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.

I am thinking of getting a juicer, on the basis that a healthy juice for breakfast would be better than the cup of tea and toast that I am currently going for. Does anyone have a juicer / if so do you use it / am I being hopelessly optimistic to think that I would bother?

Can you get Omron thingies from Boots?

I bet that batters' dd will be the one to deal with the rat in the end! Given the bootcamp's heavy burden of sassy daughters she might want to skin it with her bare hands and make a hat out of the skin because that's what mine would probably do.
Sorry to hear the dating side is fizzling out, winnie but will the friendship be a worthwhile thing to maintain? If he's a nice guy? Impressive walking total though, fab
Walked plenty yesterday and am back on ghastly budgie food/cottage cheese/fruit lunch regime. But we are flat out with work both, plus organising the gruesome twosome for holiday club, so my menu planning has been a bit quick-carb heavy
Must also drink more water. Have just blocked MI from my e-mail after reading about that size 12 bikini
Great to see some returners and some newbies on here - welcome legalalien and rosmerta.
Yoyo, I missed it, am furious as we meant to watch it Bet it was good. Lack of fish cooking on the island puzzled me too.
Iota, I feel derailed by summer hols too. I am lucky to get quite a bit of time off with the children, but tbh I find it much easier to get plenty of exercise at work/commuting.
Good luck with haircuts/colours all - I switched back to using Aveda madder root stuff a few weeks ago and it has turned my greying thatch a funky shade of copper with pinky highlights. Lots of people have commented on how nice it looks, including the dcs. Makes up for dd saying confidingly, "mummy, it's rude to call you fat, isn't it" .

legalien, you can get them for a good price from Amazon, I think that is where most of us bought ours. They are more expensive than average, but really well worth it (I have numerous cheap faulty pedometers at home).

hmm, struggling to see how I'm going to get away with wearing a pedometer at work. Might just have to work out how many steps I take to and from the station (10 mins each way) and then add a few!

I'd be hopeless if I had to try and stick to a healthy regimen at home all day, although here I do have to run a gauntlet of coffee shops and stop myself from drinking the (quite horrible) coffees from the coffee machine. Lattes are the work of the devil!

You are almost certainly thinner than I am but I have clipped mine onto my bra strap, just above my nork. Also, this one works reliably in a pocket or in a carried handbag.

legalalien, my MORON is clipped to my trousers everyday. I feel undressed without it

Marina, lol at the idea of Batters dd dealing with the rat.

I can definitely see the momentum rising on this thread at the moment.

And I have to add I too struggle at the bootcamp when I am at home all day with ds

You've gone troppo mate, Australia's fashions remain defiantly "original" IMO, although I do like Pumpkin Patch for children and Colette Dinnigan for grown-ups

Oh it looks wonderful arfishy

OMG There are people up and posting!! Apologies I didn't mean to ignore. I'm just used to composing posts in a leisurely fashion and not expecting a response for 8 hours.

ROFL at rat. DP did the same thing recently with a killer spider. Ned Flanders would have been more masculine.

Legalalien - I had a juicer in England. After 3 attempts I gave up because it a) cost a fortune in fruit - 7 oranges for one teeny glass of juice and b) took hours to clean. It was about a zillion times easier to just buy the stuff.

at the number of steps being done. Am feeling that someone else has raised the bar. [sulks]

MORON? Can someone explain?

LOL at troppo!

Tis sobernow's pinpoint accurate rearrangement of the name of the Omron, our pedometer of choice. It is robust and accurate, although I don't think anyone has checked to see if it survives being trampled into the dust by an infuriated non-shrinking bootcamper

Can I just point out that Pumpkin Patch is a New Zealand company, which is why it is always referred to as an "australasian" brand (duty of all new zealanders to avoid kiwi icons being misinterpreted as australian icons - no-one mention Crowded House).

arfishy - am pretty sure that the resort you're linking to was where my SIL had her pre-wedding dinner - it was fabulous!

As soon as I posted that I remembered that it is indeed NZ in origin legalalien (marina resists temptation to make joky ridiculous sweeping statement about "down under" being all the same country anyway)
I love Ozone sunsuits for dcs too - are they NZ or Aus?

But I do know where Crowded House come from

right then, will add fruit juice to list of stuff to make sure I pick up from Waitrose on the way home then, and flag the juicer.

I can recommend Grove Fresh organic juice from Waitrose if you don't already know it - especially the apple and cranberry, and the prune. Delish.

actually I'm not entirely convinced about crowded house - I used to live about two blocks away from the real "crowded house" and it is definitely in Melbourne.

Big plus of Pumpkin Patch being a nz store is that my mum lives about 5 mins drive from the factory outlet! Although I'm tending towards a company called JK Kids now, as a lot of the PP stuff is being made in China and has strange, "cutsie" embroidered designs on it. Will post link when I get back from seminar - must run / walk / count steps....

link please when you get back, I definitely agree that the PP stuff has got disconcertingly fancy of late, although I do still like the colourways

Thank you for the explanation of MORON. I will see if they sell them here and get with the plan. If not will have to go for a crappy imitation.

The resort does look fab doesn't it? I'm slightly nervous about unleashing DP on a brewery for 3 days, but I suppose as long as I get a good amount of lomi massages in I will feel able to cope with whatever he gets up to. And the massages will fit in with WWW's philosophy.

The new superfood, as you will know should you have purchased a Certain Glossy With Superlative Health Coverage, give that editor a bun, is blackcurrants. Allegedly.

My norks very definitely still bulge out of that bikini, impressing nobody but DP, who is easily pleased when it comes to norks.

MI, do you have my dh by any chance?

right, back with link:

www.jk.co.nz/1.html

I have a ds, but I think this would probably be a good source of clothing for people with DDs who don't want to dress like Barbie. Hooray for a company that thinks that these are "key looks" for girls this winter:

www.jk.co.nz/44.html
www.jk.co.nz/45.html

Not sure how much the postage would cost. I cheat by buying everything on sale in sizes that are too big, posting them to my mum in Auckland, and getting her to either post them or bring them over on her annual visit.....