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.

Ah, yes EmilyandLola but some of us just don't do ages. I've been a sahm and have two children. They are now secondary school age. Now when I see a little one, I've no idea of their age. I can't even guess 3 mths, 6 mths, 9 mths. Clueless. And I brought up my own two! My excuse is that there is only a year between mine so I was obviously severely sleep deprived for most of their young lives.

Just a quick post as I need to get to bed shortly. I bought the sunscreen today! Finally! Of course, while I was there I spent an extra £10 or so but it was stuff that dd and I needed and thanks to the Mooncup that I bought via a MNer, I don't spend on stuff in Boots like I used to.

Sorry, but I don't get what f&fs actually stands for though I understand the gist iyswim. Could someone put me out of my misery, please? I understand that you might have to put it delicately and then I still won't know, but please try.

I've been missing as I've had a trapped nerve in my leg/back/groin(?) and it has been so debilitating that everything has been such an effort Feeling suddenly really dependent was horrid and got me thinking about the aging process and in fact has simply made me more determined to look after myself and sort myself out now!
Anyway, although I am still "walking like a penguin" (thanks ds ) the pain has subsided considerably.

sunscreen~ could do better
alcohol ~ wine at the weekends only
walking ~ well this has been impossible this week other than very, very slow, painful essential walking (ds to school etc)
water ~ doing quite well but could do better
body cream
hand cream
early to bed ~ and getting up early as a consequence (I feel like I've added an extra two hours in the day)
Eating healthily - going really well
Be happy

Onwards & upwards all

I did manage a swim last night as DP got back early: although he was being Very Tired so I then had to cook supper (smoked salmon omelette, brown bread with yes a bit of butter, cucumber with lemon juice and bit of olive oil). However, given fire on train line, have no idea if will manage tonight's pilates.

And our sodding effing blinding ceiling is dripping again.

Oh just put some buckets out MI

Started well yesterday, 50sit-ups, granola, advocado salad, sunscreen, ate fruit when friend came over and gave her my chocs, but all went wrong in the evening v. grumpy, so drank 3/4 bottle wine and hate huge bowl of buttered pasta and didn't go to gym.

But started today well agian with 50 sit-ups and Granola for breakfast. Just had nails done (I am so turning into a WAG)

Having reasonable days this week. Have been to the gym this morning as DH made me a Gym Playlist on the i-Pod as an incentive. It worked a treat I have to say - only hope I wasn't singing along!
Will be having a curry for tea though. Will go easy on the naan and deliberately forgot to buy pappadoms (sp?). Feeling really cheery today.
Wine is still a major downfall.

Thanks batters.

Dingle remember not to wash your hair now because the hairdresser won't want it squeaky clean when she puts colour on it. At least mine doesn't. I'm in the habit now of showering and dressing before coming downstairs in the morning so I'm going to put a showercap in the shower tonight to remind me to wear it in the shower tomorrow. I daren't trust my memory!

Must drink more water. I did well in work on Tues and was going to the loo every hour as a result.

I just committed an indiscretion with a flapjack

I had to test it, you see, because I made a batch with not quite enough oats (we ran out) and it looked a bit crumbly and, well, it was falling to bits a bit and, er, I ate a not too tiny square of it.

But I did stop at a square (well, more of a block really). I could quite easily have eaten the entire oaty-crumby-buttery-maplesyrupy-muscovadosugary lot.

Sorry mi but it's so easy to spot a naughty person. If you'd made your excuses all in one line (my late Dad's was "It wasn't me and I won't do it again" which always made me smile) then I'd be tempted to excuse you. Four sentences puts me on high alert for naughtiness!

Feetheart, weaning onto G&B is good, you really won't want as much of it, well I don't anyway.

Turq, sympathy on the carb frenzy, I reckon I could eat nearly a loaf of white bread smothered in butter if I let myself...

Prufrock, impressed at sit ups and other exercise, well done.

SimplyS, please come and tell us how your cut was tomorrow won't you?

Batters, thanks sweetie for the kind words and well done on the walking. those salads sound lovely. At least they're good for you even if they are high fat.

Marina at your kind words too , thank you. I have a weakness for hot buttered toast too, sympathies. lol at small but deadly egg!

FIS well done, I had PE for supper last night too, they're not that bad, half a sloppy guiseppe for eg is 300 odd cals.

