WEEK TWO of the FIFTH WWW 10yy boot camp of 2007

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This is week two of the fifth 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
• 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.

forgot to post everyone's stakes sorry, feel free to post again why you're doing this boot camp (yeah right, more like a holiday camp for some of us )

Not enough water and not much walking due to period maelstrom have resisted eating own kilogrammage in chocolate though
Get down to the shops swedishmum - I feel bereaved without my make-up essentials
Sorry to those who have had a rubbish day - I had some end last week. Bearable back in the days before children but keeping calm and happy for your offspring is just an additional stressor
Excitement here - dh is being treated as a potential Lyme Disease case after a suburban tick (acquired playing tennis ) has made his leg go ballistic Giveaway ringed rash, the works. Oooerr, but he should be fine because he reported it quickly.

Oh no re Lyme disease!
Am terrible example, drinking wine and eating Kettle chips.

glitterfairy - CP was great fun and was made especially sweet by not paying full price of c £500, but £300 thanks to an internet discount code. Don't pay full price, you'll feel cheated.

Make-up was not required or indeed useful when one was being buffeted by swirling water in the rapids. An interesting way to make new friends though - by sticking one's head into strangers' nether regions whilst muttering "sorry, excuse me"

Lyme Disease - poor dh (or will he be insufferable and take to his bed for a month?)

Am laughing at www's juxtapostion of goji berries and Laughing Cow cheese triangles.

Actually, just googled Lyme Disease (didn't really know about it other than the ticks) and - poor dh

lol iota - have happy memories of doing the outdoor rapids ride at Whinfell in the snow in Feb, unforgettable. Do agree it is too expensive at list price, though
Am sitting here NOT thinking about last lonely bar of Poulain from France, all sad in the kitchen
Plus Hopalong the Diet Policeman is at a PCC meeting...

I think he will be fine moo - but he saw one of our saner GPs, and tbh both of us are a bit shocked that he reckoned it could well be Lyme's. I think it only goes worrisome if not spotted and treated promptly and this only happened on Monday night

Hi all, had a rubbish day yesterday mainly due to ds (13 months) deciding that food was for losers and that napping just simply wasn't necessary. Ended up having a crap night with a tired/hungry baby who really doesn't know best. ahh well better today and I suppose in the scheme of things not a big deal but my 'stress shoulder' is really playing up.
Sounds like everyone is motoring on. It's fab when people notice when you've lost weight however people are always saying that to me when I haven't which must mean people remember me fatter than I actually am . Food (i.e.cake) is still a bit of an issue but I'm getting there. Mainly need to lose baby belly - do I really have to do situps? Righto, going to finish watching Rome then off to bed. night night!

Oh, www. We're off to Australia with dh's job for a year. Have a notion that I want to walk down the steps of the plane like Sharon Stone in Casino. Currently feel like Sharon Stone at the end of Casino...

Hope so, Marina - it's good that the GP was on the ball.

www - stop eating the gogi berries I thought they had been revealed as a con that doesn't even taste good

Marina - suburban ticks - good grief - is nowhere safe?

Do suburban tick's apologise when then accidently bump into you and bite you? Urban ticks scowl as if it's your fault and are doing you a favour... (you can tell I live in the middle of nowhere can't you )

Really, in the park in question you're more likely to be bottled by a friendly local or catch scabies while being mugged - or mown down by a giant teenage oaf on one of those pestilential mini-scooters...so a tick with Lyme disease will probably be the subject of a wildlife preservation order and dh prosecuted for ripping its body off inadvertently
Bamamama, those days are behind me know but well I remember how grindingly tiring they were, commiserations

We live in one of those edgy burbs where the atmosphere changes alarmingly at dusk bamamama

Oh no marina!!! I had a similar thing after ds1 was born - you need about 3 weeks worth of ABs I think - is it erythromicin or something like that? My GP's comment was 'how fascinating, I wish I had a camera!'.

The 'target' rash can be symptomatic of a 'non-lyme disease' tick bite as well, so don't panic! I remember when I told my MIL about it, she got her trusty book down to look it up, and stopped reading half way through because she didn't want to scare me! But it's absolutely fine if treated, so he'll be fine.

How exciting though!

OOOh Marina trying to be healthy playing tennis and then bam! Its putting me off doing anything at all ouotdoors.

Iota yes I agree get discounts on it whenever. The problem is that many of them are term time.

Winnie how are you?

Useless day again yesterday but my flippers have come motherinferior so will be trying them out in the pool soon!

Marina, sorry to hear about your dh. Just as well it didn't happen while you were away on holiday.

I feel very unexercised as I've been too ill to swim and when I went back to work yesterday, I spent the whole time hunched over the computer or on the phone, catching up with the work I'd missed. One of those days when you realise your body position has hardly changed in 2 hours. This does not feel at all good.

Have not replaced the sugar at work (no one else has it apart from me anyway), so now I have my tea without sugar. Only a small gesture, but something. Since January, I have been experimenting with cutting down or cutting out alcohol. For the month I stopped totally, I noticed all my clothes very soon felt looser round my waist. I started drinking again, but not as much (a glass or two of lager during the evening, not wine), and my waistbands within a week got tighter again, so perhaps I will go back to a very low alcohol intake.

