WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, all welcome, WEEK FIVE

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Week 5 of the third boot camp of 2007, everyone is 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.

Yesterday

granola
100g reduced fat hummus
half a red pepper/a carrot/cucumber dipped into it
a 250 cal packet of crisps, oops
a poussin
wine
no walking
no sunscreen
quite a bit of water

and was asleep by 10.30 I reckon but woke at 5.30am again, grrr.

Good day yesterday, apart from a 13-hour day (some of it compulsory attendance at an evening event which involved a lot of trotting about, hence....16,000 steps )
Healthy breakfast, lots of water, cottage cheese with budgie food in, large quantity of pineapple, tuna & tomato sandwich, cherry tomatoes, apple, banana, carriages for 11pm.
Sorry about your early call again www, that is hideous. We have all-in angst at bedtime in our house ("but I have a growing pain in my toe mum") but once strapped down they stay asleep until at least 7am
Batters, your dp is a God on so many fronts I think . A man who can cook so well is not an unalloyed blessing when you are trying to lose weight, is it (dh: "so I suppose my pasta sauce with bacon, cheese, butter and chicken livers is off the menu then?" )

sorry winnie, what a nightmare.

I have done 4000 steps today already (preen, preen) and will have done a load more by this afternoon though I am planning to end up at the pub this afternoon with the children for a class get together thing (so have a feeling those extra steps will be crossed out by the units of alcohol consumed!).

Ate quite healthily yesterday but snacked on rubbish while the kids were in their swimming lessons - have noticed that my meals are relatively healthy but it's the snacking while hanging around that I have to work on!

I too woke up at 5am this morning (for no reason grrrr).

and at your 16,000 steps marina. That's some serious step action!

Lots of walking up and down brown brick staircases and cussing FIS, sadly

hello 6 weekers.
Anyone missing me?

I have been rubbish, due to disastrous few weeks of family upset and trauma.

Am very impressed Winnie that you are staying on course despite what must be a devastating time for you. May try and return myself next week.

Hello puddle, yes we missed you, but there is a certain amount of coming and going on here (I've only even been doing proper boot camp for a week myself despite allegedly being on board in March )
Sorry to hear things have been so rotten for you all

Puddle, I bet I've been as rubbish, welcome back!

Today I am mostly eating fattening things
so far toast with butter x 3, peanut butter on one of them, a packet of Wotsits, six quail eggs and half a PE MArgherita pizza. No exercise.

At least some people are honest on here about when they are a bit rubbish . I just didn't dare post in most of April when on an Easter Egg jag because I was so ashamed of myself

Well, today, muesli, fruit, salad.

Yesterday - malt loaf, pasty spinach ricotta thing and pizza
Day before - egg and chips

It's been quick carbo rubbish chez puddle the last few days.

Thought I'd killed this thread last night but glad to see I haven't

Drank the 1.5 ltr of water yesterday afterall . Have almost finished a 1.5 ltr bottle already today

Had a fantastic pamper last night including face mask and deep conditioning hair treat and pedicure and it was lovely. Nearly poured myself a glass of wine but stopped myself. Will really enjoy it tonight.

The one thing I am slipping on is exercise and I really envy all of you who are managing to do so much walking. Well done

Hello you lot

This thread is making me aware, in ghastly bright light, of my failings. I did go to Pilates last night...but will draw a veil, a very thick one, over my eating. And cannot say that attending child's party with DD2 today has added to my Healthful Food quota. AND I am too knackered and, to be honest, ground down with vile period to go swimming tonight; might go first thing tomorrow.

BUT the Deadline Article has gone down extremely well - got nice email back from commissioning ed - so feel more resigned to a spot of work because I'm applying for a maternity cover (few days a week for a few months) working on...stop tittering...a glossy...onhealth

Had a good day but am going to have a very bad night. Have made a fish pie with double cream and cheese and have a lovely bottle of good wine chilling in the fridge. DH is feeling really crap so might be dining all alone. I have been to bed alcohol-free and ridiculously early for two nights running and need a later night tonight.

Batters - I bought the Boots stuff too! Four weeks to notice a difference so we'll have to compare notes then.

Good day yesterday until h phoned ds and he was obviously out with friends and then I almost lost it. Somehow kept my alcohol intake down to 2 large glasses of wine but also ate a bowl of lush vanilla icecream; 2 cubes of maya gold & a 22g pkt of snackojacks (which taste of nothing but monosodium glutomate and are vile... but I still ate them )

I tried to buy a pedometer yesterday. Not one to be found in this town!!! Will try again today in the city but have a feeling I will end up ordering one of Amazon.

