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.

oooh tick for clean face/moisturiser for bed

also had lovely relaxing bath this am as woke up before everyone else (in bath by 6ish) - had cuppa tea and read my book

ooh yes, am giving self pat on back for body brushing (which I do do every morning, for like 20 secs, but it definitely has an effect) and face cleansing (which I do every evening with the sainted/benighted Lom (depending on who you listen to ))

Bath, tea and book sounds divine, bundle. Something so nice about being up before everyone else - it feels like stolen time. Can anyone else see the sunset, btw? Glorious from my fifth floor office ...

L&S - I hope you're feeling much better. You sound quite chipper which I take as a good sign. (Plus you've been cycling).

bama - your DH is being most unfair. Can't you find some jobs that need doing. Alone and definitely without MILs company?!!

bundle - morning bath sounds lovely (pity I like slothing in my bed so much or I'd try it).

11,000 steps and more gardening, well sweeping and filling wheelbarrow with leaf debris mostly. I also cleaned the kitchen windows which look all sparkly in the sunshine but gave me a surprise view of my dry-lined crinkled face. I only cleaned the damned things because they are utterly filthy and the cleaners aren't due until Thursday when it supposed to rain again. So I've learned my lesson.

As a result of reflection-shock I have been applying moisturiser as often as I have handcream and it looks slightly better already.

Have eaten quite healthily all day, lots of fruit & raw veg plus iron supplement. Still need a glass of two of water but I did get an early night. Happy - very, because DS1 and DD1 are obsessed with reading atm and are doing brilliantly. DD1 was a reluctant reader until recently so her current success is all the sweeter.

Hey we almost all have that stopping at one glass of wine trouble, me included. Although last week I drank quite a few nights and absolutely not to excess. But I mustn't let it become a habit.

unknownrelbang, lol at your brothers, glad you enjoyed the working on the show! Exercise bike v good

Bama, solo MIL, poor you! I prescribe wine!

L&S, what a pita, EIGHT hours is ridiculous. You could HAVE a baby in that time! Sorry aobut Wotsits!

Pru, agree re make up though mine has mostly slid (? doesn't sound right) off my face by the time I get in.

DofN, impressive steps

Must eat, back later!

ok dh in shower so quickly will post todays effort:

2 pieces wholemeal toast in car, butter, Marmite
2 pieces white toast, at work, butter, Marmite
hummus sandwich, 350 cal
half a banana
3 biscuits, 40 cal each I think
and dh has made me lovely cottage pie
and I am drinking Cava but will do so in moderation
enough water, hmm, maybe not quite enough
walking on commute, yes
no sunscreen, must do it
skin looks terrible

am considering walking from Eustn to Tttn Ct Rd tomorrow as I ended up getting a cab again this am due to 2o mins standing on platform at Euston and deciding I couldn't quite face it, let 4 trains go, squeezed on one and then changed mind and got off again, it was VILE. But lovely day, if it's the same tomorrow I will walk to Tot Ct Rd and get Central line from there. But ROLL ON FRIDAY...

Btw, Marina, started Affluenza today, am on about page 50 and v much enjoying it, have you finished it? I will prob chuck job in at end of it!

thanks for all your kind wishes.
www you must enter the comp on prus link for cobblers, it could just be the news from afar you are waiting for.
in fact why dont we all enter you never know one of us might win.
im thinking about buying a penthouse suite at hodges to rent out any takers?
as for the boot camp i use exfoliating gloves to apply my body cream,they buff at the same time.(im glowing with radience)

Think I might start doing teh early morning thing regularly - even though I'm tired, it felt good

Yet another quick visit, (but I hope you're ok L&S)

Sunscreen yy
No booze
30 mins on the ex bike, does wiggling about side of stage count? Cos we're doing plenty of that, lol
Lots of water yy
Apply body cream no
Use hand cream yes
Go to bed early, hahaha
Eat healthily, two mars bars aside...
Be happy. Boys were a pita this morning, but good fun again tonight.

bloody hell! I think I might have a job.

How will I cope without my 30 hrs of "me-time" a week?

When will I find time to go to the gym?

and when will I find time to mumsnet?

Hi, sorry haven't been back. My dad is back home, they think he just had a really bad virus that was causing weird heart rhythms, so they are keeping an eye on him, but (fingers crossed) he seems ok. Dh also had to go to hospital this week for a scan on his scrotum but that is fortunately ok too (he was convinced he was about to die of cancer(!)).

Hope everyone on here is ok, sorry I haven't read the thread thoroughly.

I sometimes forget the bedtime routine but I have replenished stocks upstairs remind me I need to improve. Like www, most of mine has slid off by then.

Did you walk this morning www?

Hope the cold doesn't develop Batters. I'm just at the tailend of mine now - coughing backstage is NOT a good idea, lol, but I'm not alone.

Haha, I had an early morning to myself (well 8am, lol) after getting off the bike, I spent it dozing until DS3 dived on me a while later.

Well done Iota. What's the job?

Glad to hear your Dad's on the mend TS.

Sausage sandwich for brunch was naughty, but lovely. And I have a box of choccies, as an apology (someone thought she'd been rude to me, she hadn't but thought it was really sweet of her.) We'll share those out tonight.

It was quite surreal last night standing in the audience (second half with leftover cubs) doing the Time Warp next to the District Commissioner, lol. Whatever next??

