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

Winnie - as you are wearing clothes which are so big for you is it not possible that you might already be that size smaller already? Why don't you do some online shopping? Are you having problems with DD again? I thought (and hoped) that things were going well between you now. Hope the house inspection goes well and if you really don't want that glass of wine brush your teeth - wine will taste absolutely foul!

Batters, my love, don't worry and thank you, I'm fine today, my period started so that will have contributed.

The anniversary of our dad's death is this Friday so not even yesterday/today but my sister texting me set me off last night. However, she later texted to say why doesn't she come here on Saturday night so we can get 'gloriously drunk' (her expression) and remember him, so that's what we're going to do and I'm really looking forward to it. Champagne and memories I think.

Marina, sorry about your mother's comments, as Twiglett (I think) says:mothers push our buttons so well because they installed them. lol at fart tastic and well done on 10,000 steps! Now I realise how far that is I'm most impressed with everyone who does it.

Pamina, thank you too. I think lunch from home is fairly essential, I've been doing it for ages and it really helps. Water thing def works, it makes me walk further too as cooler isn't near my desk!

Duchess of Norks, sympathies on your father too and I absolutely join you in that toast. Of course you can think like a fit person instead of a thin one! 12.05 is an improvement, well done.

Feetheart, oh that's sad, how young, I'm sorry you miss him too. And lol at bench presses and hitting the bloke! Completely understand about drizzle, not many people share my love of that

Cerys, you're most welcome! Poor you, that sounds tough. I'd have laid into the wineas WELL as tortillas. I'm glad your dh is back tonight, welcome to 10yy But hey, you have a moron, marvellous.

Kate100, well done on resisting fish and chips, good for you, that is thinking like a thin person! A moron is a pedometer, it's really called an Omron but Sobernow has renamed it.

ARFY! I've been WONDERING where you were! You posted from a British train and then fked off and didn't reply when I posted back to you, but I'm so pleased to see you and how fab that they thought something had been done, brilliant news! So, listen, wheatgrass and goji berries, did they help or are they pointless expensive shite? Please tell me, I'm necking them but Obs article says they're pants... welcome back anyway.

Ewww eww at boss in thong, NO!

FIS, don't weigh! well done on walking

Yoyo, glad you ahd a good day

Winnie, I reckon you should allow yourself some wine. Well done everyone.

Back later to report on my day after The Apprentice...

thank you for the welcome messages!

DH is home but even that didn't settle poor little DS, though he finally fell asleep at 9pm, which is an improvement on 10pm the last 2 nights. So DH and I ate our chicken-dish-with-a-few-tortilla-chips-topping in shifts. Oh well, the intentions were good.

I need to try and set my Moron tonight.

I was thinking about CBeebies and Nina and the Neurons and wondered if that made us Marina and the Morons? (Disclaimer: cerys is not trying to insult everyone on this thread)

After my run, I had quite a long walk with the dog - and the sun came out for the first time in ages so that was nice! I've done 16,901 steps today. And I'm just off for a shower, hair wash & moisturising session and will try and go to bed before 12am.

Glad to see so many of you had good days.

OK,

Granola
wheatgrass shot
perfect skin vitamin
apple
salad with a tin of mackeral in it
apple
RESISTED cream cakes right in front of my desk all day
nuts, goji berries
loads of water
no walking, only 6,600 steps
a PE AMerincan Hot, 600 odd cals
red wine x 4/5, who knows, eek
going to bed now
but have had lovely time with dh watchig tv and chatting
and my week is over tomorrow!

at your pizza. Will have to visit PE with you one day and have matching pizzas!

thanks feetheart - have not thought of acupuncture. Don't have needle problems though could probably do without being jabbed all over the place .

I did around 10,000 steps today but have sore legs from running yesterday so won't do any more exercise.

winnie - you must get some new stuff. Treat yourself

marina - hope you've been watching our friend at 4.30. Incidentally, Kenat is someone Miaou knows from her village!

Didn't have the wine but didn't get out for a walk either.

Dd has been much, much better yoyo but for the past two weeks or so she has been slipping back into the bad habits I was hoping she was moving on from Bizarrely, all of her professional help just stopped However, after a 'talk' last night I have found a homemade card by my bedroom door this morning saying 'sorry' & I am hopeful that my words have helped before things snowball completely out of control again.

well done everyone. It's nearly the weekend

Winnie - the card must have given you some reassurance that she is not slipping back to the bad days. I hope you have a much better evening.

WWW - sounds like you had a good night. I love evenings chatting with DH on the sofa (until I notice how much wine has effortlessly been swallowed!).

Batters - pert breasts and bottom? I will never, ever have either again. Thank god for lycra which at least minimises the appearance of the wobblier bits.

