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.

My motivation is a house move to a totally new area where I will know noone and have to make friends all over again. I want to be confident enough to introduce myself to people and not stand around waiting for people to speak to me. I will find it much easier knowing that I look allright!

I also need to work again (SAHM for 10 years so very scarey!).

Recently my DDs were looking at my honeymoon photos (15 years ago) and commented on how fantastic I looked in my bikini. I hardly ever even allow myself to be photographed now. It will be nice to reappear in th efamily album!

My motivation is that I am the fattest mother in dd's year at school and I was 9 stone on my wedding day 11 years ago
But really I want to be fit for purpose of haring after dd and ds and playing footy with them. And reappear in the family album too, as Yoyo says. Wow, that struck a chord.

Bleurgh at your fridge at work pamina, good luck with the office move. I thought you were looking terrific the last time I saw you

And yes please WWW, put my stake in the weekly thread topper, good idea
Dh has seen me heifer-like once before and is totally wonderful about it, but nonetheless I feel and

I'd like to get rid of my fat belly gut bucket. Would also like to be FAR fitter than I am now. Strangely enough, my weight is not tooooooo bad but my shape is not good.

I am very bad at keeping up with this thread though - am a terrible joiner inner so feel free to leave me off .

(batters - mine are allowed on club penguin after school today and they cannot wait!)

omg, so have mine batters. THey are both spies and I had to help them finish off a mission the other day. I am truly ashamed to say that I actually quite enjoyed it.

We also get strange phone calls now (from their friends) - I have wired up another computer to our broadband (so that dh has a work dedicated computer, which he really does need) but as dh is often not around, they now each go on different computers and race against each other in the sled races etc. and run up and down the stairs squealing at each other.

It's Maaaaaad I tell you, maaaaaaaad.

I tried to get dh to do a feature on it!

club penguin

they are penguins, can become friends with other penguins, get to customise their igloos, get to own puffles (little pets that they feed, exercise and take care of), play games etc.

it is very clever, I have to admit!

I am so not letting ds anywhere near club penguin as the PC is MINE and the laptop dh's and I fear we would all fight about mumsnet/club penguin/dh's podcasts and other weird things

Sobernow, I'm glad he's scared of you, so he should be, very scared bwah ha ha ha

Fit for purpose is a v good aim, I agree.

Uh-oh. Club Penguin. I have a v. bad feeling about this

LOl Mine love it.It drives me mad though all the games and stuff but they love MSn as well. A parent of young kids asked me what that MSN was the other day and I said if you dont use it yourself you will find out soon.

AM back and very glam from the haridresser. Strange being nearly blonde again after so many years as a redhead but nice it looks more like the young me. Nice straight bob, long at the front and I like my hairdresser so chatting to him is always cathartic.

Had falafels and salad for lunch and a banana (no time) for breakfast so am doing well on the food dront today as well. I ought to go out for a run but it would mess up my hair

we are almost out the other side of club penguin - my 10 year old said she was "bored" of it when I asked her about it earlier this week.

i must admit to being sad if it means the end of xeblob - I'd got quite fond of the strangely named penguin.

Did any of you ever sign up for the membership benefits associated with handing over a credit card number? I always refused to - which may explain the limited shelf life.

oh good grief add me to "the wanting to be 'fit for purpose'" list

And after everything that has happened I need to have the confidence to get a life (and all that entails). That is my motivation

I've done 11,000 steps so far today.
I am having a good day.

Last night after a phone call from x I went for a letting off steam walk and felt much better for it. There is a lot to be said for using exercise for stress relief.

GF, your hair sounds lovely.

yes, I pay for membership. As a rule, I'm anti paying for things but they don't have nintendos or anything like that, so I don't begrudge a bit of club penguin activity.

and is it worth it? what extra do you get access to - mine have waited out the 30 days to become secret agents, have acquired puffles etc

As far as I can see you are allowed more puffles - is there more to membership than that?

I think it's something to do with decorating their igloos and themselves (and ds does have multiple puffles). You know what, I really don't know - my children almost certainly know more than I do about it.

Am just nipping in to say hello and to say that my goal is to have a waistline again. I weigh what I did when I first got pregnant- although that was, ahem, a few pounds over my ideal and yes I'd like to drop down again (which I have down at various points in the intervening six years) BUT my waist area is a kind of wobbly desert, a barren landscape of stretchmarks and cellulite. V depressing.

Apropos of very little I did do Pilates last night, came in and paid the babysitter, watched House and the previous night's Brothers and Sisters and went to bed. Mr Inferior came in at midnight having been to hear Al Gore, and had inadvertantly met Juliet Stephenson (and leered at her cleavage, I slightly gather). What is wrong with this picture?