WEEK ONE AGAIN of www's six week 10year younger bootcamp, Feb/March 08

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Welcome to week 1 of the second 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.

And as we've had half term and many of us have been lax, this thread is SERIOUS.

Lulu, you can post as much or as little as you like or have time for. I like posting daily because it motivates me to think I have to come and tell people what I've done but sometimes I don;t have time. So whatever suits you. No booze in the week is tough until you get used to it but lots of us are used to it and it gets easier once you are.

Thanks for the sympathy Bundle, I hope your aching goes away soon too, it's vile, I know.

Chutneymary, sorry you're tearful too, hope you find some booze if that will help. SIL can go fuck herself and stuff it up her arse while she's doing it or whatever the quote is being bitten by one's children is never nice is it? Tomorrow will be better

L&S, she's right aobut hormones, ahve you seen the Arnie film where he's pregnant? Funny on that stuff!

Lulu you are not shy! Hello saggars, you can taunt me with tales of running, cerys is here too.

marina - sorry about work
www - sort of sorry about the job but he may have been the Chieftain of the Clan of Tosser McToss.
bama - I knew you were awol! welcome back
cerys - sorry about the mug, can you get another in time?
and sympathy to all those who are ill & tired.

Nearly 12,000 steps. Today I'm tired, yesterday was such hard work and then I hardly slept . I should have got up and done some work but laid in bed wide-awake and annoyed instead.

I've eaten toasted hot cross bun, orange juice, coffee, shortbread, ham & coleslaw sandwich, apple, raw carrots, plum, salmon & salad & boiled potatoes and several squares of some gooey concoction going by the name of Cadburys double chocolate. It's not that nice but I'm eating it anyway!

Covered head to toe in Crabtree & Evelyn, tanning lotion on face, flexitol on feet and I may go and put on a freebie Estee Lauder eye mask that I've had for months and not used yet. I will have an early night and fingers crossed that I'll snore happily until 7am.

Hello Norks I'm not getting out much Seem to have lost my mojo a bit.

Have you spent your SweatyBetty vouchers ?

dh is on nights, dd wants the laptop so I think I'll go do my feet and find some body lotion.

ok, count me in!

Good for you lulu! (And there are 2 babies due on this thread so it counts as 'work' ).

Saggars, vouchers arrived about 2 weeks ago and I can't use them online without having to post them to their Head Office so I'm waiting for an opportunity to drive down to Brighton for a spend. I might get some MBTs and save the rest for some winter running gear when I know what size I am post-birth.

Hello CM, sorry you've had a crap day.

Hello Saggars! (and everyone else). Where have you booked?

L&S - all sounds perfectly normal to me.

www, I'm sorry you didn't get the job, but he sounds a nob. I'd be sooo tempted to just keep forwarded the email each day til I got a response, but DH is soooo right.

Marina that sounds horrendous. Hope you get through it all ok. I'm another with "team members"....it's just that some forget that they're part of a team.

Prufrock, I wouldn't know where to start with playing bridge, so it sounds very impressive!

Batters - you have my sympathy, although I've not got as far as throwing up (seems so...wasteful) Is that the most tasteless comment on this thread?

Bama - of course you were missed.

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• 10 mins exercise bike, plus 2 mile walk home from school. Still wheezing slightly but glad I made the effort.
• Lots of weak tea
• Apply body cream - will try to remember.
• Use hand cream/foot cream too, No.
• Go to bed early, so I went to bed to watch Hotel Babylon, then couldn't drop off until after midnight...then DS1 was up all night with toothace, DH came home at about 4.30 am, and that point I gave up and got up at 5 am! Am shattered, as is DS1.
• Eat healthily. soso.
• Be happy. A colleague (one who has caused some of the grief) is finally being transferred. It's all part of the ongoing mess, but it's a small positive, even if it creates another problem iykwim.

