NOW this is EVEN MORE SERIOUS - WWW's 10 year younger six week boot camp, Week 2, Sept 07

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Hello! This is week two of the EIGHTH WWW 10year younger boot camp of 2007

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 result. It's not a diet (although weight loss does seem to occur fairly frequently)

THE RULES ARE:

• Sunscreen at all times, even thought it's Sept
• 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.

I have been reading this book, Happiness, lessons from a new science and happiness REALLY is important you know! I will summarise if Ic an when I've finished it.

thanks duchess & batters I don't want to hijack this thread but maybe I'll start another.

Oh I'm sorry Winnie, I hope you're ok. Echo batters, if there's anything we can do, let us know.

Well done everyone else

not bad

2 pieces toast
some brazils and walnuts
tuna with light mayo sandwich, no butter
2 apples
grapes
homemade flapjack
loads of water
salmon steak
chargrilled veg
pinot grigio

and going to bed in an hour.

Sorry to hear about your bad time Winnie - I hope you are all safe now.

Feeling a little overawed by the serious amount of walking, aerobics, and threats to go jogging that are flying around here. Monday/tues/wednes are really bad days for me because they are the days I work, I spend 2.5 hours travelling and do nearly all the kids pick ups etc whilst DH castigates himself on the altar that is his job. But tomorrow and friday I will walk 3 miles per day for the school drop off and I am now rashly going to promise to do one serious bit of exercise this weekend - either jogging (god help me) or swimming (more likely).

Food situation:

bananas and cinnamon nono flatbread
1 small, delicious, aromatic yet still quite buttery, nutty baklava (left over from yesterday)
cheese sandwich
pack of crisps (I really didn't need these- uptoeyes kicks herself under the desk)
steaksandwich and salad
lots of water
1 coffee
God I could seriously do better.

Patsycline - thanks for reccomendation on nono flatbreads. The salted sesame seed ones are heaven, sadly the cinnamon sugar ones aren't quite as close to cinnamon grahams as I had hoped - but I am getting used to them now.

I'm having my hair done tomorrow and I am generally feeling pretty chipper. I don't have a cleaner but then my house is being renovated and it would be cruel and possibly dangerous to ask someone to approach the darkest recesses

I have been very good again. But it's coming up to the weekend and my cousin and her dp are coming so we are going out to a fabulous restaurant on Friday, and Saturday I am making oxtail stew and attempting to recreate the divine chocolate desert we had in Nevis. So I am admitting my badness in advance.

Today:
Granola
1/2 spinach and ricotta quiche for lunch (bought but Waitrose do delicious quiches)
Leftover cous cous/veggies
lamb stew with my own pink fir apple potatoes (and I had to dig them up before I cooked them so extra exercise

Hours amble with dog and ds, and an hour with trainer in gym this pm. Also yet more ridiculously excessive cleaning - must go and slater on hand cream to compensate.

Winnie - you are so much better than the men you have been with. Do start a thread, if only for us all to sympathise and hopefully make you feel better

Winnie Oh crumbs, so sorry to hear this. A combination of shaming gluttony and general recent hackedoffness with Mn means I've not been on much (since your birthday in fact) so missed that things were bad last week.
Please let us know if any of us can help, Winnie. Thinking of you XXX
and aspiring to yours, sobernow's and batters' wonderful achievements on this thread XXX

winnie, so sorry to read things are so bad - love to you xxx

My day - not bad, not good

2 bread rolls with ham/cucumber
2 fruit shrewsbury biscuits
kitkat
about 3 pints of diet coke in the pub...

Actually that is crap isn't it. No good food in there at all. I take back the not bad, not good - it's very bad! No water except swimming pool water (took ds1 swimming this evening, and ds2 this morning). Did manage a bit of swimming myself, I suppose that counts as some exercise. No need for suncream as haven't really been outside. Will try and do better tomorrow.

Winnie - sorry to hear things are crap, I hope it's getting sorted.

All well on the bootcamp front, no wine since Sunday, no cakes and my cake fund is building nicely (and I haven't even thought about buying a big cake Duchess but thanks for putting that thought in my mind!). I went for a big bike ride yeasterday with ds which involved getting hopelessly lost somewhere in the south of the city however we made it back despite having to cross a 3 lane highway at one point, ds contentedly munching a breadstick while I tried to avoid being run over! DH is out for the next couple of nights so early bed and no wine will be the order of the day.

Morning!
Yesterday wasn't so great from the walking along POV but as I was up and down mini-ladders chucking books about I feel reasonably pleased. Am forswearing wine for the week as have a sociable weekend on the cards.
Must work harder on eating a healthy breakfast before the school run though...a skinny latte and a low-fat muffin still not really good enough.
How are you today winnie? and hello emsiewill, haven't seen you posting for a while. I'll check those goals out - do they come with a downloadable arse-kick by any chance ?

Morning! Just thought I'd check in and say hi. Am doing OK this week although I feel knackered due to ds2 waking up lots at night.

