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Sign up here for week 2 of the 10/10 club

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 08:10

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY

(if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion)

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY

(can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more)

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being.

Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here

and more detailed information here

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Overrun · 14/08/2006 21:37

it sounds as if you have been caught red handed in the fruit bowl Franny

Greensleeves · 14/08/2006 21:38

Come on you.

Back to your baskets. Lets get you settled with a nice cup of Redbush and some organic pumpkin seeds, and we'll say no more about this nonsense.

Tsk.

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 21:39

Oh good point about Peter Pan, Overrun, that one had passed me by

Yes he could have pretended to be 23 for a bit longer, that was just mean really, I still haven't forgiven him

No I knew Greeny would find me eventually, she always does it was nice while it lasted...

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 21:41

But but but

I've got disciples and everything

we were going to build a spaceship and escape through a gateway in the stars, to a world of quinoa

Hey, Greeny, you don't fancy joining, do you? You're a bit of a sprout sucker yourself.

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Greensleeves · 14/08/2006 21:43

Um, I don't think so Franny....I couldn't in all conscience associate myself with a person who keeps PEPSI on the premises

Overrun · 14/08/2006 21:43

glad you typed sprout sucker rather than having to say it out loud
News to me about this spaceship thing, is it shaped like a banana by any chance?

Panboy · 14/08/2006 21:44

Frances - we will have to hire a bigger hall!! I can't see to the back of the crowd. What monster have you created Frau Frances??

more fruit this PM takes me to a personal best of 8 for the day ( and still 2 and a half hours left - can I make a perfect 10??)...not started on the Leb black yet....also, does cider-drinking count? Surely....

just been to buy some mueseli to put some mixed fruit over...they won't recognise me on the chain-gang..(not recognising myself..).
.. at imaginary gym I weighed in at a real 199.04lbs - am hoping for some real results offa this malarky..it's fit-ball and swimming tomorrow..that 10 will be ok, then...onwards and sideways!!

Overrun · 14/08/2006 21:46

Just in time Panboy, it seems Franny has evil plans for us,
cue PAN BOY TO THE RESCUE....I hope.

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 21:47

That Pepsi was for HC and she drank it all! She only told you out of sour grapes because I refused to buy the sort with Aspartame in

Overrun it can be shaped any way you like my dear, just hand over your bank details and I will arrange everything just perfectly for us

Pan, heeeeeeeeeelp, we have been gatecrashed - you seem a sturdy chap, it's that one, over there in the pigtails, escort her from the premises please

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Panboy · 14/08/2006 21:48

Peter - occurred to me AGES ago!! You are sooo ssslllooowwwww..

nah, quite fancy a trip to the stars.....(nearest thing is the Leb black) but only if Frances is going...

Panboy · 14/08/2006 21:51

you mean a Heidi type?....Hmm..., - she can stay, but I'll keep a very close eye on her....

Overrun · 14/08/2006 21:51

well I might just turn in folks. Hopefully to a night which does not involve blue vomit, and instead involves an uninterrupted dream of flying through the sky on a banana shaped space ship

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 21:54

She is not to be trusted, I'm warning you

She looks sweet and innocent but she has a filthy mouth and the mind of a depraved warthog

Pan of course I am going

as if I would send you, my flock, off on some wildly dangerous escapade without me to guide you and make you eat kale

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 21:54

Sleep well overrun, are they better do you think?

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Panboy · 14/08/2006 21:55

She looks sweet and innocent but she has a filthy mouth and the mind of a depraved warthog

oh stop teasing me.......

Greensleeves · 14/08/2006 21:56

No, I am delightful. HC said so.

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 22:14

"She looks sweet and innocent but she has a filthy mouth and the mind of a depraved warthog"

Actually that is me, isn't it?

Yes Greeny I know she did and I am not speaking to either of you for the time being. Who bought her Pepsi? Franny. Who wiped her baby's vomit off the floor 17 times? Franny. Who very kindly doesn't reveal her embarrassing name changes? Franny, again

But who does she want to give a cuddle? Greeny

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fullmoonfiend · 14/08/2006 22:38

WINE!!! Wine is made from grapes. Red ones! 4 glasses - tht takes me to 15 portions today, hooray, hooray, hic!! Star pupil, me!

Panboy · 14/08/2006 22:43

Soo, we have red wine, cider, hash cookies and Leb black ( for smoking only - wasted in cookies)...no wonder this thread is SO popular!!!

and we are only limited by our imaginations ...

gothicmama · 14/08/2006 22:46

my imagination is in over drive cider and leb takes me back to being 18 how is this

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 22:47

Bloody hell

I gave all that lot up years ago

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gothicmama · 14/08/2006 22:48

should be , how fab is this a thread to remind us why we have to be healthy now

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FrannyandZooey · 14/08/2006 22:49

I blame Greeny...

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Panboy · 14/08/2006 22:56

Yep - trading the pleasuredome for mueseli and mixed fruit..God how it hurts...

gothicmama · 14/08/2006 22:57

me too (sorry if the tone has been lowered will do my bestto ba astar pupil for the rest of the week)

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