WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp Nov 2007, WEEK FOUR

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This is week 4 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.

Sunscreen - yes.
No booze
45 mins on the bike.
Lots of water/weak tea.
Apply body cream as often as possible - no.
Use hand cream/foot cream too - yes.
Go to bed early, by 10.30 last night, asleep before 11.
Eat healthily - had a good day, plenty of fruit and some salad again, until I collected the boys from karate and stuffed myself silly with kiddie sweets whilst I was waiting.
Be happy - harrumph, me and DH have fell out.

unknownrebel - did your row with dh stem from your unnaturally high sugar levels after all the kids sweets (known in this house as the 'haribo high'?) Or was he just being a twat?
www- any news on the interview? With regards to the wine thing, the longer I'm on MN the more I realise that there is a huge proportion or the population (or is that a huge proportion of mothers) who can't stop at one glass of wine. It does make me feel better about it all! I am a sahm at the moment although from January I will be hanging out on the student parents boards as I'm starting a full-time post-grad psychology diploma with the OU.
Pru - hope dd is feeling better, poor thing.
Marina - I hope the cranberry juice is taking effect?
oh, and I'm 36 btw, not the baby of the bootcamp by any means, more the troublesome adolescent.

I'm 37 [glares at Bama].

Sooooo. I had my first ever spray-tan today. Now, before you all run screaming 'footballers wife!' and laughing hysterically, it's really not like that.

It all seemed so simple - we're off here tomorrow for the weekend. We're just out of winter and I'm extra, super, pasty white which is magnified in the glorious sunshine and reflective surfaces etc etc. And I'm feeling a bit fat and stretchmarky. So, I thought, a bit of colour will make it so much better (because you can't suntan in Australia or you'll get a melanoma before you've left the beach).

So. It started going wrong this morning when my childcare fell through. So, at 3.30 there I was with DD at the salon. 5 minutes later with wide-eyes she was storing a very graphic story of mummy in paper pants with her boobies out being sprayed with paint by another lady. Which I guarantee will be the first thing out of her mouth the second she steps into pre-school [please see previous post about hunky young male pre-school teacher I accidentally blew a kiss to last week].

I thought that was the worst it would get, but got home and realised I couldn't touch anything. I can't bath DD, sit on the sofa or rug, do the washing up, hang up washing, go shopping, wash my hands after using the toilet, cook dinner, go to bed without leaving brown spray tan everywhere. And the more spray tan I leave everywhere the less tanned and more like an vitiligo sufferer I look.

The lesson I have taken home today is 'footballers wives have spray tans because they don't have children and don't have to do housework'. And they possibly have brown marks on their laptops.

And I look like sodding Elizabeth Taylor in the mu-mu I'm wearing.

Moving away from 'me,me,me'.

WWW - glad everything is going better for you. When will you hear about the i/v?

Marina - ow. Vodka and cranberry is nice I hear

Tshell - horrors about the commute. I did London for years and it's soul destroying.

Hope all the poorly DCs get better soon.

OK, you can all suggest names. Ron and Lexie are not going to make the shortlist though. Sorry!

Had a looong walk with the dog yesterday which bought on another bout of sciatica which hasn't really gone off. I went to bed at 9.45pm last night but didn't sleep very well.

I ate toast & marmite, cottage cheese, salad & bread & butter for lunch, salmon fishcakes, new potatoes & watercress for dinner and an apple and a lump of cheddar. Still drinking vast amounts of orange squash (which I usually wouldn't touch with a bargepole but hey-ho, at least it's mostly water!).

ROFL @ arfishys spray-on tan. It's too funny! Hope you enjoy the weekend though.

By the way, I am not peri-menopausal. But not as young as arf or bama.

am here and a bit oppressed by antibiotics and RL, but still just able to pmsl (ouch) at arfy's "old, peel'd wall" look. Pretend it's fancy dress and you've come as a plane tree arfishy. I hope you still manage to have a super time
I need to get more sleep and boost my immune system I think. But I could well be perimenopausal as am 44, as dd jubilantly tells everyone she encounters, swiftly followed by, "And she's 40 years older than me, bwahahahahaha".
Batters - mini slab of Green & Blacks does it every time for me, those Slimfast bars are weird aren't they...
Prufrock, hope dd is on the mend this morning

Duchess, well here are my suggestions:

Sebastian
William
Edmund
Christian
Matthew

Susannah
Rosamund
Julia
Isabell e
Frances

No Rons or Lexies!

Marina - sorry you're still suffering. Hope the a/bs start to help soon.

www - sorry about the allergies - what a pain!

lol @ arfishy's dd!

Duchess - name suggestions....

Boy
Matthew
Jonathan
Christopher
Joseph
Isaac

Girl
Cecilia
Beatrice
El eanor
Rachel
Elsie

I've just been listening to our useless local radio station, who were having a phone in about whether mothers should BE ALLOWED TO WORK WHILE THEIR CHILDREN WERE AT HOME! I don't know why I have it on in the car, it annoys me so much. The presenter said, and I quote 'Women should be at home with the children - women going out to work is the reason we have antisocial behaviour. If a woman wants a career, then she shouldn't have children - she's got to choose.'

