WWW's put a spring in your step 10 years younger plan - week 1

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Or week 3 if you were already doing it on the other long thread. Sorry guys, I'm on dial up for a brief while and so I've started a new thread, I hope that's OK. The rules, again:

This is not a diet. Being happy is important so the odd drink or something that makes you happy, like chocolate, is ok. As is the odd night of being out with friends and drinking wine/Cosmopolitans/whatever
BUT aim to eat reasonably healthily with lots of fruit, vegetables and fish
Drink as much water as you can, ideally 2 litres a day
take your make up off every night
cut back on alcohol or be smug like me and give it up for a while - 14 days so far and I feel great on it
Walk as much as possible: take the stairs instead of the lift; park a bit further from the entrance to the shops/work; walk to speak to someone rather than email if it's reasonable etc.
Use sunscreen every day
And I think that's it

I have to say I feel great for no booze and for eating well although I'm not doing so well on the exercise front. I am thinking about getting up at 6am next week to walk for half an hour in the morning sun but I'm not sure I'll be able to do it. Maybe, we'll see.

Anyway, welcome oldsters (from the old thread and oldsters in need of a 10 years younger plan) and newbies, all welcome. :)

and went for a walk, sorry, was interrupted by ds waking and my tenses were affected, obv!

And wlecome kickassangel, blackduck and cappuchino.

Very good day all round but have been working late and can't expand now as I really need my bed.

Welcome newbies :) Hello oldies :)

Good luck all :)

Well, DD2 roared with laughter at me today, jiggled her abdomen and told me I was fat. Followed by her sodding sister who told me I was 'lovely and squishy'.

At what point does it become permissible to bin all one's principles, give one's children a smart wallop and bellow "LISTEN KID, when YOU get to nearly 43, have two small children AND CAN FIT YOUR ARSE INTO A PAIR OF SIZE 10 JEANS THEN you have the right to call me fat'?

And then I went into town and in between meetings tried on jeans and got my arse into a gap UK size 8 ffs. Fat. Harrumph. Squishy. Little buggers.

go look at those 570 levis slim lady!

Can I join please?

I'm OK on the exercise front - just back from 3 mile run and doing an 8 miler on Saturday (will be some walking ). But I need a kick up the bum with lots of other stuff....

Forever leaving my make-up on

Don't drink enough - water that is!

My hands are dreadful.

And I need to lose 10lbs....trying the no bread thing at the moment.

I've cut down on my booze loads but have replaced it with chocolate!

Oh and my feet are shocking. They need serious help and I think a chiropodist would demand danger money.

Just eaten last of Easter choc(mini eggs yum)so please may I join too? I'm hoping to do Race for Life, though will walk not run.
Have recently been having flare-up of arthritis which always means I put on weight. I need to do gentle exercise as this will help.
Do we fess up to what we eat every day or just when being extra virtuous or falling off the wagon?
I'm making Delia's asparagus and gruyere feuillettes for tea but they are too rich to eat in quantity so think that's OK!
It's hard not to have a drink in the evening but I'm willing to give it a go.
Am feeling full of resolve, long may it last!!

MI. quadruple (no, more than that but I can't think of a big enough number) at size EIGHT jeans. Impressive at any age I think. I was last a size 8 in about 1986 I think.

Saggars and daisymae, welcome! Glad you had a good day yesterday Winnie.

Not a fab day for me as we went to bed at nearly midnight last night, which is TOO LATE. But no booze and I did take my make up off. Today

2 pieces toast
an apple
a 2 finger Kit Kat (106 cals)
Best part of a Pizza Express Diavolo pizza and a starter Caesar salad - in my defence we were being taken out to lunch on business and it would have been rude not to eat
another 2 finger Kit Kat
another apple
some black jacks and fruit salad sweets from ds's party bag

Hmm. Not enough water, no exercise so not great. But given the excess of lunchtime I am not eating supper other than fruit if I'm hungry later so hope that mitigates the damage.

And I weighed myself and I've lost just under half a stone. In 16 days of no booze and eating healthily. So that's good! I really am going to try to stay off the booze until the 8th of July because it seems to be working, how embarrassing!

And I took my make up off about an hour ago.

Well, my smugness is wiped RIGHT off my face by the discover that walking around London all day today in the sun (to the point where I am frankly too effing wiped to swim) I got...a reddened cleavage.

And I have to meet a features ed tomorrow...

Ah. You obviously forgot the 'Wear Sunscreen' rule, but you know that. But you're a SIZE EIGHT, so what? Who cares about a teeny bit of sunburn?

I wore sunscreen on my face. But now I shall have to rely on my mind to get through the meeting, not my distinctly not size eight norks.

Also should point out that it was an eight in one pair of Gap jeans, stretchy ones, but boy was I chuffed.

good day again :) worked 9-8 today and knew it was going to be a tough day but stuck to the new routine of exercising first thing. (Am beginning to think I should start increasing hte exercise soon.) Also kept to Slimming World despite a difficult day. have drunk loads of water, cleansed and moisturised but forgot sunscreen and went to bed very late last night.
Am off to bed now.
WWW, well done on the weight loss :)
MI size 8! What's that ?

Good day yesterday too. Stuck to the "rules" apart from going to bed late (no wine though so okay I think!).
Aquarobics tonight and will fit in a fair bit of walking.
May go and buy some lightweight trousers today as a treat and look at sandals.

Shared a bottle of wine with dp - and ate reasonably well. Still not exercising enough and forgetting the sunscreen .......

This thread just reminded me... SUNSCREAN...luckily I have some in my desk drawer :)

Well done Blackduck & yoyo :)

Good in some areas yesterday, room for improvement in others.

Walked dd to/from school and did an exercise class, so good there. No alcohol, but not enough water. Also ate some of dd's leftover Easter chocolate. . Had an unexpected and surprising grump yesterday brought on, I suspect, by an odd/off encounter with a new friend - so hopefully the happiness meter will be up today.

Think we'll all need the sunscreen today especially - it's glorious and warm out!

Just thought I'd mention pelvic floor here as it was a major part of my pilates lesson. Hope we are not neglecting this area ladies!

Hello, can I come back into the fold?

I have been running three times a week in prep for Race For Life in July and doing over 12,500 steps a day. But sill eating chocolate and other nice treats on an alarmingly regular basis. Had a grim realisation the other day that a childhood spent abroad, where I was in the sun every day for at least six months of the year, is beginning to show in my face. So I'll be slapping on the sun cream.

yes good point pelvic floor, yo yo

And can I just say sun damage

Am going out tonight and have just peered at my skin under good light in a big mirror and bloody hell fire, I've only been in Australia for 21 months, I 'm usually pretty good about suncream, but not the hat bit and my skin looks like a gloucester old spot's back. (that's a pig). So many dark jagged freckles and deep furrows and my decolotage is like Brigette Bardot in those pictures where she's been living with the dogs on the beach in St Tropez for 25 years and everyone gasps.
I am buying a Bhurka for next summer, it's the only way. Lord knows what I 'm going to be \link{http://students.washington.edu/katliang/myweb2/images/litang/litang138.JPG\like} in 5 years' time

Ladies, ALWAYS WEAR SPF 15 SUNBLOCK

SW - nice beads thou'

SNORT!

I bought loads of suncream today. And appear to have quelled the IBS by not eating incredible amounts of fibre.

And I can fit into a slinky dress I bought in a charity shop a very embarrassingly long time ago although admittedly it does NOT have a fitted waistline.