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

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Week 4 of the third (I think) boot camp of the year , welcome.

The rules (anyone can join):

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
• Lots of water, aim for 2 litres a day
• Apply body cream as often as possible
• 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.

OMG!!!! Just booked my hair appointment for Friday morn!!! Fell off my chair when she told me the price though. I am sooo out of touch with the world of papmpering!I feel so guilty paying out that much on me!

batters, the sun is coming out now, no excuses! (she says smugly - having done a longer walk in to work this morning)

Joined up last week and have been keeping up, just, but posting is harder!

Haven't done too badly on the rules so far though the water thing is proving hard - how do your bladders cope? I had just over a litre by lunchtime yesterday and needed 2 toilet breaks during a 2 hour shopping trip in the afternoon??

I took the challenge WWW and went for a bra-fitting - happiness index leapt quite a few points as I am now the proud owner of a 36C chest. Pre-baby I was 36A, so 2 children (both bf for 14 mths) have given me a cleavage for the first time in my life! Just need to re-discover a waist to go with it

Next mission is to try and sort the skin on my face out. I have the driest skin in history that tends to come out in excema-type patches every now and again for no discernible reasons. I have only used Body Shop stuff up until recently as I don't react to it but the 2nd pg really did for me and I was using their Intense Moisture Mask as a twice a day moisturiser (it is for a once/twice a week moisture boost!!) I'm now slapping on E45 cream twice a day and it still breaks out!
Any tips would be welcome or any idea where I can get some independent advice ie NOT from someone trying to sell me their products.

Maybe it would be easier to post if I didn't say so much

I feel I should tell you that I came out of a quite important (and therefore slightly stressful) meeting this afternoon and was slap bang opposite Patisserie Valerie...

....and I walked on by. Into the soothing subsitute of a huge and posh bookshop.

thanks batters!

I'm not doing very well this week but have started looking at pedometers which is almost the same as exercising .

Had a pub lunch today, some sort of chorizo and cheese thing and am having a rocket salad with chicken for dinner. Had far too much champagne and cake yesterday but have made up for that today by not drinking alcohol at all and having loads of water/juice.

Will go for a swim tomorrow morning (doubt I'll get anywhere near 60 lengths though!) - mainly because I desperately need a shower!

I use diprobase on very dry skin (including my face sometimes) - I use it on dd's skin (for her eczema) - it's lovely and soft and very good at moisturising. (you can get it in the chemist).

If they are properly defined patches, it might be worth getting the GP to have a look. They aren't round (like ringworm) are they?

lol batters at what your local wanderings would take you past! That Cook stuff is bloody marvellous, I agree, I love it.

Dingle, yes, I sometimes think oh no, I have ME or something but no, I've jsut got a knackering life sometimes. Plus I had a too late Sunday night and drank wine and that's why I was knackered last night. Will have an early ish night tonight too I reckon. Good on you for booking your hair, DO NOT feel guilty is is an ESSENTIAL expense, not frippery.

Feetheart, I spend half my life in the loo weeing. But it's worth it. Twice? Is that ALL? I prob go abut 4/5 times in the morning (so 8am-1pm) so once an hour ish, as a result of water consumption. No idea about skin stuff other than E45 is non perfumed etc isn't it.

FIS happy birthday for yesterday. Champagne and cake is most certainly allowed.

Well done everyone. I didn't walk at lunchtime because I felt dodgy and so came home
So:
granola
hummus and cucumber sandwicj
apples
nuts
and cod for supper
no booze

But today I feel v middle aged and frumpy and fat and old and ugly, you know, I'm having one of those days, I don't know why. I think maybe because my hair was cut too short on Friday and is too dark (having extolled virtue of expensive hairdresser I don't think I briefed mine v well last week - I was so looking forward to 2 hours of complete peace and quiet and no-one speaking to me that I just said yeah yeah, what you did last time was fine and let her get on with it. And I am v bloated and just cakey iykwim. Oh well, my hair will grow, I will feel better at some point.

at Sobernow! Way to go or something

I say sobernow, thanks for sharing
I've had better days. I was doing immensely well until I found a small but lethal Easter egg hiding in the fruit bowl...
Until then it had been water, cottage cheese, fruit, water, Special sodding K, weeing for England, cream etc all in place and one brisk canter up to Waitrose to buy salad and strawberries. Pasta with broccoli and mushrooms for tea.
I am starting to feel the water benefit for sure but do need to get to bed earlier.
Dingle, you know you deserve that haircut. Those of us still too wussy to fork out urge you on!

FiS - at ringworm! Don't think it is though as its not there all the time. Will investigate thoroughly when it next appears!!

Batters - may start another thread about skin to see if anyone knows anything.

WWW - damn, I was hoping my bladder was going to get used to it after a while.

Sobernow - beware of sofas, DS conceived AND delivered on ours
With the chocolate thing, will Green and Blacks do or is it a Cadburys-chocfest that is required? Have managed to wean myself off cheap chocolate (mostly!) and onto G&Bs dark stuff. As I can only manage a few squares at a time it lasts MUCH longer and makes me feel virtuous as I put the bar back in the cupboard.

Bit disheartened here after a menstrual weekend of carbohydrate frenzy and quite a lot of wine.
Have done a fair bit of walking and planted lots of potatoes at the w/end so exercise, sunscreen and body cream all good.
Feetheart have you tried Eucerin sensitive face products - my skin is similar to yours - dry beyond belief, prone to excema, breakouts etc - and it has worked wonders for me. Lipobalance is the best one for me, but there are several, only available at big branches of Boots (little ones just stock the foot and hand creams etc). Also Avene eau thermale and Oilatum cream are quite good.
MI- respect.

