WWW's ten year younger bootcamp, nearly back to school, 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.

I did a 20 minute run this morning. Was OK but will take a good few weeks to get back to where I was last Autumn. My legs don't ache (yet) either. Had a lovely shower afterwards with body scrub, self-tan & moisturiser.

Lots of water. Am contemplating a manicure/pedicure this evening if I can be arsed. There are yet more chicks being hatched, another 23 and I'll have to register with DEFRA .

So far I've had cereal; coffee; lots of water; chicken & sweetcorn soup; large lump of heavily buttered wholemeal crust; and a chocolate rice crispie cake basket containing a dollop of whipped cream, a blueberry, a strawberry, a blackberry and 2 chocolate buttons! I have yet to decide on dinner. Lots and lots of water but only 1 raw carrot as I have run out. !!!

you know that rain I said I was out in the other night

oh my god

so I wasn't exaggerating

oh Duchess your shower sounds lovely; I don't have pampering in me tonight tho

I have had nice healthy things and a few glasses of water. And I went for my walk. And I moisturised.

But I fear it is, again, a beer evening. Because we are officially On Holiday, even tho we are not going anywhere by the looks of it because who wants to camp when it's whamming it down?

lol at worst weather in recent history, means they don't know/can't be arsed to look it up, ha ha. Sympathy Capp. Please drink some more water. Gosh at the man wading in the underpass though.

Batters, glad shoe shopping was painless

Cam well done to your dd

Aaah at the chicks dofn, how lovely. Will you keep them, sell them, eat them? What's the plan? Or isn't there one yet?

Have eaten badly today

bacon and eggs
cheese and salami
then for lunch had a mini pork pie which is NOT allowed on IPD, ditto some pickle but also had chese which is ok and a pepper with feta inside it.
One large glass of wine so far and may have another but will have an early night

Only 3 day commute this week as Friday at home, it's dd's last EVER day at nursery as she's at school the following week.

www - we eat the cockerels, sell or keep the hens unless they're very plump in which case we eat those too. It's very economic; my organic, free-range chickens cost approx £1 each to raise from chicks to 20-30 week olds.

I'm sneaking back in again after a reasonably good week away at my parents (though hadn't realised how little they eat in the way of fruit and veg ) followed by a BAD week at home last week. However it was my birthday so excess cake/choccies/etc was compulsory AND I did, more or less, reach my target weight by then - helped by sick bug a few weeks ago but hindered by complete lack of excercise all summer so not bad going really!

Sobernow - I have a flea question. Are you now flea-free and what did you use to deal with the little feckers? Bl**dy cat

Hello all, hope you've all had good holidays! We haven't really been away, but have had a nice time anyway. Yesterday we went to Caldicot Castle, and I did laugh and think of bootcamp, as there were 2 walks signposted round the castle - the short one was described as being '1500 steps - enough to burn off a small glass of white wine' and the second '2500 steps - to burn off a Milky Way bar'. Reminded me of the morons (does anyone still use theirs?)

Www - good luck to your dd on starting school - like batters, I still have the pic of when she was born which your dh called 'Great www and dd' only with names, and you hastily put in the email 'I didn't call the pic ...'

I felt old when tigermoth's ds1 went off to secondary school batters. I know just what you mean, I remember www's dd being born so clearly
at access to organic chicken for £1 a pop duchess, I'd love to keep (and eat) chickens but our garden is far too small.
Today is the first day etc. Everywhere I saw slender middle aged Frenchwomen looking elegant, although weight is clearly a huge preoccupation as EVERY food ad on the telly came with a health warning - eat five a day, don't eat too much fatty, salty, sugary food, try to avoid eating between meals. Tbh I think it's an idea we could copy here. A talking fridge would also be a help in our house .
Found I did loads of steps daily on holiday (we did three long walks) but dd is such a featherbrain/butterfly-stalker that most of these weren't aerobic. 18,000 round Cite de la Mer and I never broke into even a canter...
This week I will be mostly eating healthy stuff, ignoring French swag and buying schooliform for ds and dd.
Happy week all!

