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

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WideWebWitch · 13/08/2007 07:51

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.

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TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 22/08/2007 00:04

Happy to announce that I am expecting baby no. 4. Only just though - I'm not due until April.

I shall be continuing to bootcamp through pregnancy but will stop rowing and running longer distances.

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!!!

bamamama · 22/08/2007 00:47

Hey DofNB, congratulations!!! That's wonderful news. You could always pretend to be French and then Brie wouldn't be a problem . Here's wishing you all the best and a problem free pregnancy. x

bamamama · 22/08/2007 00:56

there's me feeling smug and thinking I'd got the first congrats in but no, Marina got there first! (and we still don't know who shockandawe is.....)

Sobernow · 22/08/2007 08:58

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/08/2007 09:12

Fantastic news DoN!!!!! So SO pleased!!! How are you feeling?

I've been bad this week, took one of my pupils and his gh out for dinner last night to lovely pizza place in Clifton, lovely food, including chocolate cream pie, treacle tart, HUGE pizzas, garlic bread smothered in mozzarella....

only saving grace was didn't drink as was driving home. Oh well.

WideWebWitch · 22/08/2007 18:55

TS, where was it?

DofN, congratulations! Wow, how lovely

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TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 22/08/2007 20:09

I felt a bit queasy this morning and have a terrible headache now. So it's another glass of water and an early night I think.

Nearly 10,000 steps. We went to a Farm Shop & PYO that has a big childrens' play area and a variety of animals to look at. So I walked quite a long way whilst eating lots of fruit!

Marina · 22/08/2007 20:23

Sorry you are feeling a bit bleurgh tonight DoNB but in what a cause! Many congratulations here too. I second the "Imagine you are continental" approach too
More Wonder Woman book hurling and stomping about, vanilla latte with Head of IT was a necessary evil though. Although if you are going to fall off the Bootcamp Wagon, you really ought to do A Tortoiseshell, that sounds like a lovely night out
PS everyone, if sobernow invites you round to "meet the dds", don't go. She's trying to hoodwink someone into becoming her family governess. It all sounds a bit Lady Audley's Secret to me

WideWebWitch · 22/08/2007 20:58

I love Sobernow's thread, very funny.

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/08/2007 21:01

Www - Pizza Provencale in Clifton village - it's my 'return to student 'pseudo-sophistication' place!'

WideWebWitch · 22/08/2007 21:02

Is that the rustic one on Regent St, opposite the turning that takes you to Victoria Sq? If so dh and I had a v romantic dinner there when we stayed at the Glenroy hotel in 2000

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/08/2007 21:03

That's the one - they serve the pizzas on woven matting type things, not plates! The height of sophistication. I love it!

PSML at Sobernow!

WideWebWitch · 22/08/2007 21:04

Just looked it up, yes it is. I remember when it opened. Blimey.

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/08/2007 21:05

It was very funny - my pupil really didn't know what to do with the finger bowl, and was really shocked when we told him! The ignorance of youth...

winnie · 22/08/2007 21:06

Marina, hope the book hurling and stomping helped. Also, I have to add, I cannot imagine another parenting site where Lady Audley's Secret could be mentioned

TDoNB, congratulations

WWW, when you don't write up your food intake we know it's been bad Hope you are having a lovely time though and happiness quota high.

I have been bad foodwise but good exercise wise so am hoping the damage isn't too bad. My skin looks dreadful and I feel quite sluggish. I really can't wait for the new academic year and my routine to return to normal

Sobernow · 22/08/2007 21:27

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bamamama · 22/08/2007 23:41

Morning/evening all. T/shell -your night out in Clifton sounds lovely, we lived in Clifton for a couple of years. One of the only reasons we didn't stay in Bristol was because we could only afford to buy a coal shed in Clifton (and that would have been a push) and we thought we could got more for our money up north (so how come we ended up in one of the most expensive places to live in Scotland ) Still, I have very fond memories of eating out in Clifton and in my mind it's always a balmy summers evening.... Bootcamping going well, walking an average of 15,000 steps per day, mainly because I'm still stocking the kitchen on foot. Food not as great, I seem to have found a nice deli that does great cakes, just opposite the food shops.
Winnie - not long til September! As long as exercise is going well, then surely that's ok??? (that's what I'm sticking to anyway)
DofNB - how are you feeling today? How long before you get to spill the news in RL?

