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.

arfishy - superb effort!
winnie - nice to hear from you, hope you're OK, can't wait until you're back regularly.
WWW - it's Friday tomorrow!!!!

I am completely stiff-arsed today. Sciatica has not gone off yet. I'm currently sitting with a hot water bottle under one thigh but I might give up and go to bed in a minute. I'd have a bath but I'm not sure I'd be able to get in and out.

I've eaten a giant Twix in lieu of breakfast (tarnishes gold star), 2 litres or more of weedy orange squash, 2 apples, 1 tangerine, 1 marmite sandwich, 1 lump of Double Gloucester, 1 lump of Port Salut, cottage cheese, beetroot, some green stuff. I seem to have a cheese-habit today!

Our new project launched in the UK this week (woome as in Woo Me, a speed dating site) and I should be really excited. But I'm just too exhausted! DH has been working 20 hours a day on it and is really beginning to suffer from it. So I'm hoping it'll ease off in a couple of weeks when the site is up and running properly. At the moment we have huge phobia of 'technical difficulties'! Sorry to drone on, it's kind of a big deal but it's taken us to the edge of reason!

Hello everyone When does the site go live, duchessofnorksbride?
Have managed hand cream, body cream AND suncream all in one day - probably the first time in about 5 years, so feeling inordinately proud. And lots of water. And prawn & avocado salad for lunch.
OTOH had my first cup of coffee in about two years - bleugh, coffee mouth all day. Won't be doing that again.
And no walking (work day)

FP - Launched it's beta stage on Wednesday. here. There are still limited 'dating sessions' until lots more people register. It's rather nerve-wracking! But quite fun looking at all the men!

oooh, just had a quick play - some nice functionality! (Am just in the middle of two usability projects!)

Marina - you missed my subtlety- I went to the gym, I didn't actually do anything apart from have a coffee

some role model!

Just read you all, no time to write much, will do tomorrow but winnie

100g granola
ham and chilli jam and rocket sandwich
sultana bar
apple
few nuts
OMG that's IT so far. No wonder I'm grumpy
2 chocolates in a meeting too actually

Just about to have PE pizza and salad
not enoguh water

and in said meeting I met the marketing Director who is a CHILD. when she came in I thought please please don't tell me that v v young little girl is Mkt director but yes she is. I am Officially Old. Love to all of you

Can't WAIT for tomorrow and my cold wine on the train home

Thanks Batters and Marina. Rather mindnumbing if I'm honest, so glad it's all over, lol.

Iota - that's my sort of gym visit! I took the lads swimming one night last week, and accidentally on purpose forgot my costume and sat on the side reading instead .

Moonshine, hope the DC are better tomorrow. DS1 was offside last night/first thing, but a lot better this evening, and DS2 has an infection on his leg, so is on antibiotics.

Puddle, hope the interview went well. So glad mine are past childminding/nursery age - I was very lucky with my mother, and then my two best friends. Not sure what I'd have done otherwise, tbh.

Winnie - sorry to hear things aren't good.

rofl at Arfishy and her dodgy blown kisses.

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.
Eat healthily - ish, not sure it was healthy but DS1 unexpectedly made pizza from scratch tonight, yummy.
Be happy - Tis the weekend tomorrow!

hello all. Just completed my exercise class in the park and nibbling on a grape or too so feeling virtuous. As the post-class coffee runs over lunch time I took sandwiches for ds however he refused point blank to eat them instead demanding some of the class leaders muffin. The treats definately have to stop! He's never been a good eater and now my little indulgences mean he won't eat anything savoury . Feeling like a bit of a bad mother. Off to trawl the food boards to see how I can change a stubbon toddler.

Duchess - good luck with the new venture and I hope your dh will get some time back from now on (if only to pamper you of course!)

Winnie - we're missing you. take care.

have a lovely weekend everyone.

Hmm! It's Friday. Nobody's here because they're all trashed on Chardonnay...

bama - good luck with your sweet-not-savoury son. Exercise in the park sounds good. Bloody freezing here.

I have eaten porridge, cottage cheese, salad and buttered roll, tangerine, apple, shortbread biscuit, jacket potato & beans and strawberries & cream. I haven't drunk enough today and feel thirsty so will go and sort that out.

No sciatica this morning so had a lovely long walk with the dog, beautiful sunshine but so cold. Sciatica has come back this evening so I shall do the ponies and then get my hot water bottle ready. I'm exhausted.

I'm here Duchess, and absolutely not trashed on Chardonnay, not least because a) it's horrible and b) its 7.30am.

I've just deviated from my food plan and eaten DD's blueberry bagel smothered in butter. [drool].

Hope the sciatica improves. That must be a pain with ponies to look after.

Rightio, am off to DD's unfeasably early ballet class.

Champagne, ACTUALLY not Chardonnay darling

100g granola
apple
ham chilli jam and rocket sandwich
hazelnut bar x 2 @145 cal each
another apple
lots of water
no sunscreen

AND my commute is 7,320 steps! Blimey. That includes door to door and indoors (big building though)

But tonight:
crispy duck and pancakes
spare ribs
singapore noodles
Champagne
Sauvignon Blanc

Happy weekend everyone

I'm not trashed (although I may sneak a peak in the fridge to see what I can find). Been too busy offloading two of the lads at camp.

