WWW's 10year younger thread: not immoral, illegal or annoying to the neighbours...

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All welcome

Veils drawn over last week...especially as it was half term.

Hello all,

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 we all feel happier, healthier and glow with the good food, sleep, exercise, water and lack of sun damage.

You are all my chums honest - I don't think they enabled the "mates" function. I'll make them visible to all and sundry for a short while
Puddle name-changed but is around FIS and Iam are too. Sobernow lost her FIL IIRC and had been leading the inevitable extra busy and disrupted life
Did another 14km on the bike last night - but Mrs JC, lots of us are weak on the 10.30pm bedtime, so don't let that put you off.
My pristine 2nd hand copy of I&N arrived this morning, am looking forward to reading the narrative part of it. Hope you are feeling better today www, I am. Due to allegedly losing 3kg since yesterday morning . I hardly think so! Really hope you get your "sabbatical" - I think WOHP is a gruelling lifestyle tbh.

Every digit crossed for you bama, those symptoms sound hopeful. I knew I was in trouble when I tripped over in the street twice and started stalking pork pies

Have power-walked this morning and am chugging water. Must work on more sleep though.

Happy bootcamping all!

Photos on for today

Marina, they're gorgeous photos, really lovely and doesn't dd look like you? I'm glad you're feeling happier today my lovely.

MrsJC, do join, we're sometimes good, sometimes rubbish but I find posting here helps me enormously, as Bama says, it's my conscience. We all look very young, look at the pic I posted on Cod's thread!

Bama fingers crossed for you

and Happy Birthday ma'am to Dof N (is that the correct address for a duch?)

Just had an update on dad from a sensible person, ie my sis rather than stone-deaf-but-won't-admit-it mum
Two blocked arteries and angioplasty might be a problem due to location of blockages. Surgery is an option...he is fit, but he is old. Oh, God.

Oh Marina for you. What are they recommending? Are they saying it's worth a go?

Oh lor Marina - what are the options?

btw, your children are gorgeous!

Will stop hogging the thread now Off for chickpea suprise (will have to find a Blackadder themed dessert as well)

Only read the last 3 messages as am in work crisis. Marina, very sorry to hear about your dad. Are they saying that surgery is possible? I hope that you get some reassurance soon.

BTW, your children are GORGEOUS. Look very fine boned and sensitive (in an artistic way, rather than a delicate flower sort of way. Does that make sense?)

Bama, fingers crossed that you join me in the pudding pregnant ladies' club soon

Hello WWW, loved the thread yest about Eve. That mag is such a load of toss now. I remember it in its BBC incarnation when it was wholesome. Now it's just like all the others. Red has good shopping (sometimes) but that's about it.

Must work, work, work as my deadline is looming. Hello to everyone else, happy birthday Norks, I'll read properly later on

Sorry to hear about your father Marina - I do hope they can sort out a good solution for him.

and your pictures are lovely

Oh marina, sorry the news is not so good - what are the doctors saying is the way forward? Your photos are lovely - the kids are gorgeous! And I presume that is your dh in the pic? He looks NOTHING like I imagined!

oh bugger marina

gorgeous photos, thanks so much for posting them, xxx
ps niecelet HUMUNGOUSLY grown!

Marina .

My mum had a triple heart bypass five years ago (being my mum she didn't tell us it was a triple heart bypass until after it was all over) and she recovered remarkably well, so there is always hope.

Fingers crossed for your dad.

i did try and text you but I don't know if you got it, my phone is funny sometimes.

I did look at your photos and they are gorgeous.

marina, mum had her angioplasty last summer (had horrid time as port entry - in groin - didn't stop bleeding for ages..) and is now trotting around the lakes in Italy

Sorry to hear the news about your Dad Marina (the photo of him and his brother is lovely). When will the hospital make a decision about treatment?

WWW - remember your crappy day earlier this week? Well I just had my gym session with Flab Buster and have lost no weight at all!! Can't blame period either. Have not been saintly but have definitely modified my eating and drinking dramatically and my exercise routine is quite taxing (feel like dying at the end of it usually). So, food diary from tomorrow for me as well as exercise diary. Am going to do 30 min cycling every morning at 6.30 too. I will get thinner. (Didn't have the wine last night either.)

Right, after-school stuff starts now. Must also find petrol station with moderately long queue.

yes, fingers crossed for your dad marina.

hello
I am eating a lot of hollandaise sauce with lean protein and green veg and I bloody love it

I had my first vodka lime and soda tonight and I can take it or leave it really. I am soooooo glad I 'm not a wednesday night drinker anymore, no compunction to neck back 2 mansize glasses of red while MNing anymore. So that's nice. Will still go on the lash when the occasion calls for it though.