Hehe, I think I enjoy helping out at the show as much as those on stage.

hello all, hope you are having lovely weather - it is just gorgeous here and it is also half term

We had a lovely day out here yesterday and today we have been in my friend's garden and then our garden, so plenty of fresh air (and mud, and bubble mixture..)

Lost 1lb this week which I was slightly disappointed with, as I ran 20 miles altogether and tracked everything I had eaten
and refused bread and butter pudding twice Am hoping for far better results next week!

cerys - you're probably building muscle and losing fat and your actual weight is not indicative of that. 20 miles is excellent.

t/shell - glad your fathers home.

iota - congratulations!

unknown - surreal indeed!

14,500 steps for me today - just school runs, shopping & gardening but it soon clocks up. Lots of face & hand cream through the day.

I've eaten apple, cheese & biscuits & salad, 2 shortbread biscuits, peanut butter sandwich, raw carrots & raisins. Will finish the salad bowl for dinner and put a salmon fillet in the oven. Lots of water but still thirsty.

Happy to have had another sunny day, rain expected tomorrow but it's supposed to be nice again at the weekend!

Very tired. So I will definitely have an early night.

Iota congrats on job

Tshell, good that your dh and father are ok, fab!

I didn't walk this morning, tubes were quiet as got on at 7.35am but hmm, may do tomorrow. My friend who is also a contractor asked today if I'd heard of MBT trainers and I said I'd send her a link to your site batters

ok day
2 pieces toast
radish salad sandwich, 300 cals
apple
2 bananas
a few bits of chocolate
cottage pie from last night
broccoli, asparagus, green beans (M&S)
have had 2 glasses white wine so far

My dad would have been 66 today, had he lived ...he was 59 when he died in 2001, the older I get the younger that seems iykwim

but hey. Where is bossykate, hmm?

Batters, a year is amazing!

dofn, well done 14500is loads

cerys, a pound is good

unknownrel, lol at timewarp and yum at sausage sandwich

Kidsrus, must enter that!

Happy birthday to your dad www, if that isn't too weird a thing to say. You know what I mean. 59 is young. My dad is 59, and dh's dad was 59 when he died. Dads should live forever.

Know exactly what you mean www. My mam was 54 when she died (10 years ago this December). Find it quite frightening tbh.

1lb is good cerys, and 20 miles is fab.

would anybody like to join me doing Race for life this year?
i walked the course last year with my mum and im doing it again this year,although mum won't be joining me as she found it a bit hard on her hip.

hello all - just popping in again, sorry, haven't read thread so hope everyone is ticking along ok.

This week I have eaten my (increasing) body weight in cake and drank a small lakes worth of wine. Dh has not stopped working and is away this weekend so it's me and the MIL until Sunday afternoon. It's actually not too bad, just exhausting.

DS said 'bye bye daddy' this morning for the first time. He's got such a lovely little voice [proud mama emotion]

Have read most of the thread now - thank you everyone who gave good wishes for my dad, I think he is fine, just a really nasty virus. Dd has been to the doctors this morning, and she has either a 'pneumo-bronchial virus' or whooping cough , but she is demonstrably NOT ill, just coughing. Dr gave her some ABs, but she is otherwise fine.

Marina - hope you're ok and not being able to post isn't anything sinister.

www - hope yesterday was ok for you.

DofN - you are amazing! How long till baby day now?

bamamama - how sweet! It's lovely when they start speaking isn't it! Enjoy being a proud mum!

Iota - a job - how exciting! Details????

batters - that sounds lovely (the day in the sunshine, not the heating packing up!). Lol at 'meeting a dodgy woman'!!!

I have been really really rubbish, but blame it on the stress of the last few weeks (health things and work things), but am aware that is a RUBBISH excuse, so will try to do better this week!

cerys - it will be muscle as duch said. I have lost only 6 pounds since Dec 18th, but my measurements have gone down hugely (did Imention I lost 3 inches on my waist ). The sainted India suggests having a pair of trousers that are just too tight at the moment as your masuring guide.

To all that envy my holidays, I have just booked to go here for 2 weeks in the summer. BIL doesn't have an open hotel until October, so no cut price Carribean jaunts, and I was horrified at the prices for places like Forte Village. And dh and I don't realy like lazing on beaches - though we will try to fit in a week in a friends cottage in Aldeburgh so the kids get to see some sand.

Congrats Iota. We still need details.

Tshell, glad your dad is better. www/rebel I do know what you mean - my therapist pointed out to me that my major mental decline started when I was the age my mother was when she died, and ds was the age I was, and dd was the age I was when my dad remarried and I "lost" him as well. So really not suprising I went a bit mad. Whilst it still makes me sad that my mum never got to do all the things I am doing, I do know feel that I owe it to her memory to bloody well enjoy a life she never got to live.

I've been quite good -well within my tolrance range - for some reason I've developed a craving for cakes and biscuits in mid afternoon, which is wierd, because I've never really ahd a particulary sweet tooth, and would still rarely conider eating dessert. But a toffee tiffin gets me every time.

I have sinned big time. Last night dh plied me with wine, garlic bread and chocolate cheesecake in an early Valentine celebration. He is not here tonight

I have been to the gym, driven by guilt and didn't need nagging to go.

The potential job will be an admin job in the public sector - nothing is decided yet - there are a number of opportunities and the possibility of job-share or TTO. I have passed the selection process and am awaiting further info.

www - sympathy, I lost my father when he was 59 - my mother was widowed at my age.

Half term starts here and now for me - hope the rest of you have/had a nice break.