WWW's six week ten year younger bootcamp, WEEK FIVE of 2008

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Welcome to week 5 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.

Good work Bundle - it's not just me we all want to see your new hair!

Well, 12,400 steps for me today and not enough water but easy on the food front and no treats at all. Dumped the Keihls and back on the Olay also bought some really nice dark purply nail varnish (and some washing up gloves lol) so I can appear to have a thin veneer of groomedness (you know what I mean)

Marina, good that you acknowledge the food as comfort thing though, so many people just don't realise they do it so the knowledge has got to help.

WWW- enjoy your day at home, soon the fkwits will be someone elses problem - ha!

Off to bed now my dears, have a good day! (if you see me posting anywhere else tell me I need an early night)

hi guys

I have been ill and off work and very sorry for myself. Illness should have meant weight loss but actually meant comfort eating But I am back and feel that February is in fact the start of the New Year for me

I use nailvarnish as a grooming prop too bama

Good to see you back winnie, hope you are fully recovered now!

so far so good today - Special K and skimmed milk for breakfast, skinny latte for gossipfest with colleague, lunch is homemade spinach and hummous sandwich followed by cherry tomatoes and a banana, all washed down with water and cranberry juice

Warning disclaimer: as I am giving up chocolate for Lent my powerwalk will include a diversionary loop past Hotel du Chocolat

Hello all - firstly, apologies for absence yesterday - got stuck at hospital in the morning after stupid midwife scared me witless by sending me for an "emergency scan" because my bump "just isn't big enough for 33 weeks - it looks more like 28 to me, possibly the baby has stopped growing" . Now, I know my bump is small (people seem to delight in telling me this), but I'm quite tall (5'7"), it's my first, and I had reasonable-ish stomach muscles before, so a) surely it can't be THAT unusual and b) even if it is, the midwife should know better than panicking me quite so violently? Happily, all was fine ("they always do this," said the scanner of the midwife, rolling her eyes to heaven) - but it meant I got into work late as late, and had Inbox of Doom after a week away ...

Anyway, rant over. Duchess, as you see, I'm 33 weeks (34 on thurs!) - all beginning to seem v imminent. Visited ex-boyfriend, his DP and their one-week-old son last night (gorgeous), which made it all extremely real! Really bad luck on the tooth, any improvement?

WWW - your work lot sound horrendous. Hope the outsourcing progresseth ...

OK, yesterday, bagel for breakfast (after hospital debacle), mozzarella and sundried tomato sandwich for lunch (lovely, but very heavy on the olive oil), Yorkie bar , jacket potato, brocolli and spinach, ham and cheese followed by caramel Magnum with the new parents. All mitigated somewhat by fact I had to zoom all over town on my bike, so felt exercised at least. PLenty of water too.

Today: 2x toast and peanut butter, coffee, peppermint tea, bagel with cream cheese and roast veg and banana. Not too bad!

Bundle, i think short-hair pic is mandatory. And thank you for reminding me to book a hairdresser's appt!

Hi Winnie, wb
Groomed, I long to look groomed, never manage it

L&S, ah, glad all was well, not long now, how exciting to have all these babies on this thread. Those of us who aren't having any more are enjoying it vicariously.

Ahem
2 pieces toast, butter
grapes
smoked salmon sandwich, with butter

and v much enjoying working from home!

Right I'm back. I completely lost my motivation for a while. Not for being good - i've been significantly better than our esteemed leader (not that that means much glancing over last week) but I just couldn't be bothhered to record or post. But I now have my very own spreadsheet (I've agreed with my therapist that it's actualy good to embrace the annally retentive, needs to tick boxes side of me) and am remotivated.

But I still can't be bothered to type out everything, so will simply admit my lapses from perfection - I'm allowing myself 10 a week. I figure that if I have a choice between skipping removing make up or having a pecan danish at Waitrose the next day, I'm going to get out the cotton wool.

On a normal day I will follow all www's rules, and do my 5 sun salutations, 20 minutes cardio and 100 sit-ups. And drink no more than 4 cups coffee.

So Monday. I ate a slice of blueberry seed cake (homemade natch).

Hello all, nice to see you again Pru & Winnie.

L&S - you'd like my midwife, completely laid back and she knows her job backwards. She visited this morning and said "you're finally getting a bump, you don't look pregnant anywhere else, you're so fit". No emergency scan for me! Glad all is well though. So is your bag packed etc?!

Slightly better day for me. Have done lots of cooking as the weather too miserable for anything else. Toothache has gone off a bit.

