WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, Nov 07, WEEK THREE, all welcome

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This is week 3 of the ninth 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 though it's autumn
• 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 discovered that the secret to a good bootcamp is to get pregnant.

• Sunscreen - YES and tons of extra face cream
• booze - NONE for weeks
• Walking - usually 30 minutes but power-walk/jog twice a week for up to an hour. And swim once a week.
• Lots of water - 2.5l of weedy squash today
• Body cream - lashings of it to combat itchiness
• Hand/foot cream - to combat seasonal dryness
• Eat healthily - doing better than usual
• Be happy - we've had a great weekend
• Go to bed early - THIS was previously my bootcamp weakspot as I frequently worked until the small hours. 11pm is about my limit these days and it's more often 10pm.

And those size 14 Monsoon trousers are really far too big for me now - I'm waiting for the bump to get going so I can wear them again.

[enormous show-off emoticon]

t/shell - you need to confess the cause of all those on the last thread. You know it will make you feel better...

Wow, DofN have one of these

and Tortoiseshell, !

How about 10 years older??

Sunscreen - yes.
Booze - Smirnoff Ice, Cider and Red Wine. Started early, but paced myself, and stopped drinking around midnight because I knew I had to drive home today.
Very little Walking, still managed the exercise bike for 30 mins yesterday and today when I got back.
Lots of water - erm, very little.
Apply body cream - erm, no.
Use hand cream/foot cream - erm, no.
Go to bed early - 3 am this morning - and awake by 8.30 for some strange reason.
Eat healthily - hahahahah.
Be happy - great weekend, lol, even if I do look like a zombie now - was also driving for 4+ hours yesterday, and again today.

I shall redeem myself tomorrow, but am off to bed to catch up with X Factor.

Sunscreen - always
Water - lots
Food - pineapple and blueberries for breakfast, cinnamon bun for lunch and a Jamie O traybake with chicken, potatoes and tomatoes for dinner
Body and foot cream - of course!
Booze - well, it is the weekend. Some very nice half price wine from Tesco.
Happiness - er, not a great weeknd for that, but did lots of recycling

Hello all

Am doing v well, second weekend with no alcohol at all and still on the detox + boot camp extras! Weighed myself this am and I have lost nearly half a stone in two weeks! But even better is that I am feeling good and full of energy.

I don't exactly look ten years younger but I do look better for it all.

However must admit to a touch of reading Batter's pizza and curry weekend......

Off for a dandelion tea!

Morning all, have still not been well (mystery annoying symptoms, nothing exciting) so have neither eaten much nor walked far. So swings and roundabouts for me.
Am also being outperformed by a pregnant woman, eeek!
I am now equipped with my giant flagon of Protect and Perfect, and have been drinking lots of water to try and soothe my stressed interior
A good and happy week to all!

And congrats to puddle on toughing it out
Batters got off lightly - I think it may have been a curry that did for me and it was a non-creamy lentil-infested stealth bomb too

Hi folks - can I join in? Sounds just what I need. I have a 2yr old - going through an 'expressive phase' and a 3 mth old, and I have not yet worked out how to:

1. eat ( seems to be sticking to 1 enourmous meal at 9pm plus numerous disgusting sugar laden crap to get me through the day.)
2. drink - keep waing at night as so thirsty, forget to drink throughout the day
3. rub any cream in anywhere

So, will 3 weeks of this make me 5 years younger - dont want to resort to the Duchess' plan though. enough is enough!

Ok, ok, we took the children out to Bella Pasta for lunch (this is our new discovery, that they ALL sit nicely, eat nicely, behave beautifully at Bella Pasta, or Bella Italia as it's now called. unfortunately....

Starters (shared between all of us) - Pane dela Casa (Huge round garlic bread dripping with garlic butter) and also Italian cold meats with garlic ciabatta and rocket leaves and olives

Me - Penne al Fresco - goats cheese, spinach, pine nuts etc

And then, to crown it all, the children wanted dessert, and ds1 read that it was included in their menu price, so couldn't really deny them, so dh and I shared a Godfather - lots of ice cream, chocolate brownies, cream. I hang my head in shame. In our defence, it was a godfather for 1, not the one for 2, but even so, it was not good for bootcamp. Back on the wagon today.

DoNorks - I can't believe how well you are doing!!! And at monsoon trousers!

Lol at being outperformed by the pregnant woman - I'm used to it as one of my friends is about 7 months pregnant and complaining of her size 10s not doing up - and she is glowing .

Batters - I am taking evening primose oil which seems to have helped my hormonal spots a bit but would you recommend another supplement that has helped with pms cravings?

I have started hardcore bootcamp which is not going to be the best health plan, but it is just a temporary kick up the backside that I should have seriously given myself many weeks ago.

I have got some more of that no 7 serum, which seems to do my skin some good, and am moisturising like crazy. Hands are not bad, feet need some serious attention. Back to no booze, need to drink more water. Have mainly not been feeling happy with myself (hate that my feeling of self-worth is so wrapped up in how I think I look, even though I like to think I am an intelligent and rational woman) but am feeling positive because I now have a definite plan of action.

Welcome to sleepdeprivation (even your name makes me unbroody!). Which reminds me, I must try to get to bed earlier tonight!

