WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, Feb to April, WEEK FOUR

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Gosh, week four already, that's come around quickly. Everyone's welcome.

The rules are:

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

• Sunscreen at all times. I know it's winter, there are still rays trying to damage your skin
• No or little booze. 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.

Hi everyone and welcome back Marina, sorry to hear you are feeling so miserable. If it is any consolation (and I have no idea why it would be really) I have been totally and utterly crap on the exercise front too. I am deeply ashamed of myself. It is no wonder I am not losing weight, I am eating mostly ok but I just sit on my bum pretty much all day (on the days I am working, on the days I am home with the kids it is, of course, a very different matter). I am so impressed by those of you who manage to fit some exercise in between work and everything else. I guess the compressed hours thing doesn't help me as I need to be at work early so find it hard to decide to get off the bus a few stops early as I am always in a rush to get in. Also the last few weeks have been very stressful at work (lots of deliveries due) so I never get more than about 3.5 minutes for lunch...GROAN

anyway, moan over, feel better now

having said that, food wasn't so great today either, stressed and tired - not a great combo for keeping me off the carbs!

muesli with banana and semi skimmed milk, tea (good)
then coffee and pain au raisin (not good)
then more tea (hmm)
then noodles with veg (last nights leftovers) for lunch with lots of water (good)
some herbal tea, more water (good again)
tea and biccies in a meeting (same reasons as WWW really)(not good)
more tea and sultana bran for tea (DH working late and kids fed before I got home)(not great really)

don't think I'll have anything more tonight, apart from probably about a squillion cups of tea (can you tell I am partial to a cuppa?)

(new word for DD today - "squillion", as in "sit on the bed for five minutes mummy, no, no, for a SQUILLION minutes" - really made me laugh, I love how they do that language gathering thing)

YoYo, how old is your DD? she sounds like my DD1 at the moment (4.5y) she is gorgeous but a real handful at times, I swear sometimes the neighbours must think we are all murdering each other the shouting that goes on

tortoiseshell, don't worry about not being trendy - I always feel the way you describe when out and about in London too, and I live here!

sorry about the long post ladies, am trying to motivate myself a bit

puddle, sorry to hear your work is crap right now, mine too - any sign of yours improving soon?

thanks JG - not for a while sadly. I am Managing Change at work and it's a pain in the a**e. Sorry to hear about yours too.

I do need to condition myself not to reach for the corkscrew after a bad day though

Well I've had a really nice day - 3 hours in town doing lunch and shopping with a friend - I am counting that as my exercise for the day, although it was more strolling than power walking

Foodwise was really good until ds2 sabotaged me with some yoghurt coated black-currants.

Found a bottle of wine in the fridge, but haven't had any - will save it for tomorrow as dh will be home for the weekend

that's tough puddle, it is hard not to pop open a bottle when all that is going on
the only reason I manage it tbh is that I did a completely dry stint last autumn for 4 months, which really broke the habit, and I haven't fallen back into it (yet anyway)

oh, and I drink a lorra lorra tea!

well, at least we can come on here and moan

Hello All.

WWW - congratulations on the super job AND payrise. It all sounds wonderful.

Lilibet - DP is from Wigan. He was also celebrating the win on Friday (normally any excuse quite frankly, but Wigan is a special one!).

Now, what meet-up and when? Have I mentioned that I'm coming back to the UK?!?? My tour will take in Kingston, London, Lincoln and Dorset, M&S, Baby Gap and most of the high street. If the dates co-incide I'd love to come.

Now, I'm still plugging away. Last night was my wine appreciation class and we were doing Champagne (it's tough ladies, a REALLY tough course). And I only drank a glass.

It's been tricky getting to the gym, work have had my fingers to the bone, but I've done a power walk every day or used my rebounder (using a Franny-approved pair of tins of lentils as weights because I'm certainly not eating them arf).

I'm going to the gym this afternoon to do resistance training and some cardio (ooh, get her with the lingo).

