WWW's six week 10yy boot camp, Oct 2007 already

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Hello! This is week FIVE 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 Oct
• 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

Happy Monday everyone!

Hello
I'm having a really terrible day. Heard I didn't get one of the jobs (it was close apparently but hey, close doesn't pay our bills, I had 4 interviews for it and really thought I had a v good chance) and then I did a shockingly bad interview for another job today. I wouldn't give me a job on the basis of the interview today, I just went to pieces completely, utterly and totally fked it up. So Acton beckons I know it's great that I have something but I was so hoping to be saved from a crappy commute by a permanent local job. The one I was turned down for today was London, not local but still. There's one more I haven't heard about, the one I really want, but I haven't got a good feeling about it. I feel utterly pathetic, am crying as I type this and just want to go a life in a bloody croft somewhere. Needless to say, I am drinking.

Oh and it's all my own fault for resigning from perm local job with only a contract to go to but still, that doesn't help really.

www -

have a large one on me

Thanks Iota. It could be worse, I could have nothing. At least I do have something and it will more than pay the bills. I know I shouldn't moan, just feeling sorry for myself and whinging

At least you won't be driving up and down the M1 again - you can read a book or listen to music on the train

Aw, sorry you're having a shit time WWW - interviews are such a crap thing to have to go through, especially when you see people who must have been the best candidate in some jobs, and you just think, wtf...you have special champagne (or whatever your drink of commiseration is) tonight and all week.

Arfishy - you're regime should be inspiring me but it is just making me want to reach for a beer and some fried chicken and chips, because I can never be that dedicated to the cause. It doesn't help it being totm as I do actually always eat my own body-weight in lard the week before and a few days into it.

I have being doing ok again, but ok is just not good enough. Will hate myself if I do not achieve something positive by Xmas/end of year, so a kick up the arse for me today and a New Concerted Effort tomorrow.

oh www, I'm sorry things have gone badly, maybe the other one isn't as bad as you think? I sometimes think when we think things have gone well they haven't and vice versa (it's certainly the case in music exams!). Hope things resolve better than you expect. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Oh, thank you all, sorry for whingefest.
I just cuddled both children in bed and thought fkit, this is what's important. It's only crappy jobs, it's not our childrens health or our health, or anything that serious, it really doesn't matter. But I was smarting from rejection earlier and I am NOT good at being rejected. Ultra competitive and all that...

There is still time for other one to come good but I'm not hopeful. But it doesn't matter, it's JUSt work. Cuddling gorgeous small children does give me perspective. Just as well, I do need to get a grip

hello, I am still here, but the 13.1 miles I did the other week was a training run, the real thing is this Sunday [petrified emoticon] My husband and brother are also running it, so we can all be sick with nerves together. What a lovely thought.

I have lost 7.5lbs since the beginning of September, so I am pleased with that, even though I have another 3 stone to go

WWW sorry about the job interviews
Arfishy, best of luck on your new regime
Marina, Sobernow and anyone else, get well soon
Duchess, fab news on the scan - congratulations!

Hi to everyone else

www I am struggling with the work/life thing at the mo, I do like working in general and like you am v competitive but I am constantly wondering how much happier I would be to move house, downsize and just live a happier, simpler life with cuddles and walks and fun with my DTs (but no expensive toiletries, wine, food, clothes...)

www, definitely, cuddles are what it's all about really! Things never work out the way you expect I always think - when you feel like one door has shut a totally unexpected one can open.

I've had a really busy day - had a recital at lunchtime - according to the person who introduced me, I am 'famous for the quality of my playing' - but it all went well and I got a good crowd.

Ds1's play is next week - he is Oliver in 'Oliver's vegetables' which they are doing for the harvest festival. He has a few lines like 'but I only eat chips'.

The joke of it is he learns to like many vegetables - hahahahahahahahahahahahah - ds1 and vegetables just don't mix.....!!!!!

www - sorry things aren't going your way at the moment. But you know what they say, "it ain't over til the bootcampers sing". You may yet be offered a plum role. I loathe interviews and am very happy not to do them anymore.

t/shell - but did your audience also know that you are famous for the quality of your hen-house?

cerys - good luck for Sunday. 7.5lb is loads. I'd have to cut my arm off for that sort of result. Actually my arm probably weighs 7.5st, so maybe just a couple of fingers.

Am belatedly doing DD1s 'camping party' invitations. 15 x 5/6yo's making a campfire, BBQing and building a den. I must be stark raving mad.

Oh WWW I'm sorry everything is being so shite for you. Bear in mind with interviews if you don't get it, it doesn't mean you're crap, it means that you're just not the best fit for that role (and you can get turned down for being over-qualified of course, or if the interviewer thinks you might be too good at THEIR job).