Sunscreen - yes.
No Booze.
40 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 - slight improvement.
Eat healthily - been a bit crap on the food front, including a big plate of chicken n chips for tea. Portion control went a bit haywire, lol.
Be happy - Looking forward to a lovely weekend with just DS3.

Actually I'm lightly trashed on a botle of 94 Pichon Longueville, that dh got for £45 a bottle rather than the normal £90 retail pice, because the company he works for own the vineyard. So tehre were some benefts to teh buy out byhorrid big multinations. (poor thing has just come back from a "team-building" ecxercise with his intl. counterparts, in Rome, where the Vatican was closed for a private tour fo them for 2 hours. He did bring me back a lovely handbag though)

I don'tlike being good. Esp. when i have a whole box of Godiva chocs (OK half a box now) in my larder.

Winnie - come back - we can make you feel less bad I promise. Teenage daughters can be horrid, but a daily dose of 100g granola will help.

I've just got up. And realised I was more than lightly trashed. Not drinking during the week is obviously making my Friay night 3/4 bottle (dh always drinks less than me) affect me more!

Batters- at least your dd has inherited your scintilating wit. It must be very hard to decide between amusement and anger as the correct response.

at WWWs champagne.
Prufrock - hair of the dog? I have a bottle of Armagnac on the go - for a cake, not me!
batters - 18,000 steps is amazing. Glad you had a nice day. I really fancy a big spend in London but not much point in my buying clothes right now.

I thought I may as well confess early. I've eaten about 10 florentines today, the chocolate & nut sort and we're about to go and buy McDonalds for dinner.

In my defence, I have been cooking all afternoon (our Christmas cake - it weighs in at approximately 9st 8lb ) and I can't face making anything else today. I have eaten lots of fruit and bread & cheese for lunch and normal service will resume tomorrow.

Hope you're all enjoying the weekend.

Hello! No Batters, child director wasn't interviewing me, I was in a meeting with her.

Felt rubbish this am due to slight hangover and children coming in to us at 6.30am, yuk but now recovered. Slept for 3 hours with dd this afternoon, it was lovely.

bacon sandwich
stroll at 8.30 to drop my car for servicing, it was lovely and cold and crisp
2 slices of homemade lemon cake from the local WI type place
a couple of bites of dd's pain au chocolat
2 pieces of toast

and dh is about to roast a duck and we have cold decent wine (not as decent as Prufrock's I have to say! We're talking Pouilly Fume and the remains of Chablis 1er cru from last night) but hey I will eat some vegetables with it and intend getting a bit of an earlier night.

Batters, was it vital lumiere? I rate that. My skin is TERRIBLE atm, has been all week. Stress I tihnk, even though I'm feeling better now.

Have you had the interview yet www? (sorry if I missed the news)

I am about to embark on my first 4 day working week which I think will be a huge shock to the system!

Dh is working today and I took the kids down to the river to do some tree climbing in the woods (the children climbing trees, not me!). Was fantastic fun - lots of people looked at us very strangely and I guess it is a rare sight now to see children climbing trees but I can remember hours of doing it when I was a nipper!

Have just discovered that dd has left her homework at school for the second week in a row (sigh).

Have a roast pork in the oven with lots of crackling so will pig out (fnar) in a minute!

Hope you all have lovely weekends.

It's on Monday FIS

We are off for dinner with friends tonight, which has entailed a mahoosive clean-up of Squalor Hollow in case the babysitter reports us to Kim and Aggie
I have lost loads of weight today - yes I finally got a haircut. I obviously raved on a bit too much to Martin the Magnificent about it going all floppy as I now look like an extra from a Shane Meadows film
Batters, we have "going nowhere fast" exchanges with the dcs along those lines too. You have to love the little dears, really, because the alternative is too horrid to contemplate. Your dd is definitely One To Watch
I might give Vitalumiere a try too, lots of people rate it, and I need something with a bit more welly than the Boots one I've been using.
FIS - that sounds a lovely day We had a similar glorious Autumn excursion last year, tree-climbing by the River Darenth, marred only by the fact that dd's choice of trews would not stay up and we were treated to her little naked arse bobbing around in the undergrowth...
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Have guilt due to NOT making a Christmas cake but as half the family won't eat dried fruit it's a bit of a waste of time. Hope your back eases up Duchess and once again, best of British for Monday www!

Ooh have a lovely evening Marina! lol at batters dd too, ooh, she's funny.

Champagne and 'fancy' wines sound lovely although in fairness we get our fair share of robust aussie reds.
This morning dh took ds out for thier traditional 'father/son bonding exercise' i.e. shops and a coffee and I walked round the lake to the national gallery and spent the morning in quiet contemplation. lovely. It's ridiculously (sp?) hot here today and two of the biggest spiders known to man are camped out on our bathroom window .
batters - did you laugh at your dd or were you too ? I tend to forget that ds will grow up and get lippy! Marina, hope you had a lovely night out, you can get up to a clean house as well - bonus!
Off for a bike ride this afternoon if we don't wilt then it's strictly no wine until next weekend.
foxinsocks - best of luck for work.
www - good luck for your interview!