WWW's 10 year younger six week boot camp, WEEK FOUR of the SIXTH of 2007, blimey we must all look young now!

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Hello! This is week four of the SIXTH 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

Anyone who feels like it, post how you've been feeling since doing this and why you want to keep doing it. Add what you want to achieve at the end of it too if you want to.

Cheers m'dears.

Goodish day yesterday in that

I didn't drink any alcohol
banana
2 pieces toast and Marmite
a prawn sandwich from a petrol station
half a packet of Frazzles
Wotsits
some popcorn
vegetables, lamb and 3 tiny potatoes for supper
plus superfoods smoothie
strawberries, blueberries, grapes
lots of water
antibiotics
reasonably early night

but feel terrible today, my lungs are aching, I feel like a smoker, which isn't good since I'm not. Let's hope the antibiotics kick in soon this time, I am taking them religiously, which I didn't do before.

I will mostly be indoors today but may attempt a walk later if I feel any better. I have that horrid hot and feverish feeling

Anyway, dh and I talked last night about what we both need to do and came to the conclusions that:

We regularly eat a proper med size supper when we don't really need to, a bowl of soup would do or a salad or something. So we're going to try going for lighter evening meals

dh wants to run and I want to walk so we're going to go alternate evenings since I am missing walking and can't do it in this daytime heat

He is going to stop snacking, which is his downfall, and I am going to stop buying butter except on rare occasions. I lost lots of weight after ds when I cut out dairy completely so I'm going to try that. Will have to make sure I get plenty of non dairy sources of calcium.

I am doing this because I feel extreme self loathing when I look in a mirror or see a photo of myself and I really want to get to ds's birthday this year and NOT feel I look awful. I have lost 2 dress sizes since January but I have really stalled recently and need to get re motivated and not give up. I want to lose another 2 sizes by October and by my 41st birthday at the end of October.

I need to keep saying to myself
"I want to be a size XXXXXXXX"

morning all another week another opportunity for me to fall by the wayside

Marina - that fall sounded nasty, hope you are OK

WWW - I hope you are well enough to eat pizza in the near future? - or maybe just a lettuce leaf and a glass of water?

batters - I'm pleased that you cat is back

IIRC it is:

"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper".

not that I follow this advice though

Morning all! Hope everyone is having a good Monday and that those on antibiotics are feeling the benefit. I shall discreetly draw a veil over the weekend - far too much wine for a start, but dh and I managed our 2nd night out together in over a year which was good. I have decided to try and stop bickering with him - it only gets me more wound up - so it's a picture of serenity in the face of adversity for me (pass the evening primrose oil). The weather here today is grim so I don't think there will be much in the way of exercise. Www - butter is my downfall too, mainly because having it in the house makes me eat toast. Does cutting back on wheat help?
Marina, how's your back? That sounded like a nasty fall.

I think I'm guilty of the 'big evening meal' as well - not least because we eat after the children are in bed, it is the one meal where we are not policing them all the time. So we tend to eat more and later than we should. Something to address I think.

I've been crap this weekend. Saturday - no breakfast, cheese roll, sausage roll, danish pastry, fruit for lunch, hot dogs for tea. Sunday - no breakfast, pasta in mushroom sauce for lunch, no tea, but a couple of small cakes mid-afternoon. Not good.

I find this thread so motivating

I have lost 3 stone since January and need to lose another 3 stone I would very much like to do this by the end of the year I am feeling much fitter, much healthier (I definitely have more energy) and I do look much better too. Pinching Marina's expression, I just want to be 'fit for purpose' and for a while keeping up with ds has been a real effort but it is getting easier.

