WWW's 10 year younger bootcamp, July thread III, all welcome

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Hello everyone, old and new.

This is about feeling better about yourself and looking and feeling better etc. But mainly we chat and laugh quite a lot, which has all got to help towards happiness etc.

The rules (anyone can join):

• Sunscreen at all times - REALLY mean this now summer is here.

• No or little booze. Wine or Champagne or whatever 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.

Some people are doing India and Neris's Idiot Proof Diet (Atkins, more or less), others are doing Slimy World, others are just being as healthy as possible.

Welcome everyone, have a good week.
Apologies for belated new thread.

Just dashing through before tea (pork chops and roasted courgette/pepper/olive salad thing) but wanted to say Happy Birthday Marina and Happy Anniversary DoNB!

More tomorrow.

Hello you lot - back from sunny Portugal pounds heavier and pounds or rather Euros lighter. Just marking the thread ion the way to doing my online banking.

What's happening? Can someone post me a potted version of the important bits - only about this thread mind unless there has been some huge revelation/gossip on MN that I should know about Back properly tomorrow when I'm avoiding the washing!

Hiya batters, glad the book is helping and glad also that dd is happier. Oh me too on tuition next week when ds is back, I am SO not lookng forward to it, to the extent that yesterday I asked dh to stop even talking to me about it as I was feeling happy and even the thought of it stressed me out!

Hope the play is lovely.

I drank loads last night but had a most pleasant evening
ate steak and garlic butter and spinach and rocket salad

today so far, vitamins and bacon and eggs
and am enjoying my pissing about at home

Batters, my dd's life continues to mirror your dd's

We've got the stagecoach play to endure look forward to this evening as well

We've had 24 timed maths tests to do this hols, with no answer sheet. The maths teacher loves to torture involve the parents in homework

I did have a couple of glasses of red wine last night with dh as he had been away on business the night before. Otherwise I am being Bootcamptastic but mainly due to severe lack of appetite from this bug thing. Feel less unwell today but face looks horrible.

Hope you had a good day and evening yesterday Marina xx

thanks batters will think about bio oil is it any good? (better than just olive oil? )

this morning i locked myself out whilst going to feed neighbour's cat

another neighbour rather gamely climbed onto roof and let us back in through our back door which I'd rather wisely left wide open

thinking of taking girls to hyperbolic crochet @ hayward, then some sort performance for families outside national theatre - then hopefully somerset house fountains (with their playscheme! they're missing it already!!)

had cooked breakfast as feeling v holidayish already

Oh I saw that in the standard yesterday bundle, looks good. The buildings exhibition at The Hayward is fab too.

OK I'm officially avoiding the washing, well more specifically, the ironing.

Fab holiday - bootcampwise I have been good with my sunscreen and am brown without being too leather looking. I have not been good with the booze but am only 4 lbs heavier surprisingly Everything else fell by the wayside too. We left ds1 at home and thankfully it is in one piece apart from a remarkable amount of beer cans and bottles in the recycling, one spillage on the carpet and zero washing done - so I have his and ours. Grr. However he did change all the bedsheets; .....why, I will try not to think about.

Came back to news of ds2's muggers - they have been bailed again but CPS have said the police can charge a number of them with robbery and possession of a bladed article, so that's good.

Belated Happy Birthday to Marina Hope you feel better soon Cam.

Oh yes Batters, good idea - I am going to ditto everything WWW says cos she is usually comprehensive and v wise as well, of course!

Saggars - good news re: muggers - so many seem to get away with nowt but a slapped wrist so hope they nail them for you and ds.

Cam - hope you get better soon (whispers, but make the most of it).

Yoyo - glad you got your appointment in the not-too-distant future. Sorry if I've missed something but why did the photos nearly reduce you to tears?

Bootcamp has so far been better the past 2 days. I have not had the opportunity to go the gym really (well, could have this morning but just couldn't make myself go so went for a long walk in the cooler weather instead). And am hoping to start debloating post-totm.

Also got my Bravissimo swimming cossie which is, and I'm talking relatively here, the best one I've tried on. But it means I have had to think about sorting out my 'bikini' line - and I now have a shaving rash . Can you tell I do not usually feel the need to attend to such matters?? The fake tan has not covered it or the saggy thigh/arm combo but I bet that no-one will be able to get in the swimming pool faster than me (with ds under my arms, rugby-ball style, if it comes to it).

Still, it is wine night but am going to try and compensate with an ultra-healthy salmon and noodles dinner.

Oh and tentative yes to October meet-up. But it does sound very frightening to one who never usually does such things [pathetic emoticon].

And one day I really will post a short message.

Moonshine, don't be scared, it'll be LOVELY a meet up! Everyone on this thread is so nice. lol at vision of your legging it to the pool with children under arms!

Saggars, glad they're doing something about muggers, and I won't say what I'm thinking about the sheets. But a boy changing them?....hmmm.

Oh god Cam re tests, wht a pita.

had spinach salad with avocado, anchovies, cucumber, tomatoes, chicken and vinaigrette for lunch
snack of salami and brie
have awful totm bloating, feel enormous, roll on Sunday
No idea what we're having for supper but Cava will be included

Btw, although am on holiday we're just doing day trips so as I'm not going anywhere I will end up here some days, I feel sure

god i'd love a meet up

lol @ cava cornerstone www

usually the case chez moi too

cept it's red tonight

Hello all!

Saggar - that sounds good - how is your ds now?

Cam - hope you feel better soon!

Bundle - hooray for your gymnastic neighbour!

