^+^+^+^+^+^Return of the Fabulous Fruity 10 / 10 club^+^+^+^+^+^

[FrannyandZooey]

It's back 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

Can you entertain us with stories of what dh chose for food, then? I am intrigued by how you can actually have 3 meals with no vegetables in at all

this do 10 minutes of exercise thing...

i never find i want to do more

is that just me?

Lunch was fancy breads (with olives in, do they count?) and pate. Dinner was grilled cheese sandwiches, with saucisson sec in. Ta-da. No fruit. No veg.

Oh, I lie. I was hungry in the afternoon and bought a no-bread sarnie from Pret, with lots of leaves, and avocado in it.

Oh, filly, I never manage just 10 minutes. Well, sometimes if I'm only biking and only to the co-op. But otherwise ... yesterday was about 40 minutes running, 40 minutes brisk walking ...

What, you get all ready, and you do the 10 mins, and then you think "I'll stop now"? No, I don't get that. I either do it, or I don't do it. But lately I have been not doing it

NQC I knew you couldn't have gone a day without a vegetable.

ok if walking counts, fine hmm

ok its just me. i can happily bung a video in, do 10 minutes, then think sod this, this is dull

and franny

what, not even in a work context?

Well, I guess the video is dull then. I mean, that does sound dull.

I have missed the joke about the work thing, sorry

What sort of video do you do?

I hate, but swear by, the whole Billy Blanks thing. Yes, he's mad, and he keeps saying 'right' while doing left. And he annoys me greatly.

But he's full of energy, and the workouts keep going, and come in a range of difficulty levels. And his floor work (abs and glutes) is basically impossible. Which is nice.

ok

were you not doing some work, ooh 2 weekends ago, which involved some sort of sports and possibly some sort of coaching?

its the new york city ballet workout

anything with enthusiastic celebrities just makes me need to listen to joni mitchell

Billy Blanks is deffo not a celebrity. But sometimes you do need a walleyed muscular man pretending to be butch (while still reverting to ballet terms sometimes ) and shouting at you to do it harder. Sometimes he comes right up to the camera.

Oh. Yes I am allegedly working as a sports coach as well as my usual scarf waving type activities. But that doesn't fit in with the 10 / 10 thing which is meant to be extra exercise, not just part of your routine. Hence walking somewhere you were going anyway, doesn't count either.

oh no I don't like being shouted at

gosh that sounds scary

does sound like what i need though

I see franny, I see

so you are having difficulty on motivating yourself to get to the gym on top of your job involving sports coaching?

and surely the aim here is that exercise becomes part of your normal routine anyway?

so its a never ending spiral of ever increasing exhaustion

Yeah, the exercise message on this club is a bit weird, isn't it.

I mean, my normal, five days per week exercise is 40-50 minutes of hard biking through central London. I don't think I need an extra 10 minutes of exercise on top of that.

The Tae Bo thing is tolerable. He doesn't call you a maggot or anything. He also reminds you to breathe, just in case you were going to forget . I do hate him, and find him really annoying, but the tapes work ok, the energy level is good, and at least I can laugh at him as I go.

my imperial authority is being questioned here

ok, I think the thing of 10 mins a day is for sluggardly types. If you are already doing 50 mins hard biking a day, why would you need me to try to motivate you to do extra? It is for people who want to do a bit more than they are doing right now, in which case the answer to "can I count the walk to the shops I did yesterday?" is "No".

But, I mean, just do what you like. And tell me to shift my arse as well.

NQC [disappointed smile} could we PLEASE not use the word "maggot"?

Are there no threads I can safely frequent these days without having my delicate sensibilities insulted?

pmsl

oh no, its kicking off again

It's funny, when I go out biking with DS1, I have a rather strong urge to call him ... um ... do we really need another 'loofah' word? Um ... lint. Yes, lint will do. Looks about right, doesn't it?

I'm always being traumatised by you lot fishing with bloody lint, weirdo men sitting by the canal with pots full wiggly lint. [nauseated]

Greeny, you have not even been on this thread

I don't think we can have lurkers demanding us to censor our vocabulary now, can we? I mean that would be totally unreasonable

I would have been on here ALL the time, were not the whole family struck down with evil vomit and squit bugs

Still, I know where I'm not wanted

Now now

of course you are welcome here, look - we have been keeping your chair warm for you

S'OK, I'm not fussy about piss-stains there's no bodily fluid my carpets haven't seen over the past couple of weeks. Particularly on Thursday, when ds2 decided to wander from room to room like a little lost soul, projectile vomiting as he went

Mmmmmmm, thanks Franny

Oh good lord here she is to lower the tone again

LOVELY, dear, and you're looking so sparkly and jangly today