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

Thank you for all your kind thoughts. I was so angry at everything last night. I'm glad your friend's dd is doing well batters.

ureb - I need some decent reads too. I've just finishes Patricia Cornwell's latest but it's been a real battle (since Christmas) and I used to so enjoy her. Any recommendations would be gratefully received.

saggars - sorry about your friends DD. Wishing her the best progress.

I am in a slightly better mood than yesterday. We went to a long 3rd birthday lunch for friends DS with lots of different aged children. And I spent much of it nagging my DCs (whilst other non-chastised children threw cake, hit each other, played football in the house until hostess was forced to intervene etc). Sometimes I hate other peoples children even more than I hate my own!

I've eaten multi-grain cereal, two large hotdogs, some salad, apple, raw carrots, raw mushrooms, one bite of pizza that made me gag (homemade too which is rather embarrassing but DH & DCs ate it all up). So I've just had sardines on toast for dinner instead.

Lots of water, several coffees.

Body scrub & lotion, face & several lots of handcream. I did have a reasonably early night too but was mostly awake from 4am.

Possibly going to the Sealife Centre in Brighton tomorrow so lots of ambling about!

Can I tempt you with the Ulrikakakaka book, Saggars? (can't believe I confessed to that last night, lol, must have been giddy from Marina calling me young, haha).

I refuse to comment on www's alternative list, on the grounds that I may incriminate myself.

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze.
• no exercise, still.
• Lots of water/weak tea.
• Apply body cream lax
• Use hand cream lax
• Go to bed early, 11ish last night, but disturbed again thanks to another blardy cold. I just want a decent night's kip!
• Eat healthily, better today.
• Be happy - garden almost finished, so bank a/c poorer, but we now have a garden we can use properly this summer.

Sunscreen, yes

• No booze, yes
• Walking, still got ds -preschool starts tomoorw, so ambled to the park. But did 20 minutes cardio and 100 situps
• 2 litres water,about 2.5
• Body cream, had a steam and scrub with lemon and salt stuff so as good as
• Hand cream, yes, and nail oil
• Bed early, no, dh didn't get back from football until 11:30, so whilst I was in bed I wasn't even trying to sleep
• Eat healthily, granola and skimmed milk. forgot lunch so had a parma ham and mozzarella toastie at 2, followed by an apple slice . Didn't have dinner either, ate one of the kids fruit bars instead.
• Be happy - no. My digestion is really playing up and I am horrendously bloated/constipated, burpy and nauseous.

Yesterday has been wiped from my memory already (along with the Victoria sponge I made).

Really had to make myself go to gym this morning for the first time in nearly 2 weeks and now feel so much better and positive even though my fitness seemed to have deteriorated already.

I am very spotty atm - sure it's the hormonal thing. Do they ever stop popping up?

I placed my first order with Oli.co.uk. Delivery was fantastic (took about 14 hours ), dress 1 one was a good shape but really crap quality, dress 2 was lovely but the material is paper thin and see-through. I was going to send it back but have passed over to the 'dark' side and bought a slip - is this the end of my youth or is it at all acceptable in anyone under 60?

Saggars - I have recently finished reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides which was really lovely and am currently reading the Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield which, so far, has drawn me in, but I guess I should reserve judgement until the end on that one. I always see Lee Childs recommended as well for thrillers - have you read any?

Hello all

working from home, hmm, not good from a bootcamp pov

bacon sandwich
toast and strawberry jam ( Inever eat it, don't know what came over me)
am grilling fishfingers for lunch
v happy though, getting lots done

Marina have just ordered 2 of your book recommendations too, thnaks.

Thanks batters! I caught your message 10 minutes before we left, checked the SeaLife website, bought tickets for today online and saved about £8.

We had a great day and even parked on the seafront which only cost £4 for 4 hours - some friends parked in the NCP on Saturday and it cost them £15! DCs all want to add an enormous sea turtle to our menagerie now!

So. Cereal for breakfast. Fish & chips on the beach for lunch (not the nicest and DH had to finish mine). Handful of jelly beans. Can of coke. Ice cream. Well, it is the holidays and I'll probably have a fruit & veg feast later.

Morning all - glad you had such a great time Duchess!