Caldicot Castle was lovely - and really good value as well - was £12 for a family ticket. And much to ds1's delight (and somewhat alarmingly) there were some 'Victorian Foot Soldiers' there who did some gun demonstrations - ds2 LOVED the bangs!

DofN, wow at £1 a chicken, that's fantastic! An organic one costs me about £10 from Waitrose. lol at trug, a trug is so in keeping with my image of you!

Feetheart, welcome back and belated Happy Birthday and at being the weight you want to be, well done.

I know, I know re my dd going to school in a couple of weeks, I'm shocked too. lol Batters at her not being born on your email, and TS, I'd forgotten that about dh naming the photo!

Caldicot sounds nice, I think I've been there, is it in Wales? OMG at 1500 being only enough to burn off a SMALL glass of wine....

Marina, good luck with buying schooliform (I remember your dd being born too! OH WHERE does the time go?) and sympathy on svelte stylish French women, I've read French women don't get fat and it basically boils down to:

• only ONE glass of Champagne (that's where I'll be going wrong then!)
• don't eat much
• small portions
• be elegant and French

Batters, half a stone is easily gone, that's not bad if you were v v bad over the holiday.
I think many of us are looking forward to being strictish again aren't we?

Today
3 sausages
huge spinach salad with cold chicken, anchovies, green beans, mushrooms and vinaigrette

and have worked out I have 49 (48 after today) more working days in this contract - and about 1/5th of those will be at home so it's not so bad. And I'll be happy with either scenario, either I get another contract and we have some money OR I get to take Nov and Dec off and we're a bit skint (but can manage) but I get a rest. Lovely!

Right, that's it .One of dd's schoolfriends mother dropped her round this am and stayed for long chat and coffee.

Her dd (same age as my dd) is her number 3 of 4 dc's.

This woman is so slim and looks really fab (and she isn't that much younger than me)

I have suddenly gone into major bootcamp mode

All I have had to eat today is a herb provencal omelette (made with 3 organic eggs, a sprinkling herbs and cooked in small knob of butter) and 3 or 4 cups of strong Italian coffee.

Hello everyone
Where have the holidays gone? Am back at work this week after lovely hol in France (booked last minute with a whopping 40% discount ? thanks everyone on this thread who helped with that one), apres our French sojourn we had la Deluge, in the shape of a v rainy UK camping trip and have just endured enjoyed 5 days of a maternal visit. Have lol at tales of drenchings on this thread ? I am so so sick of the weather. Am beginning to think I will now vote for anyone who suggests moving school holidays back to May and June when the weather here is actually decent. Have one more camping trip planned in a week or so but am getting more hard core about calling it off if the black clouds are gathering?.

I need this thread and I need to get better about posting on it. Am very fat at the moment ? prob fatter than I have ever been except for post pregnancy. Am scared to weigh. Am an apple shape which is officially the most unhealthy body shape to have. I reckon I probably need to lose a stone and a half.

So?tomorrow I am going to dust off the Moron ? which is no small task as it took me an age to set it up last time.

In addition to the things I NEED restart doing (oh, the state of my feet after a summer in flip flops) to do I have identified five habits I need to STOP!

• Pret latte (and often an almond croissant) at my desk first thing. Ruinous to body and bank balance to do it every day.
• Going too long without eating, getting too hungry and then having a quick sugar fix. Particularly bad when I leave work and suddenly feel ravenous.
• Buying my lunch ? inevitably it?s something I don?t really want to eat and it?s astronomically priced

So that?s my goal for the next month.

I really need to start exercising, was running around with kids at weekend and felt myself getting out of breath. Really depressing. I just don?t know how to fit it in though. I have a long commute on the 4 days that I work, don?t take a lunch break so I can get home earlier etc. What?s the best exercise to do in terms of time vs fitness return? Maybe I?ll start a thread.

