WWW's 10year younger six week bootcamp, WEEK FIVE, June 07

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This is week FIVE 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
• 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

WWW - great news about the interview. How exciting! Hope DS is fine tonight - mine usually skip through the day and then fade as night approaches. Sending anti-babydust your way.

Will be going to the gym soon but will also be eating a curry (home-made but it is a good, ie. bad one). Will also be drinking later I suspect. Out for supper tomorrow evening and it will probably be a rather drunken one.

Haven't completely ruled out 23rd - DH not committing himself.

Am feeling very low today for some reason. So am having wine tonight. Went to the gym adn tomorrow am starting again.

Www well done and hope ds is better now.

Not a good week for me (again). My stomach was bad again today - actually got to the gym, but didn't do the class - went for a coffee instead

Well done everyone else - I must be the biggest slacker this week.

ooeerrr second interview WWW - what a star you are (employers don't even acknowledge my job applications yet alone offer me an interview)

Sorry, 23rd is not good for me - family commitments

23rd is still good for me - though I must (really really must) be good and just do lunch, not lunch that turns into evening.....

I'm v. v. low. But I don't want sympathy, becuause that will just make me feel more self indulgent and pathetic, because I really don't have a reason to feel unhappy... and so the cycle continues. But I will break it, and get some proper counselling, because it's fairly obvious that I'm not yet "fixed" no matter how much I want to be.

So I've been fairly crap - went out for amazing meal at the Cambridge wannnabee Fat Duck last night, so also have a slight hangover. Dh got an e-mail from his very old fashioned and charming client that we were entertaining saying how wonderful I was and how much he'd enjoyed meeting me and I just felt so pissed off that evenings like that are a one-off rather than my normal life anymore. So I ate a cornish pasty, and drank coke. And so I felt very angry with \myslef becasse I'd given in to an emotional need for food as comfort.

But I'm going to the gym once kids are in bed

Ah so this is where you have all been hiding! It's been ages since I've seen a thread with so many people I 'know' on it.

prufrock and MI I am sorry you are both feeling so low. I hope getting some counselling helps.

Yesterday, was ok bootcampwise although I did have a huge bowl of icecream and this week my walking has been cut to around 7000 steps daily.

Will try harder as I absolutely believe that looking after myself can only be beneficial to my mental health and well being.

have a good weekend everyone

Purfrock does the gym help with feeling low? I feel better when i am outside running. The gym didnt help yesterday even with a bit of treadmill but being outdoors does.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I am going to look at a new house later on and try and relax this weekend.

Wotcher,

I hope everyone is managing the weekend fairly OK. And thanks for the sympathy - tbh I am absolutely FINE at the moment but I really need to tackle the fact that every so often I crash, spectacularly, which is profoundly wearing for everyone.

And tonight I am going to drink champagne, because DP and I are going round to visit a friend and neighbour who is getting - get this - a knighthood. Corblimey. This is not the usual sort of thing that happens in the vicinity of the Inferiority Complex

Glitterfairy, I hope that a relaxing weekend helps. I am sorry that the gym didn't.

I had no idea you lived next door to Sir Salman MI
Glad you are OK and have a fab weekend - thinking of you too prufrock, really sorry we won't see each other on the 23rd. It's just not feasible.
I have a new goal - SIL is getting married next summer and has morphed into a bridezilla de la pire espece. I absolutely have to be thinner and more radiant than her on the day .
I'm not ready to (literally) pound the local pavements glitterfairy but am getting back on my rather dusty exercise bike, having had a week that is OK at best .
Great news they want you back www, let's hope it's for good, so to speak - and hope no-one else got poor ds' bug. A colleague had it, returned to work too early IMHO and had to scarper out of a packed meeting all too clearly destined for the bogs, where he stayed for the next 30 mins, to the consternation of those left behind
I am on the lam tonight too batters but will ask my fellow dinners to confiscate any cheese, creamy puddings or other calorific bombs heading down my end of the table
Oh and I have lost some weight - yes, I had a haircut this morning. It's been that sort of week - clinging to the wreckage
A good weekend to one and all and spare a thought for ds and a zillion other Beavers, out and about all day in these rainstorms

I forgot to say that DD1, in particular, had a touch of the same malady earlier this week. She was off on Tuesday with a bottom that sounded - and I was in my office, which is a floor up - like a trumpet from the loo. She admits she found it 'rather shocking' herself, poor little love.

