WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, Dec 07, WEEK SIX

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This is week 6 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 can't wait for the 21st, when I finish for 10 whole days at Christmas.
It's windy and raining outside and I am NOT looking forward to commuting this week.

I haven't heard about the job so I assume I didn't get it but to not let me know is a bit rubbish I think, I'm not impressed.

morning all!
sorry to hear about the non-feedback from the job application, poor show www
Hope dd's party went well, I spent four merry calorie-busting hours on a stall at the School Xmas Fair on Saturday, which was exhausting but fun (helping children choose and wrap "secret" presents for their families, bwahahahaha, settled some old scores there ) so feel that the bacon sandwich that materialised half way through was a necessary evil. It certainly perked up my happiness quota
am doing good cream/water/happiness stuff, but really not walking because Omron needs a new battery is a Bit Poor
Off to Lille to shop til my wallet drops tomorrow, cannot WAIT
A good week to all

I am drawing a whole niqab over the weekend. But as today is Monday I have reverted to pious excellence.

Walked to school, 30 minutes in gym, ate breakfast, scrubbed dead skin off feet, remebered sunscreen (first thing as well as after my shower) and handcream.

I've just booked to go here for NY eve and am determined I will fit back into my gorgeous lbd by then.

Have fun in Lille Marina. There's a wonderful perfume shop in the arcade of the main square called L'Artisan Parfumerie. Have a sniff of "le mechant loup" and think of me.

www - don't despair yet - people often take a long long time. Dh has had four interviews for what could be a fabulous job, but after listening to what he had to say about tehir business they are currently rethinking their entire UK operational plan so he won't hear anything further until January. Hope you had a lovely pink and fairy-ish time at teh party

Will do Prufrock
We are also lunching at L'Assiette du Marche and going for a quick pillage of Au Furet du Nord for Christmas Stocking purposes

Bootcamping going OK.

Marina's shopping. I had to make do with Tunbridge Wells today - 2 1/2 hrs of ambling but lots of exercise carrying those heavy bags . I am over halfway with the Christmas shopping and quite pleased.

Sciatica appalling - shopping probably hasn't helped - at least the rest is all being done online.

I've eaten; porridge, crayfish & rocket sandwich, orange juice, clementine and we're having an M&S beef casserole with dumplings for dinner (it had better be nice) and I'm making mash and green beans, chantenay carrots & sprouts. Even when I succumb to buying a ready meal, I can't bring myself to buy ready veg to go with it - that's just mad!

I have also bought a detox face mask thing which I shall wear in the bath later before having another early night.

Hello all and thanks for kind thoughts

Marina, I hope you have a lovely day and lol at old scores being settled via secret santa presents, revenge is a dish best etc

Batters, glad you had a lovely weekend

DofN, PRet crayfish perchance? Yum

Prufrock that menu looks lovely, well done

got stuck in meeting, didn't leave til 5.15, got stuck on a fknig train, got home at 8.30pm

Consequently must go and kiss ds, missed dd who fell asleep while I was sititng on a train at Watford effing junction

never mind, day 2 of no booze,
100g granola
tuna mayo sandwich
apple
banana
sunscreen
walking on commute
homemade cottage pie - was I glad I'd made yesterday that when I walked in starving

13 days to go, 13 days to go

rofl at settling old scores Marina! Enjoy your trip.

Sounds crud www.

Another one who can't wait for the festive break. What's the betting it snows this Christmas though, as we're away? (it did last time).

Been eating for comfort over the weekend, and imbibed some alcohol too, although I maintained the exercise, so not too bad all round.

Sunscreen - tick.
No or little booze - ahem, DH put some Magners in the freezer and then forgot, so we've each had some iced magners .
30 mins on exercise bike, rather than walking.
Lots of water/weak tea.
No body cream, although I did over the w/e.
Hand and foot cream - tick.
Go to bed early - midnight last night, but I aim to be better tonight.
Eat healthily - Not too bad today.
Be happy - Christmas is coming, I usually struggle this time of year (mum died on the 19th nine years ago) but this year it's ok so far, perhaps that's something to do with going away, lol.

hello all

I'm a shocking slacker

I now have a sore throat to go with my sciatica.

Missed breakfast but had cheese & salad sandwich for lunch, lots of dried fruit all afternoon and tomato/mozzarella pasta bake with green beans for dinner. I am hungry though so will probably have cheese & crackers in a minute.

www - hope you had a better journey home tonight. 12 days and counting! The crayfish sandwich was M&S btw but perfectly acceptable although now I'm thinking about Pret again - do they still do poached salmon & dill sauce sandwiches? They were very nice too.