How's everyone else doing?

SW, I am finding not drinking in the week fine but I so don't want to give up my Friday and Sat wine/Champagne and so bought v vvv dry Champagne which is apparently ok ish.

Today

bacon and eggs
chicken fried with tarragon leaves and cream on a bed of shredded raw spinch leaves
small piece of Cambozola and Port Salut
and we're having salmon fillets and broccoli for supper
no wine, obv, as I don't drink in the week
at least 2 litres of water, measured it as it's easy to not drink as much at home, so will be 2.5 by end of day
no sunscreen but have only dropped children
getting happier, only 2 more days of work

I must make sausage and egg muffins later, have all ingredients and they're fab for breakfast I can eat in the car.

Oh no Yoyo, although read my link, it is cheering!

Chutney, I really loved Eve when it was a BBC mag. I don't now.

Marina, so sorry to hear about your dad . I hope the hosp are giving you plenty of information and looking after you all as well as your dad. Thinking of you.

And fabulous pics! Love your dd's mata hari look

happy birthday, duchess

Well, I had my job interview - whole thing was very exciting round the edges, in that a friend came round to babysit, I briefed him and ran out the door into taxi, zoomed across london, did the interview, stepped out the door into another taxi and zoomed back - felt pleasingly military and efficient, and I must admit, it was bliss to be back in adult daytime world, albeit briefly.

Anyway, I think it went fine, though I slightly suspect they'll not want me to do it, for time reasons (I don't have enough of it). But we'll see - and thank you all for good luck wishes!

Anyway, good bootcamping in that I am dressed in grown-up clothes and wearing makeup ; bad in that food has been a bit haphazard. WWW I am hearting your chicken and tarragon and cream deliciousness and plan to recreate as soon as possible.

DS napping so I think I'm going to go and drink a lot of water and most likely watch Neighbours

my blessings on your bootcampy evenings xxx

oh and ps I added my 'hear hear' on the magazine thread. I am horrified by the dross that clutters newsagents' shelves these days.

Marina, those offsprogs of yours are beautiful, your dd is a mini-Marina

Sorry about your Father

marina I hope they come up with some good options for your Dad - GA nowadays is really not all that scary (she says hopefully). DD is the total spit of you - they are both gorgeous.

For those of you doing exercise bikes, I have bad news - cycling away getting slightly out of breath whilst watching TV really doesn't cut it on the fat burning front. To make it worthwhile, you do need to be sweating like a pig as you lose calories post exercise as well as worn out muscles increase your metabolic rate for a couple of hours. The easiest way by far to get worn out muscles without killing yourself is to interval train. So do 50 seconds of medium paced cycling, followed by 10 seconds of fast as you can possibly go, and repeat for the 30 minutes. To start with you will probably need to recover at medium pace for a couple of minutes after each fast 10 seconds, but if you build it up you will see real results.

Evening all, thanks for kind words re the dcs and my dad.
I skived and went to see him this afternoon. He is at St Thomas' and being well looked after.
The option is definitely triple coronary bypass or nothing, angioplasty is just not going to do it for him. The good news is that both the cardiologist and the surgeon think he is a good candidate even with the risk of being 83. All I can think about is that he was a ticking bomb - his brother, also fit and spry for 85, dropped dead in his own home in January and his heart was similarly affected. I have been told off by my insane mother for not being worried like her - I am just glad he has a fighting chance of his heart being repaired and that we didn't lose him like our dear uncle - with no warning. It was so lovely to see him, even in a bouffant blue cotton nightie thoughtfully provided by the NHS.
He has cheated almost certain death twice before in his long and sunny life - he got peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at 15, pre-penicillin, and somehow survived...and he was blown sky-high on D-Day and looked after on the beach by a POW with a bad attitude and no English. Please pray for third time lucky for him next week (date not known yet).
Bootcamp good. To stop myself going totally round the twist with fear I routemarched from the City to the hospital and have lost 3.5lb since last weigh-in.
L&S, that magic moment of doing something mundane like hefting a proper latte or walking along the street unencumbered by the light of your life is very special Glad the interview went well and keep us informed of the outcome
Pru, thanks for that tip re fat-burning. We have all sorts of settings on this Kettler bike and I will graduate from "Maiden Aunt on Penny Farthing" to proper interval training once my arse stops hurting I am just a leetle fitter
SixSpot, I did get your kind text do forgive me for not replying yet, thank you so much
Chutney - we all thought you were lost in the wonderland of the new Metro
Yoyo, our lovely SW lady was explaining about weight loss plateau and how even when you are doing the right things, sometimes there will be weeks when you don't seem to shift much
I think www's idea is a great one. NuWipe. By boots, for boots. Let's write our own!