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

Batters - which gym? I am going to join Virgin Active at CW next week to do Body Pump classes with my losing weight partner. Has going to the gym been good?

And where's the Ghost sale? I want a dress. Actually, I want somewhere to wear a dress first. But it has to cover my arms. I have the worst arms ever.

I am not posting my weight.

Anyone have any quick tips for not bursting into tears on the phone? Am getting very frustrated and teary with this whole getting a #(*#@ mri appointment thing and nearly cried on the phone with the receptionist. Oh please don't let me cry on the phone. Or maybe I can help Marina and call the IT people and cry at them? Threaten to come in and sob and make awful sniffly noises whilst wiping my nose on my shirtsleeve until they fix everything?

Oh, I forgot to ask why wheat free with warm water?

I am a terrible blubber too Thar, and in your circumstances a good snivel down the phone is only to be expected
Cups of tea always help IME and I really hope you get the appointment sorted soon. Keep us posted.
Ghost stuff is gorgeous batters, and cut to suit all figures
Am definitely not posting my weight
LOL prufrock, I think he is doing it for me tbh. We are both poorly served by under-investment in kit over a period of many years.
Congratulations to you and FYIAD on the weightloss, well done. The only thing I have in common with enif at the mo is wizened hands I think - cold weather and the muck bucket that is dd mean it takes very little for my Jeunesse des Mains to be canceled out

Thanks. Had bonus Nutella (thought we were out, but found some in cabinet whilst looking for passata which we are out of) and coffee and made it through phone call with consultant who is lovely and seems to be as frustrated as me with whole appointment thing. He did not burst into tears though. I didn't either thankfully - it's not the worry so much as the sheer frustration with miscommunication and confusion. OMG about someone threatening to stab your daughter! Is it all ok now? Crying is very appropriate in that circumstance, I think.

Thanks for sale and gym info too. Maybe we could meet for lunch one day after the gym or would that be completely missing the point?

I don't even know my weight and if I did would not post it, you've got to be joking!

Tharsheblows, blubbing is allowed in circs. I hope you're ok. Exuding confidence is ALL in situations where you don't feel it. I hope it's lovely, when are you going? Just say to yourself "am filthy rich meeja person and how lovely it is to be here, I do hope the service is as I expect"

Pru, glad the not drinking wine tip worked! It didn't for me on Weds but I didn't drink any wine last night so that's 3 days I've managed it so far this week, which is the best in a long time. And I do look slightly better for it.

MrsS, sympathy on the MIL, I think you;d better defer the working from home business until she's gone hey? Did you get caught in the delays tonight? I got to Euston to meet ex dh and ds with the aim of taking ds back home on train with me (he's been in London for 2 weeks) and the delays were so horrendous they refused to sell exdh a ticket for ds. So plans for swanning onto train with ds were twarted and we've had to trek to ex mils, from where I am posting and ex is going to drive ds and I home soon.

Which means I am about to add chapatis to my list today.Never mind, they are lush and I can't resist.

Butter x 2, Marmite
egg mayo sandwich
omg, that's it actually, I've been too busy to eat anything else! OMG, I actually FORGOT to eat! That's rare.

So more walking than usual as had to walk from station to exmils
sunscreen ok
water ok
and happy because it's Friday

Ds is behaving like a TEENAGER and has said about 3 words to me since meeting me at the station. I chattered away for a while but have now given up. Hoping he's back to himself once I've got him back at home with our rules etc etc.

WWW - no was on leave today with Mother and Children so thankfully missed the usual British Midland fucking chaos
minor delays due to unseasonal weather or Arthur setting off from Bletchley without his hat or another suicide at Harrow and Wealdstone.

I would cry if anyone knew what I weighed. It is excessive. That's all anyone needs to know.

Morning all

Am wistful at the thought of a dress. The only one I own is a black funeral thingy.

Thar - glad you managed not to blub. dd's consultants think I am a deranged parent as I tend to swing from 'in control bordering on bossy' to 'complete jibbering wreck' within the space of a few sentences. The MRI is done now, yes? Hope the results give you answers but are good IYSWIM.

www - so much for the train taking the strain

Well I'm glad this week is over. We're were audited at work and the rottweiler helpful inspector has now left the building so stress levels much reduced.