Dingle, if you're going to a good hairdresser it'll be fine, really. Come and tell us won't you? And school run is better than no walking at all, definitely.

Emilyandlola, most of us would kill to look 25 darling but welcome anyway!

Batters, you're doing bloody well on walking, does the pedometer make you want to walk more because it's quantifible do you think?

Sobernow at PUSH?ING FIFTY. I'd have pushed her. Mind you, so is Jerry Hall, Sharon Stone etc. And v flattering that she didn't think you looked anywhere near your age, marvellous stuff!

SS, well done on sunscreen, does it look ok?
Winnie, sorry to hear that, I hope you're on the mend soon. Well done on other stuff

MI, FEELING TIRED? What, after a night in a four poster bed ALONE? I'd have given him tired, etc etc. Swimming is good. We have a plumber coming tomorrow to see about our ceiling, sympathies.

Prufrock, WAG you are not (and I mean that as a compliment!) but understand wine lapse, had one of those myself yesterday.

Yoyo, good on gym, and glad to hear of cheeriness, that's lovely.

SS the water really makes a diff to my skin I find, so keep it up.

MI, at least oats are good, that flapjack sounds lovely.

So, have no idea what I ate yesterday except hat I was FAMISHED by 9pm when we finally ate as I hadn't eaten since noon, meetings all bloody afternoon.

So, PE pizza and a bottle of wine, oops. Still, reasonably early night 11pm, and felt fine today as drank loads of water before bed.

I've been really terrible on exercise front this week mainly as I haven't been bothered to walk at lunchtimes and I REALLY must do better on it. Maybe I will buy a pedometer tomorrow and it'll help. I don't ever take the lift any more at work though and I have had such a busy work week that I haven't eaten that much I don't tihnk.

Today
2 pieces toast with butter, not good but I am sick of granola and wanted something else
apple
strawberries
a few blueberries
hummus and cucumber sandwich
kitkat 245 cals
biscuit, brought to me by handsome young maan who works for me and got my coffee this afternoon

not enough water but prob still 1.5 litres
3 fishfingers, peas
no wine
no sunscreen but didn't go out
will be asleep by 11pm I think, am already in bed with make up off and laptop on
Feeling happy as my working week is now over

I am hoping to be able to walk from 7.30-8am again tomorrow, alone, before dh leaves for work. It's such a lovely start to the day and I can stand to be out as it hasn't warmed up too much by then (I hate the sun)

1 person at work yesterday told me 'you look well' so I think that means 'fat' and another told me I looked like I'd lost more weight, which I kind of tihnk I can't have done. My boss was moaning about her mother eating vast amounts of food today and when I said "is she fat?" she said "well I'm, a size xxx and she's a yyy so yes" yyy is same as my size...

Never mind, onward...

Sounds like flapjack failing is the order of the day! Made some fruity/seedy ones yesterday - very sweet, very chewy, VERY yummy. However had about 1 1/2 squares yesterday evening and it was too much - I get a really gripey tummy if I have too much sugar so went to bed (by 10pm!) with a sore tummy Today I had a square this morning and another one just now. No sore tummy but I really won't shift post-baby/bf weight this way will I?

Doing OK on lotions and potions but must work harder on the water.
However I did walk to pre-school to pick up DD and as we were late as usual it was a bit of a power-walk! Must dig out the pedometer to see how much I'm doing.

Happiness not too bad either though it dipped rather at tea-time when 2 tired and grumpy children succeeded in winding up both each other and me. Not sure who had the biggest strop

Now need to get off here, tidy up the kitchen and get to bed.

This thread has just reminded me to drink water and I've just had a pint, good.
Was in bed by 10 last night, good.
Ate mainly sesame ryvita, cottage cheese, and sultana bran today, unfortunately then had three orange and pecan muffins because I'd gone to the trouble of baking them and the bloody dcs didn't like them, bad.

Wow batters, that's fab about the tops! Thank you, maybe she did mean that. Or maybe she meant 'you were so stressed a lot of last year that you looked quite shit quite a lot of the time and you don't look nearly as bad now" - entirely possible I think!

DH came in and proferred a chip sandwich AGAIN and it was lovely although only 1 piece bread (with butter though) but at least I was asleep by 11pm and no booze again last night.

And I may well go for a walk in a minute, just need to shower first.