Batters - that sounds a good thing to try with dds - mine drives me crazy and she is only 4! (until Monday). But learning to walk away would be a good thing as otherwise I end up screaming at her.

yoyo - glad the lump isn't any bigger. Hope you have a good holiday in France!

I had a nice day today - we had a 'class meet up' at the park, and they spent a good 2 hours in the paddling pool there in swimming costumes (despite the rain). Dh still away, and I have to say, although I hate him being away, I eat much less when he isn't here because I don't bother with cooking for just me. So today, I've hardly eaten anything, just a slice of bread (really nice bread with seeds in, yum), some ham with that and some strawberries. And I won't bother with dinner tonight, because I will put on a DVD of something like Harry Potter, and then go to bed early!

Evening all! Thanks for birthday wishes, we had a lovely if not very bootcamp compliant evening out and I am now the proud owner of some interesting choices of DVD and aq flagon of Jo Malone bath oil
Put on 1.5lb, boo hiss - but not surprising given that crisps and cake have snuck back into diet this past fortnight
Moonshine, I guarantee that I can get from a changing room to the deep end of a pool quicker than you can. I did this so fast at Centerparcs I did not realise dh had thoughtfully extended the shoulderstraps on my voluminous bathing dress to dry it the previous day. Dd doggypaddles over to me, grabs on to shoulderstrap to be towed round rapids...you can guess the rest.
Sounds like the hols were good Saggars - and, sadly, it's so rare for muggers to be actually apprehended, that this is good news indeed. Hope ds is OK now.
I too concur with www that it's lovely to always read posts here but almost impossible to reply to all points raised - and definitely not expected that your own bons mots will be refererenced thereafter
I've heard great things of Bio Oil bundy and it smells so yum you could always drink it I suppose. Ds had monster insect bites earlier this summer too, but being a tiny child his scars lasted about a week.
I actually started this post a good four hours ago and have not checked before finally sending.
Wishing all a happy weekend. I am on Day Two of being at home with My Cherubs (topics of conversation with dd today included the fact that she felt she was quite unusual because she only wanted one parent, and that parent was daddy. If she was not generally such a sunny and cheerful little person, we would be seriously spooked by now . I adopted a no-doubt unwise stance of informing her that in that case I would leave her tethered to the 2 for £6 tee-shirt stand until Mr Perfect could retrieve her around 7pm. Ds was snurking away meanwhile.
AIBU to think my daughter is a loon?
Hope stomachs regroup soon (I recommend a scalding chicken tikka bhuna, mine has recovered after this kill-or-cure approach) and mothers children are not wilting under test overdrive XXX
Meet-up...moonshine, how can we plot our Galumph for Life if we have never met each other? You know you want to! We don't bite, unless you are 70% cacao solides that is

lol at us not biting unless you're made of chocolate! Glad you had a nice birthday Marina. Do tell on the interesting dvds!

Had lovely organic beefburgers and spinach last night but then because of necking wine wanted to eat more so had cheese and salami.

But on the plus side fell asleep so early on the sofa in front of a film that dd waking me at 6am was fine. Ds finally coming back today, we've missed him, it's been 2 weeks.

Happy weekend everyone.

www happy homecoming!
marina - glad you had good non compliant birthday. dd is obviously just testing you, the little minx. is it any comfort to know my dd2 was awake at 10pm last night, wailing and being generaly not what you'd want a 5 yr old to be?

Don't get your hopes up www - ds "chose" me Flight of the Conchords, and dd Smiley's People.
So, two very different and great TV series but rather off the beaten track IYSWIM
Hope ds gets back OK and glad to hear my 5 year old is not the only Reception Loon on this thread

marina, your dd sounds lovely! And not at all loony . Dd and her friends are much the same.

My dd excelled herself at her first sleepover by very solemnly telling the host parents that 'you are both very fat - you remind me of the lady who runs our school' (the deputy head). I was mortified. And they're not!

Those are random dvds Marina for sure! and lol at your dd in the shop!

I have had my roots done this morning and they look much better for it. And now we're planning all the things we're doing to do this week. Starting with not cooking tonight and taking dh, children, ex dh and ex mil out for a pizza when they get here. I will drool over the carbs but resist.

Had spinach with bacon, avocado, anchovies, quail eggs, cucumber for lunch.

Girls eh Marina

They're all Daddy's girls

hello everyone

yes, I should start by saying that I am particularly bad at responding to everyone's posts and I don't expect a response to mine at all. But I do catch up eventually!

I am feeling a bit more chilled having had a massive cry today. Had a very hectic week at work and am very tired. Had agreed to go to a friend's wedding today (on my own - wouldn't have known anyone there, dh at work with the car so would have had to bus it there) but then found out that it started at lunch time and lasted till midnight ish and suddenly just felt I couldn't offload the children on the nanny AGAIN (for the 6th day in a row) and just burst into tears .

I know it sounds soppy but I do miss the children and with the commute and me being busy, I only saw them for an hour this week. So I sent a very apologetic message to my friend and now feel very bad but ultimately quite relieved about the whole thing. Actually Dumbledoresgirl suggested I should have just gone to the ceremony and then made my apologies which is EXACTLY what I should have done but I wasn't thinking straight and got flustered (quite unlike me!) so I spent the afternoon cuddling the kids and watching the cricket and chilling and now feel much better though obviously, will have to deal with friend on her return from honeymoon!

in the end, I called dh and we have decided that we will have to turn down no kids weddings on the weekend because we see so little of the children with both of us working FT.

shall read thread now