WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, WEEK 1 all over again, everyone welcome

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This is week 1 of the fourth 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

Ah, I wondered where you'd got to. I missed you!

me too MI, and I have PMT, didn't get shortlisted for another interview and am feeling utterly unemployable and sick to death of Dp being resentful about being fucking breadwinner and acting like I do nothing!.

Anyway, I have no willpower WWW. I was doing really well a couple of weeks ago, lots of exercise and no binging of any kind, and by the end of the weeks the scales had not budged. I felt totally conned and had a pizza with lashings of green pesto slathered on it.

Well fat lot of good you lot are with your encouragement I went to teh gym anyway. that's willpower that is! I've abandoned early night policy as dh is away and I can never sleep without him here. So I'm now in bed with large slice of melon and am going to use the time wisely to tackle working out what my brother owes me. (He's moving out on saturday he moved in 16 months ago to "get back on his feet")

How's your melon Pru? I'm finishing a spreadsheet and then going to bed myself. Very early for me. I'll have to work faster tomorrow to catch up.

Well done for going to the gym - I'm hoping to do a 2-3 mile run after pre-school drop tomorrow. If I do, I'll come on and brag

Goodnight!

Morning all.

Thanks for all the kind words. I had 3 glasses of red wine, a packet of Wotsits and a howl last night and feel fine this morning. I think we all need a good wail now and again. Sorry you were feeling weepy too MI.

Sobernow, oh ok, yes, you've prob got a point re middle aged spread.

Batters, I've been roughly aiming for 1700 cals/day, maybe that's too mch then. But I KNOW if I get too hungry I will fail spectacularly and not just on one piece of toast but on a full blown scraping sticky bits out of the pan roast chicken with lots of skin and roast potatoes and wine, followed by bacon sandwiches to mop up resulting hangover. Hmmm, sounds too close to my weekends really! Ooh I like the sound of that programme, will have to see if I can watch it. at no longer than 10 days or they might die. Focuses the mind somewhat doesn't it? I'm impressed at 8,000 steps even when ill.

winnie, thanks, iirc your dad died around the time as I joined mn in 2002. I'm glad the walk helped. And I think that's a ting skinnny people do, fit exercise into their daily routines.

I have another things skinny people do: I had lunch with one yesterday (well, she lunched, I had already had my hummus and carrot sticks) and she ordered a portion of chips, ate about 10 and threw the rest away! There you go.

DofN, did you get to bed by midnight? That's a start and I think you should aim for 11 tomorrow/next week.

Yoyo, that's good that you're active etc, sounds as if you don't need a moron.

MT, sorry to hear that, maybe lurking/this thread will help you...

Prufrock, well done on the gym.

I've had a pointless wheatgrass shot
a perfect skin vitamin tablet
100g granola

See you later everyone, hqave a good day.

WWW, I'm so sorry about your dad, and you too winnie. Mine is very precious to me as well (get on with him far better than my tricky mum, who had a good fierce go at me about my appearance and ds' "behaviour" as soon as I got home yesterday ) and I know that once he is gone I'll mourn him for the rest of my life. Thinking of you XXX
Good day yesterday - large and fart-tastic plate of delicious salady things at v. nice lunch with two Mners - neither of whom even need to look in the general direction of this thread gggrrrr , toast and hummus with cherry tomatoes and a banana for dinner, lots of water, just about managed 10,000 steps despite lovely luncheon and generally said NO to chocolate leering suggestively at me from the kitchen counter ("pssst, go on, I'm Fair Trade")
PMSL at sobernow and the last shapely hurrah
Have a good, happy day, one and all

Blimey Pamina - that's going it some. Well done!

WWW - Raises glass to missed fathers everywhere. I still miss mine terribly and he died nearly 15 years ago.

I was in bed by 12.05am. Very good for me. I have drunk 1/2 litre water today and I did a 2 mile run after pre-school drop (I am still in my sweaty's). Crap ped reading is 5,500. (Snap with Batters but I don't have a cold so you win on stamina!).

And now I'm going to have some toast and then I'll take the dog out.

Can I think like a fit person rather than a thin one please?

I'll join you in raising a glass to missed fathers, mine died when I was 7 and I still miss him 37 years later.

Winnie - well done on walking off the anger. Many moons ago I found bench-presses a great man-related anger release, usually done whilst muttering insults under my breath Got rid of the anger and gave me great arm muscles if I ever needed to hit him - sadly I never got the chance.

Pretty good day yesterday on all fronts except the excercise bit - chucking it down again for both pre-school run trips so I drove. Sorry WWW I don't share your love of walking in the rain, I grew up in N. Ireland and have done a lifetime of getting soaked whilst walking already!
However I walked today and am just off on foot to pick her up again. Will be interested to know how many steps it is but no Moron yet as I went for the cheapskates free-post option!

Morning everyone from a lurker. I would like to join you if that's OK? I even have a Moron (but haven't set it up yet!)

