Rhubarb and asparagus - 10 / 10 club sparkly Spring thread

[FrannyandZooey]

All welcome - 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 you can download more detailed information here (follow the link at the very bottom of the page)

Has everybody run away to a new thread without telling me?

Well on account of a stinking hangover, DS1 being ill with a tummy bug - he NEVER gets sick, what timing havn't done that well today. DH cooked a stew with heaps of veggies and managed and orange with lunch apart from that only managed the post hangover toast and cheese sandwiches . Never mind back on the wagon and 10+ tomorrow

tooticky ha ha yes maybe they have

now they have gone I can finally admit that my diet is based around cinnamon bagels and greek yoghurt

I haven't run away to a new thread but I am currently finding I have things other than MN to do at the moment

keep up the good work ladies

Oh sure thing Franny don't you worry about us

< chomps down Wagon Wheel >

Haven't had a bad few days. Friday was great up until I couldn't get some dye from work out my hair, DH had woken me up at about midnight on Thursday and I had to go to work at 4.50am on Friday. I lapsed into a big plate of chicken fried rice and curry sauce. Ihave to say, I felt quite ill after it - might have been a bit rich for my fruit and veg appreciative stomach.

I've perked up again and have had so far today raspberries, orange, cabbage, carrot, onion, beansprouts and a handful of dried fruit. It'll be soup and wholemeal toast for tea then lots of dried fruit, normal fruit and a big smoothie for nightshift.

Just looking in on you all, wanted to say hi, like Franny I have too many other demands on my time atm, namely moving house to post that often.
I am still trying to maintain a good intake. Today, I have had an apple, and some salad for lunch. For dinner, am lentils (probably stewy thing with tinned tomatoes and garlic), beetroot with Anchovvys, some grated carrots, sauted mushrooms. And any other veg that I can chop and cook
Big clear out before the new box arrives on tuesday

Hiya Cappucino, chuck us a bagel

Have had muesli with soya milk, cauli and watercress soup with garlic bread, orange, melon and banana smoothie, pear and bananas. So far.

have to admit today hasn't been a good day 10/10 wise

have had apple, raisins, banana, some carrot soup (though Asda not home-made so dunno if there were many carrots in it) and will have mushroom risotto in a quarter of an hour

yesterday however I nearly burst from fruit and veg, and finished the night with a row with dh about ratatouille (he hates aubergines and courgettes, so presenting him with them on a baked potato for his main meal was not a Good Thing)

right went to gym yesterday for 1 1/2 hours. cappy that running for ages crap is killing me, really. i am going to do another week of 2 minutes running.

i am actually a little freaked. i have a generally fairly ok resting pulse (around 60 bpm), but when I excerise it is SHOOTING up, to around 170 or so, after about 2 minutes of running. Its not especially uncomfortable-I'm scarcely even out of breath-but am not sure whats going on really. I don't think I'm massively unfit but this is the first time I haven't run for a long period (2 kids in > 2 years)

So am sticking on the first stage for an extra week. will see how it goes from there. suspect i am just even more unfit than i thought...

Have had shallot, aubergine, courgette, mushroom and tomato stirfry and fresh pineapple.

I'm jealous of people who can run. I used to like doing the 800m at school (it was the only PE I was actually good at) but it makes my knees jolt now. I can do a jolt-free run, but it is rather peculiar and couldn't be done in public.

hi filly my 'running' was more of a bouncy walk to start with

I did go on the running thread to complain about how knackered I was and someone said maybe I was running too fast

I have never laughed so hard

so slow down if you are going too fast

have had apple, raisins, banana, big bowl of ratatouille, and am looking forward to kale and chorizo broth later

dunno if I will actually get all my 10 in; sometimes I think if I do I will explode

by 'ages' do you mean 3 mins? just checking

i mean 2 minutes

i have double checked and i didn't realise i only had to do it 4 times OR that i could have 3 minutes between runnings

so

but still

am bloody unfit and embarassed

Going back to the trainers, Asics aren't actually that good at all. Look at the Ethiscore report here

did I type it out wrong?

or did you not read it right?

no am fool and numpty.

haven't been to gym for 2 nights now and feeling twitchy

in laws STILL here. today they found out that ds have NO SHOES (well he won't bloody WEAR them, ffs, only wellies). They were so furious with my crappola parenting (this is a big thing of theirs but it emerged that they had reserved a little extra indignation) that they had to stomp off for a bit. Ah bliss)

sorry they are still in your hair filly. lol at the shoe thing, when I came back to the uk for my brothers wedding my parents were horrified DS1 didn't have any shoes (he did have sandals) and DS2 didn't have anything at all, I had left his only pair on the plane. At DS1's school on the uniform list it lists shoes as optional!!! so he doesn't nobody wears them here. You can walk around the shopping centres with people dressed nicely from the neck down, then glance at their feet and they're barefoot.

sorry i have been away for a few days! I have had a migrane and have hardly eaten 10 things a day, never mind 10 fruit and veg!

i'm not feeling 100% yet but i have been to the gym today and eaten: raisins, a plum, 2 apples, sweetcorn, courgettes, sweet potatoes.

Hello everybody

Sorry you've not been well Sarz.

Filly, ds1 went through a welly phase - I well remember the damp, wrinkled, smelly little feet. Good luck with the in laws.

I've been eating loads of salad - tomato, cucumber, lettuce, carrot, apple, raw asparagus, avocado - yum, yum and yum again. But have been topping up with cake

hello have done useless

have been in hospital for two night with dd and a sick bug

have survived on bagels (one of which I have left behind in her locker ), satsumas, oranges and wagon wheels

however there was a lovely moment as I stood in the corridor looking at a 5 a day poster and realised that the portions were puny and I had been under-crediting myself

worth going into hospital for, I'd say

oooh and have lost half a stone

so what is rhubarb?
embarrassed celery.

the joke on today's lolly stick.

I am still here too but have been horribly busy. Have tried to keep up the 10 target.

Hmm. Still very quiet here.

Our leader is busy trying to leanr How to talk so kids will listena dn isten so kids will talk...

I have been struggling iwht really narsty eye infection but have been eating f anf v like a madwoman, trying to boost my immune system!

It really does sound like a bad time for lots of us at the moment. Cap is your dd better? How worrying for you. Sarz, poor you, that sounds wretched.

Shall we pester Franny for a lovely, juicy, plumptious, new thread-full-of-goodness?