WWW's 10 year younger bootcamp, Aug 08, 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.

Today

salami, cheese, cold rare roast beef for breakfast
went to a pub for lunch and had black pudding and goats cheese and as that was a starter portion I also ordered a chicken and bacon salad and that was ropey (dry chicken, eww) so I didn't eat much of it
And I think that's it actually. We've been to the Roald Dahl museum (disappointing imo) and a farm today so have had a lovely time with the children. And tomorrow we're off to the Dr Who exhibition and the aquarium ni London so looking forward to that.
Used sunscreen
not enough water, it's so much harder when you're out all day

No idea what I'll eat tonight, toyed with idea of not drinking but a) I'm on holiday b) there's cold white in the fridge and so I think I will just accept the consequences will be lbs on next week but I will go hardcore no booze again from Sunday.

Moonshine me too on the rubbisdh at resisting free food and booze etc

www - am looking forward to hearing about the suit. I need some new ones and would have got that one but they didn't have it in my size. I'll let you know if I see any good ones.

had today

3 apples
5 shortbread biscuits (small ones, she says quickly)
sweetcorn soup and seed bread
pizza
4 cups of rooibos tea and a coffee
4 cups of water

Have figured out a route that requires only about 100 steps from my front door to my office which is very poor but strangely satisfying.

saggars - is there something else ds can do in the meantime to get that experience? fwiw, I've heard a fair few people being turned down on those grounds. Another mother at school (I would say early 30s) applied for training last year - was a very gruelling process!

scanner and cerys - sorry to hear about your dhs

and YES, only 2 days of work to go. Am working late tomorrow to try and get a whole load of stuff done before I go away but have got a babysitter and will go out with dh afterwards so am very much looking forward to some time together.

Hello all, especially winnie!

Today for me;

Walking - only round Sainsbury's I'm afraid - have been REALLY tired all day, falling asleep, no energy at all. Tomorrow is dd's party, so I had to go to Sainsbury's, but if it hadn't been I definitely wouldn't have gone! So I need some good energy tips, that don't involve eating loads of sugar.

Drink - lots of tea, water, (diet-coke)

Food - a small bread roll (123 cals) with a little marmite, couple of raw carrots, a small pepperami (38 cals), and a couple of nibbles of home made fruit cake (no idea). Tea will be Spanish Chicken - v low cal sauce, and won't have rice.

Sunscreen - no need, haven't left house apart from Sainsbury's, and Bristol is in deep gloom.

I've got to get up to speed on the moisturisers - I'm useless at that sort of thing. Any advice welcome! Also getting to bed early - I'm finding it really hard to get to sleep atm - the other night I was awake till 3am which is REALLY annoying!

Oh, www - did you see I managed to book somewhere on that other thread? I was REALLY tempted by the Balmoral, but dh wasn't so keen (was a bit too opulent for his tastes), and the breakfast was a la carte, and I know he (and I) prefer buffet breakfasts (in our great experience of hotels, i.e. 1, on our honeymoon...) but we've booked a really nice looking hotel in Thirsk - with 4 poster room, champagne etc.

Evening all, especially roving reporter Cerys, long-time prodigal winnie and new recruit scanner.
Keeping busy with packing etc but in general bootcamping has fallen a bit flat as am using up whatever is in fridge for meals good to hear from torty that peperamis are only 38 cals (well done on the weight loss madame)
Nice choice of words from dd there batters! At times like that one nearly severs one's tongue in the effort of not retaliating
To keep me sane while doing 50km Olympic Ironing and mending I have borrowed some DVDs from the library and they all have either Mathieu Amalric or George Clooney in them, how bizarre.... So far have loved Michael Clayton and The Singer, felt OK-ish about Goodnight and Good Luck...
Better scoot
Wishing good bootcamping to all
Packing Queen

God, I HATE packing Marina, good luck with it! I don't know Matieu, will google!

Ts, oh good, glad you've got somewhere you're happy wtih, do report back.

Oi, will report on suit when I get around to trying it on. Am impressed wtih speed of service though, ordered yesterdaty and it was here at 8am today.

Hope Batters is necking Cava as I type and Scanner, you are enjoying joining us so far. Tell us ages of children etc if you can be bothered!

Ds and dd just said "we didn't like you mummy just now because you was grumpy but now we love you again" I was grumpy because I'd said GO TO BED ten times but they are so lovely, I do love them madly.

I don't recognise several names on this thread, it's very confusing when people namechange. Btw, it Duchess here.

Nice to see Winnie though.

I have read the thread but can no longer remember what anyone said. I am so very tired and also in a 'red mist' which may indicate the imminent return of periods. Me =

I am getting podgy in the middle which is very annoying following such spectacular post-birth weight loss so I need to start running again but it may have to wait until next month when we go back to school. I am swimming every other day though and walking the dog on the forest everyday.

Lots of water, food reasonable, sunscreen & handcream good and I've been very good to my feet.

it's this hotel www - looks a bit 'lower key' than the Balmoral, but they were really friendly on the phone, and I like Thirsk!

right, WWW here is my cholesterol reading

total 5.8 - not serious but higher than 4.7 six months ago
bad cholesterol as part of that total 3.2
time for me to kiss bye bye to butter, chuck out the cheddar and be mean with the cream. Which is OK on ph2 wk7 with 5lbs to go.