Can you believe such attitudes prevail in our society? I was . I kind of fall between the SAHM and WOHM, as I do work, but it's music work, so tends to be when dh is around to look after the kids, or is teaching at home, so the children are around.

I'm 31 btw, if we're doing ages.

That should have been Eleanor obviously, not some strange made-up Islamic name El Eanor!

Have been hiding from this thread so as to avoid confessing to chardonnay/sauv. blanc consumption. And also because I have been organising what promises to be a chaotic 3 yo birthday party for next weekend (in a fit of enthusiasm / overwhelmed by the desire to ensure DS had an appropriate social life, I invited a bunch of local folk with similarly aged toddlers who I hardly know. And they have all said that they are coming, so the no-wine policy will have to wait until next week).

I have, however, been good about cooking proper food/ feet/ early nights, so am I allowed back?

bama/arfishy - completely unrelated, but any suggestions of aussie websites where I could do my Xmas shopping? I don't want to lug stuff from London to Sydney.....

Lots of illness on this thread! You can tell it's november. I am still full of cold not helped by doing the school run in monsoon conditions all week so far. DD even volunteered to wear her dreaded waterproof trousers this morning - I normally have to manhandle her into them.

Manuka honey is good for bosting immune system Marina - I have been drinking a spoonful of it in hot water every night for the last week or so, so can tell you if it works in a month!

Arfishy PMSl at your spray tan. The scenario you describe is exactly why I have never taken the plunge myself.

Hope everyone who is under the weather is feeling better soon.

Tortoiseshell you whippersnapper.

arfishy - it will look vbetter when you have showered I promise. I try to always have mine done last thing, and to have got dinner ready, so I don't have to do anything. And then put dark sheets on teh bed. (God I am so turning into a WAG)

dd has stopped vomming, but now seems to have an ear infection. And I've had to close the pre-school because of staff shortages - but as school may be closing as well if anymore staff get ill I'm not that concerned - yesterday 54 out of 201 kids and 6 staff were off with teh d&v bug!

www - hope you hear soon. Are we talking just not v. nice offices, or really dire "there is no washing up fairy" offices?

Sorry for your dd prufrock, hope she is better soon. Lol @ becoming a WAG! Or a WOG as was suggested on Have I got News for you, as you can't be a Wife AND girlfriend, you have to be a wife OR girlfriend.

I am supposed to be at an underwear party in 45 minutes - a nice underwear party, none of that polyester Anne Summers frights. You can even be properly measured - I was only going to be sociable, as I will soon be gaining a cup size per week, so buying a properly fitted bra would be a complete waste of money. As it is, I have a headache that's gaining strength and I'm exhausted. So early night for me. Again!

I've eaten toast & cream cheese, raisins, cottage cheese & watercress, ham & coleslaw sandwich, apple, moussaka, foccacia & tomato & mozzarella salad - although not very much at dinner. And a shortbread biscuit. Lots of squash.

Short walk with the dog today as the sciatica is slowing me down.

Matthew is on the short-list. I like Eleanor & Edmund but they're too similar to DCs. Beatrice & William are already middle names. So you're on the right track!!

Best wishes to all those who are suffering illnesses. Cystitis is the pits.

Hello everyone

Sorry to hear about all the sick children and poorly mothers on the thread. Hope poorly mums getting a bit of TLC from partners etc and that poorly children rally soonest. Marina, cystitis is such a nasty one, I do hope that the ABs have kicked in and that you are feeling better. I recommend a good glass of red for coughs and colds (you can tell why I am still a probationer on this thread ). Arfoshy- spray tan sounds, er, effective. Paper pants deeply grim though. Can't you just go commando?

Rules - plenty of water, good food, loads of walking. Minimal wine. No sunscreen but lots of handcream. Need it. I am 38 but hands about ten years older. Must fish out the jeunesse de mains for work. My ML ends tomorrow and I am back on monday. DD2 very happy at nursery but doesn't seem to miss me at all. I know work will be a battle as it always is. And I am open plan now. No more palatial individual offices for me. Have got key to first aid room to express milk, much to the amusement of the premises manager. Hm.

Duchess - names I would have and indeed do have include:

Susannah
Francesca
Lucy
Helena
Eleanor
Cecilia
Matilda
Camilla

Obviously, I don't have all of them in play as I only have 2 girls.

Edward
William
Oliver
Henry
James
Matthew

Can you tell Thomas the Tank Engine is v popular in our house ?

Sobernow, I am clutching a glass of sherry. It's quarter to ten, both kids are still up and I've not finished putting the laundry away nor had dinner . It's enough to send a girl to drink.

That's a leading question Bamamama!

It certainly wasn't due to the sugar content (fall-out happened beforehand). He's a good bloke, so I can't slate him too much, but grrrr.

I don't suppose us all being out of sorts helps.

