WWW's six week 10year younger boot camp, week 3, all game old (and young) birds welcome

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Game old birds is a reference to India Knight (who is a mere slip of a girl at age 41 or something) being referred to as a game old bird on this thread

Anyway, this is week 3 of the first WWW 10year younger boot camp of 2008. Hello everyone.

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 winter
• 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.

Veils drawn over the weekends indiscretions, onwards!

Tshell, they're all so cowed they won't. And I can't even ask them to, although I have made it clear I will support anyone with a grievance etc. Batters, I know, I'm terrible.

hello all, just a quick one to say ha ha ha at www's exemplary bootcamp leadership!!! Your post really made me laugh though so adds to my happiness quota. Sorry work is so shite "maths isn't my strong point" ha ha ha (again). Try and get someone to speak up, it may help everyone in the long run.
T/shell sorry you have the reverse problem. I hope it's not your HR dept saying it's thier right. As an ex-HR manager myself it really bloody well isn't and there should be a formal bullying/discrimination/grievance procedure in place (I'm sure you know this though )
Hope everyone else is dandy. Foo, thinking of you, keep it up with the healthy food and hope there is positive Relate news.
Marina - hope the funeral was as well as could be expected.
Only fly in my ointment is I've had to make an appointment to get a small growth checked out. I know it's probably nothing but I am really ginger, I did get hideously sun burnt as a child and I am living in the skin cancer capital of the world...it really is probably nothing.

Anyhoo, wine o'clock here so I'll go. Hope your Mcmuffin does the trick www, should we have hangover cures on the bootcamp thread??

WWW, you do make me laugh. Enjoy your day Hope the hangover disappears soon

Shell, you should be proud. Your children are a delight to hear about

unknown, hang on in there

Duchess, sympathies with regards the sciatica. I had it when pregnant with ds it is horrid. Glad it is a little better today.

Stopped myself from drinking alcohol last night although I really wanted it and frankly should have had a glass instead of eating vast quantities of food

I am hoping Feb will be better than Jan on the bootcamp front

Good morning all, now our Onlye Begetter has fessed up to being plastered every night this week and scoffing Maccy Ds for breakfast , I feel a tad better about the vacant canyon that is my poor little spreadsheet over the past 48 hours. After a day spent shuffling round a suburban crem with my mad, insensitive, infuriating mother and my understandably miserable dad yesterday, plus dh with an all-too typical "look at me, I'm needy too" well-timed case of man-flu, I feel that quarter-tub of Haagen Daazs had it coming, really
Thanks all for your kind words re funeral and goodbyes. Pluses from yesterday were catching up with a lovely second cousin and hearing all about her little children and their new life in Finland, we've promised to stay in touch now the older ones are so few in number; just generally remembering uncle. The funeral was correct and appropriate but we all knew that the pastor at their church has been aggressively sidelining old people like my aunt and uncle, and disregarding their views on how the church should cater for everyone, not just youngsters, so his words of tribute just seemed a touch hollow somehow (but the anecdotes contributed by his family had truth and substance to them).
So I will stay in the ranks of stressed bootcampers for now, especially as I have to herd up my three children dh and the dcs and get them all up north during Friday's lovesome rush hour for a weekend of merriment for the Niecelet's baptism. Am losing will to live, have bought Berocca, that's how bad it is
Cannot help PMSL at www's trenchant SWOT analysis of her shower of eejits team, you can come and do my performance review any time, hun (and I mean that in both senses of the word, you terrifying manager you!)
Bama, very best of luck with getting the growth checked out, do hope it is nothing serious. I would assume that the Australian healthcare system is well-geared to swift assessment and whatever is needed next - unlike our NHS, where people are still often sent away from their GP the first time they report this sort of thing. Keep us posted
Winnie, January is just a blip in your overall parabola of achievement, and most food contains much more goodness with its calories than drink does, so you definitely went with the lesser of two evils
FooFoo, hope today is better my dear - how is the eating going? Utterly with you on the dreading the weekend, hope it is less awful than you anticipate
Duchess, hope the sciatica calms down, it sounds awful
LAS, have you got your keys done yet - what a PITA
and TShell, your clever dd, how wonderful eminently bragworthy IMO
Prufrock, I could not talk at all about my bereavement counselling while it was still taking effect...but I think it is normal and right that people are open about it all once they can be. My family thought it was a bit embarrassing I "needed psychiatric help" and that attitude can be changed by people sharing how fantastic a good therapist can be so you go girl, glad you are feeling better
Am still LOLing at www's indiscretions and batters' convincing shock , and am marinading in Jo Malone Pomegranit Noir body cream (Xmas pressie) so on happiness and fragrance front, am doing well this morning
Am also at least chugging water to make up for not consuming much yesterday

www

harrumph @ "dodgy (mnetter) woman"

enjoy your day off you slacker!

BK, that dodgy woman phrase is copyright Batters, who uses it whenever she is meeting mumsnetters usual apologies apply, are you feeling fine and working? I am impressed!

I am leaving too late to get McDonalds but will have a bacon roll instead and full fat Coke and hope it improves my head!

have felt fresher and wouldn't call it working exactly...

I just knew it

ha ha, I have just got home.

I felt extremely faint on the tube, thought I was going to throw up on the train from Euston (and contemplated my bag as a suitable receptacle, thank goodness I managed not to, it was touch and go though) and now feel marginally better as I had this for lunch followed by potato wedges and I am drinking this !

I have no idea how much we drank but I do know it was too much on an empty stomach

I am now ALONE in a quiet clean house (cleaner was here yesterday) and am going to retire now to my clean sheets and goosedown duvet and sleeeeeeep. Happy weekend everyone.