Talking of teens (again) dd was came home traumatised last night She rarely goes out as I don't hold with any wandering the streets lark. But last night she and her friends went to watch a five a side footie thing at school (eyeing up the lads no doubt). Her mate decided to liven things up with a bottle of vodka. dd is teatotal and was left to clean up the aftermath - sensibly ringing ds1 to come and take said friend home to her mum. Not before she was spectacularly sick in his car. dd came in tearful and shaking like a leaf thinking we'd be angry with her. This morning she's more worried that her mates will send her to Coventry for calling in the grown-ups. I think she thought by ringing her big brother she was being less of a grass. Bless her. She did the right thing by her mate; hopefully she'll realise it whens she's sober.

On the up side I've inexplicably lost two pounds this week on no exercise whatsoever.

Stress! Saggars! Ofsted AND audit so close together? most unfair! Poor DD, she did the right thing, bless her, it's tough being a teenager.

I struggle to find dresses that fit, and even then I can only wear them with a jacket over. (Had this discussion at work the other day).

No one knows my weight. I cringed at getting on the scales in the GP's and have never been back since (about 3 years ago?).

Duchess, glad you've got your back fixed.

Tharsheblows, hope the situation has been sorted and results are positive iykwim.

I cry tears of frustration/anger easily. I have also done deranged parent in exactly the terms saggars presents (at school a few years back) although I am generally known as being "blunt but never rude". I think I sometimes terrify the head (who we also socialise with, lol). Thankfully only ever had to deal with minor medical matters.

DH and I had a lovely day yesterday. For work reasons we both tend to avoid our local city centre apart from essentials so we drove to Wolverhampton and did a bit of retail therapy. I extended my wardrobe...by adding yet another black jacket, lol.

We had lunch out, and due to bad planning tea out with DS3 too. Both were lovely, although we were shocked at just how many pubs we passed that were boarded up.

Came home and flaked out on the settee.

DS3 is just like an adorable over-excited puppy at having our undivided attention, hehe.

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Hello Capp - come on in

ureb - I can think of a whole host of reasons to avoid the city centre. Why anyone chooses to go there I have no idea.

Hi all! Well it's been very exciting round here - did you see on the news about the 'bomb' factory in Bristol and the terrorist arrest and controlled explosions by the bomb squad? That is literally 3 streets away from us...dh heard the first explosion at 2am Friday morning! Very unheard of for our area which is very 'nice'.....

Went to Legoland yesterday with ds1, so LOTS of walking but also doughnuts....ah well.

Goodness tshell - are they not evacuating you?

Explosions here too - BIL MIL and her dh came yesterday to stay for the weekend but left at 8am before I was even up. We had a heated exchange last night over the subject of late FIL's will - they think it's v. unfair that FIL left everything to SMIL, regardless of the fact that they'd ben together 25 years. BI has been living his entire sad pathetic life waiting for his inheritance, egged on by his bitch of a mother. They were most put out that dh refused to badmouth SMIL last night and wouldn't join in legal action to force SMIL to do the right thing. So MIL came down this am trying to guilt trip dh with stories of how her heart can't stand this stress and she wasn't sure how much longer she'd be around and she thought it was better if they all left so dh (bless him) agreed.

It does of course mean I have a houseful of delicious food and wine and nobody to help me eat it...

Oh blimey Prufrock that sounds stressful.

Tshell, I hope that's the end of it, how scary.

Saggars, bless at your dd, how sensible and lovely she sounds

unknownrel, glad you had a lovely day

MrsS, you were lucky to miss chaos at Euston, right pita. Tube strike coming up too, oh joy. May have to work from home extensively that week as a result so there could be a silver lining

Capp, come on in, the thread's lovely

Not a good day bootcamp wise

boiled egg and lots of buttered toast
mussels in garlic and butter and wine, mopped up with bread
sausage in a hot dog roll
pralines and cream ice cream in front of a film
woke at 6am this morning, which was annoying as children didn't wake til 8am
but did use body lotion all over and sunscreen
and have had a lovely day
feel exhausted thoguh so prob will have early night

Oh tS - how worrying. It must not make for a great atmosphere in your neighbourhood; I think I would feel suspicious of anyone I didn't already know well and quite insular for a while. I don't think that's justified but know that would be my initial reaction and it would take effort to get back to the "the vast majority of people are really nice and good" feeling. I'm sure it takes communities a while to recover from something like that.

Prufrock, how very stressful! Well done to you and your husband for letting them leave. Enjoy the food and wine.

