Eat your Greens - 10 / 10 club week 8

[FrannyandZooey]

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

am going to make an unhealthy banana cake and eat it now.

am sad that Birthday Season has ended in our house.

Greeny don't be silly! How are you today, really? (not too graphic pls - you will put us off our broccoli)

Papillon I am not sure. I normally make double quantities. Weigh them with skins on I think.

could you let me know once you have made it please Franny? would like to try the recipe.

enjoy your day

Ah it has just come out of the oven Paps

I will go and weigh some more bananas...

ok it is 3 tiny ones, 2 med size or 1 mahoosive one

a bit more or less doesn't make much difference, but if you put in much too much it goes sticky and won't set.

Today i have had

1 bowl branflakes with 1% milk
1 medium box of sushi (230 cals)
1 huge banana

for dinner
3 very low fat sausages (They were yum, I was )
1 handful very low fat oven chips
1 poached egg
1/2 tin of beans
1/2 tin of tomatoes

Will probably have an Options hot choc and a peach later.

Happy Birthday franny, that banana cake sounds yummy. If its any comfort I too am coming down with a cold, I guess thats the start of term for you. Since having children I seem to be constantly ill in the winter months as I pick up every single one of their bloody colds
Museli, banana, and sald and no exercise today.
Thats so bad I feel I have to say that I did aerobics last night and ate loads of fandv, and did yoga for the first time on tuesday night.
I am thinking of doing pilates as well, but the only class I have come across in my area is 8.30 -10 on wait for it.... a sunday evening, wtf NO wonder the woman said it was always only half full, I am amazed that it is running at all. Sunday night is for trashy telly and cuddling up on the sofa with a glass of wine.

thats pm by the way

That class time is madness, Overrun. Impressed you did the yoga though, how was it? Hope you feel better soon, my throat is ok now but my gym session was crap. I was struggling with energy levels, then my arm started hurting so I abandoned all the weights, then I just got demoralised and sloped off home. I think I am just slightly under the weather and need more rest.

Colditz, that is not really very much food I don't think. You should be eating much much more to fill you up IMO. Try getting your fruit and veg stocks up and see if it helps you. I reckon you had a max of 5 portions today; if you feel hungry between meals try fruit or raw veg and a dip, and some fruit with your breakfast would help. Hope you don't mind my bossiness but I mean well . I couldn't last the day on that amount of food, myself.

Have had a pear too.

but I am rammed! I can't eat any more! I haven't been hungry at any point today.

I am so used to a densely caloried diet, I don't eat huge amounts, so i think unless I am living entirely on fruit and veg I am going to struggle for 10. Also I have always been utterly dreadful at getting my fruit and veg in, so I don't want to upset my digestion too much. I will increase them.

I will go and have a glass of orange juice

No don't mind bossiness, I need bossiness. I was raised on chips and belly pork, haven't a clue how to feed myself, only my kids!

Oh ok colditz

are you quite small? What sort of day do you have? unless you are tiny and sitting with your feet up all day I can't imagine being satisfied with that but maybe I just think I eat more than I do...

Yes well if you have had pear and oj it is probably 7 portions so not bad at all. I agree best to build up slowly if you have not been eating much F&V. I would say the next change to make is have a big portion of veg each evening with your meal. 3 sausages, egg and beans is getting a bit Atkins-ish to me. I would try sausage and beans and say, cabbage and carrots. Does that sound feasible? Also try some dried fruit maybe which is full of nutrients and energy.

It's nice to know I can keep being bossy with you, but tbh I actually think you have done very well indeed, to get to this from what you said your diet was like before.

Nope, not small, am 5'3" and size 18. (unsurprisingly, given my previous diet)

Um, typical day goes like this.

Get up at 7. Give 3 yo breakfast and drink, get him dressed, give baby a bottle, get him dressed, have bowl of branflakes, get dressed. Play with kids for a bit, then 15 minute walk into town to take ds1 to playschool. Walk around town until 2pm, go swimming for 45 minutes (very slow swimmer) while dp has baby and collects ds1. Walk home, cook dinner, do houseworky stuff.

