WWW's six week 10 yy boot camp WEEK TWO of the Aug/Sept thread

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Hello! This is week two 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.

Rosemerta, we're looking in home counties, very exciting

Feetheart, yes, it's hard in the holidays, I agree. hmm, at hula hoops, that might be fun.

DofN, thanks for quinoa explanation, hmm. I may try it.and at your list of food, it's so bad as to nearly be one of mine! You have ponies? How lovely.

Winnie, that's brilliant abut the swimming. I think you should go on another date, pronto! I'm glad you're doing things that are good for your soul.

Batters, gosh at dp's mother being hazy on the details but that sounds like a lovely evening. 16000 is excellent. and lol at don't want to die in a traffic accident, quite!

Marina, I hope your meeting was ok or better than you expected, tell us if you feel up to it. 16000 steps for you too, wow.

Monsoon 70%, ooh must go and look. No, must not. will not, want a house, want a house.

legalalien, lol at your dh. We will, we will LEAP out of the screen and we will GET YOU!

Hello Yoyo, have a lovely week!

Thanks to all who laughed at my leetle meeting joke, we're still sniggering about it at work too.

(anyone who didn't get it, See You Next Tuesday is often used to say C.U.N.Tuesday so we were calling the woman a c*t but ostensibly reminding her that we did, in fact, have a meeting with her on Tuesday. So she couldn't really have us for it. And she was very rude to us )

toay

2 pieces toast, marmite
an apple
2 kiwi fruit
150g puy lentils with 1 tsp olive oil, lemon juice, a small amount of crumbled feta, chillis. It was lovely.
another apple
and another
noodles with prawns, peas, lime juice, sesame oil, olive oil, chillis and soy (yum but prob fattening)
have had 1 glass of wine and may have another
have walked 30 mins because I went to a meeting 15 minutes away

And I'm very happy. So all round not bad at all.

I've been bad. Tuesday did no exercise as went diving (unless lazily swimming at bottom of ocean looking at lovely fish and lobster and 2 nurse sharks counts as exercise?). then went for dinner without kids and ate and drank lots. But was relatively restarined at breakfast this am - bacon, veg omelette with no cheese, fruit. then went to gym for 1 1/4 hours, and had roast beef sandwich for lunch.

Paradise might be getting a bit windy though - Tropcal storm Dean is headed straight for us, and will more than likely be a Cat 2 hurricane by the time it gets here on Friday. Nobody is sure which island will be hit yet so just lots of watching of the weather channel going on.

Prufrock - hope you miss the storm. I think you're being very good considering you're on holiday.

WWW - I did enjoy your office politics!

Winnie - 30 lengths is good. I should swim more, it tones my arms up like nothing else (even without MIs famous webbed gloves)!

Batters & Marina, good amount of steps. (Marina, how & what was your Doom?)

I have been too busy visiting people and entertaining children to do any real exercise over the past few days. It's very frustrating. I haven't eaten any junk today though!

The ponies are fun - one is big enough for me to ride and the children adore them. They're on my profile if you want to be really nosy!

Hi ladies, I have been fleeting in and out for encouragement and inspiration but not done much!!!
Trying to up my water intake and have a couple of alcohol free days a week. Recently we have been having a glasss of wine or a wine/soda nearly every night of the week, some nights it's 2.
Been trying to find a bit more time for pampering, had a really long soak in the bath last night, face and body scrub. Followed by lots of body cream and a quick pedicure. This morning I took a few minutes to put some nail hardener on my very weak nails in a vain attempt to make them look better.
Got my hair colour out of the box- then put it away again- just didn't have the time to do it. Can justify spending £60 on my hair now the extension is underway!
It's our 10th wedding anniversary tomorrow so more than likely we will be having a take away and a bottle of wine/bubbly...and then go out for a meal on Saturday when kiddies are with their nan & grandad. Better cut back a bit elsewhere then!
Thank you for the encouragement and motivation!

oh yes, and I am eargery waiting for my pedometer to arrive!!! I miss the school runs and despite my scales saying I am about 2lb lighter than usual I feel rather flabby around my midrift!