Marina - Lille consumerism report please...

Lille vaut bien un regime, to paraphrase Henri IV
Ah, magnifique had a lovely day and dh came in handy to carry the bags. Petit Bateau undies for the dcs, perfume for me and mum, loads of funky stationery and arty stuff from Le Furet du Nord (if pruners bootcamped I could confirm to her that Jonathan Coe est tres renomme en France with ALL his books published by Folio) and a couple of bottles my beloved Clairette de Die (like demi-sec champagne but less alcoholic and the perfect Christmas Day curtain-raiser) which is hard to find in the UK currently
We lunched here and I think it counts as bootcamping seeing as their cuisine is long on the wonderful seasonal veg of the Nord/Picardie and short on rich creamy stuff. Highly recommended for anyone visiting the city but thankfully no Chantenay carrots on the menu - what's all that about sobernow?
Gosh, that's enough about me and my splendiferous day! I might need to slink off after Iota for a few months...
Am also counting the days to knocking off for Christmas (on the 17th, huzza) and sorry to hear about your rubbish journey www and your poor back duchess. And your overstretchedness sobernow - I'm just emerging from busyness at work, two lots of stall-vendetta-waging (prior to my School triumph I offloaded a load of dodgy Christmas cuddly toys onto some passing Brownies at the church bazaar hyuk hyuk), and various other commitments that you can't morally shirk. Hope things calm down for you. Can you bear to explain why the dds are currently at different schools and is that going to change?
And thinking of you unknownrebel and you too batters, Christmas can be a double-edged joy when there is someone you miss very much, can't it.

Sounds fabulous Marina. Thanks to you and Batters for your kind thoughts, it can be very tough, but we have to remember the good memories too.

Well I was feeling positive about Christmas, relatively speaking, but walked into work this morning to find a much-liked colleague had died from Leukaemia. A fella in his 40s, had been responding to treatment. Can't say I knew him well although I've known him several years (he worked in a different location) but he was a bubbly fella and always brightened the place when he visited. So sad for his family. Just brings it all back iykwim.

Also found out today that a colleague has resigned, but that's good news. Hate to say it, but he won't be missed. He has caused much stress and upset due to his behaviour in recent months, and caused a major rift across the team, one which I'm not sure can be healed tbh.

And to top the day, we've just spent two hours sitting listening to politicians waffle and lie and talk twaddle for the most part. There's a major shake-up planned for the local secondary education system with lots of money involved, but with one notable exception (plus the headteacher) I don't think any of them could lie straight in bed.

Bootcamp? pah, exercise bike aside, forget it!

Hello my lovelies

Unknownrebel, am sorry to hear about your mum. Anniversaries are hard aren't they? Sorry too about your colleague. Thinking of you (and you too Batters)

Marina, the shopping sounds great. And you are a fan of the splendid Mr Coe. Which is your favourite? I am very fond of the house of sleep.

Duchess - had the M and S crayfish sandwich yesterday and I thought not a patch on pret one. The salmon and dill is also gorgeous, I agree. I love planning my lunch. I am going to get thrifty after christmas and take lunch with me, but til then everything tottenham court road can offer is my oyster / lobster / crayfish

WWW - 13 days is not long. Hang on in there.

Sounds like you have a lot of your plate SObernow. Glad you are feeling OK and well done on the weight loss.

Hello prufrock and everyone else, hope you are all well.

Last night was momentous here. DD1 slept from 7.15 til 6.50 in her own bed. Fitst time in 8 weeks. Miracle! Needless to say she is currently on the futon in my room but at least she is getting better. And she has been SO much better today as a result. We have made cakes, sang carols, had friends over and generally enjoyed ourselves with barely a cross word. No shouting. I don't even feel that frazzled. And I have work tomorrow. Long may it continue.

See you tomorrow

I'm so sorry about your colleague unknownrebel, what a nasty shock We have a wonderful person here who has come through a bone marrow transplant successfully and we would all be devastated to lose her
Your day sounds fab too Batters I probably did 20000 steps
Ah dolly, a fellow Coe acolyte - and you share my favourite novel preference too. The House of Sleep is such a beautiful, touching book, isn't it. Have you read his latest, it is on my Christmas list. They even had Les Nains de la Mort in Lille - one I've not read myself. Am of your sleep success with dd1 - my two still pitch up most nights "because we love you both so much" the little weasels. And they are eight and four.

