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.

A proper dal won't have that many calories, though, Marina, not if you make it at home - think about it, there's about a tablespoon of oil for the tarka. Honest guv.

I regret to say I don't think DP and I actually ever went on a date. Unless you count meeting up for a drink to moan about the state of our appalling love lives, followed by my invitation to 'come back to my place for a takeaway and my Christmas vodka'

See, here's my mum's dal recipe, note oil content, low, thereof:

¾ cup mung dal
½ cup red lentils (masoor dal)
put the two together , wash well, cover with water and allow to soak for about an hour.
Then drain, cover with fresh water (about 4 to 5 cups), and bring to the boil with
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 fat clove of garlic, smashed and chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
a pinch of turmeric
salt to taste
Once it has come to the boil, shove it into the oven, gas mark 5, and leave it there for half an hour to forty minutes, until the dal is well cooked, and the whole thing can be mashed together. Remove and set aside.
Now take another pan (small frying pan or karhai), add 2 tablespoons of oil and heat. Add a teaspoonful of black mustard seeds a sprig of curry leaves (do try and find this; it makes all the
diff.)
1 ?2 dry red chillies
½ teaspoonful of whole cumin seeds (jeera) ¼ teaspoonful fenugreek seeds (vendhyam) a pinch of asafoetida (don?t leave this out, it gives the genuine
flavour)
When the mustard seeds splutter, and the other spices have toasted and are fragrant (but not burnt, please), add
1 finely chopped onion. Let this brown. At the last moment add a good bunch of washed and finely chopped coriander. Let it turn in the oil, and just crispen up. Then pour the whole fragrant seasoning (bhagar or taalippu) on to the cooked dal. Check for salt, give a good squeeze of lemon. Enjoy.

Oh that sounds delicious, thanks MI

I have to admit I usually make the Madhur Jaffrey one. And indeed hardly ever make dal these days because the downside to a Nice Asian Boy is that you cannot impress him with rice and dal as an Exotic Meal, the bugger. Or bogger, yet.

lol MI at does it count! Well done on swimming

Marina, you have scrumptious children, what lovely butter not melting pictures, really gorgeous Dd has her moments too, tonight I wanted her to get into the bath, she wanted to mess about and do it in her own sweet time so I said RIGHT, I AM PUTTING YOU IN and she went absolutely humdingingly MAD, like Jack-Jack is at the end of The Incredibles, sobbing and hysterical. It took daddy to calm her down! Wore her out though, she slept within seconds of hitting the pillow.

I do sometimes think that your daughters and my younger one could be combined in a somewhat nuclear manner

Oh marina, they're gorgeous! Lovely pics. Dd had her 4th birthday on Saturday, and had a lovely civilized party until the children discovered the filthy sandpit and got truly COVERED in mud.

She is very stubborn atm, and also very cheeky. She is a terror to get to do what you want, and is very into pushing boundaries atm!

This evening's screaming match with dd was 'I Don't WANT to wash my hands until DAD washes his AT THE SAME TIME, NOOOO, I WANT HIIIIIM TO USE THE SOOOOOAP!!! WAAAAAAAAH'

lol at these explosive children!

I suggest we sew MI's dd2, my dd and TS's dd into a large sack together and all go off and get plastered somewhere. She is incessant and imperious [weary emoticon]. If could lose a pound for every time I am sassed out by madam I'd look like Lily bloody Cole

ROFL at Batters dd and friend. Dd must get it from somewhere Batters

Sympathies to all with uncooperative 4 year old dds but can I say 'better now than later'. Dd was the most cooperative child imaginable and we all know what happened once she hit 15

Marina, your children are gorgeous & I can't quite believe dd is four already!

MI, don't tell me it's not a date if we didn't shag I went through hell in the build up to that DATE I am much more relaxed about next time though. (xh is being an arse about it - so it most definitely was a date - which may lead to another thread (boring & cross emoticon) )

Yesterday was a good day although didn't drink any water The toning exercises are definitely working. I've actually found some stomach muscles

Good luck all giving up/cutting back on coffee. I've tried and tried but I just can't manage it!

lol marina!