Bad mum alert: as the boys haven't been to the dentist for a while, our dentist had deregistered us and w/couldn't give me an appt for DS1. I did manage to get him an appt with the emergency dentist this morning and the poor lamb had to have a tooth removed (he took great delight in showing me the tooth, eugh). Thankfully it was nothing to do with bad oral hygiene, although if he had been seen more recently they may have been able to do something about the rogue tooth before now so felt awful. Was very impressed with the emergency dentist system though, but I do plan to get us reregistered and checked out properly as soon as possible.

Can I join?

Right sunscreen, well I should really as I am prone to dark patches and I have the acne under control.

Already cut down on booze to weekends only.

I will get back into the walking at least 2 big walks a week and I swim 2 or 3 times too, I am signed up for a 5k with my DD thinking about the 10k.

Must drink more water.

Must start using the creams and lotions again got out of the habit, need to exfoliate legs too.

REALLY REALLy have to go to bed earlier, that is my bad habit.

Trying to eat well, have veg soup most lunch times.

Feeling happier than I have been in a long time so I want to continue this.

Right so all set for a new me. Now What .

morning/evening all. Well, my official first bootcamp day post MIL started with porridge with added cream followed by beef pie and chips for lunch. I held off from dessert but ate half a packet of ritz crackers and a crunchie this afternoon. So, not the best of starts then! I did manage 11,600 steps and everything has started looking autumnal here which I'm liking a lot.
I'm hoping to reign it back a bit this evening but am also hoping that dh comes back from the pub with a bottle of wine so all in all it just doesn't seem like I'm even trying.

Will do better tomorrow.

Oh, and I still haven't started my essay. It's the first blardy one of the year, you'd think I'd have a little more motivation???

Good morning all, and thank you so much for reassuring me that the weeping is normal! I'm the first out of my immediate friends to procreate, and while they're all being very sweet and kind, it's like semaphoring across the Thames, trying to explain how it all feels, and that, actually, I don't really think I am mad, just pregnant ...

Feeling much better today - did go to ante-natal in the end, and it was fine, and had a nice lie-in this morning, so less knackered. Speaking of which: WWW, that is a horribly early start/long day . Are you someone who can nap a bit on the train (confess I am not - makes me feel still groggier)? I guess otherwise it's all about establishing a routine and sticking to it, so at least you don't have the stress of having to think about what you're doing every day ...

Duchess, bad luck on the not-sleeping! Your food always sounds so delicious and healthy: you're a role model!

OK, must rush off to meeting ... nothing really to report yet apart from Special K and peppermint tea for breakfast, and cycling and so forth. This afternoon I'll be clearing my desk in preparation for buggering orf on mat leave tomorrow. Erk!

have lovely days, ladies

L&S - it's really honestly just your hormones. I hated hated hated both pregnancies, but it does mean that you are so glad to not be pregnant and hormonal that the sleep deprevation in the first few months doesn't bother you.

www - yes I do remember you dissing my acrylics. How can you and dodgy woman eat nothing but 4 pieces of salami and bread?

bundle are you off work? Because I'm sure I heard your name yesterday - don't tell me you prerecord the whole thing? I've been thinking fondly of you sitting in your little studio whilst I'm driving back form swimming every week! Hope you feel better soon.

welcome scramble, lulu and saggers. We are nice honestly. In fact, bootcamp is a bit of a misnomer.

Sunscreen. Tick
No booze. Tick
2l Water. Tick
Body cream. No, but I did have a lovely steam and exfoliated with a lemon oil and salt scrub (from Asda, not my larder) so skin was nicely oiled.
Hand cream. Tick
Foot cream. No
Bed early. I was in bed by 9:30, and asleep by 11:15, which is ridiculously early for me
Exercise Walked the dogs to school this am and back through the fields, which is an hours round trip, but I had ds with me, so hardly aerobic exercise. Then I had an hours session with trainer, including some incredibly de-stressing boxing.
Eat healthily Granola and skimmed milk for breakfast, 2 cups coffee, broccoli and gruyere quiche for lunch. Desperately wanted to share pre-swimming flapjacks with dd and ds, but had nuts and berries instead. Lamb, houmous, peppers, pine nuts in pitta for dinner.
Be happy Yes. Both kids were in new swimming classes and they both enjoyed themselves.