DD sounds delightful arfishy, lol.

Sunscreen - yes.
No booze
A very half-hearted 45 mins on the bike.
Lots of water/weak tea.
Apply body cream as often as possible - no.
Use hand cream/foot cream too - yes.
Go to bed early - I lapsed, midnight.
Eat healthily - had a good day, plenty of fruit and some salad leaves.

Dolly - I love the image of you clutching a sherry! It does sound like all the servants are at the village dance, nanny has run off with the boot boy and you're simply at the end of your tether with the heir and spare! (note to self, too many agatha christie novels). It would be even better if you were actually called Dolly.

Well, I failed miserably on the wine front again last night but dh was really stressed about work so it was purely medicinal.

duchess, my suggestions for you are:

Stanley
Wilfred
Casper

Theodora
Audrey
Edie

It's raining again here today so am stuck indoors. Have also started baking bread which doesn't bode well for the waistline.

Have a good weekend everyone.

btw, Legalalien, no help I'm afraid on the websites. I'm looking at the reverse and trying to avoid having to ship anything home. Sorry!

I would love my norks to be measured and assessed properly as I've never really had a bra I've been truly happy with but I to want to wait until I have lost some weight (something I've been saying for far too long ).

Luckily I don't expose too much of my body ever so I'm happy to avoid the spray-tan experience but shall avoid at all costs look into some day.

However, I did go the the gym yesterday morning and realised that parts of me not usually exposed had to come out in public. That's when I noticed my hairy legs and big toe-nail with the remnants of summer's polish on it. Don't know why but that tiny thing bothered me as it confirmed that being older, ahem, means a bit more grooming as youth can get away with so much more - which reminds me must do my grey hairs as well!

I shall be drinking tonight but shall try and not neck a whole bottle. Perhaps we should all stop torturing ourselves about it and add it as a factor of the 'be happy' rule of bootcamp.

Girl's names

Agnes
Eva
Isobel
Katrina

Boy's name

I never could think of many I liked! It was a struggle naming ds.

Good luck with the weekend all.

arrghh just posted huge post and lost it! have survived first 4 day week, just!

I blame you all for my new granola and yoghurt addiction. Have taken to getting the granola/yoghurt thing from the M&S food at Waterloo and it is DELICIOUS!

marina, hope you are feeling better and www, still fingers crossed about job and arfy, lol at your tan.

Was just saying somewhere else on here, I wonder if any of you remember the seedy old pub that was above the Waterloo concourse. I loved it there - lots of illicit meetings and the like. It has been replaced with some new, whitewashed bar. So disappointing! What is the world coming to!

Have a hellish week next week - am really not looking forward to it at all. Oh well, will try and enjoy the weekend none the less!

Unknown, sorry you've fallen out with dh, hope you've made it up now

Bama, yes, we're not alone on the crap-at-just-one-glass of wine thing

pmsl at Arfy and the spray tan, ha ha ha. 37, you whippernapper

batters, am v impressed at 12000 steps now I truly know how far that is.

DofN, well, I don't think you can be peri-menpausal if you're up the duff Will def suggest names at some point

Marina, sorry RL and antibs are hard

TS, 31, I knew you were much younger than me! Was it Radio Bristol? I am often amazed at the shite spouted on local radio

Legalalien, oh sympathies on the party, give me some tips will you if you have time, I ahve a 4yo one in 2 weeks, i.e, NEXT weekend, eeek. Welcome back

Puddle, I looked at organic Manuka honey in the shop and BLANCHED at the price, is it worth it?

Prufrock, lol at Wag, you so are! Dire, really dire offices, REALLY no washing up fairy and when I went to the loo the sign on the back of the door said something like "Think about it: would you leave your TOilet at home like it?" or some such provincial inanity...Hope your dd is better soon

dofN, an Underwear party? Do tell? Was it nice?

Dolly, good luck for next week

Sobernow, lol of course mtohers are responsible, who else would be?

Hmm, at those of you who drank last night, I didn't

Moonshine, you're right older = need more grooming/plucking/dim light etc etc .

FIS well done for getting through your week

Well done everyone, it's Friday, am drinking wine, walked 8000 steps today, ate well and now off to have a curry Happy weekend

fox - d'you mean the Hole in the Wall pub? That was pretty horrid, nevertheless, I drank in there fairly often. Ah, the resilience of youth! And good luck for next week.

ROFLing away at WWWs 'provincial inanity'. Hahahaha!

I didn't go to the underwear party because I was too exhausted but same friend is having another one next week (for different group of people, who I also know), so I might try and get along then. The school mums who bought new bra's last night were all complaining that they were too tight today. Several husbands were in the doghouse for making "well that's pulled them up to where they should be" type comments.

Very short walk with the dog today. Have eaten cheese scone, ham & coleslaw sandwich, apple, 4 chocolate biscuits, lobster, watercress & mayo with some apple/celery/carrot & cabbage salad on the side (DH in London again, hence the lobster)!

Quite like Katrina btw.