Morning all!
am working and the place is of course deserted at the mo
Batters and Yoyo, will be really interested in what you think of the magic serum and that fish pie sounded gorgeous Yoyo. Please tell me you tucked well and truly in...
Goodish day yesterday, 10,000 steps, eating heathily (leek mushroom and bacon risotto for dinner) plus a couple of glasses of wine as a reward for a good week and the start of a new healthy routine, plus to toast pinkchampagne's new home and new life
Best of luck with the maternity cover application MI and Winnie, I think you deserved that ice-cream. I'm really devastated for you that he has done this and I hope his GP appointment goes well.

happy birthday batters' dd!

Well, as predicted, after walking 7.25km (according to pedometer thing - the amazon one, you were all right, tis very good), I felt I deserved a drink (hmm, perhaps using the pedometer to justify drinking was not quite the idea ) so ended up consuming far too much at the pub last night. Actually, it wasn't that much in alcohol units - just that my alcohol tolerance is so so poor that 2 pints of bitter start making me all giggly and it's all downhill from there.

Anyway, have started today by taking the kids out for breakfast (dh working) - we all had croissants and hot chocolate.

Hope your day at work passes quickly marina!

Good morning everyone! Not really feeling chipper as consumed too much wine but it was lovely. I think I get alcohol-induced sleep disturbance as if I drink I always wake at about 3 am and am still awake a couple of hours later. It should make wine unappealing..

Marina - the fish pie was superb! A Jamie Oliver one that I tweaked by adding an equal quantity of smoked haddock. Very calorific but comforting! Also had fruit compote and yogurt - in for a penny, in for a pound. If you are still in work and can lay your hands on a copy of The Spectator there is a brilliant short story by Clarissa Tan that is definitely worth reading. It is called The Visit.

Marina, poor you having to work. Hope it whizzes by. Well done on the steps though.

TBH I am not coping well. I just feel like screaming at him ALL OF THE TIME. I feel so angry. He left a message on my mobile this morning that he'd phoned to speak to ds and it enraged me. I know he's phoned to speak to ds how he has treated me demonstrates the fact that despite telling me he still loves me he doesn't... oh good grief I am ranting. I am sorry. I am trying to be dignified and keep myself together in front of him and the children but the person I would turn to is my Mum In fact it is probably because she is no longer here and I had no one really close to lean on with dd that he and I got really close again. I need to pull myself together.

FIS, you have almost convinced me to just buy the pedometer from Amazon. You sound like you are having a lovely morning

Hear hear sobernow. I always comfort eat under stress (a wretched year after a stillbirth mostly accounts for my weight problem now and it's only four years down the line I feel really ready to confront the problem) so you are doing magnificently winnie

I'll have to buy The Spectator, we don't take it here. The Brass Herald and Prokofiev Foundation Newsletter don't really cut the diversionary mustard!
Yum at your breakfast FIS, hope the rest of the day goes well

Winnie, I don't know the history to your current awful situation, but massive sympathies.

I didn't - oh how surprised you will be to hear - go swimming this morning; instead I lay in bed with a thumping headache (combination of bottle of cava split with DP, and sinusitis, and gawd knows what else) till the merry frolicking of children around me forced me into the relative peace of getting up. Must do some work this pm and think Healthfully Glossy Thorts (I probably won't get this post, and tbh life will be just fine if I don't, but I do need to make a competent fist of it).

And have sublimated this weekend's baking urge into making 36 lemon-flavoured mini-fairy cakes, to be bunged in freezer and taken out on 12 May and iced with pink icing and sprinkles and taken on our local Mile for Maude.

I'm definitely a comfort eater as well, and a 'bored' eater. Always have been.

I'm also a bored eater annoyingly. I lost vast amounts of weight when I went back to work and reversed that trend when I stayed at home again!

Oh winnie, what a sod he sounds (sorry). I'll join you on the ice cream eating front - tis one of my fave bad foods - I tell myself it does wonders for my dairy intake (which I'm supposed to be increasing!).

I have hardly done any steps as I've been cleaning out the children's room (arrghh) so only 2000 steps today when I ventured out for breakfast and then out to Budgens to display my breasts to the shop staff (don't ask - combination of pre-kids bra which my breasts seemed to perch on top of rather than in, very low cut T-shirt and bending down to see what time Dr Who was on in the Radio Times ).

It's curry night tonight for me and the children - huge vat of chicken curry on the stove with lots of onion bhajis and cold beer (for me!).

marina, I'm sure we have a copy of the Spectator lying around somewhere if you'd like it.