WEEK FOUR WWW's 10yy bootcamp, all welcome

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This is week 4 of the fourth boot camp of 2007 , everyone is welcome.

Veils drawn over last week

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

Today I have eaten:

Tomato juice, porridge made with a banana and raisins and skimmed milk, espresso
An orange
More espresso
Two kiwis
Organic baked beans and spinach (this sounds horrid, it's actually very nice, a bit of frozen chopped spinach cooked into the beans) on wholemeal toast with a bit of smoked cheddar grated on top to make it edible
a pear
and a large bown of stirfried courgettes, little gem lettuce and rocket with prawns and a few noodles
A bowl of raspberries, blueberries and chopped mango (all originally frozen).

That is a really quite large amount of fruit and veg - I usually (during the week, ahem) manage about seven or eight but I'm proud of that lot.

I tell you this, you realise, purely to distract attention from days of ahem less gustatory virtue.

V good MI but you are going to eat drink and be merry tomorrow I hope?

today i have had:

4 cups of tea
five bits of toast with either marmite or peanut butter
a banana
an apple
a piece of fish and some peas
loads of kids leftovers
a BIG glass of wine

bad bad bad bad

must do better and vowing to ease in to it this week

Hello everyone I seem to pop in on alternate mondays full of shiny good intentions, then disappear as it all goes swiftly downhill.

I have been keeping religiously to the sunscreen though, eating marginally healthier and aiming for earlier nights, and lots more water than I used to so I don't feel too much of an imposter for turning up again.

Am sipping water instead of wine as I type, purely because of this thread so that's got to be good, and have finally discovered a way of doing sit ups that doesn't lead inevitably to a chiropractic appointment - on a big bouncy ball. Hurrah! So I feel able to return.

Cappucino I did an anti candida diet over 20 years ago and though it was dull in the extreme (mainly porridge with water and steamed greens IIRC) the weight fell off and I felt marvellous.

HAve had such a good day today, and it has been hot and sunny too.
I decided to walk to DS' playgroup with him in the buggy, then went to the village and did some shopping and met my parents for a lovely relaxed coffee. Then I collected DS at midday and walked home - this was nearly 10,000 steps by lunchtime.

I went to an extra session with the running club tonight and we did speedwork. It was still hot and I was glad when it was over. But my lovely MORON tells me I have done 18,820 steps, of which 12,325 were aerobic, so I am feeling very virtuous. I have also eaten pretty sensibly, drunk lots of water and not shouted at any of my children

It's the end of Monday and I still have an iron will.

So:

30 minutes cardio and 50 sit ups
Dry body brushed
Applied sunscreen
Haven't walked enough - dog was in kennels and I was running late so couldn't walk to school

3 cups coffee
1.6l water with little bit of peach juice in it (I measured my usual glass so I could be accurate)
1 innocent smoothie
1 apple
1 banana
1 nectarine
Stir fry beansprouts, pepper and spring onion with griddled tuna steak

I would like applause please.

www - holiday was as bad as you all guessed it would be, no visible arguments but my gut was wrenching all the time. He was acting like everything was normal - at one point he even suggested we play cards for money. But fallout from not going would have been worse.

mainly for getting through the holiday

Wow cerys, that's loads of walking!

Turq, I think I need to do sit ups, wow am impressed.

WWW not too much information but self esteem raising with end of abuse helped. Also a counsellor who said give up diets and you will lose weight and whenever I said I couldnt do it said I could. She got me to write a food diary and I associated feelings with food. My X hated my weight and spent a lot of time making me feel bad about it so it also helped not having him around or my mum who also doesnt help.

After I stopped stressing about it things got easier and also concentrating on fit rather than fat helped. No one was forcing me it was for the first time about what I wanted and really wanted not just what I felt I ought to do.

I also took on board the budhist stuff about food being fuel rather than all about satisfying need. Once you see food as fuel your attitude to it changes. I like to enjoy it more but to eat what I need rather than want.

Oh and french women dont get fat is also a great book!

Glitterfairy - your counsellor sounds great. I am so glad that you have been able to turn your life around. Your posts on here are very positive and the "fit not fat" and "food as fuel" messages are so true. I have been concentrating on getting fitter in the gym for weeks now (may even be a couple of months) and whilst the scales show no change my shape has changed and I am much fitter. For me being fitter makes me happy.

prufrock, at your brother after everything. I hope you can find some kind of peace in yourself with regard to the situation.

Glitterfairy, you sound so positive and in control of your life. That is the best news. I am so pleased for you that you are able to enjoy life after all you've been through.

My day has begun with a compliment from a guy I know vaguely who I bumped into this morning.

I am feeling huffy, old, shabby and porky .

I think I shall take myself out to lunch, dammit.

they are Bad (with a proper capital B). Have sent kids to school with pavlova in their lunch boxes in an attempt to get rid of it all before I'm tempted to have more!

Have already done nearly 10,000 steps today because I dropped a prescription on the way to school so walked farking thousands of steps looking for it (grrr) and we (i.e. dh) has lost dd's school reading book so have been turning the house upside down looking for it (arrghh).