Marina - my Mother relished in telling me that I had let myself go because there was no point in making an effort when all I do is look after children. So not only does she think I look appalling but am also wasting my education by being an SAHM! One day I will shock her when I breeze in glowing with health and vitality, smartly dressed with just the right amount of make up and a knockout haircut and talking about my fabulous job. It might be a while but I'll get there!

It is piddling down here. I am off to pilates soon and then a quick march round Tesco. Not the most exciting of days admittedly.

Yoyo I'm at your mum. You go girl!

I'm doing fine. My biggest achievements are:

• no wine since Saturday (am looking forward to some at the w/end!)
• have started exercising. Did 20 mins on the rebounder today
• am drinking more water and wearing sunscreen.

Can someone please tell me about moisturising - I don't really do it!

Wotcher all

What is it with mothers ?

My exercising has gone belly-up, so to speak, over the past couple of weeks apart from the morning walk which involves a lot of steps but at DD2's pace; she is a sprightly sort of a girl but is not quite four. The dash back from school is pretty good though.

Have haircut scheduled for tomorrow evening (and indeed lash tint for this lunchtime) because have to meet glossy wimmin's mag editor next week. Although I suspect that all efforts will slightly pall with someone who does being polished for a living.

Did no exercise at all yesterday, it rained all day here and then in the evening dh went out and I had to got to puppy training, so have done nothing, well I ran around after the ds's at gym and play does that count.

I did eat very well yesterday, had ltos for friut and vegetables (strawberries, orange juice, tomatoes, peas and asparagus) and did not snack on any junk.

Still trying to walk to pre-school but the weather is awful and ds1 always wants to stand on the back of the buggy which makes it near impossible to push or he drags alongside me moaning about not wanting to walk until he gets in sight of the place and then he runs off to catch up to his friends. Must try harder.

BUT - marina did you get anything in the post? Hope so!

Hiding but because I'm stressed, not baecause I've been bad (though exercise has sort of fallen by the wayside whist I deal with Ofsted inspection of pre-school, and stressed dh, who doesn't understand that my voluntary stuff is actually as important to me as is work is to him) Off to write a child protection policy!

OK so now Tortoiseshell and Prufrock have confessed... I'm not having a good week either.

oh sorry misread your post Prufrock - you've not been bad

Prufrock - what do you need? I'm Secretary of Pre-school committee and have all the policies on computer I think.

Just checked - I have 21 policies, what do you need?

Prufrock, tried the Preschool Learning Alliance? I'm sure you have, just trying unhelpfully to be helpful!

Got it thanks tortoiseshell and have mailed you!
My day's been a write-off - a lovely combo of stalking poorly ds with a sickbowl until 3.30pm and arrival of dh/cavalry, then straight in to work to do the rest of my long shift
So not much exercise but have eaten well and drunk lots of water.
Good luck with all that paperwork prufrock, sounds very daunting.
Earlier this year I hid on here for eight weeks ladies and continued eating all the pies, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A few days off the Boot Camp wagon? Pah, dilettantes!

Oh, oh, oh - DH has just rung to check what size I am. He's doing some work for someone who runs a lingerie business and is bringing home some samples

Winnie, sorry about dd, I hope it's just a blip. Well done on not having the wine.

Batters, do you feel a bit better today? I hope so. Grrr at gyms full of pertness. They should open special ones for lardy people where thin people are not allowed to go.

Thanks Pamina re goji berries and well done on water and be good to yourself curry.

Yoyo at your mother! I think mine thinks the same about me re how I look. Bloody hell. That's right, think positively and you'll show her hey at some point.

Londonmamma, well done. You MUST moisturise or your skin will be like leather!

MI, ooh, is that potentially good news then? Ikwym about glossy people, I work with some.

Right Tortoishell, Prufrock and Iota, sorry you're not having good weeks...Stress is a hard one to deal with innit, as I'm about to admit.

Marina, sorry ds is ill but lol at pie eating!

Feetheart, oh NICE samples to bring home!

TERRIBLE day for me because I had the news that potentially my job will be gone in 6 months or so. Fking hell, I am PISSED OFF. I won't bore you all with the detail but my dept will merge with another and although there may be a more senior role I will have to fight some pretty unpleasant fkers to get it and said fkers have been a) aware of this for MONTHS and b) lobbying for it and c) have friends in right places. So I am feeling very down today.

My boss is also losing her job within 6 months and so she and I went for lunch at 11.30am on hearing this news and I had 2 glasses of wine and she had 2 vodkas (consecutively, we didn't just neck 2 at a time, we were there for an hour!). I know, it was only 11.40am by the time we got there but then I had 2 starters, a salmon thing and a beef in filo pastry thing. Feel v bloated now.

Also strawberries, raspberries and some nuts and goji berries.

Dh and I are going out for dinner too to talk about it all so I will be bad this evening. Fuck it, I say, might as well write today off!