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.

Hello all, have been v. busy and missed a couple of days. Have continued to earn my shiny star though!

Dolly - hope your father & FIL are OK.
Marina - glad to hear you're recovering

Today I've had muesli & milk, orange juice, ryvita, cottage cheese & salad, lots of weedy orange squash, apple, tangerine, duck & pancakes, beef in black bean sauce & rice and stir-fried veg. Will have another apple in a minute.

Not much exercise today, other than doing the ponies. I have sciatica on one hip, I always get it during pregnancy but I don't remember it happening this early before. Sickness really is disappearing now but I'm still very tired by mid-afternoon. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

DH was in town yesterday and raided Estee Lauder for me. I've changed my usual moisturiser to the dry skin version. Rather than glowing, I seem to have very dry skin and very greasy hair. I look about 100 years older. !!!

Dolly - I had my mother and mother-in-law seriously ill at the same time, when DS3 was a baby, it's very tough.

Glad you had a good time Dingle.

I have vodka-throat (and I've not touched a drop since Saturday!)

Sunscreen - yes.
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 - hmm, slightly better.
Eat healthily - ish.
Be happy - finished my last assessment for ECDL, and passed, yay!

This is such a lovely thread, you're all fab.

Today

100g granola
apple
pear
few walnuts and brazils
homemade sandwich with ham, rocket and chilli jam
organic sultana bar, 145 cals
left over cottage pie from last night, was delicious
no wine so I will have managed 4 nights out of 5 alcohol free this week by Friday
early night last night
lots of water
plenty of walking - I must use Moron, fnd out how far it is

And my face is a bit thinner

Someone said this was the thread I needed to help me to a minimal booze/feeling boo-fi-ful place.

Please may I slide in occassionally?

Started today (hadn't read your 'rules') with:

• no booze
• lots of water
• handcream
• cutting down red meat (parsnip soup for lunch & dhal for supper)

Sunscreen is going to take some remembering for me

For WWW - what an exemplary day! Well done! Good luck for Monday.

Do you make your own granola, WWW? I do, but DH and DD1 eat it by the handful so it doesn't last.

I have been doing the MK - Watford Junction - Olympia route a couple of times this week. It's about 25 mins from Watford Junction, but the connections to MK are not great, especially in the morning, so you might find it easier to drive to Watford.

I really am exceptionally dull, I should change my name to Mrs Trainline....

WWW notes to avoid granola spattered woman at WJ station breathing heavily through her mouth and muttering about granola not lasting in the Schadenfreude household...

Thanks for all your kind words. What a lovely bunch you are on this thread .

I have had 2 glasses of wine but needs must chez moi at the moment. Have done some work and watched Gok on how to look good naked. I always think the women look a bit overdone after he's got his mits on them but it was nice and diverting.

DD1 just woken up as I am going to bed. I have put the story tape on and am trying to coax her back to sleep. Back soon! XXX

Good morning!

Unexpected 'day off' (in the loosest sense) today as both dcs are ill (but different illnesses).

Fruit for breakfast for me and am planning to try and (finally) go back to the gym in the next week or two - dh can do the school run a couple of times and so in theory I should be able to go on the way to work once or twice in the week. But I am very good at theory....

Welcome to Funnypeculiar and DollyPopsOut (don't think I've said that) - I've decided that I'd love to let Gok loose on me once, even if he is a bit everyone-is-sexy/fab/wonderful and agree that the finished look can be over the top, but I guess that could be for the magic of tv so will give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.

Duchess - sorry about the sciatica - my dh gets it every now and then down his leg and it really changes his whole mood and outlook on life .

Batters - I love love fog as well (even driving in it!). It's the first morning frost here, which I also love, and would love to be striding out with my MP3 now, but sadly must take dd to the docs and then probably spend the rest of the day acting as both referee and sympathy-despenser.

WWW - I am a slut with lotions and potions as I always think there is something better out there. A word of warning to anyone who is tempted by the Dr Lowe moisturiser in Boots - don't go there! It's crapola.

