WWW's ten year younger bootcamp, week wtf again, spring 2008

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All welcome

Veils drawn over last week...

The rules (anyone can join):

This is about feeling better about yourself...not necessarily a diet per se etc etc

• Sunscreen at all times
• No or little booze. 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
• Lots of water, aim for 2 litres a day
• Apply body cream as often as possible
• Use hand cream
• 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

Btw, artice in S Times today (bought it for jobs section, honest!) about humabn growth hormone, bleurgh BUT look at the bit at the bottom:

"? Lifestyle changes can boost HGH naturally, says anti-ageing guru Dr Cecilia Tregear of the Wimpole Skin Care Centre in London. Here?s how:

? Get 8 hours? sleep a night. HGH production relies on getting a good night?s rest.

? Drink as little alcohol as possible.

? Eat organic protein such as red meat, chicken or fish with every meal. The amino acid lysine in protein stimulates HGH production.

? Eat as few grain-based foods as possible ? get your carbs from vegetables and fruit instead.

? Avoid anything that contains sugar.

? Exercise regularly ? moderate exercise stimulates HGH production, but excessive exercise has the opposite effect.

? Keep stress to a minimum, as it uses up HGH.

? Cut down your exposure to pollution and pesticides, which can affect the endocrine system. "

Hmm, pretty much 10yy wouldn't you say? Although they don't say, I note, "periodically get wankered on Champagne at St Pancras and spend 2 days recovering" , shame

Hope everyone has a good week.

Sorry, article here

"avoid anything that contains sugar" !!

Hello all. Been pretty poor at posting the last couple of weeks. No excuse really. Must. Try. Harder.

DH has stalled on his diet and I've crept back to my cake on any day with 'day' in the title so some tinkering is required. Went for a bike ride this morning but then had a blueberry and chocolate muffin so fell at the first really. Ah well.

Right off to surf pointlessly on MN do some work.

Happy Monday everyone!

Argh, the minute I come back to this thread I am ill! Am struck down with lurgy - horrid cough and burning chest. On the positive side I barely ate anything yesterday. On the negative side have been comfort eating buttered toast in pyjamas this am.

Interesting re: that times article WWW - the sad fact is that we all know if we bootcamp properly we feel loads better - it's just sometimes the siren call of the biscuit tin/ wine bottle makes us lose our senses momentarily....

Things are ok Marina, we're still together and working through it. I haven't been posting much on MN of late and it's all been infidelity related! If you search on my name there's a thread with updates.

Morning all,

I have a week off cos of start of the school hols so I already have 'the veil' to be drawn over all my misdemeanours ready as I do not find it easy with the dcs - always resort to hardly any walking and baking cakes(more for my benefit I think).

I am now well enough to start on a cocktail of pills for my pms to try and find the right combo. Must also buy more moisturiser. And go back to the gym. And not have loads of toast and jam for breakfast. And stop drinking red wine every night(quickly lowers veil and runs).....

Oh and I read that article in the ST and am resigned to only really being able to achieve one of those points so I shall age badly then and be damned (runs off again).

Moonshine, glad to hand on the baton of Bootcamp Delinquency Due to School Hols
Hearty sympathies with the PMS, I seem to have got much worse with this as I get older It used to be tingly breasts, now it's wanting to rip dh's head off - oh, wait, that's marriage

Mine has definitely got worse with age. I have joined the army of grumpy old women + throbbing (but not in a good way!!) breasts.

I enjoyed the Ferris novel mostly and nodded vigorously in recognition in some places but found some aspects of the collective corporate life laboured and repetitive towards the end of it. Worth a read though.

Hello all. Dh out for dinner this eveing so myself and ds made pizza for tea. The dough was appalling (even though I say so myself ) and ds ate the toppings before we had time to get them on the base so not the best start. Feeling a little bloated now (it may have been appalling but I still ate it!) so gingerly sipping water.

Have decided to start running again, there is a 5k round the lake on next month so have signed up. Haven't really run for years but how hard can it be...?

Marina - much lol at the pms/marriage confusion.

Moonshine - at least you have term time! Those of us with pre-schoolers have no reasons to be good.

Iris - glad things are a little better, will go and search for thread.

L&S - hope the wee man is doing just fine (and you too!).

Oh, she is a right one and no mistake batters
Sorry you have been so unwell, you poor thing. I had something similar while the dcs were still at school so WAS able to crash out. I thought I was dying .
Hope you are fully recovered soon

Just marking this for later.

I'll be back

Bama lol at cake on any day with day in the title! Hope you feel better soon

Iris, I love buttered toast, is one of my (many) downfalls. Good luck with working through it.

Moonshine, that's a big veil you're wearing! Let me know if you find anything that works for pmt. I am vile bitch when I have it.

Marina lol at workplace child/students. Don't know they're born blah blah best days of their lives, wasted on the young blah blah.

btw, as you know, one of my (very enjoyable) getting wankered sessions was with Bossykate (Pizza Express iirc) and she said, WISELY, I think, "Oliver James, can't bear him, don't read him, total wanker " - I'm paraphrasing, but I stopped reading the bloody book and hey presto! I was happier about working/childcare arrangements etc. Realised from reading something about him in some paper recently that he's in his fifties with v little ones, a 2 yo I think so erm, who do you think has the issues? Hmm? Marina, it's a crock of shit. I know I cried about it but I really should have just tossed it aside, tossed my head and ignored the tosser I think That's my advice, anyway! Thanks for Ferris recommendation, will look for that.

