WWW's 10 year younger bootcamp - it's September, it's serious...

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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

• 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.

Cam! OMG it's a date!

Had a lovely lovely night out with dh, we went to a restaurant and I had belly pork with black pudding, pea shoots and apple puree then duck breasts then cheese. Ate crackers and cheese bread too and lots of cold Chablis. And we kissed in the rainy street on the way home anyway, we MUST do it more often, it was a lovely night.

Have had a long lie in this morning and feel v happy. Dh brought me a sausage and egg muffin in bed which was lovely too but had forbidden carbs, oops.

I MUST start doing some walking, now the summer's over and it's lovely and cold and drizzly I won't mind doing it. I left my trainers at work so can't get them til Tuesday so will start then.

Will start a new thread later, so I think we should dump all our worries here and try to consider them left behind next week.

Sounds lovely www.

Ooerr Camm. I'm glad boys tend to be late developers (except DS3 seems to have forgotten that .

lol @ blonde Cleo.

DH is supposedly observant...so why can't he tell the difference between DS2 and DS3 sometimes, hmm, hmm?

The boys came back down to earth with a bump after their elation earlier in the week (literally for DS1/2 lol - one off his bike, one on the astro-turf, both fine I hasten to add).

The entrance exam at the only selective in our area moved to September either last year or the year before. We made the decision with DS1 not to enter him for various reasons, so don't have that to worry about with DS3, although last year there were approx 400 applications for 160 places when DS2 got his place.

I worry about the small stuff - and am doing my utmost to change that with effect from now. Bigger worries (apart from the obvious) are DH retiring next year (great in seveal respects) and nagging doubts about long-term finances with three lads still at school and at least one rebel off to Uni. This was put into context yesterday, however, when a friend told us he'd just been made redundant.

I do worry about DS2 more than the other two because he struggles academically, and is in the shadow of his older brother (manageable), but his little brother constantly overshadows him in lots of ways too (more difficult to handle). He can be an absolute charmer (Wonderful with old ladies and babies, lol), so am sure he'll make his own way eventually.

I'm orf to do some MNing housework. Have a lovely Sunday everyone.

Hello all - so many posts since I last did and I have read them all(promise) but you really will all expire from boredom if I answer.

Ureb, just echoing everyone else about hopefully it helps having your diagnosis now, even though there are nicer things to be told (but worse as well, obviously).

I have a semi-insomniac 7 year-old. She is often still awake when we are going to bed but doesn't seem to suffer madly except for sometimes getting very anxious some nights about having to get some sleep. She listens to stories, which sometimes helps as does doing sums in her head or repeating the same word/number over and over again (that 'tip' was from dh - would drive me mad tbh but has helped).

And she is a natural worrier like me, so I will not dump them here as there would be too many! I have always worried about the big uncontrollable ones (it used to be nuclear war, then end-of-the-world predictions and now it is the Hadron Collider) and all the small stuff.

I probably don't worry about money enough (head-in-sand approach), nor how much diet coke and coffee I drink (ditto).

I went on a alcoholic binge not seen since my single days last Thursday (works party). Had a brilliant time but had the hangover from the 7th circle of hell. I scared myself actually because had to drive to do school run and then to work but was definitely still over the limit and very woozy (I normally have a zero alcohol/driving policy but could not avoid it and hated myself).

I will skip over the day after greasy bacon sarnie and carb-fest cure and race to having been to the gym twice this weekend. And I think I may even have lost another pound.

So am up for another week of hardcore (ish) bootcamp!

Blu! It is good to see you. I read your blog - the poor boy. I am glad he is feeling so much better that he's agreed to the extra cm. Whether or not it happens, at least he gave it a go and that has to be good. Our windows need redoing quite desparately; I'll be interested to hear how the window sill replacement goes.

oi - bloody hell, hope you get the script soon! What a wait.

ureb - also bloody hell (can I say bloody hell? I'm still never quite sure which words are acceptable and which aren't). I find exercise very good for destressing. For acute pangs of it, I reread books. And I find it's very important for me not to get too hungry. When I'm grumpy my husband usually asks if I've eaten properly.

Am so far behind on the thread. The sleep issues sound very difficult. And a date! At 11! Very sweet. I hope she has a good time.

batters - how long did it take you to walk 21 miles? That is amazing. Where did you walk?

anniemac - that shake sounds, erm, healthy. I'll just leave it at that. I keep meaning to make my own muesli ('cause Dorset Cereals are so expensive) so might take some ideas from it.

arfishy - soup sounds good! And I think I could live at your gym. It looks fab.

I went out with a friend to a night of independent bands. Club Fandango. We weren't the oldest there, it was very relaxed, the music was good, it wasn't expensive at all (well, I didn't drink, so there's that) and a fun night out. I highly recommend it.

Have gained weight this week though. Grrr.

Oh and try not to worry about the Large Hadron Collider. There is never a zero percent chance that something won't happen and because they're good and decent scientists they won't say there is. Plus, if they're anything like the people I went to school with, they are secretly enjoying winding people up about it. And probably think it would be somewhat cool to create a black hole that gobbles up the world. (Mmmm, Earth)

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