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.

FIS - bet you were blushing in Budgens! Have you read the short story? I'd be interested to hear what you thought of it if you have.

Winnie - scream on here instead. He has treated you appallingly and I think you seem to be coping incredibly well. Make sure you are okay and don't be too hard on yourself. Find something to take your anger out on - a good stomp around the park with or without a pedometer is good.

Going to have a G&T now whilst the children are glued to Dr Who.

MI, FIS, yoyo thanks

It's been a long day and I've felt quite low but I've been good bootcamp wise (although I've already drank 3 glasses of wine this evening). Have also given in and ordered the pedometer from Amazon. It had better be worth the money

Batters, I've been reading about that serum today (in yesterdays Guardian), is it good?
dd's birthday weekend sounds great fun, happy birthday from me too.

MI, glad the article was well received adn well done on pilates. What a great idea about fairy cakes, it's never occurred to me to freeze them.

Yoyo, sounds like a lovely pie and evening! I definitely sleep badly if I drink too much, absolutely.

Winnie, you're doing really well, the ice cream sounds lovely. I hope your h sees a gp soon and Sobernow's right about your self esteem and being kind to yourself.

Marina, what a pita having to work on Saturday. Comfort eating, yep, me too. Bereavement, pregnancy, stopping smoking all stymied me on the weight front.

FIS, ha ha at pedometer being used to justify alcohol intake, I so wish you hadn't put that idea into my head omg at tits out in Budgens shocker!

I've been very rubbish, time off work really buggers me on the 10yy front. I saw some photos from my 40th (last Oct) yesterday and just thought omg, omg, they're SO at odds with how I think I look it's frightening. I really need to be very good boot camp wise for a while. Mind you, I think I've been healthier this year than last, I hope so anyway, I think I look better now than I did then. Honestly, they were photos of this fat bloated woman with puffy little eyes, a bad dye job and a florid face (morning after photos but still), completely utterly vile. Really really depressing. They stayed in my mind for quite a while yesterday.

Anyway, yesterday was toast with butter, not much for lunch other than a few breadsticks and a couple of baby bels, but a PE American Hot pizza and 3 glasses of Chianti, pralines and cream haagen daaz for supper. Eaten in front of Dr Who and a movie, all on our projector on the wall and followed by f&fs so a very enjoyable evening.

Today I am determined to get the pedometer working and go for a walk alone once dh is up.

And it's a week six tomorrow and then an all new six week the week after that. I am now aiming for our weekend away in a month's time as a goal time for when I need to be looking better than I do now.

And I do see that 'I look shit' para followed by 'I ate crap last night' para explain a lot...

Thank goodness it wasn't Waitrose FIS . I'd love that article when you have finished with it, how kind
I'm ill today so am likely only to do small totters round the house I am sincerely glad that so many of you are having a nicer BH weekend than me, though, honest
Batters, hope the rest of the weekend goes as well and you have a nice lunch
WWW - please stop looking at bad photos of yourself, 1) there can't be that many of them surely and 2) choose a lovely one for motivation instead

the last few days have not been good for me - wine, birthday cake and another lunch out.

Exercise is somewhat lacking - does trawling the shopping centre for 3 hours count - should have worn the pedometer.

Yesterday I had the joy of 2 children's parties to attend - oh boy I needed that wine last night.

I really need dh to go away on business so that I can return to the straight and narrow, or I am going to be banned from this thread in disgrace.

But I am happy

I think happy comes top of the list iota

oh and WWW you are looking good - ignore the bad photos - we all have loads of them tucked away

why thankyou marina - hope you get well soon

Iota, thank you, that's very kind and really makes me feel better (I hope you didn't feel obliged to post saying I'm not a troll!) It was one of my rougher looking days when we met too so that really has comforted me

I'm glad you're happy and don't worry, while you're making lovely comments like that you will not be banned

I need NO MORE bank holidays as I fall down terribly when dh and I are at home and not working. And I've been terribly slack on the exercise front.

But right, I am going to look on the bright side. I reckon I've dropped 2 dress sizes since we started. And when I've had a week of really doing this plan properly, i,e, early nights, no wine, lots of water then I do know I've been looking a lot better for it.

Happy weekend everyone!

I looked in a mirror (admittedly a magnifying one) on Friday and saw...

...Jenni Murray .

Swam this morning. Will swim again tomorrow morning as whippet-thin dancer cousin is coming to stay and I really should spend Wednesday evening with her (she is very, very nice) and of course will have to make lots of nice food for her (which she will wolf down appreciatively). Rest of life not madly fabulous as am exhausted and DP is grumpy (the saga of how he has been doing every bit of tidying up around me for years continues, and it's not true and not fair ); oh, and part of my proposal for this job appears to be duplicated in the current mag. Frankly, cannot be @rsed to redo my considerable work in this area, am going to tinker with proposal and send off...

Marina, did you get my email? Was that ok?

Marina, are you feeling any better?

Sorry to whinge earlier. Have had child-free afternoon (they bogged off to a friend's to play) and am feeling curiously refreshed. Much as I love them, they do rather drain the life force, kids, or is that just the Inferiorettes?

And WWW, I'll dig out a quite repulsive photo (recent) of me and send it to you to cheer you up.

Oh god, have found them, they're truly off-putting. Must remember to be nicer to Mr Inferior as nobody, nobody will ever fancy me again at this rate

Marina, I hope you are feeling better.

Batters, it sound like you've been having a lovely weekend.

MI and WWW, whilst I have never met either of you in RL everything I ever read by others on here who have met you in RL absolutely contradicts the images you are painting today

I've had a good day. Took dc to savernake forest where we walked and walked and walked. Dd and ds had fun climbing trees and I was reminded that I can actually do single parenthood and enjoy it

Winnie, how lovely

Oooh, and Winnie, I've just had a - belated - thought. I wrote a booklet for the Mental Health foundation on friendships/relationships with a person with a mental health problem. Hang on, I'll see if it's online. \link{http://www.mhf.org.uk/campaigns/mhaw/friendship-and-mental-health/booklet-and-posters/keeping-us-going/There's almost certainly nothing new here}, but it's a good organisation, worth talking to.

here

Thanks MI

I can send you the photos to cheer you up too if you like

Sounds like you had an lovely afternoon Winnie Savernake Forest is supposed to be very beautiful!
Torty, got the e-mail, fab, thanks for doing that
www, that's just the sort of story that is good to hear - well done on the two dress sizes!
Good luck with the proposal MI
Am still feeling somewhat cr*ppy so will just wish everyone a good day tomorrow and crawl off to the sofa. Have got a doosy of a virus