Bought a pedometer, and was surprised at how little I walk on the days when I just go into the office and sit at my desk. So I am now evem more impressed with the walker's efforts here.

And batters, weren't you frightenend of the hail? I was driving across Blackheath, road completly awash with the rain, bolts of lightineing lookings as if they were hitting the grass around me, and was actually quite scared.

Hello to all.

I think I should give up wine again. I did on weekdays for all of a week or two. I have given up sugar in tea and coffee and that has lasted about a month, now. Thanks to this thread for acting in lieu of willpower. This thread also calls out "Step away from the Choccie/biscuit cupboard" when I reach for the handle, which is very useful, too.

www - I think you asked (many weeks ago) about the work thing I was going to. We stayed at a Hilton Hotel which was very nice and had evening meals (I still have the menu cards) such as fish cake with tomato relish and lemon butter sauce, best end of lamb with gratin potatoes, spinach and a tomato and basil gravy and whisky cream served with seasonal fruits. The next night was smoked salmon with lime creme fraiche with sour dough bread, fillet of beef and shin of beef with caramelised onion pie (oh, boy, that was lovely), wilted spinach and dauphoinoise potatoes followed by vanilla and rhubarb creme brulee and a selection of cheeses with quince jelly and mini oatcakes. I have to say that the food and the evening entertainment (musicians and a falconry display) was the highlight of the trip. It was the bit I was dreading, dressing up and mixing socially with the delegates (of all different European nationalities) especially as there were only a few wives/partners and they spoke just a little English and I don't speak Latvian or Estonian, but it was fine. We had a Serbian chap come to tea the other week and he desperately wanted to watch the football straight after tea. His team (Liverpool) lost but the evening went well. I think I'm getting better at coping with all this sort of stuff which dh has to do - and will have to do more of - as part of his job. This thread helps me to feel in control of the healthy eating and exercise part of my life which can get neglected by work, children and running a house, so thanks again.

Batters that is priceless LOL and even though I am a counsellor I have to say I find some of the share everything philosophy very annoying in primary and junior schools. Your dd is wonderful.

What torty has said about that alarming rash being more to do with it being a tick bite than an infected tick bite has reassured me loads - dh just said, I've got to go straight to hospital if it gets any worse, men eh
This was Eltham Park South tigermoth, I am going to make a formal complaint to my local counsellors . Sorry to hear your cold left you feeling so low
Simplysparkling, here's a useful factoid, gleaned from my memorable training visit to Tallinn some years ago - the Estonian for "cheers!" is terviseks. Always useful, I feel. I have to participate in some corporate stuff for work and I think it is a lot easier to be the business contact than the partner in tow (have done both). Daunting and often very boring to boot. Food sounds yum though
We have not seen our report yet batters, LOLOL as ever at your fantastically trenchant dd. Mine was doing her Puss in Boots from Shrek routine last night "Go to bed now Pea or I will have to get cross" "You don't love me. You don't care to me. No-one cares to me. Will I ever be fostered?" Nonplussed mother is put right by ds who calls through resignedly to me "Mum, grandma let her watch Tracy Beaker again".
Healthy eating last night, resisted lure of chocolate, walk this am and bag full of fruit to browse on for lunch.
Have a happy, healthy day one and all

Marina I have a dreadful memory but will try to remember terviseks for future use! We keep getting invited back to places. I think dh is off to Estonia later this year. We were invited by a Romanian professor to go and stay in his large house for a holiday. I don't think we'll do that, but I wouldn't mind going back to the hotel in Brasov we stayed in but dd refuses to contemplate a holiday there. The roads were awful with roadworks for miles and miles I have to admit and many a time the bus was overtaking on a bend and a hill and the ones in the front who could see were wetting themselves!

I think dd has now outgrown Jaqueline Wilson, thank goodness. batters Your dd is spot on, I reckon. Good for her for saying what she really thinks.

Go to Estonia if you do get the chance simplysparkling. Tallinn is a fascinating, beautiful city, the surrounding countryside is very wild and atmospheric and the people are so friendly.

I'll bear that in mind Marina. The conference has already been to Estonia, I think, so it would mean going with dh on a work trip or else going on holiday there. Now, if he could time his work trips for the school summer or Easter hols so that we could all go with him and then stay on for a bit afterwards, that would be good! Realistically, though, he doesn't have much say in the timing.

Not doing too badly today. Remembered the body lotion, forgot the sun cream (but it is overcast/rainy and I was wearing a peaked hat whilst out so not too bad), had salad for lunch with fruit and 2 squares of fairtrade fruit and nut choc (am I kidding myself that it's a bit better than the without f and n kind?) for pudding. Walked the dog for about half an hour earlier and will walk her later, too.

Glad to be reassuring marina! The key thing is to get a long course of ABs, to make sure. I'll put a pic of my rash on the profiles, then you can see what it was like (and I'm still here with no ill effects!!!).

There is a blood test for Lyme Disease, which it might be worth your dh having, just to make sure, but I'm sure he'll be fine.

There, I've put it on for a bit marina. At least your dh saw a GP who recognised the possibility of Lyme Disease!