WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, WEEK SIX already.

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This is week 6 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

healing that would be..

it probably is good for the heels. In fact, you have inspired me and I'm off to eat some porridge for dinner (am still stuffed from lunch).

Happy Birthday for the weekend - I don't believe in all this star sign bollocks but you and me are both Tauruses (or is it Taureans?). I know I'm as stubborn as a mule but you, moondog, surely not?

Will look out for the blackcurrants in a tin. Really glad to hear everything is working out so well.

www, the prospect of 1:1 yoga sessions.

I have had a really lovely day. Had to move the car this morning from car park and the rain poured down so I decided to go into Bath. Had lovely salad lunch in the metropolitan cafe and read my book and drank espresso's and felt quite happy Mooched around Bath for a couple of hours and then returned home where I was able to sit in the garden and read some more Realise I am ok until I have any contact with h at which point I just want to commit an act of violence

Dd cooked dinner of wholewheat pasta and sauce which was nice.
have drunk water; have not consumed alcohol; have creamed merrily and even experimented with a new lippy and putting my hair up into a different style! I got into a top I've not been able to wear for some time today which was also good.

Wheatgraass shots are great. They make me feel so sick for hours, so I am physically unable to eat a thing.

Surefire weight loss technique.

• Sunscreen ~ I need to buy a second one as I have two make up bags and need one in each. Will buy this week.
• booze ~ doing well on this
• Walking ~ so-so. Will be back to normal tomorrow.
• water ~ doing okay. Sore throat atm so drinking more perhaps than usual at home.
• body cream ~ manage this most mornings now.
• hand cream ~ doing this most nights.
• bed early ~ I really struggle with this but did go up early last night. Woke up around 6am for the third morning in a row, though. Grrr.
• Eat healthily ~ not too bad.
• Be happy ~ had a poor day. Early start. Lost my voice. The electrics played dh up so had to boil water to avoid giving ds a stone cold bath after football. Washed myself and hair in stone cold water this am. Thankfully, the electrics are behaving again! Water back on. Boiler working. Fridge freezer cleaned thoroughly and now back on. Need to retrieve my stuff from a neighbour's freezer and fridge later.

www I have a nice few days at a hotel coming up at the beginning of June so I need to get clothes organised, too. I think I'll concentrate on linen trousers and closely fitted tops. I'm sure I won't fit into those that I bought for a wedding last summer. I'm afraid to try them on and see just how much more of me there is 10mths later.

Winnie - sounds like a great day. Pleased to read that DD cooked your tea - that must bring a smile to your face! You are sounding super-svelte these days too.

WWW - sounds like you mean business. You are only one size away from where you want to be and I am sure your determination to get there will work. Have you considered pilates? Feel like I have had as thorough work out after mine. Which personal shoppers are you going for?

Moondog - birthday sounds fun. Did you party long and hard? Your body was probably craving all that veg today. Tried those frozen soya beans and thought they were vile.

I'm having an okay day although thought I would get to the gym which I haven't done. May do 20 mins pilates later. Spotty skin (so much for the serum, may return to Origins very quickly) and lank hair so not feeling very bright.

yoyo, I am far from 'super-svelte'. I am a size 20 but going in the right dirction

You certainly are Winnie. You are already down two sizes aren't you? Did you get the pedometer in the end? You seem to have found the willpower to see this through and now that WWW has got tough there'll be even more incentive.

Well done Winnie, I'm glad you had a lovely day and great news on the weight loss and the getting into the top. Well, if speaking to him sends you downhill...

Yoyo, I am going to phone John Lewis, House of Fraser and Debenhams and see who's is nicest soundng and free on the day I want! Yes, would consider pilates but think yoga first for the calmness of it.

OK, I have ordered wheatgrass from Superfoods will report back on what the effect is.

Moondog, welcome to the 40 club, belated happy birthday for the weekend, was it good?

Suzywong, glad to hear you're back on our wagon although you are vair amusing when not. 9 veg, wow.

Sobernow, hope you managed to de stress even if it did involve going into the office

Dino, sorry to hear about virus but well done for walking lots

Caribq, wb, yes, is VERY SERIOUS now, OK? So do come and get motivated with moi!

Iota, sofa pilates, hmmmm.

MI, sounds v pleasurable, hope the bbq was fun and not too rainy, it rained a lot here today.

FIS, you keep coming up with new ways to justify booze intake, stoppit!

SS, well done. I've just ordered a load of fairly cheap M&S stuff to keep me going until I make a personal shopper appt, why don't you make one too? They're free. Which hotel are you going to

Well done everyone. I am serious now...

Right. I too am serious. Terible weekend - had my family here on Saturday/Sunday and dh's Sunday/Monday, so have not only eaten all the amazing (IISSM) food I cooked, but drank copiously just to get through it. But I too have a pedometer which I will be wearing from tomorrow, and I am about to do healthy online shopping. So please bollock me too.

www - I use this dvd for Yoga. After a week of doing it I could remember the basic routine and now do it as often as possible and it takes just 20 minutes. Whilst I haven't noticed huge improvements in weight or shape (probably not the yoga's fault) I am a lot more flexible, and it's an easily manageable daily practice

www if you don't mind me saying, I reclkon 1:1 yoga will be a waste of time because a.) it will cost a packet and b.) it won't tone you up or slim you down.For that you need to move your arse.