So, today:
white roll and plastic cheese from ex dh's fridge
ordered a bacon roll but said "I won't have it then" and didn't take it when they said they had no brown sauce
banana at Euston because I knew I needed to eat something but no time to queue
Big Mac, 23464634234 calories
Potato wedges
Coke

Not enough water
no walking
no sunscreen
or cream
and will sleep shortly

Happy weekend everyone

i will be joining you on this thread from the week after next when i begin my new temporary life as a domestic godess

WWW, at your night (and subsequent day)! Sterling effort on the champagne - sounds like your work drove you into its fizzy embrace (how is the bar at St Pancras? DP says v nice but a bit cold ... ). My sister works in financial analysis and regularly calls me in frothing rages with similar tales of woe. Hope bed is proving blissful (there is no joy like the joy of the illicit afternoon nap). Oh and ps on the McDonald's, this may help - 500 calories in a Big Mac with cheese, fewer than in many a pret sandwich!

Marina, glad the funeral is over and done with at least, and that there was the silver lining of the lovely cousin. Finland, wow - I'm jealous.

Medium-ish bootcamping for me. DP is off today for 10 days (we decided we should both have a final pre-child holiday - I went to Paris for three days on my own (bliss) and he is going on a sailing course!) so we went for a meal at St John's Bread and Wine and ate amazing food - beetroot and sorrel salad, sprats, ox heart () with pickled walnuts, broccoli .. and custard tart for pudding and even a little glass of wine. But was suddenly overcome with weird stabbing pain in stomach (had it once or twice since being pregnant - like a knitting needle through my stomach button!) so had to make a fairly precipitous exit. Felt better when home, but had just got settled on the sofa for ER when my sister called with some truly awful news - her DP's brother-in-law has been charged with abusing his daughter. Horrific. So am seeing her tonight, as she's been busy supporting (distraught) DP and needs some support herself.

So tonight we're going swimming (baffled emoticon, but this is what she wants to do) then eating spaghetti bolognaise and probably watching House on DVD.

Today, middling - yoghurt and muesli, jacket potato, tuna and coleslaw for lnuch and a chocolate cookie (given up attempting to resist chocolate - it is a losing battle at the minute). Slightly afflicted with work woes, too - my desk is driving me a bit mad. They seem to think as I'm off on mat leave in a month or so they can get away with not running things by me now. Have been reduced to sending Stern Emails to remind them that I'm Still Here .

lolol batters at chip shop! ha ha ha ha!

L&S, sorry to hear that news, how horrific

thanks for the cals info, hmm only 500? I am surprised. Champagne bar is chilly, but vair nice and if you just drink lots and lots and lots you don't notice the cold any more, simple!

I have just got up and am off to get the children. I don't feel sick anymore so that's good !

I know www - 500 cals seems really quite abstemious, not bad at all.

mmm yes - when cold, drink more is a wise dictum. One I have employed for many years! Glad nausea has subsided.

everyone is so chatty on this thread - it's hard to keep up.

I have been to he gym twice this week and dh has now decided to join me in a healthy eating programme, so I may be in with a chance of shedding a few pounds at last.

Roll on summer

L&S - how awful. I hope your sister managed to offload her many thoughts - it can't be easy finding somebody to dump on about that subject.
www - absolutely disgraceful
iota - well done at the gym.
marina - glad it went OK yesterday.

OKish day. Made a Victoria sponge with fresh cream and strawberry jam this morning, divine and good for upping my carbs. Saw friends and DH has done all the hard work again. Still getting twinges of sciatica but overall it is much better.

I've had croissant, orange juice, cake, coffee, avocado, cheese & breadsticks, cake, raisins, fish pie, sweetcorn, several raw carrots.

Big ticks to everything else, even the early night. And I slept well again. (So why am I exhausted again now!?)

Enjoy the weekend.

www, your shenanigans made me snigger to myself all morning. Alas I know no dodgy MNers.

Difficult one, the bullying. I once had an situation which lasted for quite a while, and I only eventually put it on paper when my supervisor insisted, because the dragon my colleague was the sort to twist things, and they would need evidence blah blah blah. Also seen cases where folk have been asked/told to do the job they're paid to do, and because they didn't like it scream "bully". That does not excuse anyone who is bullying in any way, shape or form. Ooh, this is all a bit serious for a Friday night.

Hope the growth is nothing bamamama.

The pastor sounds an idiot "charming" Marina. But family memories/tributes are far more important.

Sorry to hear your sister's family's awful news L&S. Hope the swimming/spagbol helped in some way.

Well done on visiting the gym Iota, perhaps you could lead the way, lol.

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• Exercise bike, 15 mins
• Lots of weak tea yy
• Apply body cream, a little bit
• Use hand cream/foot cream too no
• Go to bed early - midnightish.
• Eat healthily - A good day so far, but I think I may raid the fridge vv soon.
• Be happy -

DS2 has been a pita again tonight. Was hauled in to see the Head over a playground incident. We also discussed his homework (or sometimes lack of it, lol). Could have done without that tonight! He's very temperamental, (my child, not the head) but seems worse this last week or so, and can be incredibly rude.

But hey, it's Friday, I'm happy. DH is working all weekend though.

Just to add to yesterday

Lamb tawa gost
garlic naan
chana masala
cherry bakewell
Coke
NO BOOZE, obv
late night but lie in this morning and breakfast in bed courtesy of ds, the love

Happy weekend. We have friends coming for a roast supper so looking forward to that.

ahh there you are just found the thread again.
think im doing well with everything even went on strike this week (sun washing up strike in place of a pamper session & mon childcare strike in place of ironing and washing down the front of house i feel much ahppier now

off to bed now as i just noticed the time!
getting a good 10hrs sleep lately i will look 21 in no time