Batters, sorry you've been ill and snort snort snort at your dp being like a thoroughbred horse, ha ha ha, you should have told her they put horses down when they're that ill! pack hordse, ha ha, she's a charmer alright, isn't she?

Hi Saggars, see ya later alligator

Not bad

2 toast, Marmite, butter
houmous sandwich
1.5 apples (called to meeting half way through one, it was brown when I came back)
banana
small packet of mini cheddars
about to have M&S sea bass with rosemary
M&S veg, asparagus, broccoli and green beans
and erm, ahem,

Feeling v happy though, new hours are FAB!

I am grumpy. First day of the holidays. DCs endlessly obnoxious.

Not much exercise - except of vocal cords. Not enough water. Face & hand cream this morning and nothing since.

I've eaten hot cross bun, scrambled egg on toast, apple, raw carrots. I am too cross to eat dinner atm. Under normal circs I would have had several calming gins by now. Grrrr.

Hope everyone else has had a better day.

Well I'm back, just passing by for a bit of a rant if you don't mind.

Had some bad news just this evening about the dd of a friend of mine. On top of having the same heart defect/disease as dd she's now developed leukaemia (she's almost 8). Why is life such a bitch sometimes?

So not in the mood for anything much tonight - please hold her and her family in your thoughts and prayers would help if you do them. Thanks.

Oh, so sorry Saggars. How sad.

Batters-and you managed to only put the phone down, not go round and shove it up her ...

saggers I am sorry. A boy in the year above dd had leukaemia - started when he was 5. After only 18 months he's now back at school almost fulltime, and his hair has even grown back. His friends and the school all rallied round to make the last 18 months as normal as possible for him and fingers crossed his prognosis is good.

www - I do know what bk means about OJ - I loved "they F*ck you up" (I think partly out of admiration for anyone that can quote Larkin as a title) but did find his style a bit lot patronising. Bit like the GF of psychology. Talks sense but in an annoying way.

My sympathies to anyone starting holidays. First day back here tomorrow so I started to get organised today and feel so much better for it.

I agree OJ is patronising but I am a sucker for the nuggets of how other people live their lives, however condescendingly they are depicted
Saggars - that's a harsh blow for your friends, I'm incredibly sorry. Batters might be well placed to offer you some encouraging and helpful thoughts when she has finished hating her insane MIL. She has been where you are now, so to speak.
Duchess, I did my share of squawky admonitions over the past fortnight and how I missed the little darlings today. Came home - grandpa in charge, slumped on sofa with DT crossword and can of trampagne in hand, dd shrieking along to niecelet's deafening accompaniment on xylophone, dsis furtively sponging baby vom out of our cruelly tormented carpet, ds upstairs "doing a Tanya" and attempting to get past our evil safety settings on the PC...sigh. It was so lovely to see them all again .
Walking, water, cream, healthy eating, yy - happiness curiously muted.

• Sunscreen, yes
• No booze, yes
• Walking, another amble through the beech woods, roll on tomorrow
• 2 litres water, just finishing 2nd
• Body cream, will go up to bed and do now
• Hand cream, yes, and nail oil
• Bed early, well I'll be in bed by 10, but with ANTM
• Eat healthily, skipped breakfast lunch was wholewheat linguine and bolognese sauce (v. small portion), ate small amount of rice and pork goulash with kids (Ok, I had what they left) but have been out and didn't eat dinner, so just raided fridge and very virtuosly selected small bowl lambs lettuce with vinagrette. Will also grab a warm banana and poppy seed muffin (that I've just made for dh to take to work in the morning -how bree-ish am I!)
• Be happy, relatively

I am so sorry Saggars - I know it's a cliche but it does put one's own 'troubles' into perspective.

Feels almost trivial to sigh loudly about my lot today. I can tick off one day of the hols (lol at the exercise of vocal chords - know about that one today). I braved the cinema with the dcs and it was mainly ok - but why do they always wait until they are at the furthest distance from any toilet before they tell me they are desperate to go (cue endless trouping to and squeezing into tiny cubicles with warring dcs).

I've never read a book by OJ but used to be unduly excited when I saw him in the corner shop (I used to live a few streets away from him).

Batters - sounds like you had something similar to me - hope you are on the up now.

Bamamama - being a sahm did nothing for my stomach or tolerance levels - don't know how I managed it for 6 years.

Needless to say I have indeed had to get a bigger veil today (shrouds herself).....

Sorry to hear about your friend's dd saggars.

How rotten batters - both your illness, and your dp's mother!

I think I need to discover some decent reading material, I like lightweight stuff (in my line of work, one needs some light relief) but even I thought Ulrikakakaka's autobiog was low (in my defence I was stuck in a caravan with a sick child...)

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze. One can of cider, but nothing for a week and DH bought it because I mentioned it in passing last night
• no exercise - no time today
• Lots of water/weak tea.
• Apply body cream lax
• Use hand cream lax
• Go to bed early, 10ish last night, disturbed sleep though thanks to DS2 being offside and restless. (very unusual)
• Eat healthily, better than recent times, although I have finished off tonight with a bag of dolly mixtures.
• Be happy. Deadline week at work, so still very busy but I definitely feel more in control again. Really need to watch the hours I'm working though.