Yesterday I ate:

Skinny mango smoothie
2 x wholemeal rolls
1 x hard boiled egg
Salad (no dressing)
2 cups steamed rice plus some steamed chicken
1 glass champage (actually 6 x 20ml taster glasses of varying types of champers. Yum)

Have just enjoyed catching up with this thread, its worth reading for the laughs alone - thanks girls

London meetup, yes please to either Sat 21st or Sat 28th April, can we go to Vinopolis -its easy for me to get to

Don't worry everyone who lives in the sticks, so do I, believe me those Londoners aren't half sophisticated though

Love the good news form winnie and www

Commiserations to Marina for the cold, I had a terrible one last week, have just got better and did some aerobics for the first time in about 10 days yesterday.

Also have only had 2 glasses of red wine in the last 10 days.

I was meant to got to a charity breakfast this am (that's the level of sophistication we have down here)but decided to stay home and eat organic cereal and yogurt instead. I've already paid for the ticket so given my donation.

I have been eating healthily all week apart from dh sabotaging me with some chocolate.

Hello everybody... Well I survived the cake shop, just. Talk about facing your demons head on. I took herbal tea with me and a rocket and 'cado salad and it was suprising how the time passed.. Ok, ok I had one little cake, it was a compromise to myself for not eating the whole shop! I'm trying to be good to mysef but if I start being uber-controlling of the food I put in my body then I get a bit extreme and angst ridden, iykwim...Anyhow I've got the next 2 wednesday's there so I better brush up on my self control...

Been okish everywhere else food and cream good,exercise ok, bed late though and wine has been consumed but not too much

Dp away in London town this wkend so worried I may binge. However probably won't be tempted to takeaway food as he's always the instigator of that I will try to glue myself to mn, that way I can't eat and type (though swigging wine is perfectly possible)

Hope everyone is feeling ok for the weekend. I intend to slap on a bit of 'everyday sunshine' to make me feel a bit better but I do think I may be getting a cold...Hope you're feeling better Marina...

Sorry going back a bit but I lolled a lot at Jeangenie's "no walking (just dazed stumbling) " Every morning to dd's school for me

Good luck today girls

Hello all

I went to my exercise class last night and had put 1 1/2 lb on , I must try harder, so this morning I got up at 6.30 and bounced on the trampoline for 15 minutes. I am so unfit.

I have been really happy at work recently and I shouldn't have as one of my staff has been off sick for 10 weeks so I have had loads extra to do but the sheer pleasure of not having her there has been worth it. Anyhow she is back next Friday and I feel a dark cloud desending over me. I think red wine and lemon cake would be a perfect way to lift it Puddle!

This weekend I am only going to drink on Sunday as it's Mother's day and on Saturday we are out and I am driving. Dh is making this but without the bacon for me as I'm a nonmeat eater and this for tea.

I knew there was a reason why I loved him

Arfishy, where in Wigan is your dh from?, I was brought up in Hindley Green, (as was Gobbledigook I found out on a meetup!) and now live in Winstanley.

Hello everyone!

All of you who've put on weight or whatever, stop weighing yourselves so often. It's not about the weight as much as feeling good about yourself and having better skin etc and getting into good habits and all that.

Very impressive performances from quite a few of you, well done.

Anyway, having today off is bliss! Dd and I have had such a lovely day so far, we've been to the library where dd joined and we got 15 books out and I read her a few while we were there too and then we came back via the deli where I bought lunch, which was:

2 pieces of dh's homemade bread spread with butter, dolcelatte and organic cranberry sauce
marinated anchovies
chorizo picante (with paprika)
potato salad
red peppers stuffed with soft cheese
crayfish

And then we read dd's books for a while before dd cuddled up to me on the sofa and we both slept for an hour. And I've just had a coffee and an organic flapjack.

Went to the dr this am and it turns out I have pharangytis, which is a throat infection so I'm on antibiotics for 10 days so that's me off the wine for the next 10 days at least. the infection might explain why I've found it tough going the last week.

Re the meet I'll go anywhere that sells wine, I'm easy me

Another good day for me - went to the gym this morning and took the kids swimming after school.

