a small harbour town on the Mediterranean coast and has fabulous shops and restaurants all with amazing views.  My days are mostly spent in a bikini with a beach cover-up over and my evenings are maxi or midi sundresses with either flat sandals or wedge heels.

But therein lies the challenge - natural fabrics like cotton and linen are increasingly hard to come by and I find it so frustrating.  I don't want polyester and some viscose is prone to creasing,  I don't wear linen for that reason, I don't want to have to iron on holiday so I want lightweight cotton or jersey that I can pull out of my suitcase and put on.

Back in January I wrote about taking a break from any formal exercise, I'd had a very busy time and been struggling to get my hormones balanced with perimenopause so I was feeling rather overwhelmed and decided I needed to be a bit kinder to myself.  It was just what I needed.  It gave me time to catch up with other projects, time to allow the new HRT regime to start working and time to just relax a bit.

About eight weeks ago the time felt right to get back to some sort of structure with exercise and eating.  We'd had a fun but full on alcohol and eating weekend away in Krakow.  I looked in the diary and knew I had early holidays coming up - South of France and Turkey in June.  I felt back to my normal self, I had more energy and more enthusiasm (see my HRT post here).