11,000 steps, tick everything else. I've eaten toasted bagel, homemade vegetable soup, Club biscuit, lots of sunflower & pumpkin seeds, 2 raw carrots, plum and the most amazing homemade chicken & ham in white wine sauce puff pastry pie with green beans and boiled potatoes. It was such a triumph that I took it's photograph! And then I had a pancake drenched in lemon juice and caster sugar. So a 10 million calorie day for me!

And the midwife has referred me for physio for my sciatica.

Welcome bk. I'm another one on Olay after flirtations with far more expensive (dh sincerely believed that Christmas shopping simply means flashing a credit card in the Space NK under his office, and, fool that I am, I told him not to this year and ordered myself an IPod instead). But I do use Protect and Perfect under it, which I think has made a difference, and a decent night cream (a l'occitane shea butter one at the moment)
On the tea - normal probably doesn't count as much because of the caffeine and tanin. But if you switch to green or rooibos it's much better than water.

Mrs PG - you are fka a prehistoric creature aren't you? Why is LSA leaving - any chane of changing her mind?

Duch - you must have incredibly impressive abdominals - with ds (no.2) my bump appeared overnight at about 8 weeks.

www - the best thing to do with fwits is to get rid. Being able to do so with a legitimate business case must feel satisfying. Though slightly galling if they get decent redundancy. Do they know yet?

Another quick post before I hop off to watch Dave Gorman. Will catch up properly tomorrow.

Hello everyone.

I am doing ok on the exercise front, and alcohol really isn't a big thing for me (although I did drink a bottle in bed over the weekend, lol) but foooood, well that's another story.

Anyhoo...

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• Another sluggish hour on the bike, plus 2 mile walk home from school.
• Lots of weak tea
• Apply body cream - about to.
• Use hand cream yy
• Go to bed early, 9.00pm .
• Eat healthily, soso, not enough fruit. Plus I had pancakes (at cubs) last night, and at home tonight.
• Be happy, yes. Spent the evening at a strings concert which DS2 was performing in (along with about 100 other children). I'm in complete awe of our local School Music Service who have such enthusiastic staff and get the children to perform to such a high standard. DS2's cello teacher in particular is wonderful - you can see that she almost lives the music. She did an absolutely fantastic arrangement of Skater Boy with the top ensemble on electric cellos.

Superb evening, and very inspiring.

grrrr

have just spent an HOUR trying to upload (not particularly flattering, but willing to show iykwim) photo of New hair

can't upload the image reducing software either...double grrrrr...

Ooo, post your low-fat chicken kashmiri recipe, there's a dear
Yesterday petered out rather due to pancakes and a Farewell to Chocolate but have already powerwalked to work (along with about a billion fuming people who normally use the tube, so man we were fast and furious, kicking annoying light-jumping cyclists out of the way, doing talk to the hand signs to buses at junctions etc...we are commuters, hear us roar)
Have visions of bundy looking like an extra from a Shane Meadows film "This is Bundy"
Glad you enjoyed your dodgy rendezvous batters and Dodgy Woman and nice to see you back again prufrock
LAS, I utterly sympathise with your stressful and ultimately wasted day I had this done to me in my first pregnancy and the top of my head nearly exploded with worry. Hope today is more serene.
Your concert sounds wonderful unknown - there are some terrific Schools Music Services out there, you don't live in a county beginning with N, do you?
Between sausage and egg McMuffins can you keep us updated on your vengeful outsourcing WWW - the rest of us office drones could do with a vicarious thrill

Spreadsheet is looking fairly chipper at the mo btw although am still in denial re weekly weight cell....

Hehe, I'm taking lieutime today as it's DS1's review day.

Wotsits are forever associated with you www, lol. Work sounds a dream . Wish we could sort out staffing issues out. Blardy nightmare.

Funny www, I don't have mental images of many mners, but I always see you as quite glam with a sleek bob for some reason.

I am definitely a "before" picture. Can't remember the last time I wore 14s.

Ah, the bottle of wine in bed. Well, I shared the bed with ... DS3,lol, to watch Casualty. Sorry, boring, hehe, but I did enjoy.

Shame about the LSA leaving MrsPG. Very unsettling.

Marina, comfort-eating here too, and sometimes normal everyday life chez rebel seems soooo stressful - that's a lot of comfort needed.

L&S, how stressful. Glad everything is ok.

Ok, so I'm currently tucking into a bottle of wine (although I am sharing it with dh) but that's only because the visit from MIL is looming and I think it's the only way.

