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.

TheDuchessofNorksBride, I am so sorry. Take care of yourself {{{}}}

I'm so sorry DofNB. Take care of yourself. xx

I'm OK. Ish.

I have been picking blackberries today. Fruit=good.

But I am also making elderberry wine. Fruit=bad.

What is everyone doing for exercise now? And where is glitterfairy????

Elderberry wine - yum yum yum! Have you tried the Cairn O'Mohr (sp?) fruit wines?? Very moreish and a bit too much like pop.
Exercise wise I am currenly walking between 14-21000 steps per day - calculated that I covered 80 kilometers in our first week here. I will therefore be having a piece of cake everyday or I will simply waste away . I'm braving my first aussie playgroup tomorrow - should be ok although I really hate having to walk into things where I don't know anyone. Still, it's either that or talk solely to ds for the next 12 months so I will have to take a deep breath and get on with it! Right - it's hot here I'm off to try and persuade the boy he needs a nap so I can lie in a darkened room.
Thinking of you DofNB, have been through this myself so I have an idea how you're feeling. x

DoNB - so sorry .

bamamama - where abouts in Oz are you? since all our friends move back to Oz shortly post-procreation (to be near family) I have a wide selection of moved-back-to-Oz-not-too-long -ago-with-babies-and-toddlers-and-know-how-it-feels friends back there, if you'd be interested in being put in touch with any of them (aussies having a much less developed sense of privacy than is the case in the UK!)

Duchess, sorry to hear your news.

Everyone seems to have gone AWOL
Perhaps this bootcamp should be scrapped we can all start afresh when the little darlings return to school (which is next Monday here... hurrah!)

Have to say however that I am doing lots of exercise: yoga; swimming and walking and I am loving it

Duchess, I am thinking of you xx

legalalien - We're in Canberra, I know, it's near loads of interesting places or so everyone told us. I'm actually really liking it. I'm not a city girl by any means so a quiet city is just fine by me. Btw, do you know of a good aussie foot cream? I'm walking at least 10k a day at the moment and my feet are in a terrible state.
Winnie - I agree, where is everyone? I've been checking over the last few days but not posting as it would start to look like I was talking to myself! Glad you're enjoying all the exercise. I find it is rather addictive once you get into the swing of it. Enjoy the end of the school holidays. Once they are back it's to steep slope to Christmas!

I'm back! Been camping in the Isle of Man and having glorious weather (much better than at home!!)
Have failed on most of the Bootcamp rules whilst away although the happiness levels have more than made up for it
Please don't scrap Bootcamp till school starts! I need to get back on track quickly as one of my aims was to NOT look like the oldest Mum at the school gate when DD starts Reception in 2 weeks time (even though I probably will be having turned 45 last week )

DofN - so sorry to hear your news. Hope you are looking after yourself (and making others look after you too)

Can't comment on exercise Winnie, most I've done recently is chase children round a campsite and shoo chickens from the tent

I'm still here too! Been up to my parents this weekend. Bootcamping not too bad, lots to eat but have been very good with not so much alcohol. My parents go to France every year and stay near and very nice vinyard so feel very good about resisting their lovely collection

DoN - I'm so sorry, am thinking of you x

I probably drank SLIGHTLY more than allowed over the weekend, but have remained on the straight and narrow re water / foot cream / cooking AND managed to paint my toenails. I have rebooked my haircut for next Saturday and will be making it come hell or high water (I now have a pretty good idea of exactly how much white hair I have, and it's a fair bit!)

bamarama - don't think I know anyone in Canberra with kids - but I will consider setting my ILs on you next time they're bemoaning the fact that we live so far away! Not surprised you're walking so far given the way that Canberra is laid out - I've only been there a few times and lost my sense of direction in about five minutes flat! Have you been to Tidbinbilla yet?

Glad to see everyone back.

I've been 'marshalling' children (7 of them aged between 18mths - 6yo, shared between 3 mums) on the beach today. It was windy but sunny and all had a good time. I am glad I took so many extra sets of clothes with me.

Lots of water and I am still remembering to take my iron supplement.

Winnie - impressive range of exercise. It does make you feel better doesn't it?

feetheart - lol @ chickens in your tent. Sounds like my house!

Shall I start a fresh shiny thread?