So, quite lazy really! Maybe I eat more than I think I do. There was a small cereal bowl full of chips there.

Well 5 ft 3 is fairly small, isn't it? I would not worry about it if you are feeling satisfied, just initially I thought maybe you were depriving yourself in an effort to lose weight. We do eat meal based mostly on veg and pulses etc in this house, so I guess I am used to having to eat huge platefuls to get the calories in.

I did notice a difference today though as we had croissants for breakfast - I was ravenous again around 10.30 am. Had white bread for lunch (had run out of wholemeal flour) and felt wobbly and tired at the gym.

No, have eaten more today than for about a week. But I won't and can't tolerate hunger, so every time I ge hungry I shove some fruit in. Maybe my dinners are too big and not leaving room for the fruit?

Happy Belated Birthday, caring, benign, fit dictator.....

really am doing about 5-8 portions per day, but also working socks offa so hardly posting at all about anything (part from men's room stuff - is challeeeeee cheerleading another thread, or just weighed down with another life expectant??

starting kick-boxing classes next week, with a friend, and we are preparing it a la Ali-Frazier.....

ideas for next week's thread - welcolme to the fibredome - aPEELING thread on MN - F&Z and The Pips - lay some skin on me - it's pithing down on this thread - something to raise the pulse - err..too late, night.

god i am not doing well

froot, great.

veg crap

no frigging exercise aprt from walking/cycling. I don't really have a car, so I do this a lot, but...

need shove up arse to exercise really, i think

will buy a non-annoying exercise dvd today, methinks. WHY don't cool people do exercise dvds? would like to see someone nice and insuociant doing some sort of aerobics video to a pre-Out Of Time R.E.M soundtrack. Why is it thse aging soap stars?

Might check out New York Ballet or whatever its called...used to be ok at ballet, navvy's build aside.

How about a folk music workout? FMF? Can you help here?

ps NQC the exercise is working, I can now hold dd and stand on one leg with my eyes shut for 5 minutes and am noticing a difference but will avoid running for a bit i think.

we just had Franny sugarless banana cake

was very nice

dd enjoyed putting the butter in the flour!

not a great day for me as npt at work and thus for some reason eat les fruit.

Have had about 6-7 portions (Asda takeaway curry for tea ) today and no exercise at all.

OTOH my new Cleaning Regime has seen me get very energetic with the duster in the last few days so I guess that counts. Today was kids' bedlinen and bathroom on top of basic hoovering so even that wasn't very exercisey. Oh dear.
Maybe will go eat a banana in honour of yr cake Fran.

Good morning all and thank you all again for your kind birthday thoughts

I am off away for a few days so would some kind 10 / 10er please start a new thread for us on Monday morning? Just cut and paste the intro from the beginning of this thread if you think it is useful (you will have to redo the links I am afraid - they don't survive the cut and paste, annoyingly)

I am staying with NQC some of the time so she will no doubt keep me on the straight and narrow as far as fruit and veg is concerned. Then I am planning to have orange juice, baked beans and mushrooms every morning at the hotel....well, along with scrambled eggs, hash browns, and vast quantities of croissants

have been to gym twice, fri night and this morning

oooh am so spiffy!

also eaten vast quantities of tomatoes and veg and stuff.

well pleased with myself.

did get to watch david cameron on frost as a result...am all confused now. i don't think i can physically bring myself to vote tory but it must be said, his environmental policies seem...not great, not bloody better than brown's...

Bananawoman - v. impressive!

Just most of the way up the Snake Pass over the Pennines on my trusty mountain bike, and return to a veg casserole and a smoothie.

Balancing all of that with a trip to the pub to watch Man U. thrash Newcastle........yin and yang.

hmm no one has started a new thread...

will start one but might not finish if baby wakes up

ok, here goes...

link to new thread