Must go to docs now.

Am still here. Have been very busy.

Still being abused by the Evil Victoria (TM). 2 sessions down this week, one more in the morning. I'm throwing a spin class into the mix now too [sadist]. I have a lovely new heart rate monitor that tells me how many calories I'm expending which is very motivating. I also have the whisper of muscles on my stomach, unfortunately still snuggling underneath my wine gut but there all the same [wince] (Victoria was doing "core" this week in a scarily skimpy strip of fabric pair of shorts).

So, in my absence I gather that Bundle has confessed to being the bootcamp alkie on the basis of one glass of cava [snort of mirth]. I won't tell you about my night out with the girls on the weekend, but lets just say we drank 2 bottles of champagne before leaving the house. And then went straight into cocktails. Before the wine and liqueur coffees. No I didn't mention this to Victoria or her henchman Gus.

WWW - things sound much better there. Glad you had a few lovely days with the DC and plans are afoot for a better commute.

Dolly - sorry to hear about all the family illness, I hope things pick up soon for you.

Marina - sorry you've been so poorly.

Bama - how DO you do that many steps? Are you just walking all day? If I wear my pedometer to bootcamp then I can do about 10,000 by walking there and back (30 mins) and all the treadmill, crosstrainer and the rest of it - maybe a few k's worth of steps. I'd never manage 10,000 in a normal day.

Welcome FunnyP [waves]

Duchess, you are worthy of several gold stars. When I was pg I would routinely eat an entire 5 pack of jammy doughnuts because I was starving. This is possibly why I put on 4 stone

Anyhoo. Aside from my night out with the girls (only my 2nd in 2 years here, so am not secretly out on the lash every night) I am bootcamping well.

Sunscreen - every day
Water - heaps (now hot here)
Potions - have new clarins goodie bag that I'm smearing all over myself. Enough to make DD's male pre-school teacher notice and say "what's that smell?" [the shame not least because last week I accidentally blew him a kiss]
Booze - none for AGES apart from the girls night
Exercise - Evil Victoria (TM)
Bed Early - routinely by 9.30
Happy - need to perk up a bit. Am taking DD away next weekend which will be great fun. DP not invited git.

Morning all. Late night for me last night - watched a programme about swearing children so went to bed at 11.30, then dd woke up several times in the night - she had an injection yesterday (pre-school booster) and her arm was hurting. Am slightly stressed this am as am interviewing a mothers help in a couple of hours - trying to sort out childcare for return to work. For some reason I am nervous about it. Still not quite sure what I will ask her.

Re potions and unguents. I read the other week that the body shop body butter is one of the best low price body lotions you can get. So am going to try that after this sticky pot of Dove has been used up.

Marina you're right about commuting and the effect it has on your wellbeing. I am about to go back to it and am dreading it really - may start a thread on survival techniques. Glad you're feeling better.

Welcome funnypeculiar - yes, this is the sober-yet-stunning club.

lol ww at your purple teeth. I'd be gving you a wide berth on the train (but hey, you'll be in first class anyway!)

Moonshine, what put me off Dr Lowe was (for all older bootcampers out there) it bears the same name as the Stiff Records all-round good guy and heroic smoker and drinker the Jesus of Cool himself Next it'll be Meatloaf stepping in for Gok
I am a bit of a potion tart too but seem to have found lasting happiness with my Origins moisturiser and Eve Lom...for now.
Hope your two feel better soon. Mine were chirping revoltingly about the frost all the way to school, I was focusing on not slipping over
Well done on passing your ECDL rebel
Am LOLing about www's maw of purple on the train, you ought to smile lots and you'll get half a carriage to yourself missus (especially if there is granola in there too) - VERY BEST OF LUCK for Monday!
12,000 steps yesterday, mostly outside, so what's 9,000 between friends bama
And welcome back to Mrsschadenfreude and to funnypeculiar too

x-posted - puddle and arfishy snuck in there! Glad you have not been whittled away so much you are too spindly to lift open your laptop arfishy and oh, puddle, try not to be too depressed by our collective commuting glummery my dear. There is a definite systemic collapse on public transport in November, possibly a leaves on the line hangover - so you have caught some of us at our very nadir.
Good luck with interviewing your mother's help, hope she turns out to be a treasure

Hello all,
It was snowing last night where we live and now we've got sunny blue skies, a really crisp day: lovely.

