WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, Jan to half term, WEEK THREE

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Welcome to week THREE everyone. Have you completely given up and lost your motivation yet?

This is about feeling better about yourself...not necessarily a diet per se etc etc

The Rules:

• Sunscreen at all times. I know it's winter, there are still rays trying to damage your skin
• No or little booze. The odd glass of wine at the weekend is allowed if you want it
• Walking is important, a small amount every day if possible. 30 mins if you can, I am booking out lunch hours where possible to do this
• Lots of water, aim for 2 litres a day
• Apply body cream as often as possible. I am doing my heels daily too as they're lizard like
• Use hand cream
• Go to bed early, by 10.30pm if pos
• Eat healthily
• Be happy

The idea is that at the end of six weeks we all feel happier, healthier and glow with the good food, sleep, exercise, water and lack of sun damage.

You don't have to report back every day but I almost certainly will as it motivates me thinking someone is watching me.

Welcome all members old and new.

If you want some pleasurable homework, read this, St India of Knight and Polly Vernon talking about weight

evening all, hope you all survived the storm. We've got it here now - have literally battened down the hatches.

Walked to work and back (before it got very windy). Am just finishing dinner - baked courgette and feta with mashed potato.

Evenin' all!

FIT, glad you're feeling a bit better, I hope things change for you. Good on the food front, well done.

Dino, I hope your hair is fab, I love the luxury of a couple of hours in the hairdressers too, I just went to a new one and it was FANTASTIC because she didn't speak to me, which is what I require of a hairdresser: them to shut tf up and do my hair. I have people talking to me ALL day at work and home and the silence is wonderful. As I left last time, leaving a decent tip, I said to the receptionist "Oh it was lovely the way she didn't talk to me, I so welcome the peace" or something like that, it didn't sound sarcastic, I promise! and I hope she passed it on.

Ahem, I digress. Well done Cam

Batters, how lovely that your skin is glowing, it DOES work this stuff, doesn't it? I look ten times better than I did on 1st Jan.

I've had an ok day:

Granola
an apple
lentils with a few prawns and capers
blueberries and raspberries
easily 2 litres water
NO walking, I just couldn't face the storm at lunchtime
No sunscreen but I didn't leave the house except to drive to work and back
but, I had a bath when I got in, took my make up off, used body scrub AND facial scrub AND moisturised all over AND used heel cream so I feel clean and relaxed.

Dh is cooking us cod for supper so that'll be healthy but I'm SO looking forward to some wine tomorrow night.

OK, will report on The Book now:

I love the bit about how they got fat, how they suddenly realised they were very fat, about the lies fat people tell themselves ("I'm just curvy" being one) and all the stuff about understandnig that food will not make you happy, less bored etc etc.

But, and I have only got to the very beginning of the food instructions bit, the rest of it looks suspiciously like Atkins to me. And I cannot abide the thought of all that meat and cream and butter.

So I absolutely won't be doing it, I will stick to the eat less, exercise more, stay off the booze model instead. But it IS interesting, reading the very honest how I got fat/realised I was fat/got thin stuff and it's almost worth buying for that alone, in that if you want to lose weight it might well keep you in the right mindset. It encourages you to do stuff like write down why you want to lose weight and to record stuff and use it like a diary so that's good. I also like the before and after pictures of them, they're fascinating but we all know that yes, Atkins DOES work but well, it's not for me.

They're right about fat people needing to address WHY they eat too much etc and there's some nice stuff about loving yourself etc too but I'm going to stick to lots of fruit and veg and fish, the odd night of drinking wine, walking more, being happy and see where that gets me.

Good today apart from a bag of Seabrooks (and I have a cold so have had a couple of no fat hot toddies)

You are cooking Cod for supper??!!

I am currently nibbling on a nicorette inhaler. Picked up a very bad social habit over xmas as well as a spare tyre.

Pilates, walk, loads of water, a choc biscuit, three cubes of choc, a few Quavers, ice cream with a flake... Not that good really. My meals have been fine but it is the other stuff that I cram in that is always the problem. No alcohol though and will just about sneak in ahead of the 10.30 deadline to bed.

WWW - we reached the same conclusions about the book fairly quickly. I knew it was low carb but hadn't expected the whole meat/eggs/cheese for breakfast. I also find it interesting but absolutely know that I couldn't follow it.

MT, yes, we had cod with some ffava beans and a nice Chianti With proscuito and peas, spinach and baby sweetcorn actually.

Yoyo, can you eat apples instead? I find that if there's an apple on my desk I eat that, I have to because it's all there is and it's less effort than walking to the vending machine/shops.

MT, at the smoking! Stoppit right now!

Went to bed at a reasonable time last night, no idea what time I went to sleep but retired with a book at 9.30ish.

Am going out to lunch today but may well make my lentils, take them and not actually eat at lunchtime. I'm also considering walking for half an hour first and then just having a half hour coffee instead of an hour lunch with my friends.