Oh DofN is that your house? How lovely.

Came back to report that 29p conditioner IS FAB! It smells of nothing, which is great as I hate smelly conditioner and my hair looks and feels fine this am. Dh has used it too and agrees. So, there you go, nothing wrnog with Tesco brand 29p conditioner. So far.

And Dingle, well done on 2lb!

WWW, I'm impressed at how you manage to keep up with everyone! I read the thread and then forget what everyone's said!

Btw, how's the house hunting going?

You might find this website useful, you can search for properties around you and it will tell you how much they sold for.

Right off to take ds to the park, at least that will give me a run around

sympathy needed - just had to cancel my once-in-a-blue moon haircut because the other three people in my team (including my boss) have disappeared off on holiday / have personal admin to do and have dumped all their work on me for two weeks!!!!

I guess the stress might burn off some calories.

[sends sympathies to legalalien]

La - are you a huggy person? If so, I can send some hugs your way as well. If not, then how about a pat on the shoulder?

Hello all, have building works going on so have not been around much.
Meeting held no surprises, it's just whether I should view its medium-term implications as menacing or not
Plenty of walking, and have been chucking boxes of books around She-Ra style today (well, not exactly) so a good aerobic workout all round. Sorry about your lost haircut legalalien - in a world where every second of personal time counts and is precious, that sort of disappointment really stings

I would like to admit that my resolutions to swim this week have been sidelined by pre-holiday pre-menstrual exhaustion. I am gibbering and incoherent - even more so than usual, I mean - and am SO in need of our Relaxing (hahahhahaha) Break, I can't tell you.

However, no booze has passed my lips yet, despite DP's suggestion of pink fizz last night

And now, yet again, the red pre-departure mist descends up the Inferiority Complex

This year I am avoiding the madness of previous years, I hope (I will not be making cakes with the last of our eggs ) but the added piquancy for 2007 is that we're Having Work Done while we're away. Which means clearing one room out. Totally.

We have a lot of books, I've just realised. And our lack of ahem filing system means that one shelf I shifted contained, for instance:

Michele Roberts' Flesh and Blood (vg)
The Great Beers of Belgium
The Sheba Cookbook
Faith in the City
The Qu'ran for Non-Muslims
Book by green Marxist Rudolf Bahro

...and of course the usual sci-fi and thrillers...

Oh, and because I lived with someone ages and ages ago who kind of stomped off, leaving me to clear out all his books for him (along with his dirty washing) (and the three pieces of bacon he'd left the fridge - I was a veggie at the time) enquiring sometimes 'is this yours' can trigger a Bit Of A Huff . (The Bahro, much to my surprise, was in fact DP's. Sometimes I realise we're less incompatible than I always assume .)

Shitey day at work but ho hum, that's it over for another week The politics (not my dept, another) are exhausting.

Marina, I hope the answer is Not Menacing. And I have an image of you shifting boxes of books now, like some amazing Wonderwoman type

Legalalien, sympathies on the haircut. Can you just say 'well, I have AN APPT and I NEED to go OR I WILL BE CHARGED so I AM GOING" ?

Rosemerta, seeing 2 places on Sat, suspect they won't be any good but still, it's worth looking I reckon to see what we'll get for our budget. (btw, I open 2 bootcamp windows usually and read in one and post in another!)

Batters, well, if it slides, it slides, bootcamp is about being happy too so relax for a week hey?

MI, sorry to hear about pmt etc. I loved hearing about the books though, anyone who feels like posting incongruous book titles from their shelves please do so!

Today

toast x 2 with Marmite
apple
lentils with chilli, small amt of feta, lemon juice, olive oil
another apple
and another
some extra strong mints
a piece of cake at ex MILS (she saved me from myself, the chapatis were all gone by the time I got there tonight)
and am now eating half a PE American Hot and drinking Pinot Grigio

Just got back from drive to London and back to get ds.