SMBK - I have your two pounds. Could you let me know when you can have them back? Thanks. Yes, he had the mri - the consultant rang and had arranged for us to be seen at the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital, but we had to be there by 5pm. He was lovely to do it but it meant grabbing DS1 from school then a hell ride to Stanmore from Hackney. We made it at 4.30pm, whoo hoo. I meant to post on this thread last night but was too shattered. The images are super cool. And way to go for your daughter! I'm really impressed, tbh.

ureb - it sounds like a lovely day.

WWW and MrsS - hope the commute goes well this week!

Hello all. It's nearly the end of the holiday and I'm shattered. DH has been working until 5 or 6am so I've been getting up and sorting out the DCs and all the animals and by mid-morning I've had enough. And I'm not sleeping properly.

Should have been a nice evening - made DC & DCs homemade pizza, popcorn & Dr Who but then discovered DD1 had broken DD2s dolls cot by standing in it. She breaks everything through being overly 'tactile' rather than deliberately destructive but it's driving me mad. So lots of shouting ensued and I stomped off without kissing her goodnight.

I haven't eaten much as I'm too tired to care. I had cereal for breakfast and a ham & cheese croissant for lunch but have only had raw carrots and apples (still 'off' pizza).

Sorry to be so down. Fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow.

Wow, lots of goings-on here!
Had no idea you lived so close to the terrorist scare in Bristol torty, that must have been most disconcerting. We had about eight riot vans of coppers parked up our suburban high street today. They moved off shortly after and we still don't know where they were headed (it seems to have been after the Tibet demo in central London).
Sorry you are both feeling grim and oppressed duchess and prufrock, from the sound of it you are well entitled. We seem to be bickering with the dcs a fair bit just now, too. Ds can be very sarcastic, and dd is...well...just unhinged really .
Hope you both have a better day tomorrow and have made inroads on your stash of grub prufrock.
Saggars, your dd sounds a really sensible, lovely girl. How far is her babysitting radius, our is emigrating to Australia FGS - cannot think why.
I am way happier than at last posting due to computer being fixed (until next week I daresay) and lashings of beer and curry at the best Indian restaurant for miles around. Went with 3 mums from dd's class - they are such great company. All our husbands whinge about our outings - so another dad in the class is offering to organise something for the men. All our dhs - wibbling about going "will anyone like me" "I don't know any of them" - well go then FFS and then you will.
Bootcamp not great unless you count trudging round Bluewater with dd and a crashing hangover as "exercise".

They evacuated some people on the actual street, but only about 30, we're nowhere near close enough for there to be any risk.

It's all quite weird really! You can imagine the local news has gone nuts!

DofN - sorry you're feeling crappy, hope things get better next week.

Prufrock - that sounds a nightmare! Poor you.

marina - glad the computer is fixed!

Hope everyone has a good week!

Hello Capp and MrsS.

Lol, Saggars, am sure H is no worse than lots of other places tbh (Wolves has Beatties, and er that's about it, lol) but at least we don't get "'ey-up Sarge" from the local addicts waving their cans/spliffs at him, and I don't have to watch who I'm bumping into either.

Quite intense isn't it TS, when something like this happens so close to home.

Prufrock, how stressful for you! Good on DH.

Oh dear Duchess, hope you have a better day tomorrow. Think it's been the week for children being pains tbh.

Glad the computer's fixed Marina. Let's hope it lasts.

No exercise and far too much food again today, plus alcohol.

hello all glad you are all so welcoming

we have just got back from taking the kids to see Horton Hears a Who at the cinema - the last day of the holidays and the only thing we ahve done (we have been passing flu around teh whole time)

I am all ready with my good moisturiser to knock back the sun's rays but they aint raying. It's grey

pru - my father had his sister go bonkers on him over their mothers will. It is, er, difficult to remain diplomatic!

batters - I think your weekend consumption sounds lovely but good luck with reigning it in if you feel it spoils the previous weeks work. (What was on at Globe btw?, I'm very out of touch!)

saggars - good for DD. Phoning big brother was a really good compromise. Hope her friends understand.

For the first time I am thrilled to have the DCs all back at school/pre-school. It was a miserable end to the holidays. I should be doing some work but will take at least an hour out to drink coffee and mumsnet.

Yesterday was certainly good for water and fruit and vegetables. Lunch was waffle, bacon, fried egg and baked tomatoes before dashing off to a childrens party. Pate on toast for supper. Foyles War accompanied by the requisite bag of Burts Ready Salted!

Bed by 11pm but didn't get to sleep until at least 3am. And I was awake at 6am. I almost came downstairs to potter about or read but pain on front of pelvis was too great and needed a rest. But despite the insomnia, I am happier today.