I came home tonight and cried and cried. I walked in at 7.30, having left work at 5pm and had to walk v fast at Euston because they're upgrading the fking platforms so my tube shepherded me into the platform FURTHEST from my train and I only just got it. Then it was shitey local type train and then I got to the station at 6.55pm, when I got there at 6.55am this morning (a bit before actually). And then I had to make my lunch and our supper and get my breakfast ready and ds was vile and shouty and my back hurts and I'm tired (dd woke at 5am and came in with us, hell, it might have been 4, all I know is it was nighttime) and I just came in and cried and cried and cried.
I can't do 5 hours commute a day but if I give up I feel like I've let everyone down. My job is FAB, it's just the journey. I'm going to have another go at driving tomorrow so we'll see. Otherwise maybe I'll promise myself I'll stop at Christmas. The thought of those 2 stops from Euston to Oxford Circus at Christmas shopping time makes me want to weep. Which I am doing. I have had a glass of wine and may have another. Sorry for whingeing

Haven't read your posts, will do now.

100g granola, eaten at my desk
tuna and light mayo sandiwch
few brazils
lots of water
commuting walking
hazelnut bar
cod wrapped in prosciutto on green beans with potatoes pieces and lemon
some wine.

Tshell, that doesn't sound that bad, it's only one meal! Blimey, I thought you were going to confess to all sorts.

Batters, yum, I love deep fried cheese.

Marina, sorry you're feeling ill, I hope it passes.

I bought P&P ages ago but can't bring myself to use it, did once and it made me spotty (or so I thought), I must give it away.

Well done Puddle, we all KNOW it makes us feel better really. Still, 85% of the time (or whatever 5 days out of 7 works out at) is better than nothing for those of us who are baaaad at weekends.

sleepdep, course you can join, welcome!

Hi swedishmum, well done ont he trycylcing!

moonshine well done

unknowrebang, have you redeemed? Or is that tomorrow?

Good evening everyone.

I'm slightly redeemed www. Not a bad day all things considered.

Tshell - we were in Bella Italia on Saturday night, had the chicken in a creamy sauce and the chocpot desert.

I'm impressed Duchess. Was fairly rubbish throughout all three of my pregnancies.

Puddle, you're doing very well.

Hope you're feeling better soon Marina.

www, sorry you've had such a crud time travelling today.

Sunscreen - I think so, can't actually remember.
No Booze.
45 mins ex bike, rather than walking.
Lots of water/weak tea.
Apply body cream - erm, no.
Use hand cream/foot cream - erm, no.
Go to bed early - was dozing before 10, properly asleep before 10.30, which is early for me.
Eat healthily - ok, except for the half packet of gingernuts .
Be happy - yes. Spent half an hour earlier with my neighbours and their new baby, lovely.

Me again not yet in bed. WWW - how is letting people down not wanting to spend almost a third of your waking hours commuting? Can you make that time work for you at all by reading/surfing/dozing/daydreaming? I guess only you can answer if it is worth the (temporary?)time you are doing it. But it sounds absolutely crap. Am impressed though that, through all your trials, you have still managed to start the day with 100g granola - respect!

I know I should be in bed but as nos. 1 - 3 are teenagers/nearly teenagers and no. 4 has a bad cough there's not much hope!
WWW your menus always sound so delicious - cod wrapped in proscuttio on a Monday... as dh works abroad and Monday is football and dancing to pick up from we only have anything I can cook in about 7 mins!! I'm very jealous.
The weather today was stunning so dd3 and I took a picnic to the wildlife park down the road and had a very long walk - does it count at 3 yo with cough pace?? What a luxury to eat outside (with sunblock of course) in November.

Hello all.

www so sorry to hear that the commute is taking it's toll. Here's hoping that was a particularly bad one-off day and that it doesn't detract too much from the fab job. duchess as the sober success of this thread you may have to take over bollocking duties (but go easy on www mind)

I'm heartily back on the wagon this week after last weeks excesses. Dh has put on half a stone when he's supposed to be losing 3 stone so it's puritanical house here (sounds like a reality show). Walked 21,000 steps yesterday and off for a bike ride this afternoon so will hopefully be feeling healthy and svelte by the end of the week (all ready for the inevitable bottle of wine).

Thanks for all the sympathy everyone. I drank wine last night, slept badly, got up at 5.50am as usual, got dressed, went to the station and as the train pulled in I just thought 'fk it, I can't do it, I feel crap' so I called in sick. And came home and took ds to school and applied for some jobs. I feel a bit better and will go to sleep in a minute. I think I've got to explore driving as far as W Ruislip or somewhere and then getting the tube in because the bits of the journey that really really do my head in are the 2 stops with my head in someone's armpit from Euston to Oxford Circus (panic attack time) and the fking tube renovations at Euston. I really want to stay in the job because a) I like it and b) the money's great and c) because I said I would and d) I don't have another job but 4.5 hrs commuting a day is really too much. I think it'll be ok if I can get it down to 1hr 15 ish each way. So that's my mission - get it to that and stick it until April or until I get a perm job, whichever is sooner. I think part of my thing yesterday was that I'd asked could I leave at 5pm to get a 5.55 train from Euston and I managed it (by the skin of my teeth) only to find it took AN HOUR and I'd thought it was a fast train and would get me in at 6.30, which would have got me home for 7. Instead of which I got home at 7.30 and then ds was vile and it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

God, sympathies WWW. that is a long commute and a long day.

I used to (and will resume soon) commute into London and DP was used to getting phone calls from me almost crying with rage when I rushed to the station to find the train cancelled or delayed.

I think Batters' point about making home life as unstressful as possible is a good one (says she about to try and find a ceaner to ease her own return to work).

Sorry to hear you're poorly Marina.

sorry to hear about the commute WWW - have you thought about staying overnight one day midweek to break the travelling?

I had to do a 2 hr+ commute from darkest Oxfordshire for a while and having a midweek overnight stop made it slightly more bearable.

Bootcampwise I'm rubbish

Have now obtained a new key for the new gym equipment,( can't use it without one) but have yet to bring it into play - still it's the thought that counts

Oh www, that sounds hellish. I don't blame you for feeling down. Lots of sympathy!!! xxxxxxxx