WWW's 10 year younger bootcamp, it's September, it's serious and we're NOT worrying about the Hadron Collider

[WideWebWitch]

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.

[JJ]

bundle - you've just reminded me we have crisps up in the cabinet. (I will resist, I will, I will...)

[bundle]

oh gosh jj i really don't want to be responsible for this...

[WideWebWitch]

Crisps ARE THE DEVILS FOOD! Resist!

Oh go on then!

we had lovely lemon sole with zesty lemon butter

water
spinach
no wine, obv

and going to be in bed by 10.30

[JJ]

I resisted the crisps but the coconut and chocoate sweet from my husband's friend's Greek wedding wouldn't take no for an answer.

I will take a shower now and go to bed super early for penance.

[moonshine]

JJ - lol at sweet not taking no for an answer. Rebounding is basically a mini-trampoline. Good fun but 2 of my springs have sprung now - obviously couldn't take the strain of my 'lithe', ahem, body.

I have a small packet of crisps several times a week - is that bad ?

And I will now attempt to be in bed before 11pm.

[TheDuchessOfNork]

DH and I demolished a LARGE bag of Burts crisps earlier. Which is pretty poor given that I was looking distinctly muffin-ish in my Trousers of Truth. They fitted perfectly 6 weeks after the birth.

No exercise today other than the cardio-workout I had this morning when the first 3 members of DD1s class were all wearing uniform and not famous-person-outfits. Fortunately I then spotted Gordon Brown, David AND Victoria Beckham, Jacqueline Wilson, Dorothy, Henry VIII and St George being ushered into school by Florence Nightingale.

Today I've eaten cereal, ryvita & cream cheese, carrots and apples, crab & prawns with ginger, rice & corn cobs. And the crisps. Dammit.

And now I'm late to bed too.

[unknownrebelbang]

Very quick visit tonight, cos it's late, muchio sympathy though batters, and hope you have a better night.

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• 30 mins ex bike, plus 20+mins twister, plus walk to and from the pub
• Lots of water/weak tea
• Apply body cream - lax
• Use hand cream - lax
• Go to bed early, by 10.30pm ahem
• Eat healthily - yes, very.
• Be happy. Not bad for a Monday. Gatecrashed a meeting at the pub, lol. Better than last week's meeting with Mr Officious, hehe - diet coke only, though.

[arfishy]

Welcome FallenMadonna and at the crisps habit on this thread . Although I suppose if CERN is blowing us all up it doesn't matter really .

I've been very good and have gone to the gym every single day. Today I did a spin class and then went straight into the gym for more. I've been eating lots of my veggie soup and have lost 4lb in 5 days. I would be pleased about this except I checked my weight on my heart rate monitor (from Evil Victoria (TM) days) and I am still a stone heavier than then and I've already lost 11lb. And my EV weight was still fatter than when I last went home [despair].

Today I had 100 cals of museli (or 1.5 points) for breakfast and have just eaten a delicious 6 extra-super-low-fat crackers with extra-super-low-fat philly and cucumber. Soup for dinner.

No booze at all during the week.

On the plus side a parcel arrived from the lovely Boden for UK winter clothes for DD and a little sundress [no shouting "not that you will fit into it you WHALE" from the back] for me. Although I feel bad that the airmiles the clothes will have travelled from Macau to England and then on to Australia mean I will need to carbon-offset half a rainforest.

Hope you get more sleep Batters, if it's any consolation I've been up since 4am. And oooh yes to the pain of getting them to practice. Thankfully no 11+ here - but the agony of violin practice. The wailing and gnashing of teeth (and that's just me - normally I need at least one large glass of wine before I can bear to broach the subject, and then another one to take me through the pain of all 8 concert songs).

[tigermoth]

batters and www, I really feel for you and your dd and ds in the run up to the 11+.

I went through this too - you know my ds1 is not the most compliant and motivated type of boy when it comes to school work I went through hell - we had the tears, tantrums and the rest. And then ds1 got on of his regular bouts of tonsilitus the week before the exams. I was so stressed - people at work couldn't believe the change in me once the 11+ was out of the way and the pressure was off.

Ds1 had a mixture of tutoring (in a small group) and me going through test papers and maths theory with him at home. As some of the harder questions in the test papers scared him (especially when we started timing his answers) that just about kept him working (in short bursts with lots of breaks). I promised ds1 that once the 11+ was out of the way, I would stop asking him to do anything, kept reminding him that this extra work was just a temporary thing.