Hello hello!
The journey got worse last night. I was on the train when an announcement was made saying we wouldn't be moving until the conductor had arrived and he was currently stuck on a train at Tring. Due to a fatality apparently but anyway. and then, to make matters worse they said "and don't even think you can get the next one because the driver of that train's with the conductor stuck on a train at Tring" I wanted to EXPLODE but instead got off the train and went and stayed at ex dh's. Meaning we went for a curry but I had half a tandoori chicken (good) mushroom rice (not so good), some chana masala (not bad) a small bit of naan (not good) a bottle of Chablis Lovely ex dh washed all my clothes and hung them out to dry while I was asleep (I went to bed at 9.45pm, machine was still going) so I didn't look too terrible this morning. Luckily I have make up bag/toothbrush with me so that was ok.

anyway, this morning, bacon roll but at least I walked from S Ealing to Ealing Broadway, then a smoked salmon and cream cheese panini for lunch, a packet of 100cal crips, a banana and have just come in had cottage pie and 2 pieces of toast. Used sunscreen despite the drizzle.

11 days to go... and then 85 working days until the contract ends.

Unknownrelbang, I'm so sorry about your colleague. And your mum.

Marina, Lille sounds DIVINE! Thanks for the rest link, what did you have? Tell us!

Sobernow, can you drop something? That sounds too much stuff. Interesting about starvation stuff.

Batters ooh what's ostrich like? 200000000000 steps is fab, I'm in awe of your walking

Dolly, great about the sleeping, fantastic, dd didn't sleep for 1.5 yrs so I know how momentous it can be when they do!

Iota, OI you can't just LURK y'know, at least regale us with tales of badness and butter and booze!

And I am going to write to the chief exec of Silverlink trains to ask him why 500 commuters are not only at the mercy of his conductors turning up (hey if we were all late the train would just GO WITHOUT US! And we're the ones paying!) but at the mercy of his staff being conveyed on his shitty service. Bastards.

www - that sounds awful. How nice that you have such a good relationship with exDH though.

marina - your day out sounds divine

unknown - sorry that it all sounds a bit shitty at the moment. I hope you enjoy your holiday. (And I hope it does snow because we love it)!

Sciatica is appalling, I'm really hobbling about. Ridiculous dog walk and DH is in town tomorrow so I'll have the school runs/dog walk and ponies to do on my own. And my mechanic is collecting my 4x4 (don't start) and lending me a normal car which means lowering myself in - eek. I'm going to see a chiropractor next week to see if she can help.

I've eaten a toasted bagel, jam doughnut, cauliflower cheese & ham for lunch, apple, grapes, 3 or 4 small slices of pizza and a rather fabulous black cherry yoghurt. Not enough to drink so will go and down some lime cordial now. Lots of moisturiser and handcream. And so tired that I'm definitely having an early night.

no butter or booze WWW or tales of the good life, just a bad case of apathy.

but I did have a rather tasty apple and cinnamon muffin in Starbucks this morning instead of going to the gym (smile)

I haven't been to the gym since before half-term

I am not using sunscreen

I am not drinking enough water

I went to bed at 1am on Monday night because I was finishing a book ( reading not writing it)

I am not eating properly - skipping meals and stealing the kids chocolate

I need a haircut and this wind and rain is turning me into a gorgon of rats tails.

So well done everyone else

Well done Dolly's DD.

Batters, your day yesterday sounds lovely.

www, what a crud service, but I am in awe of your relationship with ex-dh. I've seen you mention it/him on various threads and it really is impressive. You only ever seem to hear of crap exes, so it's lovely that you always take the time to throw in positive experiences.

Sorry about the sciatica duchess.

And thank you all once again for your kind comments.

Bootcamp: harrumph. Only managed 20 mins on the bike today too.

Be Happy: Pleasure / pain principle again today: lovely impromptu lunch with one colleague - load of grief with another colleague which is likely to have further repercussions. oh hum.

Oh goodness, I've missed so much & I miss you all. Sorry I've not caught up properly by reading all missed threads... but I will try to look in here a couple of times a week.

WWW, your commute sounds vile Roll on 21st for you.

I agree with Marina Christmas is so double edged when you there is a huge absence. I am sorry to all who are feeling bereft.

Bootcamping is not really happening here.
Must try MUCH harder.

I am not well and it has been such that I've actually gone to the drs but rather than take my symptoms seriously I got a lecture about my being "clinically obese" "I know I am but I am doing something about it" I wanted to shout. Ho hum...

Still no internet connection at home. I know it should be a priority but sadly it just isn't Life continues to lurch from crisis to crisis.

Take care everyone xx