DD2 was very nearly born on our sofa.

I have eaten a virtuous supper, in fact most of today's food intake has been pretty damn virtuous apart from the stump of brie I 'put out of its misery' as my mother would say, before supper.

Mr Inferior is away for work tonight (kindly rang to tell me that 'they' are going out for a meal and then to acclaimed real ale pub) so I am not planning any f&fs personally. He mentioned he has a four-poster bed, but I suspect that he'll be more seduced by the thought of a night sleeping alone than anything else

(Marina, if you check in I badly need your help on the Spiral thread, which I am attempting to resuscitate)
Sadly, I am doing too badly on the booze front ATM to be able to post here

Well yestedray was brilliant for me.
50 sit-ups before shower
Granola
Peach
Prawn mayo sandwhich (Ok, so not briliant, but definately best option at waitrose cafe) & smoothie
Walked to pick dd up from school and then to PO, round trip amble of 45 minutes
3 spoonfuls of baked beans, but resisted leftover sausage and gave to the dog instead
20 minutes cardio exercise, 20 minutes yoga, another 50 sit-ups
Steam, plus full exfoliation
Sushi-fest for dinner, and strawberries
Sunscreen, hand cream and nail oil
In bed at 10:15 (though neither of us could sleep so ended up with f&fs at 11:30)

Then today
50 sit-ups before shower
Granola
Lunch in a pub, but ate crab cakes (and cheese) and only drank water
Then tonight a chocolate tasting focus group! But I only had a couple of ham sandwhich quarters and some veg crisps beforehand, and limited myself to only a couple of slabs equivalent. And have put the very large box of chocs I got as a thank you away in the larder.

Dingle My colour and cut is for Fri lunchtime. We can compare notes on how horrified we are afterwards!

Not a bad day for me but need to do some more housework before bed and I know it is getting late. See you tomorrow or later on in the week. By then I might even have made it into town and bought the sunscreen! Sooooo much work on atm.

(bakedpotato, I posted there)
Morning all, hope you are feeling less cakey dear WWW - I echo batters, anyone less middle-aged it is hard to imagine .
Am all agog to see gorgeous new hairstyles from dingle and simplysparkling
Have just received my discharge papers from Women's Health Physio after some extremely helpful sessions so am adding Kegels to my daily Boot Camp List.
The small but deadly egg was the start of a slippery slope that ended with a round of toast (buttered ) and apricot jam while watching the unintentionally hilarious vintage BBC Mansfield Park (Mary and Henry Crawford in matching fright wigs, esteemed clergyman Dr Grant played by Rene from Allo Allo, the worst child actors I have ever seen, highly recommended).
Am back on the wagon this morning

www, hope you are feeling better

Feetheart, didn't mean to alarm with the ringworm (!). It's not as bad as it sounds - just the defined patches made me think. If they aren't round, it's very unlikely to be that! I too use Eucerin when my skin is not too bad and the diprobase when it's decidedly scaly .

I've been for a swim this morning and am doing very well on the water front - almost too well especially as I don't have a loo and keep having to go out to find one to use arrghh.

Had grapes and an apple for breakfast and will have a mozarella and sun dried tomato salad for lunch but we're having pizza tonight (pizza express) so that will ruin all my good food intentions!

Mr I (witty Jane Austen ref there, keep up at the back, please) is not back till swimoclock tonight, so today's exercise is as ever confined to an hour's pootle with the Inferiorettes to their various places childcare and education and then a brisk stroll back from school.

But I am getting through a lot of work, which is in fact making me really rather chirpy.

I am in awe of you all!!!

Late night las night, just couldn't sleep, so I went to bed at 11.30 with a book about Reading in children with Down Syndrome!! Yes I klnow it's not exactly getting away from it al and relaxtion but I don't find I have the time to read otherwise and I really need to do some research for Amelia's home reading.

Made a start on trying to drink more water, but propably only managed about 1ltr yesterday, and even less today. Sat here with a cuppa as I am soo cold!

Handcream, body lotion and sunscreen- all OK but could use handcream more often, must get a spare one to sit on the bedside table and use before I go to sleep.

Walking- only really managing the school runs, nothing extra. My pedometer keeps resetting itself so I don't really know how much I have done. I will do a run on the running machine tonight though!!! I'd better dust of the cobwebs first though. I keep threatening to get out the Yoga DVD too!!!

Food- MUST do better, desperatley need to go shopping as we are living out of freezer ATM. Tonight is shepherds pie with carroty mash and peas!!

Booze....errrrrrmmmm....I am still having my large glass of wine and soda most nights! Sorry.

as for positive attitude...I am getting nervous about my hair cut!LOL, but in general things are quite good, let's hope they stay that way as I am expecting news from LEA any day now!

Thank you all for your inspiration!

right I have issues about this

I'm 19 yrs old

I do the following

• Sunscreen every day
• No booze at all
• I go to the gym and swim every night on alternates
• 2 litres a day of water
• Apply body cream as often as possible
• Use hand cream
• Go to bed early, by 10.30pm
• Eat healthily
• Be happy

one of DP's work mates met me for the first time at weekend, told me he things im 25/26 min!

god i need help