Ds1 has thanked me loads and loads of times for making him work for his 11+ at home - he was so chuffed to pass the exam and said he could not have done it without my help. This may or may not be true. The whole revision thing was a nightmare, but the shared suffering definitely bought ds1 and I closer together! He is now telling ds2 (in a bossy older brother type of way) how important it is for him to work hard for his 11+. ds2 is now in year 5 so the 11+ nightmare will soon begin for me all over again.

[tigermoth]

hello marina, jj, and all you other bootcampers!

I have been lax with my swimming (and all other exercise, really). I will start again after Wednesday, providing the pool is still there.

[Cammelia]

Good Morning everyone

I'm supposed to be at a class rep meeting at school right now but woke up feeling ghastly this morning with neck ache, swollen glands etc.

I did manage to attend the coffee morning to welcome new parents at school on the first day though.

Dd's "date"

She came back and said that he is a nice person but that she would have had more fun if she'd gone to the cinema with a friend (ie girl).

She wanted to see Duchess but his parents wouldn't let him as its a 12A so they had to see Wall E instead (which they both thought was rubbish, apparently)

She said she still prefers her female friends, (phew!!)

[Saggarmakersbottomknocker]

I've been foiled at the gym this morning and now have to pay again - was a bit lax there too, fannying about like the 'mean girl' lookalikes that usually get on my pip so much. mUST Do BETTer. Oooer what happened there then? Had a bad weekend bootcamp wise - mum and dad cam for dinner so I had pudding which I never usually bother with, shared a bottle of wine with my mum and then a good half bottle of Talisker with my dad. Was grumpy at work yesterday as penance.

Sympathy Cam, your son dating is one thing but your daughter is a whole different ball-game. Good on your dd for recognising the value of going out with your mates

ureb - good luck at the docs tomorrow and to you yoyo for next week, I'm not surprised you're anxious, it seems like you've been waiting for ages.

www - where are your trainers?

JJ - I've done Bodypump. My legs stood the pace but my weakling upper body let me down. Have fun!

[Marina]

I had the Hester Prynne experience of a phone call to my house from Mrs SlimyWorld last night asking if I was OK . Back on the (reinforced) wagon for me.
TM, I use the example of how your ds1 did have to put the effort in, didn't enjoy it much, but now loves his school SO MUCH, to ds. He is hoping to go there himself btw.
We are doing no extra coaching as we are fortunate that the school does it all in the curriculum this year. But that is not enough for some parents, who are needlessly ramping it up at home . We have told ds to ignore anyone bragging exhaustedly about how many practice papers they have done this week, a full calendar year before the balloon goes up.
Good to see you here in bootcamp btw
Good walking etc yesterday, over 14,000 outdoor steps, won't manage that today
Eating and drinking OK, no booze, lots of water, but not enough sleep and not enough rigour on the SW diet.
Glad dd's date had a good outcome camm and have a good day all

[JJ]

anniemac, I know the feeling. Well, not the feeling of being 9.5 stone but the too much in, not enough out bit.

Like Marina's son's school, my son's is also doing papers in school which is nice. However I've just about driven myself to blubbering under the table - have been looking at Open Days, application procedures and all that and feel beaten down. Plus my son's homework last night made him cry with frustration . I think that it might have made a difference if I had shovelled food into him before he started, so I will try that tonight.

That's a very sweet date, Cam.

tigermoth, good to see you!

smbk and arfishy - excellent on gym. I skipped today because I was worried about my knee and had a lot to do otherwise. I will jog tomorrow, promise. Unless it's raining.

[TheFallenMadonna]

Well, that was not a great start for me.

Drank water (but possibly even more coffee), ate well until 11.30pm (I know, I know, but essay due in tomorrow) when succumbed to toast and peanut butter. And hot chocolate .

Late night again tonight as still have half the essay left.

Social Psychology BTW moonshine. Love it, but find it hard to pin down into actual words

Will be good from Thursday I promise...

[Cammelia]

Batters, yes, I am totally relieved, can't have any love-sick mooning around going on with dd's school workload for the next 2 years . In fact I think letting her make this arrangement has freed her up, if I hadn't gone along with it all he would possibly have become an unobtainable figure of romance

Or is this just my over worked imagination

Dd seems to be proving to be a girl of enviable pragmatism.