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• 30 mins exercise bike - missed being able to walk home due to bad planning, grr.
• Lots of weak tea/water
• Apply body cream - will try to remember, have got a dry patch which is extremely unusual.
• Use hand cream/foot cream too, yes.
• Go to bed early, 11 pm, head hit the pillow and I woke up at 7pm, a novelty but still tired, lol.
• Eat healthily. erm, slipping.
• Be happy. same old same old.

Quick visit because I'm still so tired. Disturbed night last night and busy day today.

Nearly 16,000 steps. Face and hand cream - lots.

Have eaten cereal, ham & coleslaw sandwich, apple, raw carrots, sausage roll, venison steak & chips & peas & roasted teeny tomatoes & mushrooms, shortbread biscuit. Not enough water. 2 glasses of Lucozade (which didn't perk me up at all)!

House is freezing because the LPG tank ran out of gas at the weekend (my fault for not checking it) and Shell haven't delivered yet. So I may as well go to bed. But if I do go to sleep now I'll be awake again by midnight. Harrumph.

Goodness, I'm grumpy! Pity all the rowdy threads seem to have died down or I could have joined in. (Is it me or is 'MN fighting' spectacularly dumb?)

rebel - Portugal

Sunscreen - no - hoping for new sunscreen type moisturiser thingy for Mother's Day.
No booze
30 mins power walk - no run though
OK on the water
Apply body cream - yes.
Hand cream/foot cream - yes.
Earlish to bed
Eat healthily - not too bad if you ignore the cream cake at coffee time. Going out tomorrow for all you can eat Chinese buffet.
Be happy - doing OK.

Norks - how do you manage 16000 steps?

Hello everyone!
DofN, lol at chieftain of Tosser McToss clan (do you remember the thread? Gosh, that was a long time ago, 2004 in fact!) Your steps are an inspiration to us all!

Saggars, did you find body lotion and do your feet? Sorry about your Mojo, we know what you mean though and will help you find it

unknown, yes, dh is right and forwarding email daily might get a response but... Sorry about the tooth but yay about the colleague!

Scramble, of course you can, welcome! Now what? Well now you have to do it most days and come and tell us about it and then fall off wagon spectacularly and tell us about that too!

batters, I know, I should be in bed NOW. Lunch with dodgy woman was slight because I'd already eaten so we had platter and I picked. Torchwood was fab, indeed. Can't imagine an unscary version tbh!

Bama, hmm, sounds delicious! Did dh bring wine?

L&S, it's hard that being the first one thing. I was too, I had NO friends with children and knew no one with them and it was v odd. WISH mn had been around then. So, you;ve got us, we will reassure you! Hey, how many children do you think we've got between us? Shall we count? I've got 2...
I can't sleep on train, would wake up in Long Buckby or somewhere equally inappropriate.

I am thinking of throwing myself on boss's mercy next week and saying I must leave unless 1 day from home pronto + 1 hour a day working on train to make it a 7 hr day.

Prufrock, as above re salami. You are good at doing training aren't you, well done. And an early night. What did you do between 9.15 and 11am....?

dofN, sorry about grumpiness but it's allowed, sorry about no LPG, what a PITA. and hope you get a better night sleep tonight.

Saggars, that;s a good start. Ish WEll done on walking.

Hmm, not so good for me today

2 toast, Marmite, butter
banana
egg mayo sandwich
then was still hungry at 3pm so had chicken and bacon club sandwich oops
a couple of Quality St
some berries and a couple of honey pecans
a whole PE American pizza
rocket, balsamic vinegar
Chianti, but ony on second glass and goign to bed shortly

Really really wanted to chuck job in today due to extreme tiredness but alas, poor children wouldn't eat... Never mind, in Sept everything changes and I could stop if I wanted to. It's not that far away.

