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Eat your Greens - 10 / 10 club week 8

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FrannyandZooey · 25/09/2006 08:00

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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FrannyandZooey · 25/09/2006 08:06

I'm not going to be around much today due to the impending visit of my Mother

but hope all new recruits will join us on this sparkly clean thread and that we can inspire each other for the week ahead.

Lurkers please speak up, you are all welcome to join us (and colditz stop peering in through the windows and COME IN )

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FillyjonktheBananaEater · 25/09/2006 08:07

awww...franny, has greeny not got enough problems already?

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FrannyandZooey · 25/09/2006 08:11

It doesn't say "Eat your Greenys" does it? I have left Greeny expiring messily in the corner of the last thread. The cleaner will probably charge us extra this week when he finds her

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FillyjonktheBananaEater · 25/09/2006 08:17

ah, my mother has left the building, how quiet and peaceful and free of gnomes the house seems now.

tra la la

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FrannyandZooey · 25/09/2006 08:20

mine is arriving in an hour

she is unfeasibly chatty and interfering. Oh, and mad.

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Beetroot · 25/09/2006 08:37

Yes but I have to be witty here! And I don't feel it

Papillon · 25/09/2006 08:39

Morning all

and a special hello to KJM for finding us ? Guess Mandarins would be plentiful atm in NZ.

Had bircher for breakfast with mango and apple about 3 portions - so off to a good start even for a Monday kind of a day.

Fran whenever you feel the need repeat the mantra "Eat your Greens" - it may ease you through the day!

Papillon · 25/09/2006 08:42

Witty is for try hards Beetroot, you could influence us with nonchalant one liners??

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FrannyandZooey · 25/09/2006 08:42

Beetroot if that was an entry requirement I would be unlikely to be still here

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Beetroot · 25/09/2006 08:43

WOT like
Geroff your arses and do some exercise!

Papillon · 25/09/2006 08:44

Yes, must go pick up ds off floor now, thanks for reminder

Medulla · 25/09/2006 08:51

Morning! Medulla the Newbie here - I'm off to the NAAFI to stock up, speak to you all later to let you know how I'm doing. Have you all noticed a big improvement in your energy levels? Has anyone lost weight?

Medulla · 25/09/2006 08:55

Quick question for Franny (or anyone who might know the answer) have just downloaded the portion size information from the DoH. Is there an equivalent one for childrens portion size? Thanks

FillyjonktheBananaEater · 25/09/2006 09:55

i think a portion is meant to be the size of a fist, thus a child sized portion is the size of their fists.

Clary · 25/09/2006 10:39

Hello all
Sorry no posts over weekend. Did OK on the 10 FAVUs I reckon tho had to have the odd late-night emergency banana.
Exercise a bit of a prob tho - Saturday a washout as spent the whole day doing stuff with the kids (swimming, dance class, parties etc) and then DH was at the football until late-ish. Does walking to a birthday party (10 mins but not fast!) count?
Yesterday was also busy kids-wise (swimming again! and an afternoon out) and DH was at work pm and got back too late for my planned swim (on my own this time). So I went for a run but was totally crap, exhausted very quickly and walked a lot of the way, Still, I did manage 10 mins so I suppose that?s something. Am so out of training. Posting all this is helping me tho.

(beety I didn't realise I had to be witty! no hope at all there....)

fullmoonfiend · 25/09/2006 17:34

woefully poor here today, 1 banana, 1 smoothie. ! apple. But tomorrow is an office day so have stocked up on apricots, grapes, papaya squares, cashews and a smoothie to take in to supplement the old lunchtime salad.

fullmoonfiend · 25/09/2006 17:38

F&Z - a potential thread title for you

Take a leek and have a pea

Eats fruit, shoots and leaves

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FrannyandZooey · 25/09/2006 19:06

Heh heh FMF

My mother has gone and she actually made it loads easier for me to 10/10 today (can we make that a verb? "Sorry, I can't come out tonight, I'm 10/10-ing" )

I had raw mushrooms, carrot, beetroot, cucumber, tomatoes and pepper for lunch, with hummus. Then blueberries and strawberries. Just had sweetcorn with an otherwise veg free meal but also got to go to the gym for 1 h 10 while my mother looked after ds. This is the first time she has looked after him so I could go somewhere since he was born

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Bozza · 25/09/2006 20:24

Well still not exercised. But have bought a DVD off Ebay.

Have done the following today:
melon for breakfast (1), pear (1), 1.5 carrots, few brocolli florets, 1/2 courgette, 1/2 pepper, 9 cherry toms for lunch (3), juice (1), stew put I picked out the potatoes and had hardly any meat so virtually all veg (carrots, parsnips, onin, leek, swede, celery, turnip, mushroom) (3), grapes (1). So I make that my 10.

Clary · 26/09/2006 13:08

OK well yesterday I cycled home from work and did my pilates class, so that's pretty good.
Had to make chicken with mushrooms and brocolli to take me up to 10 FAVUs, otherwise fruit and some salsad with lunch.
Today: fruit snacks 2 bananas, 2 lovely English apples, a big tomato, a big bunch of grapes, then just had a sandwich and lots of cherry toms so calling that 2 more.
Exercise...erm...does walking into town very fast for work this morning count?

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FrannyandZooey · 26/09/2006 13:13

Good afternoon chaps. Bit quiet on here today, isn't it? I am going to the gym again later, eaten strawberries, apple, nectarine, raisins, soya milk, tomatoes, mushrooms, beetroot, carrot and hummus. Probably 7 portions?

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Clary · 27/09/2006 00:11

Where is everyone? Loads more F&V today, bananas, nectarine, a whole avocado well DH was at footie so no-one to share with.
Mowed the lawn this pm, took half an hour, Also did a good hour of very energetic cleaning this pm.

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FrannyandZooey · 27/09/2006 07:28

Morning Clary, I am here, quite cosy in here just the two of us

I am going to run about at work this morning, and am eating nectarine, raisins, and apple with soya milk. Fruit bowl is full, but most of the fruit is rock hard so I will be subsisting on clementines and apples for the rest of the day.

It's my birthday tomorrow and I have requested extra nice fruit for breakfast - I am just so committed

How are you feeling Clary? Full of beans?

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Papillon · 27/09/2006 07:54

birthday tomorrow of fruit & vege Goddess duly noted and spread around

NotQuiteCockney · 27/09/2006 08:26

I did ok yesterday, I think. 1 for muesli, 1 for sarnie with tomatoes in, 2 pears, 3 big mandarins, 3 for big bowl of salad. And 30 minutes running, and 40 minutes biking.

Am thinking of taking today off from exercise, and tomorrow is my shift day. May decide to run after all today, though, as builders will be in.