I will just have one final cyber slaver over PARMENSAN, MOZZARELLA AND BACON COMPLETE WITH UNCTUOUS RIND INA AN OMELET ENRICHED WITH CREAM AND COOKED IN BUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as those days are gone. That's a once a fortnight treat.

How is everyone else going?

I'm back and this time MEAN BUSINESS. My broken toes have healed (just one black toenail waiting to come off) and there is now now no excuse. I've been on the straight and narrow all week, eating mainly wholemeal pittas with salad and my patented zero cal tomato and vegetable soup with chilli.

I am also signing up for Bikram HOT Yoga and a tennis coach.

I am mightily fed up of looking like a heifer next to all of the size 6 school mums.

I am sorting out my wardrobe and will remind myself of all of the clothes that I can't wear due to my shnitzel thighs and wine gut.

How is everybody?

What's the website for kew btw? I tried but got threw to the Kew (village of) site.

threw? I was typing whilst simultaneously fending off a 5 year old with a pretend pizza and taking a phone call about our oven being serviced. That's all I can say.

[excuses]

Thai food was yummy. I am now working off some of it by cleaning our pit of a house. My parents have bravely taken the DCs out for the morning here

Will be back later if I haven't vacuumed myself up

So much for the rain that was forecast for today! It's been lovely and sunny here since late morning.

I have eaten cereal, ryvita x 2 with cheddar, peach, lots of raw carrots, rich tea biscuit, handful of blackberries from the garden, stir-fried beef with lots of crispy veg, seaweed & rice and then a large slice of Waitrose Toffee Pecan Roulade (which I'd throughly recommend). Not much coffee. Lots of water.

I used a lemongrass & brown sugar body scrub this morning and it was heavenly. The bathroom smelt of lemons for hours. Self-tanned and moisturised everything. But no exercise.

We had dd's birthday party today - which was chaotic, but nice. Just a 'traditional party games at home' type party, with cheese cubes and sausages on sticks (without the sticks though). And Fancy Dress - so she was a very pretty Cinderella. We had almost a full quota of Disney Princesses - Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, but no Jasmine or Ariel. So I think that will have to count as my walking for today, along with mowing the lawn and cleaning out the chickens.

Food - lunch was a pumpkin and sesame oatcake which was surprisingly nice! About 53 cals, also had a small piece of dd's birthday cake (half a slice), and lots of strawberries/cucumber sticks/carrots/grapes. Not sure about tea - I'm really not hungry after preparing all that food for dd's party tea, so might just have some fruit or soup or something like that.

SW - is that what you were expecting re cholesterol level? What is good and what is bad? (I know nothing!).

Just marking this thread so I can catch up tomorrow

Hello, quick post

Lovely day out with children in London,
Dr Who exhibition v good
lunch in The Marriott at County Hall (no energy to look for somewhere else and service was good plus it was quiet and felt a bit far from the madding crowd), had burger, no bun or chips, then went to the aquarium and on to Chinatown where we met my sister and her 2 children and had singapore noodles, crispy duck and 2 pancakes, 2 prawns and satay sauce all very UN IPD, oops
Muscadet
and then a kir royale
THEN an M&S mini Banoffee pie on the train, couldn'#t resist as children were choosing pudding for train...

then home to find fridge/freezer had packed up so need to go and buy one tomorrow, boring. And expensive, really irritating. Never mind, at least it's happened this week while we're off and able to spend time getting another one. Any recomendations most welcome on my fridge thread!
Consequently am drinking not quite cold enough Cava...

But a

On plus side, used loads of sunscreen although didn't drink enough water
gosh it was HOT and close today wasn#'t it? Came home and had cold shower.

Still hiding, just popped in to say Hello.

Work has been chaotic this week, thankfully DH is in charge at home.

Still need to sort DS3's birthday, it's Monday, eek.

I have gone completely off the rails with regard to food, exercise and bedtime but have been to a lovely wedding reception this evening and had a great time, so happy quota high.

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at WWW's charming day out in my beloved London with her kids. It sounds delightful. God, how I miss it, God suburban life is BORING.

dunno what I was expecting about my cholesterol. My GP agreed I should cut down on the butter and cream but keep it up with the Olive Oil. She is somewhat plus-size herself though so not easy to talk about weight with her. Ho Hum.

Carry on

Actually can you all stop talking about Waitrose patisserie or I shall have to reach down the interweb and shake you by the throat.

I miss London

So, I'm not to say anything about the few days I'm spending there week after next then Suzy?

Still, I'm sure real-life live-in London is vv different from tourist-trap London.

Hello all, last post from my night shift as we fly back on Sunday. 27 hours of travel with a two year old, a philosopher and morning sickness. My joy is unbound. Wish me luck.

Have not stopped eating for weeks. Will get healthy again second trimester. Also have loads to do so I'm obviously sat here on MN. Anyhoo, off for more cheese. Should really lay off this. Last night had a very peculiar dream which involved a long conversation with David Tennant about the fact he was going on clomid .

Catch yer on the flip side!

no, you can keep your trap shut UKRB
bring on someone to whinge about congestion charge and council rates and dogshit

I'm skipping out in to the 19 degree winter sunshine to a massive playground with my boy