-Sunscreen - yes!
-No booze in the week -yes!
-Walking - ahem (but did do baby swimming this morning with DS, which isn't taxing, but is an exercise of sorts...)
-Lots of water - this is my big weakness, must do better!
-Apply body cream - yes!
-Use hand cream/foot cream - yes!
-Go to bed early - yes!
-Eat healthily - yes!
-Be happy - yes! (see weather report above)

puddle- I love the Body Shop's Shea Body Scrub, (I do have very dry skin though, some might find it too greasy). I use it in the shower and it means you come out of the shower both scrubbed AND moisturised, a brilliant time saver.

www, I'm so sorry you've been having such a grim time - I really hope you find a way of cutting down the commuting time a bit

marina, you must think me dreadful, I am afraid I had no idea about your mum, nor that you'd been not very well yourself. How on earth did I manage to miss that about your mum? (Dinosaur administers kick to own rear end)

hello all,

Www - hope the commute was better today, not long until your inevitably successful interview and reduced commute. Duchess - I has sciatica for one day when pregnant with ds and it was bloody awful. You have my sympathies.
Arfishy, adding a spin class is beyond the call of duty is it not? Are you actually feeling better for all this?? And incidentally how do you accidentally blow a teacher a kiss and more importantly is he a handsome young man or not? (I figure yes or else these early mornings really are taking their toll)
Moonshine - hope the dcs are on the mend soon.
FunnyP - hello there.
Today was good and bad bootcamp wise. I've drunk the water and applied the lotions and potions but also had an ice-cream, a muffin and a bottle of red is waiting for me when dh gets back from his bike ride (i.e it will be opened after 10pm so that scuppers the early night too).
I have walked 22,000 steps today though so feel slightly better about it.
btw I have tested my moron as I know I do a lot of walking but I was begining to doubt how much was being recorded. It is apparently accurate to about 20 steps over 500 (yep, I counted them) so in total I'm covering approx 50k a week. This is mainly because we chose not to have a car whilst here so I'm doing food shopping on foot which takes up about 10,000 steps then a walk out most afternoons takes up the rest. I just have to kick the 'treat' habit because I'm not going to have the opportunity to do this much exercise when we get back and then I'll be in trouble!

The talk of fog has made me homesick! And I've missed English apple season. damn.

Don't be daft dino a faceful of (low-fat) noodles and a good catch-up was a big tonic!

hi all,

just want to say hello.
I have been bad, bad, bad & life is sht, sht, sh*t... I miss you all terribly

hopefully I will be back regularly soon.

I went to the gym today, had a coffee and came home.

At least that's 1 step om from thinking about going to the gym.

Next time I go, I will use the equipment

winnie ((((hugs))))

You are my role model iota - I haven't been to the gym in a loooooong while
Winnie, you've been sorely missed and much thought-about. Stay in touch and stay strong XXX

Just nipping in during my twilight 15 minutes in the dark before I amble skip off to see Victoria for my 6am session.

Marina - forgot to say you're my new best friend after namechecking me on the popularity thread [gazes adoringly]

Bama - He is indeed a handsome young man. I was blowing DD a kiss across the classroom when I left but he said something to me and I turned round to face him mid-kiss. So I blew it to him and he said "you blew me a kiss!". I died on the spot. I'm sure he thinks I fancy him now . Extra spin class a week is to compensate for the 2 bbqs I'm going to this weekend and next weekends trip away with lovely food and swim up cocktail bar.

Winnie - hope things get better soon.

Iota - roffle at use the equipment.

Gotta go. Victoria awaits.