My mother is 79 today, that's quite old isn't it? I phoned her to wish her Happy Birthday and she still sounds about 49. Her handwriting is the neatest of anyone's I've ever seen (ex-teacher for you).

Anyway re bootcamp, no alcohol since Saturday evening, I'm quite determined not to drink during the working/school week. Eating healthily. I can't swim anymore (dh closed pool on Saturday) but when this cold/virus/thing has passed I will do some aerobics. Water and Vit C: lots.

[moonshine]

Anniemac - do you weigh yourself naked in the morning pre-food/post-toilet (if you don't mind me being so presumptuous )?If you are and your weight is fluctuating that much then throw the scales out/change the batteries - they must be wrong! If not, then no wonder as I find tis easy to fluctuate by many pounds throughout the day depending on what you have been drinking/eating/sweating etc (and I speak from a lifetime of weighing myself too much experience).

Yes Yoyo, good luck next week - it does seem to have taken a while. (a work colleague found a lump last week and is also going for a scan next Monday).

Marina - Slimeyworld sounds scary encouraging!(She'll be going through your bins next, you know).

I'm quite glad we have no 11+ here. It's bad enough that dd's tics have started again since school has started up - feel so for her as she is very fragile mentally. Luckily ds looks like he might have more of a robust nature - quite novel in this household.

I am feeling very edgy in not being able to get to the gym until Thursday at least. But I have found that the weight is definitely shifting faster since I have been walking on an incline on the treadmill, rather than just running (or is it just coincidence?) Anyway, am anxious to see if I can continue with the (albeit small) success. Am back to body brushing and still taking the anti-rage tablets which have definitely helped. Feet have now been encased and neglected, I'm afraid.

WWW - we may have de-synched but are we not coming up to our Red Mist week?

[unknownrebelbang]

Chutney, I'm feeling ok thanks very much. I have developed the habit of singing Que Sera Sera to myself every time I think about my appt, lol.

Foo - have you made an appt to go to the GP?

Hello Fallenmadonna.

TS - if you find it hard work with DS and his violin prac sometimes, here's no hope for me and DS2!

Hope you're feeling better Camm, and happy birthday to your mum.

Anniemac - forget about the scales for a couple of weeks, and just concentrate on eating healthily/exercising.

I just had to google Hester Prynne, Marina.

Batters I too have worked out suspect "replacement meals" before now .

[unknownrebelbang]

• Sunscreen yy
• No booze
• 45 mins ex bike, plus 15 mins twister
• Lots of water/weak tea
• Apply body cream - lax
• Use hand cream - yy. Must do feet.
• Go to bed early - will try.
• Eat healthily - yes.
• Be happy. Got cross with DS1 for pinching the bar of chocolate DS2 bought me (prior to diagnosis) but he's bought me a Cath Kidston Tesco bag as an apology, so I'm quite touched (very blardy touched, lol).

The atmosphere at work has been a bit tense. I think I need a mantra for when things kick-off. Sometimes it feels like I'm in my own personal version of gladiators .

[WideWebWitch]

Hello all

VERY stressful day, to whit:
ds and dd taking AGES to get into the car. Starting asking them to clean their teeth and get in at 7.45am, actually LEFT at 8.15am to drive to work. Foolishly thought it would be ok as not rush hour and late start but screeched in at 10.31am after fight with M1 roadworks etc etc. BUT had lovely drive home, quiet A40/M40 and Chris Evans on Radio 2 played a long version of Stairway to Heaven followd by Money, sounded like the version from the 80s but what do I know so I sang as I drove through the sunset and despite working a WHOLE hour later got home 35 mins later than normal. Some awful meetings today, back to back, eww. But hey, it's over now.

So
3 sausages in the car
salad with spinach, tuna, anchoives, pine nuts
2 baby bels
1 cheddar marmite mini cheese
few brazil nuts
came in and had 2 x organic burgers, spinach salad, mushrooms
and am drinking wine I'm afraid

v worried about not ever getting a job again as read article today about how dire the employment situation is going to get. oh well, I can only do my best. And am thinking if worst came to worst could sell my car, walk everywhere and never eat meat again.

Have read everyone but no energy to reply, apologies. I am working from home tomorrow though so may walk and read properly and respond to you all.