On a brighter note, got my hair cut today and I'm really pleased with it. Cut by someone who knows how to cut curly hair so that's a bonus.

Hardly any water, no walking (although I did cycle a lot), wine and cake. I'm turning into www

Marina - your powerwalk makes you sound so assertive lol

No Marina, S.

Not sure how we compare with other areas with regard to numbers involved, but the performances last night were very polished, throughout the skills-range. And there is some outstanding talent too.

It's really good to see, because general education in our area has a poor reputation.

Good day so far but as you say batters 'the day is young'. Yesterday I ate too many pancakes but I bought myself a lindt egg as I wanted something small and chocolatey before lent set in and I couldn't face it I took one bite & it ended up in the compost bin! I will so regret that as the days go by.

The images I have of everyone on this thread is 'gorgeous and glamorous' although I myself am not... well, sometimes I can be but my god it takes effort last week I went out for a girls night out and walking through town on my own I was whistled at. (I am sadly confessing here to a moment of glowing afterwards. Now in the past I would have yelled "f*ck off" or some such thing ) & again.

the blushing is for the "glowing" not the f*ck off!

Winnie, I think you fully deserve to glow like a furnace! Although obviously speaking as a feminist I am technically appalled by such outrageously misogynistic objectifying behaviour .

Thanks to you all so much for sympathies - I think I was partly thrown for such a loop because I've been lucky enough to have a tremendously straightforward pregnancy so far and hadn't really considered the idea that something might go wrong ... quite sobering, really. Hmmn. Duchess I have soooo not packed my bag yet - must, must do that this weekend! I guess really things could kick off any time now (having said that, I will clearly still be here and pregnant in July ... ). Your midwife sounds divine - health worker and confidence booster combined!

Ooh bundle - really, really annoying about the pic. But I've a question for you based on your other photos! What stitch did you use to sew your beautiful knitted squares together? Am just at the stage with my blanket, and dithering. Advice very welcome!

WWW, I was fondly recalling the other day a period in my early 20s when breakfast (bought from newsagents and eaten on bus on way into work) would often be a packet of wotsits and a carton of Ribena. I love wotsits. May track some down this lunchtime in your honour.

We're having people round to recarpet all of the downstairs of our house on friday (house is ground floor and basement flat, so downstairs are all the bedrooms), so spent last night moving all the non-heavy stuff (books, clothes, etc) upstairs. Felt v breathless and pregnant by the end but also entitled to much food, so ate

Spinach and feta samosa
Spinach salad
Helping of farro (really nice Italian wheat stuff)
turkey
four cocktail sausages(!)
Twirl
And some dry cereal, straight from the packet (oaty millet-y organic rubbish)

and today, two slices of toast, a banana, two peppermint teas, a coffee, and am about to go and buy lunch. Think I'm getting a cold. Grrrrr. DP just texted from New York to say he is deeply deeply hungover and can't wait to get home!

Hello all!

New job is good thanks - busy and lots more responsibility than at old place, but good.

Had no booze on Sunday or Monday night but a couple of beers plus some red wine last night .

Very good on eating front, though . And doing handcream and footcream and sunscreen . And walked from home to Bethnal Green tube station yesterday morning.

Thanks to all those who expressed sympathy re LSA. I am gutted, I really am .

Hello all. I must confess to doing Very Badly Indeed on the food front but I have written off last week and this. Will be back with renewed enthusiasm next week.

Luckily I had almost a week eating nothing at all so the fact I have been eating like a comfort-eating pig since hasn't really affected my waistline. Yet. But am feeling bloated and frumpy today which is a sure sign I have been eating badly.

DP is still at home, not seeing woman, trying to make things work. It's very odd - I lose it occasionally and get very cross with him but mostly it seems to be good. We are both concentrating on each other which we haven't done since the kids arrived so it all feels quite novel and , dare I say it, a bit like when we first met....

I am thinking of having hair cut off too Bundle but wonder whether it will be a rather cliched reaction to news of infidelity. Perhaps I will leave it a while....

Oh, and we're trying to think of something nice to do with the kids for 3-4 days over half term - even looked at the dreaded centreparcs but can't stomach it. Was thinking of city break but with stuff for kids to do too - any ideas anyone?

hi bamamama pic now on profile

vicsqualor, hmmm it was a group effort sort of mattressy stitch, iykwim

have been bit norty this morning had bacon sarnie (though wholemeal and luverly, from Leon) on way to work

and a couple of pancakes last night, after bowl of meatballs, ikea sauce stuff and sprouts! (and two quite large glasses of red wine)

hmmmm back to the drawing board