WWW's six week 10 year younger boot camp, week four, 2008, all welcome

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After my embarrassing excesses on the last thread I promise to do better. Welcome to week 4 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.

Goooooood morning all

Am back in bootcamp mode after lovely weekend away at niecelet's baptism. (Well as lovely as sharing your hotel room with your children in a city famed for its sophisticated shopping and nightlige can be )

Drank very little alcohol on trip, walked blooming MILES around York, diet not great as limited to on-the-move sandwiches or party catering, but not disastrous, packed Flexitol of course, happiness quotient high even with dh wheezing along resignedly in our wake

Was in bed at 9pm both nights siting in the dark and hissing at the dcs to stop wriggling about and laughing

OK, so now it looks like I've been hanging around waiting for a new thread.....

Anyway, hope all are well and had a good weekend. All good here, I've had a particularly energetic couple of days and today managed to do an 18 mile bike ride and 10k walk (moron and cycle computer not working in harmony there ) All this, you understand in 30 degree heat so that nicely ticks off the water intake and sunscreen too!

WWW - thanks for the thread, hope your fully recovered from the excesses.

Am hoping to hear from Foo on this thread and that her weekend went OK

And am also wondering whether www's liver should be allowed to have its own chat name for this thread, lucky sod poor little thing that it is

Sits back and waits for bk to post on here

Hope everyone had a good weekend!

Wow bama, that was good

Oh Marina, don't re my liver, tis another hypochondriacal fear of mine, that it's fked. Although I have now completed 3 months (Nov, Dec and January although of course did have 10 days off for Christmas in there too) of absolutely no drinking in the working week including Sunday nights and apart from 2 lapses: both at St Pancras and both involving Champagne AND mumsnetters, hmm!

Dh and I have a day off together today and have spent the morning in bed and are contemplating going out for lunch which will probably not be that healthy. But gosh, it's bliss and reminds me how stupidly long my week is normally. Children are both in nursery/school

So far only toast x 2 though and we're going to go for a stroll later too. Maybe.

Marina, York sounds lovely and well done at both 9pm and the walking/little alcohol.

Bama, wow at 18 miles, very impressive.

Batters, what are you doing re dd and the cupboard incident? What do the school say they think?

Foo, I hope you're ok, post if it helps.

Welcome to a new week everyone!

the 18m bike ride is round the lake and relatively flat. ds, bless him, managed to fall asleep on the back of the bike for the last 20 minutes. He would normally have a couple of hours and he would not go back in his bed when I carried him off the bike so the 10 walk this afternoon was to get him to have more sleep! (once ds has grown up I will be the size of a house!)

www - I know what you mean about worrying about your liver. This is why bootcamping helps (mostly).

Foo, hope you're ok.

sorry, forget to say enjoy your day off www!

Aw, www (and bama), did not mean to press any buttons re liver
you know how lardy I am, my liver may be in good shape (thanks mostly to dh's Stafford Cripps like face-pulling at too much booze ) but who knows about the rest of me [head in sand emoticon]
Enjoy your day off

Oh absolutely no need to apologise Marina, really! It's a good thing I worry about it really as it does mean I stick to the 4/5 days a week of NOT drinking any alcohol, which has got to be a good thing. And I am sometimes reasonably moderate on the other 2 days due to falling asleep on the sofa at 10pm after less than a bottle of wine

Although note sometimes, not always!

have been swimming!

but then had meze which was vaguely healthy

Afternoon all

I have been to the gym again, but for some reason it seemed hard going today.

dh made a nice healthy minestrone soup for lunch - he's decided to do some "healthy living" as well, so now I don't have to wait for him to go away

I am loving the feel of loose jeans that still do up after my evening meal.

Have a nice day WWW.

Best wishes to you Foo, hope that you check in soon.

Hope everyone else has made a flying start to the week.

Hello

ah I see re the cupboard, yes, that sounds like a good solution Batters. Let us know how it goes

Well done Sobernow, 6000 steps is v good though that juice sounds horrible, is it?

Bundle, well done re swimming

Iota, but well done at loose jeans, good that your dh wants to do healthy too

Not a great start to the week
rare roast beef and horseradish sandwich
lunch in a restaurant:
calamari fritti
goats cheese and balsamic onions
slice of pizza
roast pepper salad
smashed honeycomb cheesecake
wine
and then back to bed for the afternoon, have just woken up and dh has gone to get children. Lovely day though!

And won't eat tonight, not hungry. So high on happiness but must do better on food tomorrow. Which won't be difficult!

Hello everyone

Batters, I'd be inclined towards the letter as well, plus I think encouraging her go back to pottery is quite good as it means she has to live with the conseqs and feel a bit uncomfortable, so that she won't do it again. That looks a bit victorian written down, but my parents were big on apologies, manners, etc and were keen that if I did something wrong I had to follow it through IYSWIM. The potter sounds like a gentle chap so I expect a kindly worded letter would be very welcome. I don't think I have expressed myself well but the empathy is there.

Am impressed by others' activity levels and abstemious weekends. I have started using my moron and am dismayed by its readings, as I think they're too high. It has been in my jeans front pocket - is that the best place for accuracy? I can't believe bimbling around can have used over 12000 steps....can it??

Am struggling a bit on the happiness - DD2 has had 2 tumbles in 24 hours and i am feeling rather negligent. She is just learning to stand (10 months) and toppled backwards onto the hard floor yesterday, and today she managed to fly off the bed onto the floor. At least we have a carpet to break her fall up here. I hope she hasn't done lasting damage or a head injury or whatever. Am feeling rather anxious. Plus she stood up in the cot, so perhaps tomorrow she'll go for the hatrick and launch herself over the side.

