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She Moves In Leguminous Ways - 10 / 10 thread - title by Olivia MNHQ

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 08:37

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

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 08:42

I am actually a bit frightened of the vastness of my breakfast. I have got raspberries, strawberries, raisins, redcurrants and a whole mango stuffed in there somehow.

Hope everyone is well, that Lullaby's trip to the hospital is useful, that TooT got away on holiday safely, that BBBee is feeling better, and that all children with digestive troubles have a better day today

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TooTicky · 30/07/2007 08:43

Haven't gone yet Just discovering precisely what is in ds1's 8 ton bag...

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 08:46

Rocks, I would think

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TooTicky · 30/07/2007 08:57

No, that's what he will be bringing home. He has packed 8 books inc. one large hardback. We removed a lamp.
Dd2 woke up cheerful, did a pottyful of goo and now has tummyache

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 08:58

Oh

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BBBee · 30/07/2007 09:13

TT your ds's bag bought a smile to my face - hope that dd picks up for the journey - IME these things are terrible but over quite quickly in little ones.

What's happening with LL?

(I am being lazy and not reading the entire last thread - sory if I have waded in all size 9's)

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 09:16

No BBBee, they do get a bit long and unwieldy

LL has been feeling very bad this week with suspected DVT - on medication to thin blood and in a lot of pain with her leg extremely swollen. She is very scared and her dh is being an arse, frankly

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BBBee · 30/07/2007 09:21

oh god I know loads about that - was on blood thinners for a while - is it on our thread or did she post elsewhere?

Will go and read.

(sod harry potter keeping me off mumsnet!)

Filchymindedvixen · 30/07/2007 09:26

morning all. >

I am so excited at the forest school thingy - dh and I wanted to buy a bit of woodland near us a coupla years ago and do exactly that!! But when we went to see the wood it was on a very steep slope so impossible to stand upright, let along pitch a bivouac...

I may be meeting Tatties today !

jofeb04 · 30/07/2007 09:48

Can I join in?!

I really need to feel more energetic.

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 10:06

Jofeb, please do join us. Just post when you feel like it - we tend to ramble on a lot about our lives so just join in with that as well if you want, or ignore those bits and just tell us what you are eating / doing. We'll try to encourage you

BBB it was on our thread - have you finished HP yet? Dp is on last 50 pages but I STILL keep forgetting he hasn't read it, and talking to friends on phone about it I had a long discussion of the ending when he was in the other room am idiot. Luckily he doesn't care too much.
?
FMF am of you and Tatties meeting

Is no-one going to swoon at Olivia's fab title??

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TooTicky · 30/07/2007 10:38

Of course I swooned, I'm just too proud to mention it

Yes, I'm still here, just look at my beeyootiful peas and beans and parsley - just picked here

BBBee · 30/07/2007 11:48

YY aren't you going on holiday? Or have I got all 10/10 confused agian.

BBBee · 30/07/2007 11:48

TT not YY (but look on the keyboard - I was close!)

3andnomore · 30/07/2007 11:59

Hi All,
good luck Toot!
And Lullaby, hope things are o.k. at your end!
HI Jo...all new members always welcome It's one of the threads that feels like a little comminity in it's own right....am loving it

Well, so far eating an apple and a Banana.
Well, was up all nice and early and did a Basic Tae Bo workout and a Hollywood workout and all that, and then es new PS2 things came...Buzzers and a Game...so, wasted most of the morning on that....lol...it's so much fun Game is from 3+, lol...so, just the right age group for me
Have all of downstairs to clean today...yuk....that is the bad thing about having visitors over...lol....

3andnomore · 30/07/2007 12:01

oh, like the title...but would have liked pretentious pole up the arse lentilweaving hippy one, too

BBBee · 30/07/2007 12:41

oh yes - 3ndno - can't even remember what thread that was - was it the oxfam present for a three year old? That was funny.

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FrannyandZooey · 30/07/2007 14:04

Oh sorry we don't have a pole up our arses this week, then. Maybe next week

Have eaten celery, beetroot, red and orange peppers

am considering drastic boot camp type action to halt spreading waist line

we are all too ruddy fluffy on here

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3andnomore · 30/07/2007 14:26

BBB indeed that was the thread It was funny....

Franny, lol...o.k. maybe next week then 9poles up our arses)
At expanding waistline...if you mean you got special probs with midriff area...Tae Bo is fabulous for that

Wolfgirl · 30/07/2007 14:30

Ive managed 3 bits of fruit so far today...had a banana, now eating an apple and will eat a pear shortly afterwards. had a chicken salad sarnie, then willhave bolog for tea - so no real veg today

I have had my bike fixed however, and will start to cycle into work one day of the 3 I work, until muscles build up.

Im I doing OK anyone? could do with cutting out the choccie at night time though.

Wolfgirl · 30/07/2007 14:34

ok, two bits of fruit, the pear has magots. lovely. absolutely marvellous.

Lullabyloo · 30/07/2007 14:35

hello lovelies
i'm back after having horrid scan....thank god was negative for DVT

but....am still in pain,terribly hot & swollen..foot numb & now covered in itchy water blisters
I have to go back to my gp to be referred to a specialist...
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...what's wrong with me..? Feel like i'm rotting

Franny....Mrs Weasley has done a link to a live web chat with j.k rowling.....on now

Slubberdegullion · 30/07/2007 14:36

F&Z and other food police types, I have a surplus of cracked wheat. Made fancy Tabouleh last w/e for outdoor classical concert [ponce emoticon], but still have a bag and a half of the stuff left in my cupboard.

What else does one do with cracked wheat?
TIA

lionheart · 30/07/2007 14:39

Hello, everyone.

A pole up your arse is great for improving posture. Dragging a sack-load of chicken feed into the far reaches of an enormous garden is not.

I hope Lullaby is getting on well and her DH sees the error of his ways.

Great title, by the way, and pithy too.

3andnomore · 30/07/2007 14:40

lol wolfgirl...yup chocolate my downfall for sure!
Oh, why do you say that you won't have veggies really, because you are having Bolognese....if you do a homemade one, you still have plenty of veg.
Just had grapes, which probably amount to 3 portions of fruit, and am now eating dried dates...about 2 portions (so all in all already 7 portions of fruit....)
Dinner tonight will pasta with homemade vegetable sauce (Peppers, mushrooms, tomoatoes, onion and garlic...)