WWW's six week 10yy boot camp, WEEK SIX June 2007

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This is week SIX 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, should lunch be off, you can sling DD at my DD2, but don't feel you have to!

I have eaten a less boring virtuous lunch (involving prawns and noodles and green beans) and did 60 vigorous lengths last night.

However, am quaking at prospect of Glossy Office tomorrow. My feet - which look cracked and fissured, like something out of the Lord of the Rings - are currently sanded down and smothered in shea butter inside a pair of fetching cotton socks.

MI you will fit perfectly into glossy office. Just practice your air of insouciant acceptance whne presented with contents of beauty cupboard and asked to help yourself. Slathering when offered Liz Earle is not on

tbh 23rd is not brilliant for me - i have a trike ride to organise for 30th. So if you want to re-organise please do.

Am feeling much better and back at it.

Boots has an offer on and I need new make up and am very tempted to buy the P&P product some have been raving about. Is it really worth it?

FIS, well done on weight loss & because I lea a sad life I envy you your gooseberry glut {blush] I have planted a gooseberry bush this year because I love them but they are so difficult to find and when one does they are so expensive.

WWW, I need to start walking in earnest again too. This past week I've averaged 7000 steps a day

Sobernow, goodluck today

MI, good luck tomorrow

Tigermoth, how lovely to see you (& I too am impressed with the swimming).

Sobernow - hope it goes/has gone well.

MI - you'll be fine. Please give us lots of info on Glossy Office and Bright Young Things.

FIS - are they the light pink gooseberries or the green ones? We lived in a house and there was a pink variety in the garden. They were sublime eaten off the bush just warmed by the sun. Unfortunately the bindweed got them in the end (as well as some very unhelpful overpruning by our well-meaning but rather interfering neighbour).

Winnie - glad to raed your feeling better. The Boots stuff is actually very nice. Must have been using it for about 4 weeks and my skin is good but I am also eating quite healthily, drinking lots of water and exercising so not sure what is the most beneficial.

Batters - stony silence from DH. Not forgiven for nagging him. Perhaps another date would be good for everyone?

Having a good day but am out tonight (again). Went to Pilates and was told I was looking great! School walk beckons.

Winnie, batters is using it and looks terrific (more so than before, natch) so I got some and am starting to look less furrowed across the brow after less than a week.
I have had bad experiences with some retinol-based products - can't use Clinique's Turnaround for example - but this one is very kind on fussy skin.
FIS, I can still see and taste the rubbery gooseberry jam my mum made from a PYO frenzy - jars and jars of it. I am incapable of advice regarding those infernal fruits

Marina - I too have very sensitive skin and find the Boots stuff very gentle. No redness on application which is a first for any lotion/serum/cream for me.

Will come back here later, off out for a curry as ex dh can babysit and dd just fell aslepp on the sofa and was poured into her pyjamas.

Yes please, can we re arrange for Aug/Sept? I will be thinnner by then I feel sure

Thanks for the hello's! Protect and Perfect is brill. I have only been using it for a few weeks and now cannot imagine life without it. Head and Shoulders shampoo for my hair, p&p for my skin - one cheap and basic and the other bit more expensive, so it sort of balances out. (Batters, your skin looked lovely when I saw you last.)

I did go for my swim and, Marina you were right, I was the only swimmer in the entire pool at 9.15 am. A few elderly men turned up later on. Women just don't seem to venture down there much, which is a pity. I always feel outnumbered. Swimming outdoors in slightly cold water is (for me) the best mood lifter ever (even beating wine and that's saying something).

Right... that has decided it then... school run quickly followed by a visit to Boots then

the gooseberries are the hard, big, green ones - lol marina. I will taunt you no longer with stories of the gooseberry jam! But you have put me right off making it (last time I let the kids loose on a gooseberry bush - I have so many berries!).

I have done about 15,000 steps today but have made a chocolate cake (to take round to a friend for tea tomorrow) so I fear I have undone any possible exercise goodness.

www - read your Forbury review. Sorry it was such a disappointment.

What fucking wankers sobernow! Get thee to the private sector, they'll promote you for that !

Batters, ok, if you don't mind that would be lovely to rearrange

today
granola
apple
peach
walnuts, pine nuts, brazils, goji berries
a smoked salmon roll no butter, lemon juice
a kitkat
poppadums, lime pickle etc
tandoori chicken
fried rice
garlic naan
Chablis
a watered down Baileys-with-the-bill

no walking
lots of water
sunscreen

Oh god sobernow I feel for you with every fibre of my similarly (but, better, I appreciate) placed being.
Despite having one of Europe's supposedly best arts centres on its patch, our culture strategy seems to have been written by a lethal combo of football hooligans and Mary Whitehouse acolytes
I want what WWW had have been on the hoof for about 15 hours today so am all sandwiched out

Yeah, but you do NOT want my arse Marina, and that goes with it me darlin'

I have an arse that moonlights as a Chesterfield at Sofas are Us all to myself alas WWW

I keep forgetting sunscreen. Mostly because the day starts dull and rainy. By the time I'm running it's scorching hot and there I am, exposed to all those UVAs and UVBs.

Have drunk lots of water though. Have done 41 mins running today and a total of 15719 steps. I have lost a measly 2lb in the 2 months since I started running and don't seem to have changed shape either. On the other hand, my stamina has improved immensely and I can run a mile in just under 8 mins. (Last month it took me nearly 15 mins). Good for my heart.

I can't make Saturday either - we have friends coming to stay. One of whom is constantly dieting so I shall make her some mushroom, spinach & lentil soup

Most important of all, YES I like Dr Who too. But not Captain Jack. He's ghastly!

Sobernow, read this, esp the bit about The dishonesty of office life, read it this morning and thought of you

sobernow, I didn't realise your job involved events work. I'm doing lots of that at the moment - mainly marketing and organising community and civic events. I find there are always people waiting for the tiniest excuse to complain about how an event is run - catering, venue, cost, entertainment, choice of VIPS etc. And with such a lot of elements making up an event, it's hard to please everyone. And if you have management who do not support your choices, it's even harder.

sobernow, I am sorry about the review. As said by others what wankers!!

theduchessofnorks, well done on the running that is mightily impressive

I am feeling very virtuous this morning as I went for a walk at 6.30 and feel fab because of it

Sobernow forget it and look for somewhere that nurtures your talents and respects you for your hard work.

Going running this morning and determined to stop my current rubbish eating whihc is setting me back after all my hard work.

Need to wrok hard today and run and tidy the house, drink more water, enjoy good food and look forward to stuff instead of hiding out.

I think I've given up - my efforts this year have been spectacularly unsuccessful -I think I'm succumbing to middle age.

On Sunday I broke a tooth ( back molar) and have spent most of the last couple of days at the dentist - or so it feels.

My body is not a temple - unless it's a crumbling ancient Greek one

Living out my days as a size 16 in elasticated waists isn't so bad really is it?

And Sobernow, I'm for you at job review