Time for me to get a grip- I'm off for an alcohol free Cobra. Thinking of you Foo and hoping you and others who were having a tough time are having a better week

bama - fabulous amount of exercise. I am !

www - I like the sound of smashed honeycomb cheesecake. [dinner-plate eyes emoticon]

iota - gym sounds like my running, some days were easy and some really hard work. All good stuff though.

sobernow - that juice sounds terrible!!

polly - don't feel negligent, small children fall over even when you're holding their hands. They're just so damned good at it! I usually do 10000 steps a day on bimbling, school run and a 40 min dog walk, if that helps.

Today I've eaten a large bag of sour cream & chive crisps, an orange, 3 coffees, bread & butter, raisins, tortelloni in a tomato & basil sauce, french bread, melon. Nearly 2l of water.

Short walk with dog and mucking out for exercise. Lotions and potions tick! Was in bed before 10.30pm and DH gave me a really good back massage using about half a pot of Crabtree & Evelyn. He is now on his way back from town with a new pot and a bar of chocolate!

Happy that I've done all my jobs today and still had time to read a stack of baby name books a friend has lent me. Current favourites are Archie, Albert & Adrian (I have been through the whole alphabet btw, the A-names are just coincidence!).

Good evening everyone.

www, sounds like you had another fab day, and Marina, a lovely weekend, apart from the early nights.

My liver is probably fine, tis the rest of me I have to worry about.

V impressive Bama, Sobernow, Iota and Bundle.

DD2 will be fine Pollydolly. I put DS2 into a bed after he climed out of his cot, but then he climbed the stairs before he could walk.

M&S choc raisins are rather lovely.

Love the name Archie.

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• Walked home from school - 2 miles,

plus about 45 mins on the ex bike.

• Lots of weak tea
• Apply body cream, a bit.
• Use hand cream/foot cream, yy
• Go to bed early, 11ish last night.
• Eat healthily, good day today.
• Be happy, well I'm in the right frame of mind for bootcamp. See how long it lasts, lol.

Had a mother screech at me tonight over the playground incident on Friday. Very out of character, and quite shocking tbh. Guess there will be a queue outside the Head's office in the morning...

I think I'd pass on the juice too, but I meant to post again and ask for the veg bake recipe so thanks for that sobernow, it looks delicious
Good luck with getting dd to write the letter batters and LOL at the tombstone...err you do know there is an AuntyQuated on MN don't you
And I do hope things settle down for your ds unknown. How is dh's back now - you said it was giving him major gyp?
Polly, boddlers (as ds called dd) are made of indiarubber really, it's horrible when they totter and fall but the kind of thing you're describing is honestly not going to hurt her unless fireplace surrounds or other hard corners are unfortunately placed. (Have vivid memories of pamina's dd2, an "adventurous" soul, giving herself two lovely black eyes by falling into the grate at this age, and dd did something similar on holiday in France).
12,000 steps is doable if you are a busy bimbler. I can notch this up dawn to dusk no probs even without my proper mighty power walk at lunchtime. So I think your Omron is OK. For a sobering reality check, press mode to see your aerobic steps (the ones that really count).
Great to see you both again iota and bundle - sounds like iota has been exercising instead of posting sheepishly on here well done on the jeans
Duchess all those names sound nice but I will put in special pleading for Adrian, a name I associate consistently with clever, quirky and conscientious chaps of all ages
Batters - now I have guilt about Eve Lom, I'm so sorry it isn't suiting you I think Enid had the same problem with it
Foo, check in soon and tell us how you are XXX
Enough with the chat - OK day yesterday (not as much lurve as www though ) but could have done more walking

Hello everyone, just popping in - on way into town to do urgent birthday shopping (argh aaaaargh - must learn to write people's birthdays in a diary).

Batters, my mum's a teacher and is a BIG fan of the apology letter - not that she's got any herself (no one misbehaves in her class - she is one of those terrifying women whose voices sink through the floor when she's angry - lethally effective in quelling a room full of six-year-olds), but she made us write a few, and it doesn't half stick in your mind.

DofN, I love Archie! Great name. We are currently leaning towards Kit - what do people think? I like it 95% of the time, and think I'm insane for the other 5%.

Yesterday: very medium. Bacon sandwich, orange juice and coffee for breakfast, cheese on toast (slice and a half) for lunch and delicious chicken (with oodles of tarragon butter) rice (with butter) and broccoli (yes, with butter) for dinner. Followed by chocolate (without butter, thankfully). This morning, two bowls of special K, and am about to walk to the shops!

Oh I love Kit - forever associated in my mind with that glorious golden hare treasure hunt book Masquerade

enjoy your shopping

i love kit too!
I am such a slacker batters, really, I should be standing in corner of room with nose against wall

last night: clear chicken stock soup with cabbage and chilli/pork meatballs (a la Nigel from weekend Food Observer supplement) so feeling Virtuous (not so much on the roquefort I downed with lovely bread afterwards )

dh said he was knackered from the swimming.. i just felt, well, Good

skin feeling pretty good too atm - combination of exfoliation (liz earle or boots) and moisturiser (olay stuff)

hair - now Very Short after Emergency Cut on Friday. VERY PLEASED with it. (male work colleague just told me i looked like a 1960s model )