Well done everyone on your weight loss.

prufrock - sorry to hear about the holiday

batters - I'm spotty too at the moment grrr!

Not doing very well here. Eating ok, and still doing the sunscreen, body cream, hand cream and no booze (not much, anyway) things, but falling down pathetically on the walking and early nights.

My excuse this week is that DS has been sleeping badly - teething maybe - and DH has been away (and I find it v hard to go to bed early when he's away - I feel the need to keep watch over the house until at least 11)so I'm really tired and not enthusiastic about stepping out for a healthful walk.

Motivate me, please?

have not had much water this morn cos was with dd at physio appt

but have had my soya porridge and live yogurt, am off to work now (yes I bloody know what time it is) with my little bag of carrot sticks and mangetout

tonight I will have a plate of sprouts for tea

(if anyone thinks I am kidding, think again)

did good with moisturiser though am slathered with it. Even did my feet last night because dh was working late and he objects to watching me put on my moisturiser socks

LOl Capp I have a pair of those and sexy they are not!

OOh winnie compliments are good. Mr Batters thank you. Yes I am positive and tore a work colleague off a strip today for taking me for granted! He was amazed and said you would never have done that a year ago.

Have had lovely salad of cos lettuce, walnuts and gorgonzola with sourdough bread (all on my diet) and sorry Capp but another soy decaf latte today as I was in Manchester and it was sunny!

ahem

hello ladies, long time no hear

have not been drinking (much - well - an inch or so of lager with food) and have lost

a smidge over half a stone

am wearing sunscreen and walking very fast everywhere.

i went to bed at 8pm last night and woke refreshed.

am back at work today, after 4 weeks off and I feel, well, Ok am feeling much happier

Gf, thanks for that, it's interesting. I definitely use food (and wine) as a stress reliever/reward/treat, which is rubbish. I quite liked French women don't get fat too, I could go for that quality over quantity stuff.

winnie, that's nice to get a compliment!

Batters, ONLY 10,000, what do you mean? That's fab! I have big spots too I think it's a week of beign off bootcamp tbh.

And you FIS, 10,000 is excellent, sorry about prescription tohugh, and spots what a PITA, sympathy.

Frenchleave, well you've been good on some stuff so well done. The getting to bed early can be hard I know. I have taken to getting into bed with make up off and laptop on at 8pm and it a) stops me thinking about eating/drinking/watching tv adn doing both and b) means I am actually there and do start thinking I must go to sleep now at about 10pm and at least I'm already there.

Capp, you've GOT to eat more than that or your body'll go into starvation mode plus you'll give up. Hey, I can talk, I could be stranded on a polar ice cap and the fat on my hips alone would keep me alive a goooood long time But hey, I can preach...

OOh bundle, welcome back, well done on half a stone and lack of booze and wow at 8pm.

MI, I hope your day has improved and you're somewhere glam as I type this, being wined and dined or something. Or at the very least driniing fizz at home and ordering everyone about.

Me, hmm,

100g granola
apple
a few brazils, pine nuts, goji berries and walnuts
a red pepper
100g reduced fat hummus (250 cal)
another apple
a chapati
walked but not v far at lunch time (only 25 mins odd) and forgot to put Moron on, must re connect it tomorrow
but used sunscreen, factor 25

came back from lunch VERY hot and bothered but quite determined. We have M&S Cook sea bass in the fridge and prawns and cold white Burgundy. May allow myself a mid week drink I think, have had 2 nights of abstinence which is better than nothing.

And, I've got an interview next week, yay! For a great job. Even if I don't get it it's nice to be put up for it and get seen

I hate to sound like Enid, or even worse, like a smug evangelical bitch who has finally seen the light, but some of you are so crap!

MI Happy Birthday. You at least have an excuse for being naughty. I do hope you have had a lovely day.

www - put the wine down. But well done on the interview.

winnie - I can. Thank you for your advice btw - it helped me relaise what my mother I going through, so even though I can't accept how she is being, I can forgive her for it.

I have been so good agian today

50 sit ups before breakfast
Dry body brushing
Sunscreen
30 minutes of cardio this evening

4 cups coffee
2 Nectarines
Tuna, tomato, cucumber and olive salad with the merest smidgen of oil.
Bowl of nuts, dried fruit and seeds (Top tip btw - I have this when the kids have their afterschool snack and it means I am not hungry so don't pick at their tea.)
Roasted cod on beluga lentils, again with nowt but a smide of oil.

Haven't drunk enough water, but will go and have a big glass now

Yesterday I walked DS home from school and then cycled back to get dd from french club! It was great and although ds moaned and couldnt understand why we did not need the car I think he secretly enjoyed it. (two miles by the way, but along an enchanted little road)

I ate brown pasta with lentils and red peppers for tea and my main problem now is sleeping and getting to bed early.

Yesterday was a good day although I too am feeling wiped out Forced myself to go for a walk last night and felt much better for it.

good luck for the interview WWW

I went for another bike ride yesterday - this could be a habit whilst dh is working at home - he motivates me to get on with it.

crap I may be by your standards Prufrock, but every little helps