What does work (and I am someone who only discoverd joys of exercise at age of 38) is having a mix of stuff that you mix and match as you get bored.
So for me that is running outside,bike riding,going to the gym and step and trampette aerobic sessions at local leisure centre.

Once you get into it it maKES you feel so good and energised that you don't want to not go.I speak as somoene who at heart is happiest listening to very loud music,smoking loads of fags,drinking vats of wine and rustling up gourmet meals.If I can do it anyone can.

And thank you yes,my weekend was very good.
Lovely evening out with friends,lovely little party at home (just me my mother and children) and hamper from dh (away in Tajikistan) containing roses,chocolates and Champagne. Also off to Martinique in 2 weeks for hols with sister and her family who live there.
So,no complaints at all.

(I did lose control when slicing unbelievably tasty homemade courgette and walnut loaf for kids today though.)

yoga will tone you up
you speak from your arse, moondog

but Happy Birthday all the same

you are a woman after my own heart with your list of things you are happiest doing. Does that include kissing small children, cos I 'd have to have that on my list too.

right day 2 of anti bloat diet

I have discovered that although tinned mackerel mashed up with philadelphia, red onions, olive oil and home made sweet chilii sauce is divine as a lunchtime sandwich filling, if you don't wear latex gloves when handling everything stinks of fish. The worst kind of fish smell.

It puts me in mind of that old joke; Adam and Eve had had their first shag and Eve wanders over to the stream in the garden of Eden to have a little sploosh when God's voice booms out " Noooooooooo, stop, we'll never get that smell out of the fish now!"

I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me.

sw, you're terrible, muriel.

Prufrock, right, I seized the moment and have just ordered that dvd so thanks for that.

Moondog, it's not just the toning, it's serenity I want I agree re moving your arse, I am doing that too. Glad your birthday was good.

I do like walking and was musing on my walk yesterday that I might also like horse riding although I haven't done it for years so I may get back into that. So I reckon a yoga/walking/riding/eating less combo will work.

Went to bed early ish last night but hs meant it was prob 11.30 when I slept. Oh well, high on happiness etc! dd woke at 5.30 but it's ok.

today
body lotion
flexitol
hand cream
100g granola
1 perfet skin vit tablet, 1x echinacea, 1 x
multi vit

And I've discovered that I can clip my pedometer to the waistband of my skirt and have it handing down inside my skirt so the clip is covered by my top and I hardly notice it's there, RESULT!

sorry way tmi, apologies. Thought that as cleaning my teeth and came back to post it, byeeeeee!

I am seriously thinking that some of us might want to do a personal shop together in the future - with lunch too .
Since I started Boot Camp I feel and look better and appear to have lost three kilos!
Not down a dress size yet but working on it, well done winnie and www too
My weak point is turning out to be sleep - I'm not getting to bed early enough because there is always so much to do. Must try harder there.
Saturday was work so got plenty of exercise but was unfortunately not v. well on Sun and Mon so no exercise. Drank loads though and was off my grub so not too bad in the end. Am v. proud of self for resisting snacking despite rampant PMT, my usual downfall. One dk choc Kitkat is very atypical!
Good luck to all this week and be happy

I weighed myself this morning and have actually put on 6kg since January but haven't risen a size yet (but am at the upper end of the size now arrghh) so need to do my utmost best to halt this trend right now! Congrats to all of you who have dropped dress sizes/lost weight!

I have had

2 cheese rolls with hummus
a pasta salad with feta and tomatoes
lots of lemon squash
a satsuma

and will be having roast pork, crackling , roast pots and lots of cabbage for dinner tonight.

Have done lots of decorating today (which is quite tiring) and walked loads (will check tonight for the total).

Batters, think it was yoyo who did Pilates.

I do pilates. Once a week. Matwork. You get to lie down, although it is curiously strenuous. I rather like it. Although I should point out a GP was rude about my abdominal muscle tone recently (as in I didn't have any) so I cannot claim that it has made me lean or honed or suchlike. It has reduced my stomach, though, I reckon, and generally made me a bit more muscly.

Thing is, I am gloomily concluding that when you get to Nearly FortyFour, much of this is just holding back the tide. Seven years ago when I swam three or four times a week I had toned legs. I wore short(ish) skirts.

Then I got pregnant

I do pilates - on a Tuesday, just before I do the school run, looking distinctly unglamorous rather than gym bunny.

Currently have rather sore stomach muscles

I do a pilates class (will be doing two a week soon) and a one-to-one once a month to ensure that I am maintaining good alignement throughout the moves and also to practise some advanced ones (same teacher). It has made me very aware of my posture and I think I hold myself far better now. I haven't lost weight or dropped dress sizes but I am more toned and very strong. I find it incredibly intense but always finish the hour on a high! My pelvic floor is much improved too.

Next thing to work on is my aerobic fitness. There was a guide to starting running in the Times on Sun so tomorrow I will be doing 24 mins (v. precise) on the running machine - 2 mins running, 2 mins walking repeated 6 times. There is a 6 week plan and should mean I can run 5 km at the end. Perhaps I should start next week with the next 6 week Boot Camp.

Food, water, creams - all good.

ooh yy yoyo - that's the running thing (in the S times) I was thinking of doing too.