WWW's 6 week 10 year younger plan WEEK 1 with renewed summer vigour Aug - Sept, 2 weeks into term

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Hello! This is week one of the SEVENTH WWW 10year younger boot camp of 2007

( how did that happen?)

Anyone can join, we promise it works and you will feel and look better - and maybe younger - if you follow these rules.

This is about being healthy and feeling and looking better as a resuklt. It's not a diet (although weight loss does seem to occur fairly frequently)

THE RULES ARE:

• Sunscreen at all times, especially in this heat
• No or little booze in the week. 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. Many of us have an Omron pedometer
• Lots of water, aim for 2 litres a day
• Apply body cream as often as possible
• Use hand cream/foot cream too, we recommend Flexitol, which is fantastic stuff
• 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.

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.

Here's mine:
I want to be a size I'm happier with by ds's tenth birthday, which is 2 months away. I want to not want to cry when I see the photos.

Had a better day yesterday. Went swimming with the children and did some prep for the job. Had a BBQ and was very restrained (mainly as I am always suspicious of BBQd and get cheesed off with all the fetching and carrying involved). Was asleep on the sofa by 10.30.

Prufrock - OMG. What a fab time you are having. I am beyond envious.

Winnie - sounds like a lovely afternoon. Nice and gentle which is always welcome.

WWW - thanks (I think) for the quote. Just what I needed to read as I have been anxious about the changes ahead all morning.

Batters - would love to come to a meet up. Will let you know once we have settled in to some sort of routine at new place.

I managed an 8 mile run this morning, so feel more positive now. I am going to have a bath now but will be back later to read the thread properly.

OK -caught up with you all now (dh has found football on Nevisian TV so here ends the romantic part of our holiday)

www- menuplan. It's the only way to save money and still eat decent quality food. It also stops you from snaking if you have planned meals.

MI - whilst I am fairly technophiliac (is that a word) I had not done Ipods until very recently, (dh got a freebie nano at a conference) and they are so very easy. I am going to have to get a proper one though - my Nano is already full! I think it's worth buying the real thing because Itunes is brilliant

Marina, sorry to hear work is crappy still. DD is truly scrumptious, and a complete Mini-you

Winnie - are you going to shag him next time? (Speaking as another with a dh of nearly 10 years who started as a one night stand after a 17 pub-crawl)

Didn't manage yoga yesterday. But as I said did do an hour in the gym, and splashed sround in the pool a bit.

Ate sausages, bacon, pepper and mushroom omelette and lots of fruit for breakfast (fatty, but no carbs so good from a food combining view)

2 small slices of dh's pizza at lunch, (wasn't realy hungry but it came and loked good) and an apple and banana

Nevisian smile (pina colada + baileys yum yum) at 5:30

Dinner was a very restrained black cod fillet with braised fennel, spinach and tomatoes, just one glass of wine, lots of water, but did go overboard on the bread (freshly baked walnut and olive)

Am about to take the kids to beakfast and then kids club, then I will go to the gym and then have my breakfast. Would waffles and strawberries be better than full English? Or maybe the mango pancakes......

Definately up for November - just need to check diaries (ie football matches)

As it's my birthday today, I'm afraid I've abandoned boot camp - had a cooked breakfast (sausages, scrambled egg on toast, mushrooms, tomatoes), and will probably have something like pizza and wine/champagne later. Plus cake. But hey ho, tomorrow is week 2 and veils may be drawn!

lol sobernow!

Happy birthday tortoiseshell!

Already wished our token tiny child a lovely day elsewhere, but am always willing to have another go! Happy Birthday Tortoiseshell!
Survived the Screechfest in the process of discovering two new things about the park

1. they have a splendid new gated play area with a fountain/splash zone, cafe, grassy area and extensive nice playground equipment
2. Everyone in SE London and N Kent apparently goes there on sunny Saturday afternoons. It was a throbbing shrieky maelstrom of sopping wet kids aged 3 to 14 and I hated every moment of it! The children all adored it though Really MUST make a big boot camp effort next week, am feeling inspired by MI and Duchess' efforts and winnie's and batters' results, plus experiencing manifest envy at prufrock's fabulous sounding holiday Watch me shrivel, girls - and that's an XL pudgy-fingered gauntlet being chucked into the ring Sobernow, did your cat leg it because of SIL coming? Now it can be trained to rub its anus all over her legs and then vomit neatly at her feet, I thought this was what all cats did to guests So glad it's OK after all

Gawd help me, I slept AGAIN this afternoon. And now DD2 has apparently crashed on the sofa. And their father has gone off to a conference or something - he's away overnight - looking and apparently feeling distinctly poorly (looking on the brightside, he'll be poorly Not Here: does that make me a bad person or just, you know, the partner of a Bloke?)