But hey, it's Friday tomorrow, hurrah! And as I said to my sister earlier (NOT the one who's just had the baby) "hmm 60 hours a week or a newborn? Give me the 60 hours every time" She said "touching"

L&S, apologies, this isn't meant to be irritating or put you off, but it is tiring having a newborn as I'm sure you know!)

Oh www of course she doesn't know. She might think she does but really she has no concept of tired yet.
Sorry for talking about you L&S, but a newborn is knackering in a way you are just incapable of imagining. But you know what, it's amazingly wonderful in a way you just can't yet imagine as well, and quite a few of us have gone on and done it more than once, so the benefits must outweigh the problems.

I watched ANTM and Project Catwalk actually www. Dh was working from home and had stuff to catch up on because he'd been disturbed earlier
Duch - hopefully you're tucked up in bed with a hot water bottle and a good book. Which is where I will be going as soon as I've posted my day

Sunscreen. Tick
No booze. Tick
2l Water. Tick
Body cream. Will do in a bit
Hand cream. Tick
Foot cream. Will do in a bit
Bed early. Soon
Exercise Walked the dogs to school this am and back through the fields, 20 minutes cardio, 100 sit-ups and then a walk/run to pick up ds and a walk back.
Eat healthily Granola and skimmed milk for breakfast, 2 cups coffee. Roasted haddock with spinach and green beans. Cherries, few olives, rooibos tea, asparagus, parma ham and parmesan salad.
Be happy Yes. DH bonus was paid today, so I got to take a chunk off the mortgage which is always a nice thing. And I put up a load of photos I?d been meaning to do for ages, and realised that I will be able to go out next week on a reunion with everybody from my first proper job. So I give you warning that I will not be bootcamping next Thursday. Or probably Friday. And we are out on Saturday and well, so not Saturday. Or Sunday. Oh well?.

So many of you are doing so well! I am most definitely out of the habit and must try harder. Yesterday was a very virtuous day when all boxes were ticked and I even managed a face mask thingy in the bath. Today has been, well, a complete disaster since 4 o'clock. Started with chocolate cake which left me wanting more sugar but I did resist. Tea was lots of bread and butter, roast chicken eaten before it made it on to a plate, crisps shared with children, a slice of toast with peanut butter and jam. I ate it all without even taking my coat off. Have been ferrying children for more things than usual and also DH needed a lift. Should be doing some work for tomorrow but brain is fuzzy.

Hope all lurgy sufferers feel better soon. Hormonal mums-to-be need to cry - it is part of being pregnant.
Marina - work sounds awful but well done on weight loss.
WWW - don't know how you have the energy to do all that commuting.
Must sort out Moron - Duchess is inspiring me!

hi prufrock, I am off work but by the miracle of working incredibly hard during half term and getting boss to sit in studio for me (went home to get my ab's from gp) it was my programme as I'd done most of it so went in for an hour and a half with my laptop, feeling v poorly on tuesday.

I had about 7 hours sleep so feeling much better.

batters - I clip my Moron onto my bra in the morning (or I forget to use it) and it stays put until I rummage about for it to do my bootcamp post! The aerobic steps usually account for half the total number of steps, so yesterday was almost 8,000 continual steps from dog-walking but 16,000 overall. Do you only put yours on for exercise?

Went for a 4 mile run last night - am running in another half marathon on Sunday, so am supposed to take it easy this week.

It is St David's Day tomorrow so the DDs went off to school in their Welsh costumes, looking cute. I went into school to do my hour's LSA work and ended up watching a hall full of infants doing Welsh country dancing with varying degrees of success . Then I was able to sit in on some of the full school assembly and to see nearly all the children either in Welsh costume or Wales rugby jerseys,and wearing daffodils, was a fabulous sight. It makes me to think of it.

DD2 and DS slept really badly last night but DS just fell asleep in the car and is snoring on the sofa. I predict a DD2-meltdown by 4pm.