And it's FRIDAY at last! Hurrah!

I know, I still only have cheeky ones at parties but alcohol is starting to be a trigger, hence the inhalator with my hot toddy.

I like the description of 'cheeky ones at parties'!
That's me that is.
I'm not all virtue and light.

i am still fat
but then I am still drinking and staying up late

surely some connection

good luck to you all

You're not bloody fat SW.
I've seen pictures of yer!

oh
aren't I?
then a nearby liposuction clinic must be using the region between my upper rib cage and hip bones to deposit the days' takings. Every day.

Well, WWW you are being very inspiring with your full body lotion-ing and lentil-eating.

I feel that you have somewhat thrown down the gauntlet and am going to have pull out my goji-shot (yes, yes, that goji berry the one that's the most nutritionally dense food on the planet, that one) wildcard for tomorrow.

To keep me going until the big weigh-in on Monday, I nipped into town and picked up some Clarins goodies for slathering purposes, some miracle fine-line disappearer and some lovely new mascara with some heated eyelash curlers. Step aside kate moss, step aside.

For food, skinny smoothies for breakfast, wholemeal rolls or veggie wraps for lunch and salads/jacket potatoes/low-fat wedges for dinner. Lots of water, it's really hot.

No gym since Monday (fighting off a lurgy that can only be caused by lack of wine). I did power walk across Sydney harbour with a 10kg backpack this evening though.

I'm going to try to cram in some more exercise before Monday.

Have used sunscreen and handcream every day.

at people who are in sunny Sydney.

As I'm not I've had to make do with a brisk walk on an English Channel breezy seafront.

Breakfast food today: strawberries and blueberries

Lunch: large salad of baby leaves and lettuce with small amount of good quality tuna.

Not a drop of alcohol yesterday, sleep not good as wind still howling a bit and dd woke up early as its her birthday.

Will have to toast her tonight as its a bit of a milestone: 10 (where did that time go?)

But it will only be the best champagne naturally

Hello all.

Gynae wards are really bad places to try and eat healthily, I tell ya. Bloody chocolates all over the place, coupled with ridiculously early starts and stupid o'clock finishes, so I've been living on Quality Street and thin air for the last 3 days. Bugger.

BUT - still no booze, still piling on the spf and walking LOTS and BRISKLY (mainly down loooong hospital corridors but it all counts, goddamit!)

And feeling quite happy and at peace with the world. The result of lots of camomile tea and a bit of yoga, perhaps?

Snafu, eeewww at 'gynae wards are not good places to heat healthily' but hey, good on the walking front. But no booze, spf and happiness is VERY good, well done.

Cam, wow, your girl is 10 hey, blimey where did that time go? WEll done on food, walking and no booze but quality Champagne.

Arfy, Arfy, Arfy, Get You with your Goji berries and omg, at HEATED eyelash curlers! My word! I am a recent ish convert to eyelash curlers, came to them late but now accept that they are necessary and very useful. Well done on all of it.

SWong, hmm, well, you get the connection, gooood, but I think you only come here because it comes up on 'threads I'm on' Moondog, move along, nothing to see here....

Hmm, ok ish day:

Granola
apple
busy busy didn't even think about food
went to lunch, used sunscreen even though only walked 2 minutes, drank an Americano during lunch (hey, friend with me who is trying to lose weight ate enormous pizza slice and I wasn't remotely tempted, I have to say) and went back to work and ate my lentils.
Apple
2 small glasses Cava after work
came home, glass Chablis
3 organic sausages
sweet potato mash
peas
more Chablis
Then got cross at combination of ds, ds's friend, dd who was tired, stroppy dh, helpful but amused at amount of bitching in our house ex dh and so I stalked off for a 15 min walk around the block. It stopped me from drinking any more so early and was refreshing.
Now drinking some white Burgundy
No handcream
Won't have an early night prob
But may have a lie in

Not bad really, considering
blueberries and raspberries

Oh oh, oh, nice thing in my day, a headhunter called me (I'm not registered with them or anything) I was most pleased, I'm probably not interested but hey, it was nice to be asked on reputation alone.

Me too re lie in.

You were headhunted??

I didn't get the bloody lie in, I am up, feeling bleary eyed. And last night I drank more wine and ate cheese on bloody toast (but no butter at least and only a small amount of cheese) AND a few Quality St. Oops. At least I'd taken my make up off before that.

I think once dh is up I may make myself walk for an hour today to make up for it.

MT, yes, I was called by a headhunter. I'm most flattered although it probably won't come to anything.

An excellent day (loads of walking, healthy food, no nibbling at choc/crisps) descended into too much red wine and nuts. Had two ill children in bed with me all night so have had very little sleep and am feeling yuck as a result.

Today will be better. Today will be better.

WWW - your phone call must have brightened your day no end. You had to have a few glasses on the strength of that alone.

Winnie - is everything okay?