Whilst I am managing an average of 81/2 K steps a day I really do need to up the momentum and especially with regards to toning everything up

I would say that the biggest success from this thread is breaking some very, very bad habits. I am not dieting, I have made lifestyle changes and it is working fabulously

that should read 8.5K steps not 81K lol

WWW - 2 dress sizes this year is goooood! If you want to drop another 2 sizes you MUST do the evening walks. Once you & DH get into the routine it'll get easier (and possibly addictive - have you seen us on the running thread ). Exercise is so much more enjoyable and effective than dieting! OK, bullying over

Since I started running 2/3 months ago (and I only run 3 times per week) I have lost almost a stone. I don't usually hold with weighing myself but I've had so many comments about weight-loss that I thought I'd check. I was a size 14, so to have lost a stone is quite a lot I think? And fast walking for 30 or 40 minutes will have a similar effect.

I didn't go mad at the BBQ on Saturday - so busy selling raffle tickets, running the bar & trying to keep an eye on the children that I only had one hot dog and some potatoe salad and 2 small glasses of Pimms. I did bring half a strawberry pavlova home though, and DH and I have eaten that. It was delicious!

Late nights are still a huge black spot on my otherwise quite shiny bootcamp halo.

Batters - hurray the cat!

winnie - you are doing spectacularly well!

Iota - that's a very interesting point about eating big breakfast, etc. I am guilty of not eating enough at breakfast due to time constraints of getting 3 DCs ready. DH works from home and quite likes eating a large lunch but I find that I can do that and still eat a large dinner as well

Iota, I am off work, that's how rough I'm feeling so sorry, were we on for tomorrow? Can I cancel if so (sorry, it's in my work calendar) and we'll meet in the holidays instead?

Batters, wow, well done, fabulous news about the photo (I read NOW sometimes too) glad to hear that approach being endoresed by slebs. You too winnie, wow on 3stone, I have similar amounts still to go I think (and the bloody rest, possibly, I am too scared to let dh weigh me tbh I think I'll find it de motivating rather than anything else).

I was feeling and starting to look good on this boot camp but the last 5 weeks ish I have been rubbish so I need to re motivate myself. I am determined not to look shite in ds's birthday pictures.

Marina, how are you?
bamamama, gladf you had a good night out,
Duchness, yes, agree re exercise, must look for the moron while I'm off sick today
Tshell, we can motivate each other on the evenign meal thing then!

Happy Monday everyone

I have to mention that I am not aiming for a super slim me. I am aiming for a realistic, healthier me. So in reality (if you asked a dr) I probably have rather more than 3 stone to lose

Hello (Feetheart sneaks in the back)
Think I've been missing for 2 weeks though I've been here in spirit!

Hope those who aren't feeling well start to feel better soon, it does seem that everyone is ill ATM. We've been miserable coldy/hacking cough family for what seems like ages. However inspite of the stress of ill children and broken nights I have been reasonably good bootcamp-wise. I had to do a 2 week anti-candida diet (no sugar, no yeast, etc) to stave off the evil effects of antibiotics which not only worked but saw me get down to my target weight so was well worth it. I seem to have spent the past week making up for the lack of sugar but haven't piled it all back on. I just need a plan to get me through the summer holidays when temptation is MUCH greater and I won't have the guaranteed 8,000 step pre-school walk 4 days a week (during the other 3 days I seem to revert to sloth-mode with great ease )

I would agree with wanting to be 'fit for purpose' especially as I will be 45 when DD starts in Reception this September. I may be the oldest Mum in the playground but I'm damned if I'm going to look or feel it

www - don't worry about lunch - I will just have to get dh to take me out instead as he is working at home

My mum's had a heart attack so I'm taking my leave for now. She's being monitored and sounds fine if somewhat taken aback but it's obviously going to involve time at the hospital and helping dad until I know more. Good luck and love to all this week XXX

Oh Marina, I'm so sorry, I hope she's ok soon. x

best wishes Marina

OH Marina, I am so sorry. Take care of yourself and I hope your Mum gets better soon {{{{}}}}

Marina, so sorry to hear that, hope she is ok, and that you and your dad are ok too. Lots of love from all of us, and will say a prayer for you all. xxxxx

DUchess of Norks come over here!

Marina - I hope your parents are both recovering from the shock. Best wishes to you all and a speedy recovery to you mum xx

t/shell - that link was rubbish. I'll find you anyway!

try here instead