WWW's All New Ten Year Younger Plan WEEK ONE

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Right, is anyone up for joining me in a 6 week ten week younger plan? The rules:

Use sunscreen at all times
Do some exercise during the week, even if it's only walking
Cut down on or give up alcohol (I'm going to do another 6 weeks without it)
eat healthily, lots of fruit and veg
Try to get to bed by 10.30pm
Take make up off every night
Drink lots of water
Post here about how you're feeling

Starting tomorrow, so week one is week commencing 24 July 06. Who's in?

Please can I start tomorrow? I will need a drink today after my awful day adn it is not even really lunch time yet!

I have had a good day so far. I will report back later. Good luck everyone

have bought bag full of fruit and healthy salad

watch me be starved by 3.30pm

I have a horrid horrid caffeine withdrawal headache .

Have eaten loads of fruit and veg and lots of water which I do anyway so I am trying!

i'm in.

i have been so good recently! [smug]

have given up smoking, cut out alcohol during the week, eating 5 portions of f&v most days, boosted water intake, more exercise daily, make up off every night, horny feet getting lots of tlc!

anyway, as things are going well, i will join

Well done on stopping smoking bk, brilliant. Your skin will look loads better for it ime, dh says I look younger for stopping up (but maybe he was just being encouraging!)

Moonshine, welcome back! it is a sign if you want it to be
and blackduck! and moondog
glitterfairy, you deserve wine tonight, start tomorrow
CheesyFeet welcome
ditto Cappucino (are you famished yet? You shouldn't let yourself get to that, you wil give up and eat cakes if you're starving, so eat something, just something reasonably healthy)
arfishymeau, well done
majorityofone, good, good
mummydear welcome
Missy, md is right about refined carbs
MissyCocker, good lord, can you get a dishwasher? That's a lot of valuable mumsnet time!

So, here's a Gold star for everyone who's been good by the end of the day and a big disapproving look for suzy wong

Stopping, not stopping up, I typed giving up and then remembered that Allen Carr says there's nothing to give up, just something to Stop! He brainwashed me goooood!

Baaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I have beetroot and celery juice lined up for breakfast, I'll catch you all up

I've been ok today - but have had 1 can and 1 bottle (500ml) of deliciously cold diet coke. Have had large glass of water as well though. Is tea good or bad?

Haven't managed much exercise today - running round with kids in the garden, but will try to swim either later this evening, or tomorrow morning. Missed breakfast, as no milk but had smoked salmon sandwich on wholemeal bread for lunch, and also a homemade oat and raisin cookie . Am exclusively b/feeding so should get some extra brownie points...

Oh, I forgot to confess, I took ds to ex MILS today and there was a pile of gorgeous freshly made chapatis, glistening with butter plus saag and some bloody fattening FRIED (I ask you!) potato fritter things and a spinach thing that also looked suspiciously fried and it was all bloody gorgeous. So I am gving myself a disapproving look too but it was so worth it. Hey, won't drink, salmon for supper, it's only day 1!

Running around with kids counts! I don't have the money to go to a gym but am trying to just move about as much as possible and even seeing housework not as a chore but an opportunity to burn some more calories and get fitter(they've given it a posh, formal name now, but can't remember what. Just involves using stairs more, parking car further from destination, etc etc). Can't say have gone as far as cleaning the house today though!

Wonder if someone can answer something that's been bugging me. I understand the principle about unrefined carbs, but in Italy and other such countries, they mostly use white flour to make bread/pasta etc yet have one of the healthiest diets (and yes I know it's the fruit/veg/lack of processed stuff/oils that count as well). But why do we get so hung up about white flour in this country?? Or am I completely behind the times (I base a lot of my knowledge on growing up in an Italian community and all my family and their friends still there)?

Dunno moonshine, maybe it's the French Women Don't Get Fat thing, which is that they eat some but not a lot of refined carbs and that it's all tempered with olive oil, veg, fish etc. I'd be interested to know the answer too though.

French women don't get fat for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about.

Have been good so far today- applied sunscreen to myself and the kids repeatedly, did some toning exercises first thing, haven't had any alcohol, have eaten pretty healthily and drunk water, though maybe not quite enough. But partner is cooking up a storm- steaks the size of dinner plates, baked potatoes and Greek salad slathered in dressing... Also noted a bottle of vino chilling! I'm worried that I won't be able to resist grompfulling far too much of everything.

Have you read FWDGF, WWW? I think she has one of the most fucked up attitudes to food I've ever come across, tbh!

exercise today - energetic vacuuming - does that count? And a spot of hedge trimming - should be good for toning those upper arms

no alcohol ( yet)

ate healthily ( Special K. apple , low fat cream cheese and salad sandwich, chicken casserole for dinner)

no make up

drinking loads of water

taking the boys for a kickabout now

FWDGF in the big cities but do in the country, n'est ce pas? Always notice women seem to be thinner in central London (or maybe thery're the only ones I notice???).

right today havent had enough water am making up for it now.
my exercise is running around after a 13 month old and housework, dont have time for anything else.
Have had fruit today.
I have bought a yummy body scrub (smells yummy anyway) Will be using it tonight.
good luck everyone.

Not a bad day, have drank plenty of water, worn sunscreen; no exercise to speak of but have had dreadful headache (which is finally clearing as the ds's are now in bed!) and managed to throw the leftovers from tea into the bin and not into me. And have managed not to eat a single biscuit (very good for me).

Have only ever considered the things not to do in terms of eating etc but the idea of nice body scrubs etc is rather appealing.

Day one a reasonable success

Definately gold star territory here, but the hardest thing for me will be not eating later in the evening. DD3 feeds until around 9.30, and I can feel myself being drawn to the ice cream

BTW, I was going to try and eat a lot less bread, but not sure if I can hold off that and the pasta, so which is the lesser of the 2 evils if I were to stick to wholemeal bread?

If pasa is wholemeal,then they're both the same.

I started buying rolls instead of loaves.Children like them better and on the rare occasion I do it bread,there is some pre ordained portion control.

I weighed one of the wodges i used to have quite regularly and had a fit.
It was verging on 200g!!!!

Well, I am off to bed now to read for half an hour, havng already removed my make up (I wore it in the end) but a medium day for me foodwise:

2 pieces wholemeal toast, marmite
apple
4 chapatis and assorted fattening Indian food oops
some cherries
grapes
raspberries
200g prawns with lemon juce
5 jellybabies that dd was given at nursery and didn't like
fish fingers
peas
lots of water

No exercise though so I must do that tomorrow. No booze for the first time in AGES, so that's good.

And, and, and, I cooked puy lentils to take to work tomorrow, I really am going to try to cut down on bread, I know it's part of my downfall. I can't give up the toast in the car on the way to work but I can give up the lunchtime sandwich as long as I take something like lentil salad (I've been making it a lot moondog with the fresh thyme from my pots and lemon juice, no olive oil)

Oh WWW,I think a little oil is essential (cold pressed,natch.
Yo umust have jaws of steel.