This is the calm before the storm though: next week my kitchen is being replaced, so I will have no facilities for 2 weeks - cue microwave meals and take-aways - not to mention all the wine and comfort eating I will be forced to do because of the stress

So you may not be hearing from me for a while

lol Iota

Reasonably good day but not for much longer. Treating the children to a takeaway and will definitely have some wine later. Have walked loads and have downed lots of water so feeling rather happy.

Hope everyone is remembering pelvic floor exercises - add to list perhaps?

Anyone got one of those add-on bikes for children so that they "cycle" behind you/ What age can they start and are they any good? There seem to be loads of cycle routes opening up and thought it would be a good family activity (once DH has learnt to ride and use brakes at the same time!!).

JeanGenie - my DD is 11. Very hard age. Much slamming of doors and bursting into tears. Have not argued today (yet). Saturday is usually a bad day so am trying to think of something new to do. Think Nat Trust places start opening this weekend so may do that.

I had such a lovely morning with dd yesterday. Driving is making such a difference to my life already!
Had a good romp around Avebury. Which was good exercise.

Need to drink more water but otherwise all of the boot camp rules are going well

are you lot all meeting up at Vinopolis?

please take a cardboard cut out of me

I am drinking a double gold medal winner at the San Fransico Wine festival tonight - a local shiraz.

Am horribly off the bootcamp wagon apart from lots and lots of exercise, so can I trail along in the dust kicked up by your wheels for now

Thanks awfully

Winnie - glad you and DD had a lovely day. I can just imagine how beautiful Avebury would have been in the sunshine yesterday. It was one of our favourite ways to pass the time with the children when we were in Wilts. I am feel quite nostalgic now.

Am enjoying chocolate today. Fortnums champagne truffles. Quite delicious.

Sunnywong, you don't do evil eyes by half do you, Jeeez they're scary!!
I'm jealous too, I remember when I was there, many moons ago now...Ah well if I win some money on the lotery (which I don't play) I'll fly down to see you all...Maybe even let you all onboard my private jet too
I'm doing ok after too much wine last night (a bottle, is that terrible?) Rocket and fish and herbal tea (i shall repeat this like a mantra all weekend)

Gis a choc Yoyo?Pretty please......

Lizzer - have a layer! Truly scrumptious.

I had the same for supper as for lunch yesterday (so a cheese and bread and chorizo fest) but at least no wine. I could have killed for a glass last night but knew I couldn't because of the anti biotics, which is probably why I wanted one so much. Anyway, had a late-ish night (11.30) and haven't been very good today either, had boiled egg with white bread toast loaded with butter for breakfast and then went to a cafe with dd and had a brie and bacon panini for lunch. Plenty of water and used sunscreen when I went out but no exercise for THREE days in a row now. I really ought to try to walk later today, may do.

But I'm very happy so that's something! Week five tomorrow, blimey. I will be starting another six week 10yy thread at the end of this one too.

Suzywong, it may not be vinopolis but yes, we're hoping to meet.

Gee yoyo that's v kind of you, ta very much.
WWW a glass won't negate the anti biotics will it? I thought they just recommended that you didn't drink a lot? However I'm not trying to lead you into temptation....

Oh god, Lizzer, don't say that! I really want a glass or 2...

I have to say there's nothign in the leaflet about not drinking just lots of other scary stuff about rare and fatal side effects

Ahem, just googled and found this:

"Can I drink alcohol if I am prescribed antibiotics?

It is a common misconception that alcohol should be strictly avoided by people who are taking a course of antibiotics. For certain antibiotics this is the case, for example consuming alcohol while taking a course of metronidazole can cause unpleasant reactions and should be avoided. However, it is safe to drink alcohol while taking a course of flucloxacillin or erythromycin."

I'm not drinking tomorrow or during the week so I may allow myself 2 glasses tonight, thanks Lizzer!

Ah winnie the stone circle of Avebury!

I too lived in Wiltshire for some time as a child and my father used to take us over to Avebury quite often for a boot camp walk.

In fact dd went there last Halloween for a fab themed scary event when she was staying with my parents.

Sorry www but I'm now off the antibiotics and yes, am drinking tonight particularly as dd is on a sleepover elsewhere