Less good day at work yesterday due to being so busy not enough walking or water

Will try to do better today

Loved Middlesex! Recently enjoyed Blake Morrison's South of the River, but I think you have to have lived in LB Greenwich or Lewisham to really savour all the detail...am about to start on that AM Homes book about saving your live (it has ...donuts...on the cover, drool)

Hope your gastrointestinal transit improves soon Prufrock

My digestive issues have evolved into the horride bug that made my normally super-stoic dh retreat to bed for 3 days last week. My stomach feel like it's been used as a punchbag and I ache all over. Unfortunately no rest for me. And waitrose refused to sell me more than one box each of paracetomol and ibuprofen. Though tbh I look so pale and wan at the moment they could legitimately have thought I was a suicide risk. And I have a bingo night on Saturday, so I desperatly need to get better. On a positive note, I have no appetite, and dh lost half a stone when he had it, so there is a silver lining.

hello you lot.

body brushing - not going well, have developed some really horrible spots on my thighs so now paranoid the brush is spreading them

water - have been crap today

am not drinking wine OR eating bread in attempt to lose 10lbs - weighed 11.2 on monday and 11.1 today. God its depressing.

spf - how could i LIVE without laura mercier tinted moisturiser (spf 20)

have been having blissful week of hot baths and bed by 9 pm - dh is away - have been sleeping like a LOG - no snoring or sex - yay!

Hello everyone! just dashing through after topsy turvy few days - all has been a bit frantic (what a suprise, I hear you yell ) and bootcamping has, as you might expect, been far, far from my mind ... But wanted to pop on to say there are a couple of pics of the young man on my profile page, if you want to have a peek, and also to say hello and that I think I'll be around a bit more from now on.

Have actually lost quite an alarming amount of weight since he was born (now apparently weigh less than I did before I got pregnant ) largely, I think, because he is So Hungry and for some reason my pregnancy appetite has packed up and left, just when I need it most - think this may be because I'm in mild shock after the whole experience (tend not to be able to eat when I'm tense/upset). Am trying to make sure I eat little and often, so bootcamping for me is going to be about uber-healthy eating with lots of nuts and eggs and fruits and veg and so forth thrown in for now.

Right, must go as breasts are delightfully leaking everywhere. Will try to catch up with everyone tomorrow! Very very best to one and all

Gorgeous! I love that name.

OH L&S how gorgeous. Don't worry overly about the loss of appetite - whilst eating is important for your own health it doesn't really affect the quality of your milk.

Enid - I got huge boils on my thighs in teh first few weeks of brushing - I prefer to think of it as toxins being flushed out rather than spreading of infections - they've stopped now.

oooh I love it when they sleep with their arms up - so cute

really !

god I love mumsnet

did you really

well I never maybe I should carry on

prufrock, thank you ,that is SO reassuring! feel much better, knowing that.

Enid, me too with the spots. I kept going and they buggered orf.

really

well that is immensely reassuring

L&S - aah, he's so lovely. I almost feel broody. at weighing less already. I was one of those that didn't put on much weight during pregnancy but more than made up for it whilst bf'ing.

I'm glad I've had the awful tummy bug thing (and I didn't end up keeping off the lost weight, hrrumph) so sympathies to all the sufferers still.

Bootcamping better today. Lots of running around, climbing and pushing roundabouts and things in the playground today. Laid off the toast.

Shaved my legs and attempted to start getting some colour on them via those slow tanner moisturisers.

But my knees are like nicotined-stained brillo pads. Does anyone know how I can lighten them (have scrubbed and used industrial-strength cream to no avail)? I don't normally care but I am determined to wear knee-length skirts sans tights this year, despite my calves.

And is wearing slips launching myself down the rocky slope to old-biddiness?

Moonshine, Mad Men is full of gorgeous retro underwear like full slips, corselets even, and all the women look fab in them, go for it
To avoid wizened orange knees I must admit I tend to exfoliate the living daylights out of them first and put plain moisturiser on before I ger cracking with the tinted stuff.
L & S, he is absolutely beautiful and I love the name. Getting b/f established is not easy and as prufrock has said, you might be feeling low, but it's not affecting your milk quality, promise. Nuts, avocadoes, bananas will all help. So and of your sweet little chap.
In haste as am off out but am vicariously relieved for enid that her spotty thighs will soon clear up
And big commiserations to anyone with that vile bug. I had it about three weeks ago and felt so ill.

Mad Men [swoon]

it is my Sunday night porn

Me too enif
I am transfixed by the buxom inscrutable Machiavellian who seems to combine shagging John Slattery with single motherhood
She is mesmerising