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.

Oh yoyo, I am ENVIOUS of Borough Market, have a lovely time. Yes Marina, I'm afraid the port tipped me over the edge. I hope The Talk is better than you expect, it's so enervating when work is a pain, I know.

Port was always my nemesis in my Bacchanalian college days, the very name brings back interesting memories www
I am saddled with a miserablist "just another half glass for me, thanks" moderate dh (my first serious boyfriend was an accomplished imbiber) and my resistance to alcohol has withered away over the years. I even find myself deliberately choosing wines that are naturally lower in ABV than the ramped-up norm nowadays - eg, Beaujolais and Loire wines, good German whites. I literally can't take big Australian reds, or stuff like Cahors etc any more

Port. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god.

Enough said.

I have just made chocolate cookies with the Inferioriettes - for a friend you understand - and am going out to eat tonight with Mr Inferior (as part of our ongoing Let's Go Out More And Realise We Actually Rather Like Each Other programme) but will oh definitely not have any booze, oh definitely not.

Must swim tomorrow. I tried that bikini on again today. It was not a good look.

I just got that joke Sobernow, (took a minute in my befuddled state), hahahaha

MI, SURELY you're going to drink if you're going out to dinner? Rude not to, surely?

Marina, I have a moderate dh too, he was bright and sparkly this morning

I know what you mean sobernow. It has that effect at our place too. I think tbh wine for us means both sitting down simultaneously and not one of us stomping about ironing/tidying up our hovel, so it tends to encourage conversation. We are big softies and often try and get a wine that reminds us of less careworn times

Snort, I'm slow too. ROFFLE!

morning all

this bootcamp-in-moderation thing actually seems to be working! I have managed Day 4 of cook-proper-meal-and-only-have-one-glass-of-wine and drink lots of water and go to bed at 10.30 regime. You guys are great!

Of course, now it is the weekend, which means I have allocated myself two glasses of wine over dinner. Weirdly, I'm not as excited about the prospect as I thought I would be on Monday.

Plan to drink juice for breakfast went wrong as DH decided, for the first time in about a year, to make me tea and toast, and I didn't want to seem ungracious. Mind you, DS ate one of the pieces of toast, and a bought a large Pret Orange juice on the way to work (might I add, the lengthy way to work - GRRRR Jubilee line. I should have just gone awol at London Bridge and headed off to the Borough Market (oh, fond memories of the time I flatted in Borough...)

off at lunchtime to find / buy flexitol - what colour is the packaging?

thanks!

I am hobbling anyway after carelessly standing on the sharp side of a garden trowel in a post-sun-and-bbq haze! Just as well I haven't started counting steps yet!

morning all, I haven't abandoned boot camp yet, just not had chance to pop on!

I've decided that I can't change everything at once as its too confusing for my post-natal baby brain (it does still exist, even after 18 months btw!) so am concentrating on the food side for now.

Having said that, I have had a choc muffin this morning

Port!?! Pinot Grigio?!?? Things weren't like this in my day.

arfishy - not mogellers(!) Don't think I'm yummy mummy enough to get into that scene, and also miles from London, and (whispers) don't really like the idea of mogelling anyway!

What d'you want to know about violins?

(thanks for nice comments as well arfishy!!!)

Ah well. Not wanting to hijack but

How old is your DS? DD will start violin at school next year when she is 5 and I'm intrigued at how she will do so young. I wondered what your experience was?

• ds1 started at the beginning of year 1 when he was 5.3, and he got on really well. The key is to do a little bit of practice every day, maybe 10 mins. Then they actually make progress between the lessons, otherwise it can be a bit soul destroying. Make sure she has a comfortable sized violin, and if you can go into the lessons with her then that will help - if not make sure the teacher writes in a notebook.

Are you musical? If so you can write out extra tunes for your dd to do at home - ds1 really enjoyed doing Twinkle Twinkle which I wrote out for him. Also, they can (after the first lesson) play the beginning of Fireman Sam (which ds1 loved) - you do it on 2 strings next to each other - eg D A D A D A D, then sing the next bit etc!.

It's a good age to start!

lol sobernow!!!

(whispers - stripey duffel coat was boden sale)

thinks: hang on a minute - isn't it a 9 hour time difference to Sydney at present?

hopes that it is, or has been waking elderly parents at severely unreasonable hours for the past few months

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