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.

I am actually quite sick of having so much insight and awareness of my emotional health issues and yet not actually being capable of doing a damn thing to make it all better. But I should start therapy very soon, so I'm just going to muddle along until that hopefully helps me make some decisions/changes. It does all seem a bit melodramatic today, but I really was very very close to losing it again last night. But I spent an hour in bed catching up with House so managed not to obsess myslef into a state. And I didn't turn to the bombay sapphire - see how good boot camp has been for me!

Thank you all for being worried - but you can stop now.

Winnie - any change for the better?

I hereby formally announce my decision to join this...after the weekend.
one week back at school and I am late to bed, drinking copiously, fagging, and being surly. I look forward to being serene and smooth footed from next week.

prufrock - I really don't know the background but your message:

"I realise I'm not good enough for my dh (in his eyes, though he denies it profusely)"

does this not mean that any issue is within yourself and it can be worked through?? Apologies if off the mark - I'm a disjointed poster again and a bit full of wine for the time difference. Hope all works out for you - did you manage to recreate your chocolate pud???

Oh yes bama - issue is totally mine. I'm just not sure that it can be worked through. I was a bit screwed up when I met dh - years of being put down by my mother, and suddenly here was this man who loved me, without wanting me to change, and he saved me. And now I've changed
(but show me a mother who doesn't lose some libido after kids) and he no longer has the perfect wife. And sobernow, he's not putting me down, he's just making it clear by his demeanour and discussions that he's not happy. And I can't cope with not making him happy and being his perfect wife. I just can't. I don't do imperfection - well that's obv. a lie, but I do need to be considered perfect. And whilst i know that's not exactly healthy, I'm not sure that it's something I can actually change

Missed a day and it looks like its been a heavy one!

Prufrock FWIW - as you say you have enough insight into your own situation to know what you need to do, all you have to do is action it now. I've read your profile and all I can say is - you are more than good enough for me ......and I bet more than good enough for everybody else on this thread! In fact there are a couple of posters who sound like they need a bit of loving at the moment so I think we should all send warm, positive hugs and vibes across through cyberspace to those bootcampers who are feeling down.

In terms of my own bootcamp - I've done rather well over the last 2 days - little cheese and no baklava!

DS3 and I went for a cycle ride up a long hill today and then free wheeled down. I've made a lemon drizzle cake but thus far only my builders have eaten any. I made a Thai green curry from scratch last night with 9 birds eye chillis in - does anyone thing that chilli speeds up the metabolism?? I'm testing the theory out at the moment. I had one glass of wine becasue I'd made such a lovely meal for DH and I.

Can I send out a warning shot - do not under any circumstances buy Weight watchers tuna with mango chutney in a tin - it is vile!

My feet are definitely improving on the enhanced flexitol routine.

So I'm signing off to get ready for afternoon school run and my 1.5mile return yomp.

Prufrock

Mucho sympathies, from one who never feels good enough.

Oh lord!

Upto my eyes sends more love and good vibes out into cyberspace............

love...love....love....love....

Please can I join next week? Could really do with a generalised pick me up and my feet look like hell! Have the week to get through, and would like to start afresh on monday morning, if you'll have me.....

Prufrock, sorry to hear that. Please try (I know it's easier said than done) not to be so hard on yourself. Just looked at your profile, bloody hell are you really ONLY 32? you whippersnapper!

No - I'm 33 now www - but as you've met me I'm now worried that I look much older than my years . Although we were in rather a state by the end (and I still have the video in case`you or bk ever really upset me!), so I'm not taking it too personally.

Today so far - a couple of raw carrots, 2 crackers with some cheddar, some water, walked all round the zoo with ds2 in the buggy this morning (not sure that counts as proper walking)!

Prufrock - It's difficult to know what to say when you're obviously aware of how you are being so hard on yourself. Woke up this morning convinced I'd drunkenly rambled something really inappropriate - so glad I didn't! (As penance for the wine ds woke me at 6am) Have you spoken to anyone professionally about this? My dh is a self confession workaholic perfectionist and has found therapy imensely helpful. Sorry can't spell, a little hungover and it's too early!
Winnie - hope everything is ok.

Bloody hell batters, did you have to give me a blow by blow account of your sensational lunch. I will have to go stare into the fridge now.

pru - sorry you're feeling down.

I've been too exhausted to bootcamp today, it's been a busy week. I had pre-school AGM last night and after some tough-talking, I finally have a decent sized committee with 7 people having defined roles so they cannot shirk responsibilities through the year. I consumed several glasses of wine during the meeting!

Not many steps today or enough water. I can hardly keep my eyes open so I'm going to flexitol and then sleep.

HELLO ... everyone

I know, I know, it is well past bootcamp bedtime

Have been to Pizza Express with dear friend tonight. We have had such a lovely evening. We have been friends since we were 11 and yet walking through town sober giggling arm in arm 26 years later (OMFG!!!) was like being teenagers again. Am not sober now. So happiness quota is temporarily, at least, high.

Today has not been good bootcampwise but tomorrow is another day.

Well done everyone.

Batters, thanks for the email. I will reply.

Thank you all for your thoughts. Things are pretty pooh right now but onwards and upwards and all that. I will not let the bastard get me down.

Now that I am drunk I've remembered I've got work in the morning

www, saw your thread hope you are reassured

i'm failing on the early night too - am waiting for dh to come back home from a curry, and have spent far too long on the computer, and watching X Factor on ITV2. Finished off today with egg on toast (from my hens of course), and a piece of fruit cake .

slap wrist for you too then Ts

Pru, typed long message last night then computer crashed, no no no no I meant that you are worldly and have done a lot of things and your children aren't that small, so nothing to do wth how you look, which is a damn sight younger than me (since you are quite a bit younger than me) but I don't think of you as that much younger than me. dyswim?

Winnie, glad you had a lovely evening

Ts, absolutely re pins and needles, thansk for that post, you're right.

Batters, that food sounds lovely.

Eating well until about 8pm, then I had a glass of wine, and another, a packet of crisps, a kit-kat, more wine, more crisps....finished with a murray mint! Don't even like them

Skin care ok
Early nights, could do better
Started walking to school, so 30 mins a day.

Must not open wine in the week/must not open wine in the week/must not......

Oh dear, I am so sorry that so many of you are having a lousy time. Huge commiserations.

Swam this morning. There is no way to go but down .

I have my personal shopperwossname appointment this afternoon, that should generate a larf for quite a few of you . Also Hester and another mate of mine, who are coming along to snigger lend support.

is it too late to join?

have been quite good with excericise (jogging every morning and before dp goes to work) but i think my diet is seriously letting me down.

had a toasted cheese sandwich for lunch. i know it's no excuse but dd is 18 months and is getting through all the fruit we buy before i get a chance to eat it! I do usually manage one healthy meal a day. i'll try and make it more...

as for sunscreen, i'm having a major acne attack at the moment, so i have to apply horrible harsh acid stuff as prescribed by dr. wondering if Simple moisturiser with sunscreen would be ok if applied when acid stuff is dry?