bamamama · 23/08/2007 12:10

where is everyone today???

winnie · 23/08/2007 19:56

Hello bamamama, I am still here ... just Am seriously thinking of going on a fast after a four days at home with ds. I don't think I've gained any weight but I have eaten crap & I feel so sluggish and my skin is bad, bad, bad (although that might be because I've yet to reorder my Liz Earle cleanser and my 'beauty' (HA HA) routine has dissolved. I've also stopped using P & P because I ran out and cannot justify the money right now and what I am wondering is, which of these things is the magic ingredient to my (now lacking) glowing and radiant skin?

Am off for a walk with a bag over my head

Marina · 23/08/2007 20:02

I have a bit of a "beauty, ha ha" routine going at the moment too winnie, not improved by haring round Bluewater today with my two. I fell upon a bucket of Diet Pepsi in the cinema with entirely inappropriate enthusiasm
Wow, the school hols are hard going boot camp wise. I need a bag over my head too, or maybe a yashmak to obsure my spotty chin.
Should have taken my Moron, of course...marching up escalators to retrieve dd (a Mitford "Bolter" in the making if ever I saw one, and she managed to get yogurt on her knickers in The Place to Avoid due to her highly kinetic style of eating) means I must have covered miles.
We saw The Simpsons Movie . The day can only get better....

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 23/08/2007 22:58

ROFL at Marina's kinetic DD and 'Mitford bolter'.

Winnie - I think we will all do better when DCs go back to school. And not long to go now...

I have another headache. It's not dehydration - I'm drinking lots of water. Had a lovely fish pie for dinner. But feel a bit queasy again now.

bam - I'd rather not tell RL friends & relations until I've had my 12 week scan which isn't until 1st week of October. I hope my newly toned running shape can disguise a bump that long (not a hope)! The school mums will also guess if I keep being sick behind the rhododendrons on the walk down to the playground! AND 15,000 steps a day is brilliant - well done!

prufrock · 23/08/2007 23:22

Congrats duchess.

I have given up being good. I will start afesh when I get back. I was v. pleased to weigh myslef on the spa scales to day and find I have put on only 7lbs in 5 weeks. Which is seriously good given how bad I have been IYSWIM

bamamama · 24/08/2007 04:31

hello all, hope everyone is bearing up under the strain of the schools hols (if you lived in Scotland I think the little darlings would be back this week..). Anyway, the weather is a lot warmer here today so not having to rely on the rudimentary blowy box the Aussies generously call 'heating'. I have started eating a proper cereal based breakfast and tried to cut back on the caffine but fruit teas seem really expensive here so have opted for extremely cheap coffee instead - not really the idea.
DofNB, can you last out to the 12 week scan or does pregnancy number 4 not inspire the same dizzy excitement? Winnie - I bought some P&P before I left the UK and I'm sort of hoping it doesn't work so I don't have to set up import arrangement with my sister! So far though it does seem to be doing some good. Right, off to put my feet up. Have a good Friday all - I'm definately at home to Snr Shiraz tonight, not a drop has passed my lips since Sunday and I'm parched!

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 26/08/2007 16:57

I've been bleeding rather heavily, I've spoken to my midwife and she's pretty sure that I've had a miscarriage. Was so bloody pleased to have got pregnant this quickly, I was worried that at 38yo it might take a bit longer than usual and we're desperate to keep the last age gap as small as possible - hence my absolute delight. Hopefully next time will be OK.

Hope you're all out enjoying the sunshine - this thread hasn't been touched since Friday afternoon...

WideWebWitch · 26/08/2007 17:00

Oh I'm so so sorry DofN.

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