Upper Fourth at Celery Towers - 10 / 10 club - All welcome

[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 you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

That's what happened to my dp greeny - told 18 month waiting list unless something acute happened. Unfortunately something acute did happen and he was hospitalised. Then had CAT - which is better than CBT for him - cognitive analytic therapy. It's seriously changed our lives.

wonder what their definition of acute is? I didn't even know about it, just said I didn't want Ad's after seeing my mum on cocktails of them.

The community health nurse person I saw was great, she even did relaxation sessions with me and gave me tapes. Apparently having them (mental health nurses) in the surgery as another option for mild disorders, is a preventative that is becoming more nationwide? Which is why I ask what acute means, as surely catching something earlyish is more effective? I guess it's a lot to do with cost, as ever.

It has really stayed with me and I can control my thought processes now, mostly, it is a very valuable treatment I think.

It's a lovely colour, FMV.

sorry, have I just weighed the thread down with
woe? I feel dandy today!

Tra la la...

cherries and pineapples, kiwis and pears, la la la, peaches and lychees, bananas as well la la la

No, what weighs it down is the fact that people have to wait so long for the right kind of treatment.

(But carry on, the singing was jolly).

I don't think I am anxious exactly. Well, I am, a bit, about what I will do with my life, but it's a fairly longterm sort of anxiety.

I miss LSD, I was good on LSD, I think.

I may go down the CBT or similar route, I will see. It might not be a mistake.

Aviatrix, I'm glad to hear the carrot cake worked - wasn't it you who had it come out all soupy?

Oh, there was a sort of therapy covered in the Guardian a little while back that sounded very tempting, I might try it in a DIY way to try to sort out my order/tidyness issues ...

I'm another jaw clencher.
Never been greatly into drugs but have smoked dope a bit. Did used to smoke as well and drank really quite seriously from age 15-18.

Apple, bread with peanut butter, honey and banana, grapefruit, lovely veggie pie (onion, carrot, potato, cabbage, broccoli, tofu), rhubarb cobbler, rather a lot of gooseberries.

More tired than ever and have 230 papers (with 2 leaflets) to deliver tomorrow. Plus shopping. Gulp. And dd1 needs to stay an hour after school, so time-consuming pick-up. And ds1 has Beavers. So goodness knows when I will get anything done. I seem to be spending too much time in the kitchen - think it's because I'm tired so doing everything more slowly. Blah.

Oh, and I have taken prozac. It was shit.

Hello aviatrix, yes, I think 'acute' also means severe, but it means unstable, too - suddenly having got much worse.

I am up stupidly early because DH got in at 5am, and the door woke me. Not the best start to a long and trying day.

But my lunch will be a big quinoa salad, at least.

5.30 am start here as well

ds woke up saying he was hungry, so dp gave him a biscuit wtf

anyway, never had Prozac, my depression predates it and so I had crappy old anti-depressants that made you feel as if there was a toad sitting on your head. Ah well.

am eating melon, 2 nectarines, raisins, and a crunchy apple

the punnet of peaches I bought from the supermarket on Monday is blue and furry in the fruitbowl and in danger of spreading to the rest of the bowl - these were the two or three rock hard peaches that weren't covered in bruises when I took them out of the punnet. Arse.

I am just completely and utterly lacking in energy. I went to sleep not much before midnight, and was awake at 5am. I have to:

• pack lunch for DS1
• pack snacks for us both
• pack picnic blanket? Or will chairs be provided?
• pack knitting, book, etc
• get DS2 ready to go
• take DS2 to the friend who is taking him in to the co-op
• go all the bloody way across town

Apparently the sports day ends at 2:30, and it sounds like pre-prep will actually be busy for the entire time, which is good, I thought we'd maybe just be sitting watching prep do their thing, which would be pretty dull for DS1.

There will be tears today, because DS1 is already getting worked up about not winning things. He'll maybe win something, he's big and old for his year, but still ...

I think I was a little bit drunk last night, had had two glasses and it went to my head. Apologies for warbling

We also have sports day and it's at 9.20 I was pregnant last year, need to think of another excuse not to do the mum's race. I hate it, but wonder if my G cups will excuse me? Don't want black eyes..

I want to ask something - I have lurked on here and even made moves to join but I cannot do it - I am a vaguely inteeligent woman who is able to do lots of things but buying, storing adn eating all that fruit and vegtables is beyond me.

Okay - break it down and tell me how often you go shopping, what you buy and how much planning you do.

NQC - have just done course of CBT if interested (you know me - I was dimplledthihgs but had to name change and my dad likes your cake)

hallo healthy people

its mandarin season here YUM

know a nice salad with celery, tomato, coconut creme and fish like crab meat or so, bit of salt and pepper

I am not a good person to ask about buying/storing as I tend to do it daily and spend obscene amounts of money.

We are undergoing plans to combat this, ie, box schemes, suma etc, and I will watch with interest what others say.

Hello anyway

and mandarin season sounds delicious..

right, off to sports day, groan.

Morning, Mrs C you didn't seem at all drunk, i liked your singing.

I started better today - raspberries mango and strawberries with muesli and yoghurt.

I'm in a state of excitement. I was supposed to be going to czech republic tomorrow, but when we came to book the tickets they'd gone up and would have cost £400 which we don't have. It's my cousins wedding, he lives in prague.

This morning my mum called and said my grandad who is 87 is ill and says i can have his ticket! Ran around pulling dresses out of wardrobe and flinging shoes around. Then my mum called back and said my grandad is starting to feel better! Threw shoes back in wardrobe. Now she's saying he hasn't decided, will let me know this afternoon.

Obviously hope my grandad is fine. But the most exciting thing is having a room in a hotel all to myself!! Imagine that! I could actually sleep all night long, in a bed, on my own.

Oh the torment.

BBB - JOIN! - i go to the shop and buy fruit about every 2 days - local greengrocer. Keep it in a fruitbowl with a kind of flowery old ladies net hat on to keep off fruit flys.

Erm, what is this SUMA of which you speak please?

okay - had a bowl of dorset museli and a plum - so that can be 2 right?

Boco - oh I hope your grandad is okay but also hope you get to go to the wedding so best scenario is that he feels poorly so you go and then it just turns out to be wind and he is fine.

BBB that would be a good scenario. Unfortunately it's heart problems he has, so if i go i'll feel a little bit guilty - but very very excited about the being able to have sleep thing.