Also don't forget that you're interviewing THEM to see if you want to bring your huge skill-set to their organisation. Always helps me feel confident. Quite frankly they should be grateful I'm even considering them .

Moonshine - lol. As part of my bootcamp I had to go to a nutrition seminar (there's quite a lot to it) and when they put up a list of the most banned foods that you should never, ever eat I actually started drooling . It's only a matter of time before I snap.

Cerys - good luck. I'm very impressed. 8 minutes on the treadmill is my absolute limit. And only then under duress.

Hope all is well in the sobernow house soon. DD is better today, so hope it's not the lull before the pox erupts.

www - sorry the interviews aren't going your way although you never know for your final one.....and yes, having small children does put things in perspective at least you're all safe and well.
Duchess - hope the morning sickness is subsiding, how many weeks are you? A diet of ginger ale is quite appealing, my ds is made entirely of ice-cream and gaviscon.
t/shell - well done on the recital - where was it? I used to live in Bristol and always meant to attend the recitals at the big church near the estuary (St Mary's???) - never got round to it due to crappy nature of job. Oh, and well done to ds landing speaking part in play. (speaking as the person who got the only non-singing role in the school musical)
Cerys - good luck with the run! You'll be fine and well done on the weight loss.
Sobernow - hope you and family are feeling better.
arfishy - how long is your bootcamp for? Are you getting healthy or losing weight? As for banned foods if I decide I'm on a diet I immediately want to eat all the bad stuff! It's just difficult to get excited by pulses...
Winnie - hope you're headache has gone, as the duchess rightly points out are you dehydrated?

Anyway, bootcamping semi successful this week. Sunscreen, moisturiser, water and early nights - check. No alchohol, not so much but plenty of exercise. Now I'm down to my lowest weight in years I want to stay there but as I have an incredibly sweet tooth I'm struggling with treats and then feeling really guilty. I don't think the attitude I'm developing is particularly healthy.

Enjoy the countdown to the weekend!

bamamama - it was in town, Broad STreet? The 'big one' is where dh and I play on Sundays!

t/shell - having just refreshed my memory (via multimap!) I think I'm thinking of St Mary's Redcliffe - that's not the same one is it? Anyway, it's a great city and I do miss lots of things about living there (although now we have ds the things I miss I wouldn't be doing anyway...)
Off to drink wine now. I know it's not the weekend but is dark. Does that count?

Oh www, I really thought things would go better for you than that, I'm so sorry you didn't get the job .
I know of someone else similarly placed at the moment except he doesn't have a fraction of your competence and oomph IMO. I am sure the right thing will come up for you soon XXX
and muckingfuddle (excellent chat name!)'s advice is very sound on the cuddle front.
Best of luck for the run cerys and well done on the weight loss
T/S, are you on the "invited to St Stephen Walbrook" list (I do check the door as I schlep past every day...) I've been to see Ben and Michael Nicholas there in the past (Michael was our old DoM) as well as Catherine Ennis. We could, cough, make it a luncheon fixture if you did manage to come up for the day...glad the recital went so well
You sound so cheerful and settled bamamama, I think I'd still be snuffling into packing crates at this point.
am bootcamping as well as can be expected this week but unknownrebel has inspired me to clear the ironing, dollies and satchels festooning the exercise bike and get back on there. Might work up a teensy sweat while watching David Duchovny do his usual DIRTY schtick tonight...
A happy day to all and hope things are less puketacular in your houses today Duchess and sobernow

Hi everyone, www, I'm sorry that the interviews didn't work out for you. I've still got my fingers crossed for the last one though.

Sobernow - hope your family's all better.

Winnie - is the headache any better?

Duchess - hope the morning sickness abates soon!

I've decided I have to consign this week to the bootcamp dustbin as its just not happening. Ds is up and down through the night this week and our cat died this morning so am v tired and v .

bamama - that's the one I play regularly at, the one where the recital was is a different church.

marina - no, not on any London lists - but keep meaning to email people in London, so will let you know if I ever aspire to those heights....

Hope everyone's having a good day!

Lack of sleep is a horror rosmonster - both mine have never been too considerate in this respect, so sympathies. And so sorry about your cat too - expected, or a shock?

Thanks marina, usually ds is pretty good at sleeping but for some reason last night he just couldn't settle. As for our cat (Woody) kind of half expected and half not, he'd been having fits lately and they just seemed to get more and more intense but he always recovered. He had a massive one last night and we think his heart just couldn't take it.

yes, really sorry about your cat rosmonster