Hey, today I met someone in a professional capacity who said "how are you enjoying your compressed hours?" and when I said oh lovely she said "oh I have a friend who used to be of who is now freelance and does 4 days and loves it." and I blurted out, without tihnking "Oh, is is

I have been on a clearing out and cleaning frenzy. It is a rare occurence so now I'm totally worn out. Missed lunch and ate home-cooked Chinese for dinner. Not enough water today so I'm catching up now.

Still no real exercise and feeling very podgy in the middle.

www & batters - yes that's my house. Trust me, it looks better from that distance. You could film Cold Comfort Farm here - we can even provide something nasty in the woodshed!

MI - sympathy for the room clearing. Enjoyed your book titles ! ENJOY your holiday!

Virtual cheer for Marina & legalalien.

@ WWW. I mhave just tried opening two bootcamp windows to write and read at the same time and on my laptop it just doesn't work

Sorry you've had a bad day at work www.

I am basically here to confess. You must all give me a kick up my very large arse... I have been bad today and have eaten G&B white choc (lots) two scones with jam and a whole bottle of wine (on top of breakfast, lunch and supper). I am going to suffer tomorrow. Am particularly cross as other than some walking (lost MORON this morning and nearly had a fit with separation anxiety but luckily ds 'found' it this afternoon ) I haven't done any of my planned exercise today. I think I am subconsciously sabotaging myself because of xh... which is pathetic I know. Have sworn at him alot down the phone tonight telling him how I am with him for doing this to me all over again.

Winnie - I'm sure swearing burns up LOTS of calories I hope it made you feel better.
One bad day doesn't mean you are sliding, you are the inspiration on here. I hope tomorrow feels better.

Legalalien - sorry about your hair appointment, very inconsiderate of your colleagues. I think if I was still working I would go for WWWs approach but then I'm a stroppy cow when I want to be!

Where to start with book titles? We live in the house DH grew up in and although his father died many years before I came on the scene most of his 1,000s of books are still here (cluttering up far too much space and pissing me off when I think about it too much - I will not rant........I will not rant........I will not rant.....) He had an eclectic approach to reading so from here I can see Vanity Fair, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea and The Max Miller Blue Book. Will that do for starters?

MI - LOL re Relaxing Break - ours in in second week of September. Cue DH: I really need a holiday and a rest. Oh, I suppose we won't actually get that much rest. Did you say something about a babysitting service . VERY impressed re holding out on pink fizz. I managed ONLY one glass of wine again last night, which is good for me, anyway .

Thanks to all for sympathies about haircut. Half the problem is that I'm really crap about organising appointments. Have decided to organise haircut, pedicure etc for the week in between colleagues coming back and me going on holiday, on basis that they will be guilt-ridden - we shall see!

can sympathise re the books - I've moved country twice, and moved house three times since we've been here, and we still managed to accumulate a lot, including a lot of rubbish "bought it at the train station" reads. Just before we moved here I put all the ones that I didn't really feel the need to read again in cardboard boxes outside our house one sunny saturday - and the whole lot disappeared in about two hours, other than a dated volume about australian accounting principles (not mine, and since dh is not an accountant I managed to convince him to put it in the recycling - after some persuasion - he is a hoarder and I am a chucker out).

speaking of DH, how's this for a bedtime conversation:

LA: I have some fab new stuff to soften up the skin on your feet (puts it on)
DH: actually, you shouldn't waste your money on that, do you know what's best for dry skin on your feet?
LA:

Feetheart, thank you. What a nice thing to say

Lol at everybody on this thread drowning in books. I have moved so many times most of my books just live in boxes now ready for the next move but what that actually means is that without my books nowhere ever really feels like home!

Legalalien, thank you too. Rofl at your bedtime conversation. Makes me glad I sleep alone

Today is proving to be a much better day and amazingly I did not have a hang over this morning

I have just blitzed the Monsoon sale (70% off ).

And I look gorgeous! [big-head emoticon]

And size 14 is deffo on the big side! [small-arse emoticon]