Been terrible although thought of you all today in Pret, where I chose a crayfish and smoked salmon salad.

Oh DoN - just seen your post, I'm so sorry to read that. (((hugs))) to you all

Gad! I love crayfish. I love Pret too. It's one of the things I miss most about London.

Shiny new thread if you like but I fear we may all be rubbish this week in the faint hope that we will be saintly next week when the school term begins!

How are your chicken t/s? My newish ones still aren't laying and the cockerel is still the smallest of the lot!

Thank you all for your kind words.

2 out of the 4 are laying really regularly, most days, the other 2 (the brown ones) have gone on strike. I'm worming them atm, and also going to treat them with louse and red mite powder in the hope that that gets them going again!

t/s - are they moulting? They might do a half-moult this autumn since they're young. I think mine are just lazy.

Off my food today but I've sustained myself with Ryvita, lentil soup and some melon. A friend has bought me some lovely duty-free lotions and potions as a thank-you for looking after her guinea-pigs. So I'm going to slather some on and get to bed before midnight.

I wondered about that DoN - possibly. Not really noticed any feather loss, but one or two feathers in the run. Hopefully it is something like that. They have stopped squatting down when I stroke them, but they are well enough in themselves, so after the worm treatment, and the louse and red mite powder, they should be in tip top condition!

The other 2 are laying brilliantly! Every day for both of them.

Legalalien - where/what is Tidbinbilla? Sounds a bit too much like Tikkabilla to me - will I see Justin Fletcher? I didn't realise how much I put cbeebies on til I came here...no TV (by choice) and the days can seem very long. Also having to spend evenings actually talking to DH! Canberra is a bit spread out but is very family friendly so I'm having a good time walking round the lake. Bootcamping going relatively well. Hope everyone is enjoying the last week of the school hols - there's nowhere to hide from Monday

umm - who is Justin Fletcher (still haven't watched cbeebies - we only put on channel 5 for half an hour in the morning, so my knowledge of children's TV is a bit limited - Hi 5 / Little Princess / Hana's Helpline)!

All you need to know about Tidbinbilla: www.tams.act.gov.au/play/parks_forests_and_reserves/recreation_in_acts_parks_forests_and_bushlands/t idbinbillanaturereserve - been there as it's an obvious place to take your son's foreign girlfriend on her visit to canberra! Assume you've done all the usual sightseeing - FIL volunteers at the war memorial, so let me know if you want a tailored tour! Mind you, I suspect that if you want to be properly culturally acclimatised, you'll have to spend a fair part of the next six weeks up in the middle of the night watching the rugby world cup....

Oh Duchess I am sorry to hear your news.

Wel I'm back. But wil not be bootcamping until saturday at earliest as I need huge calories to get me over the lack of sleep on an 8 hour overnight flight, and the jet lag. Will be weighing myself tonight to get the bad news about just how much I've put on.

Oh and I have courgettes, even 1 marrow, but the peepr plant seems to have gone

Welcome back Pru - glad you missed Dean, he sounded terrible!

Moron - 10,700 and I've yet to do the ponies so another 1,000 steps before bedtime I should think.
Water - tick
Exercise - tick, a very slow 2k to ease myself back into it.
Food - v. good today and NO biscuits.
Iron Supplement - tick
Moisturiser - tick, and I've self-tanned my white legs so that they match my top half!
Sun Screen - didn't bother today.
Booze - none for days

Feet - hideous, must plunge them into a bucket of Flexitol and pray to the Goddess of Lovely Feet.

Hello everyone
I am back in work today and ds is at his Dads all weekend so I've no excuses now.
Am managing 11,000+ steps a day, swimming & practising yoga. Feel fab with the exercise Am certainly beginning to notice differences in my body too.

However, whilst alcohol is still limited to the weekends and I am still pampering my body water consumption and eating healthily need to be addressed.

Gave in and reordered LizEarle cleanse & polish and had a free exfoliator arrive with it. The exfoliator worked like magic; grey, dull skin completely transformed & my skin feels great again and is beginning to look better too

How is everyone?

You are doing STIRLING bootcamp work Winnie! The exfoliator sounds brilliant. 11,000 steps a day is very good too - I've noticed that since the holidays I've been doing much less than the 10-15,000 I usually do and it's nearer 6-7,000 a day.

Off to buy school socks now. My last mission!