Thanks for the sympathies re: weekends. www, my dh is useless at trying to support me and frequently makes me eat takeaways and have meals out (at least that's what I tell myself) , oh well...

Oh, I am very very happy this week due to dh finally coughing up with a birthday pressie (only 2 months late) of a new handbag which at the moment I can't stop stroking and looking at .

winnie, I hope that things are OK now.

uptomyeyes, am chomping on nonos here too. I like the sesame and also the spicy ones aren't bad.

Have been quite good this past week, although not enough water. I need one of those beeper things that go off every few hours to remind me. I have even got my creaky bike working again with a new kid seat on it so I can pick ds2 up from nursery on it. Been going to bed early though, and eating better, so I'm part way there.

Wilbur, I have been reduced to putting Water! on my Scheduler at work, fluffbrain that am

quick hello

I have decided (a) to forswear drink virtually completely, as a Long Term Thing - had two glasses of fizz (at different points) last weekend (b) to change my swimming to both weekend mornings, plus a Wednesday night, plus pilates...

...and will hear your roars of laughter in response to the news I am officially part of the Beauty Team at my magazine , what with being Health which fits apparently under Health And Beauty, snurk

Wayhey, beauty queen MI - of course you are on the team! Just don't start wearing 400 layers of foundation and talk endlessly about pentapeptides... Surely there must be freebies involved though? Will you have a bathroom cabinet groaning in this season's shades?

Marina - at least you have a scheduler and you look at it. I have just realised I forgot to put about 6 things on the new calendar and now we have a Babysitting Crisis on several nights. So what chance does a glass of water have?

no booze, but am sorely tempted. will go to bed with a glass of water instead.
Bad lunch, as went to soft play with toddlers, but good everything else.
I think my marriage may have just come to an end because I'm not sure I can continue to live with somebody who finds me so lacking, but I'm sure I won't feel quite so melodramatic about it in the morning.

Prufrock: thinking of you.

Relationships are vilely hard, speaking as someone currently enjoying a Good Patch.

Prufrock, are you ok? Anything we can do?

Oh prufrock I'm sorry - is there anything we can do to help at all? Is this a bad patch which could hopefully improve, or is it somewhere you've been moving towards over time? Sorry you're having a hard time in any case. x

(Btw, I still have problems with your name here, ever since that typo someone did about a million years ago, which called you profuck, and I still want to type that instead of prufrock )

Not too bad yesterday, I did a fair bit of walking, lots of water, and swimming (though was with ds1, so possibly not the most effective for fitness levels). The mental agility required to actually enter the swimming pool must burn off calories though - the receptionists try every trick in the book to stop you going in - the previous night's was 'it's adults only swimming - oh you want to go in the learner pool...well, I'm not sure it's open....what, it's open normally, I'll have to check - it's only open till 8 (the time was 7.10), so you'll only have a short time in there, well if you're sure it's worth it....'

Last night was 'no, there aren't any lessons on at this time. You don't want a lesson? Well it's adults only...(see previous night for the rest of the transcript).

One day they will say 'hello, that's £3, thank you very much'. But maybe not soon!

oh prufrock, I hope you slept OK and tomorrow does turn out to be another day I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling like this.
God knows what he'd make of the rest of the boot campers, I will cheerfully raise my hand to being a fat, profane, lazy gossip and I know I am not alone here...am I girls?
hope you find time to post later today and let us know how you are, and you too winnie XXX

Prufrock and Winnie, hope you are both OK?
Marina, hope you weren't chucking the books
at anyone...?

I have been doing well on the exercise front, but think today is going to be mostly at home and the KitKats are calling me from the cupboard. DS has just brought me a baguette, a knife (oops) and a box of eggs (!!) - do you think he is hungry? He is such a practical boy, I am sure he will be sorting out his own snacks in a year or so!

Have just made DS a "den" out of the clothes airer and a sheet over the top and he and Iggle Piggle (from cBeebies, for those of you with older kids)are in there with a toy train. He is having a great time.

DD1 has a friend coming to tea after school so I really need to do a bit of tidying, which might burn some calories I suppose.

Oh it's not the weight, profanitities or laziness marina, it's the lack of sex. I blame www - everything was alright until she swapped "have lots of sex - if it makes you happy" for "Use hand cream/foot cream too, we recommend Flexitol, which is fantastic stuff". I thought it was getting better, but a conversation (not even an argument) last night made me realised that he is really unhappy and disapointed in me. And I don't cope well with not being perfect. I've been doing a lot of thinking lately (and read "toxic parents") and have re-evaluated my relationship with my mother and realised it's not my fault that I wasn't good enough for her, and I shouldn't have to try to be. And just as I was getting used to that, I realise I'm not good enough for my dh (in his eyes, though he denies it profusely) and I'm not sure whether I can, or want to, spend the rest of my life either trying to be something better, or failing at being good enough.