Ah winnie, I hear what you are saying 100% . I have high if misguided hopes of dd being a charming and cooperative teenager after spending about ten years tormenting her family first.
Am back in the work groove of my big walk plus at lunchtime and must start work in good earnest on weight loss and toning after all this alarming talk of bikinis and stomach muscles!
Thanks for the kind words about ds and dd - such a shame we can't load audio files so you can hear the litany of bossing/willy jokes that accompanied those touching shots. I can't even bring myself to repeat what it was that made both of them laugh so heartily on the steps . Dh was clucking away in the background and I was trying unsuccessfully not to snigger.
WWW, I have been a Disgrace to the Cause this summer - work worries have returned and escalated somewhat, not that this is an excuse. But we have spanking new pools opening shortly and I am going to make myself get in there and swim, something I love to do when not so fat. We will do it you know

Sorry to hear work is stressful marina - hope that settles down. x

I too live in hope that tantrums now mean easy teenage (ha ha).

I would happily have the most difficult of 4 yo's right now if it meant I didn't have to spend 3 days on a plane with a 14 month old next week. Apart from the magic of medised anyone got any suggestions on how I'm going to cope with this????? I have just eated a whole box of cheesy bread sticks. I think the stress is starting to catch up with me...

Eeeek bamamama, I'll keep my stroppy young lady I think! I hope wherever you are off to compensates for that journey - but, you never know, it might not be too bad

It's either going to be fine and he'll sleep all the way OR it will be hell on earth and I will spend the next year dreading the journey home . Ah well, it can't go on forever can it! I will be bootcamping whilst down under - I intend to start running again for a start, although we are going to one of the best wine producing areas in the world.....

Bamamama, I hereby excuse you boot camp for the duration of that plane journey and ORDER you to DRINK. I know they say you shouldn't on a plane and all that but Ithink you'll need it. And you won't CARE about the antics if you're pissed

Such marvelous advice dispensed, I'd like to say and double and triple at stomach muscles. My word, I haven't seen mine for ooh, ten years it must be now.

Winnie, twas a date, we know, oh arse to dh being jealous and yes, you're right, we'll all take relcalitrant 4yos over troubled teenagers

Marina, sorry to hear work is stressful, it is hard isn't it to not eat/drink to comfort oneself when that happens.

Not bad

100g granola
apple
homemade wholemeal sandwich with mustard and ham and tomato (no butter)
then went out to lunch oops and had bbq chicken wings starter and garlic bread, dipped into sour cream
and dh is making a thai green chicken curry, ready in 2 mins apparently. Oops but at least this is day 2 of no wine.

I couldn't sleep easily last night but feel fine on it today, must be lack of wine. And I'm feeling cheerful, don't know why except we have finally decided to knuckle down and make an effort to SAVE some cash so we can buy a house. Just did some spreadsheets today which were terrifying: £3k to Mr Tesco in 3 months of May-Aug Reckon we can cut it by £600 a month easily so that's our mission.

Well done everyone

recalcitrant

Marina - pictures good! Did i spot some Boden in there?

MI - can we have early viewing of your Surviving Christmas article? Or do you need us to be guinea-pigs?

ts - chased a fox through the paddock tonight, terrified the bogger. I growled at it so much though that I've hurt my throat

My coffee-headache got so bad that I went to lie down at 7.30pm last night and didn't wake up until 6am . I clearly needed the sleep. Have had a nice easy day at home, haven't had an evening run because we had a huge thunderstorm, so only done 11,270 steps today.

How are things 6 weeks youngerers? Having had 2 months off after my jolly to London I'm feeling and looking unfit. I need to come back into your fold to make myself gorgeous ahead of the influx of friends who will be arriving here at the start of Dec.

It was the first day of spring here yesterday (first surfboard duly spotted on the bus) and I'd also like to not be harpooned in my bikini on my first trip to the beach this season.

The question is, do I go for it next week, or wait another 2 weeks until after the big wedding weekend I'm going to (at a WINE resort in the Hunter Valley).

Now, I must find out what this month's health fad is in Sydney and report back.

Duchess, 11,000 steps is good! Don't be so hard on yourself!

My bignews_ of the day is that I went swimming at 7 this morning It was lovely I did 30 lengths and am going to endeavour to go every Wednesday morning as ds is always at xh's then. Am feeling good

Winnie is a Goddess.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride ha ha