(It's Sir Steve, aksherly, Marina .)

LOl Marina at clinging to the wreckage I guess that is exactly how I feel. Although I did manage to go out on a fitness test this morning and break my 2.4 mile record down to 31.54 minutes now! The first time I did it 5 months ago it was 45 minutes, I walked it and suffered.

Winnie thanks. Hope you are still managing to be the brave strong lady I know you are.

I am full of a new idea for a business this weekend which is really exciting me. I will share it with all on here once I know if I can manage to fund the first part but it is about basically helping women and children going through divorce financially in particular whilst the CSA lets us all down. I feel like I want to give something back and help those who are worse off ( mind you I am down to my last 50 quid but chin up and will get better once the job situation sorts itself out).

Saturday was a good day bootcamp wise if I ignore the fact that I didn't drink enough water or do enough exercise. I also drank wine but it is the weekend & my weight is still reducing despite everything... but sadly the 10 year younger thing seems to be in reverse as I look dreadful (but I'll put that down to stress).

GF, well done on the fitness test. That is fab. Your business idea sounds intriguing. Good luck.

MI,hope you enjoyed your evening.

Marina, Lol at the image of you planning for this new goal

I am full of renewed vigour (1 day early). I was at a friends birthday party last night, but we didn't have a babysitter so I went by myself, and drove, so drank lots of water, didn't even eat any pudding (and she'd made soupdragons amazing choc cookies) and felt very virtuous. And I went to the gym with bitch from hell personla trainer("BFHPT") who is actually very nice, but whom I have to swear at a lot just to get me through the session.

Veil please. Thank you.

Champagne, v nice stuff, hic.

More a case of "nurse! the screens!" for you and me both from the sound of it batters. Veils don't get near the problem We should all be reading The Prufrock Guide to Getting your Motivation Back here I think!

Also, not only have the Inferiorettes cheerily pointed out that their skins are oh so much softer than mine (thanks, kids) but DD1 informs me my bottom is too big for a superhero's.

Anyone want a couple of slightly soiled small girls?

I am waiting for next week's to start having made a strawberry flan with whipped cream (in my defence, it is dh's favourite pud!)

Having a vision of boot campers all over the country hiding from their PCs this weekend! Have not been great, ds1's party and birthday yesterday, hence, cake and crisps, and wine. . Ah well, get that veil ready www. Rest of the week has been excellent (she says modestly), so one weekend lapse is ok I think!

ha ha batters, that sounds very nice! I need SCREENS too Marina, I've been terrible, Muriel, but at least I am Not Pregnant, I was just very very pre-menstrual and bloated, thank goodness We don't take any risks at all but I guess I just know nothing's 100% and there's always the chance.

Well, I need to get my motivation back too. I really hope no-one is going on Saturday as I look so awful. Just me and batters (who I've met recently so I don;t worry about that, it's new people who scare me!) in a darkened restaurant would be fine by me

Have had a lovely, lovely weekend. Speaking of super heros MI Dh and I watched my super ex girlfriend on our projector last night and enjoyed it. Froth but funny in places, Uma Thurman is a superhero who gets dumped and gets revenge by i.e. tattooing 'dick' on ex's forehead. Ahem. And then we watched Bridget Jones's diary and I drank Chardonnay and we ate Pizza and Haagen Daaz pralines and cream ice cream. It was lovely. Children have been a delight too.

MI, I love your girls, send 'em over here immediately!

I won't shout honest. thoough actually I might as that is what appears to be working for me "C'mon, you can do it, stop being so wussy, think of your thighs, just 4 more, I'll count as slow as I like, and slower if you swear at me, pull that arse in, arms out - we're doing squats not comfortable leans" etc etc. Did I meation my PT is married to a seargeant?

I had lentil, mushroom and spinach soup this evening - I've got a bit of a spinach glut atm. Andd I've got lots of swiss chard but not a clue what to do with it. And I had an hours walk this am - well amble, because it was with kids. And 30 mins cardio this evening, a steam, salt scrub, lots of water and peppermint tea. oh and 6 chilled fruit truffles - but I'm trying to clear the fridge.

www - I'm still fat so please can i come next weekend. please. please.