My ambition is to be slimmer and fitter for next summer. I saw loads of wonderful looking older women on the beach in France ? with great bodies that kind of looked their ages but were still slim and toned.

i am the lightest I have been in 8 years!
69.2 kilos

everyone comments on my youthful figure

tra la la la la la la la

do the IPD, it's a marvel

although I was forced to eat some of this VEAL-PRINCE-ORLOFF-108502Veal Prince Orloff at work this evening and I can feel the adverse effect the flour has had on my tumty. Worth it though.

How is everyone else doing?

Oh and the downside is I can see strings in my neck starting to appear. But then i am quite old. Hey ho

You don't need to start a thread foo - best exercise for the time-poor is running I'm afraid. Shoes on and out the door - done and dusted in 30 to 45 minutes. Or cycling I suppose...

Couldn't do IPD Suzy - don't eat meat for a start and it sounds like a meat-fest, plus it's way too fatty for my tastes.

that was an general invitation to everyone, foo

Fantastic it's worked for you suzy. Do you miss carbs at all?

Foo, I saw those nasty ladies too Hats off to them, it's sharpened my resolve no end.
Where did you end up?

SW brittany Marina. Near Quimper - really beautiful and a lot of festes going on so we are fat on crepes and cider. Good weather too - it's just far south enough to feel mediterranean rather than like Cornwall, I think. Where were you?

Western Normandy, Barneville-Carteret. It was delightful...and nearly deserted because of the poor summer this year and last.
The area is popular with Brits and Channel Islanders apparently, so quite anglophile (which we find is true of Normandy in general).
We will definitely go back now we know the "best bits" (our otherwise nice gite had fleas from a previous tenant's dog and was an annoying too-far-to-walk little drive to the beach).
Glad you had a good time and some convincingly Mediterranean-like weather. Ours was...bracing. But better than London.

Sounds lovely - bleuch at fleas though. We once rented a house that was so infested we could SEE them jumping about in the carpet.

Hiya foo, welcome back.

I am crap on exercise I'm afraid, can you do the things the womens mags suggest, eg

stairs instead of lift
get off a stop earlier and walk
park further away etc
blah de blah?

You do have to ditch the latte and croissant, but you know that! And sympathy on the making lunch front, we make ours the night before and it's BORING and takes ages but is cheaper and means I eat something I#ve planned rather than succumbing to local hell hole cafe.

48 days of commuting to go! Although it's prob more like 38 as various working from home days in there.

tonight had organic beefburgers with aioli mixed with horseradish and some salad. plus picked at anchovies, port salut and sausage as I was making breakfast and lunch for tomorrow. Am drinking wine, feel a bit pre menstrual and grumpy...

at croissant and latte, even if it is in the past. I'm trying to cut down on the milky milkiness of my cheap twice daily homemade one, but it's hard, it's hard...

running definitely good; cheap (once shoes bought) and, as pointed out, means all the time is exercise time, rather than faffing and parking the car and finding a locker time

I did it up until I got ill, and I was the unfittest person around, genetically. Other children would laugh at me while I did the 100 metres at school. I used a really good start-from-crap-fitness programme, I can find it and link if you want.

not a bad day, despite most meals seeming to be built around bread (nice bread tho). As we were once again drenched with rain, we took the children to the cinema, where I ate a banana while they ate their sweets

that's good, right?

foo - yes to running. You start off by alternating walking for 1 minute and then running for 1 minute for about 15 minutes and build up gradually. There are programmes online that you can follow and if you stick to it you will be amazed at how quickly you improve.

I didn't run today but did the 'Flora Poste Workout' also known as 'Farm Not Gym'. Lots of upper body exercise in the form of lifting bales, hefting spades of muck and moving sacks of feed.

I am sort of using my Moron but only to time my runs. It's been difficult to find somewhere to put it since I started wearing nursing bra's - it fits so snugly into plunging or balconette styles!

Ate super-healthily all day and then had fish and chips for dinner. Lots of water. Face, hands and feet get a big fat tick.