We need that holiday!

the young(ish) and now severely inebriated legal alien is enormously impressed with the concept of running after a BBQ. Seem to have impressed the smart americans with food / wine but only at enormous "dutch courage" cost to my liver - and since tomorrow is my birthday (hooray for Leos) - recovery not in sight until Tuesday. Oh well. can probably manage water and early night.....

I was hoping there might be an "exception for visiting in laws" rule of some description?

Legalalien, I only survive any contact either with my parents or two of DP's three brothers by serious booze intake. Even Now I Am A NonDrinker (13 days now, you know).

There is inded an exception for ILS - so that covers Sobernow's SIL and your ILs Legalalien. lol at Mr Pimms.

There are also exemptions for birthdays and for Stressful Events.

Marina lol at XL gauntlet, ooh let me see if that fits. Ooh it does! Park sounds vile, one of my least favourite places in fact but I'm glad the children liked it.

MI, I too fell asleep after lunch, after a thimble of red wine (it really was as I knew I had to drove ds to London this pm, I just got back) Agree about exercise and no wine, just need to DO it more rather than just believing it.

Prufrock again at that food. You're right about meal planning I know.

Not a good day
toast with marmite
rare roast beef, loads of it, with horseradish
1 yorkshire pudding
3 roast potatoes
broccoli
peas
and am now eating a rare roast beef sandwich with horseradish and drinking white wine
but will have an early night
and feeling happy so that's good

Will start a new thread tomorrow so post and get your sins over with and absolved here!

DP is away. I feel the lure of high-fat coriander pesto for supper.

We took a short walk this afternoon but don't think it counts as we were walking veeerrry sloooowwwlly on account of ds having to stop & pick everything up!

But once again, refused the offer of a takeaway from dh and cooked, dh is now v impressed and has done the washing up three times this weekend - bonus

Not only did I eat the pesto (oil packed and delicious) I stole two of the chocolate truffles my parents sent DP for his birthday

Am Bad to the Bone.

Go to the back of the class MI.

Happy Birthday TShell

Well, after 1 1/4 hours in the gym, I pigged out completley at breakfast.
Salmon and caper cakes
Baked eggs with hollandaise sauce
Tomato salsa (see - getting veggies in)
Saute potoatoes
1 slice bacon (whilst waiting for eggs)

Then 2 blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and plate of fruit.

Then I went and sat by the pool and within 2 minutes a guy had come over to put a towel on my lounger and offer me fresh lemonade, and iced towel, and a plate of mango and strawberries!

But I skipped lunch, did yoga this afternoon, took dd snorkeling (she saw fish and was so excited) and had a very restrained jerk swordfish with salad and green beans for dinner. with only one red stripe.

My big downfall is going to be the daily cocktail, and the bread. Oh the bread. Tonight we were served a freshly baked loaf (OK it was only a 4 inch round one but still a whole loaf for 4 of us) of rosemary and breadfruit bread. It was literally just out the oven. I think I could live on the bread.

I know you're going to start a new thread, www, but just squeezing in a message here as it has been so good to catch up with everyone's news.

Marina, I know exactly what screechfest location you were at. It's the one near my ds1's school, isn't it? ds2 loves it though ds1 is way too sophisticated now to go near it. Our neighbouring borough is investing much more in its play areas and it shows. The person who designed the landscaping should be shot, though. There are so many blind spots and it must be hell if you have tiny toddlers who need constant monitoring.

I am also back at work now for the next two weeks.

Prufrock - envying you that sea. In Devon last week, I swam nearly every day for 10 days we were on holiday. It makes me feel so good, physically and mentally. It might not change my looks much (and does horrible things to my hair - dh and ds's are now complaining I am moulting) but inside I feel like a new me.

Swimming is my main topic on these boot camp threads, along with Boots protect and perfect cream, so my new resolution is to branch out and look at my drink/food/moron habits.

lol at all the dastardlky dd's on this thread and congrats to batters in boden and winnie having a nice date in a platonic, seeking friendship kind of way.

Dingle, when you said you had lost your identity, I thought you meant your mumsnet nickname .

Agree this thread is so much more than a style thread.

I do have another resolution that might work against the boot camp principles. I have been really affected by news of an old friend from way back. I found out by chance that she died recently, after getting pancreatic cancer, six months previously. She was only 45, an artist, a very healthy, strong woman who had a huge social circle, did lots of interesting things, no obvious streak of self destruction. It was such a shock to think that she of all people had died. She is the first of my contemporaries to die so unexpectedly. So my resolution make lots more effort in enjoying the present and be kind to myself

Nice to see so many people on this thread!

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