I need to lose weight, but last night I went on a binge instead and ate half a pack of tortilla chips and loads of chocolate. DH has been away for a couple of nights and the children have been unsettled. Ds is 2.5 yrs and plays up at bedtime anyway - the last 2 nights he has gone to sleep at 10pm. I sat downstairs with the Tesco home delivery shopping around my feet and ate all these stupid things while DS sobbed upstairs on the landing

Anyway, I have been for a walk this morning and DH will be home tonight so it's all OK.
I need to lose weight, use body lotion etc more and go to bed early every night. Oh, and think like a thin person. Does only eating half the tortilla chips count?

feetheart, my dh's father died when dh was six and it is something that to be honest, he has never really recovered from I am so sorry.
Welcome cerys - Moron wearers get straight past the bouncers to the VIP lounge
batters, how are you feeling today, hope the cold is not gaining the upper hand...
I am awestruck pamina - lucky you having the gym to hand though

Afternoon everyone, I didn't make it out on my bike as we had a roof box delivered that took up the whole garage and I couldn't get to it. DH did make me put it on the car in the rain, so I at least did some heavy lifting and running up and down my antique step ladders (they were my Nanny's and she died in 1982, you get the picture about how old they are). I didn't walk to or from pre-school either, as it's pouring, not going very well on the exercise front is it? I did walk the dog last night, there's something.

After we put the roof box on last night Dh was all in favour of fish and chips but I resisted and made the chicken pasta dish I had planned to make, so that's a good thing and the boys and I ate wholemeal toast and an entire punnet of strawberries for breakfast.

I have drunk water and moisturised and am having a jacket potato with cottage cheese and salad for lunch, is that thin person food? I'm trying to be really good this week so I can be a bit naughty at the weekend.

Sorry about all those of you who are missing your dad's, I've come close to losing mine with a heart attack, ironically on the day ds1 was born, but nearly 4 years on he's still with us and we're grateful everyday.

Erm, I don't mean to be thick, but what exactly is a moron?

Hello gang. I've been on my holiday-from-hell in the UK hence the lack of posting.

I will also not mention the GALLONS of wine I've been drinking and fattening food I've been eating.

WWW - I will however say that your plan has been so effective that my friends thought I'd had something done. You are a genius!!!!

Amazon, Pamina - I think it is an Omron Walking Style 2. They are worth every penny (kate100, Moron is sobernow's curiously apt nickname for our uber-nosy pedometer of choice - it wants to know how fat you are before it will very effectively calculate how much your walking is whittling away at the weight!)
I am having a hyperventilatory moment at the very thought of a "boss on sweaty treadmill next door" scenario, I agree it's a double-edged sword. Dh won't use his work gym because it is full of pumped-to-the-max baby-oiled undergraduate narcissists he says.

oh cerys - don't mention Tortilla crisps. Somehow, a packet of cheesy tortilla crisps sneaked into my otherwise healthy food shop. Can't think how it did that .

I am sorry to all of you with absent parents. I'll raise a glass for you all tonight.

I am not doing badly exercise wise - have done lots of Moron steps (who was it that did 20,000 steps the other day - unbelievable, would love to know how much that was in kilometers!) but I'm still putting weight on (largely due to constant snacking to keep my migraines at bay) - but I do feel healthier and am drinking loads more water and my skin feels better from all the cream.

The thought of exercising with work colleagues would be enough for me - I dread bumping in to anyone I know at the gym as the sweat pours off me and I turn a most fetching purple hue. This is why I go in the mornings and am lucky enough to be a SAHM at the moment.

So sorry to hear of all the Dads - mine is in poor health and I dread the phone ringing when I know he is having a particularly bad time.

Am having a good day. Went to the gym and have legs like jelly at the moment. They will hopefully recover sufficiently for my Pilates tomorrow. Food wise am doing okay but really really need an early night. Am going to bed too late and then waking throughout the night. Last night I was woken with dreams of sitting DD's SATs!

The tortilla chips were only in the Tesco shop as I plan to make a chicken dish tonight which has them as a topping - DH really likes this meal but we don't have it very often. I'm glad I stopped while there are still enough to cover the dish. And the chocolate was a substitution which I weakly accepted - it was the start of a slippery (and calorific) slope.

DS is currently asleep, having whinged nearly all morning and I have had some Covent Garden mushroom soup and some cold chicken.

I am running our local Race for Life on Sunday so need to get out for a run or two before then.

Oh, I spoke too soon - DS has just got up! See you later

Foxy, it was me. I was shocked too. Here's how...
4700 steps between home and work (including 25 minutes forced march up through the City)
Further 6500 steps strutting my stuff round the Barbican at lunchtime
That's more or less all on a normal day, plus 2000 odd steps to get me home again.
But that afternoon I had a meeting on a different site, walked there, then thence to tube station, then an hour's shopping up and down Oxford Street, then I zipped down to Shaftesbury Avenue, then back up again to Liberty, then back down again to Charing X. I was out til 10.15pm though, and I did ingest French patisserie at one point
I have to give cheese tortilla chips a wide berth though, I love em

Oh, it was eleven bloody kilometres
Thanks Heavens for Clarks ballet pumps

marina, 11km

I'm glad to see at least some of those steps were made in aid of shopping .

Marina - my brother sounds a lot like your DH. He was 5 when my Dad died and can still be reduced to tears when he talks about him
Very impressed with 20,00 steps as well, think a French sticky bun was the least you deserved!

FiS - Friend of mine, who has a needle phobia, finally succumbed to accupuncture for her migraines and it worked. Less fattening than snacking which is my downfall as well though I don't have any excuse other than greed!!

Good day and really need to find the time to go buy some new clothes because I look ridiculous. Really though I need to go down another size so I have a wider choice which will mean I can buy clothes because i love them instead of because they fit me & will do

Am feeling very stressed because of dd, h and an inspection of the house tomorrow. Really feel like a glass of wine but fear it wouldn't stop there so if will endeavour to get past nine o'clock and not think about it too much and then I will be ok. (I know it's bizarre but if I get past 9 I will very rarely open a bottle for myself!)

Have done 8000 steps today and once ds is in bed, if I can get dd to sit for 30 mins I shall go out for a bit of a walk.