Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls - 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

I only was able to give up Bfing with a concrete reason - pregnant or having to go away for work.

Am indecisive through and through.

Oh god so sorry, asked the question then DH called me away.

Haven't looked at links yet (yes, Franny I totally jinx them I think).

Okaaay, I get it now (I think). Basically everybody likes it, so why stop?

Hmmm. Am now wondering why my dcs batted me away at 12 mnths and just pointed to their bed, as though to say, 'Oh put them away fgs'. I shall dwell on this. I shall decide it was not personal.

But, but isn't there a little bit of you that thinks or ever thought, okay, we should be moving on now, to other things?

The way I see it, parenting is a long, long process of bonding and separating, bonding and separating. And I was going to say too long of one without the other isn't great - but then I'd have to do a lot of bowing, and anyway like 3 said, its all personal really isn't it.

it was all the brie and coffee wasn't it. That's why they batted me away.

BF crisis continues:

Oh no. BB has it. I got pregnant again all the time. That's it. so we stopped.

God, how can I have forgotten all this. Am old and senile.

And I didn't bf dd for so long because I got mastitis 3 x (I'd like to repeat that please) 3x and you can't be doing that with three children under 5.

OMG. Am here alone in cyberspace, working through bf guilt. Anyway, SIL will appreciate my education, so do I.

I'm so pleased there's going to be a new 10/10 thread tomorrow. lol.

pregnancy hormones do somethign to bmilk to make it less palatable - works the same way as the brie and coffee I guess.

some weirdy research study found that those bfed as children (rather than bottle fed) tend to be more adventourous with different tastes in later life - they think it might be because what the mother eats flavours the breastmilk and the baby becomes accustomed to new tastes.

Bit like brie and coffee again.

oh yes I remember - you ate a whole brie whilst driving along in the car once didn't you.

Coffee protects aganist altzimers.

Oooh. Now that's a nice positive note to end on. My DCs eat pretty much everything (with a few exceptions, like ds1 and peas ) but happily tuck into all kinds of fish and things. Hurrah for the brie and coffee. Has made sophisticate eaters of them all.

Thank you for coming to talk to me BB. I can't wait for you to come back on thursday. I want to DISCUSS it with you.

am miffed that we don't get the evening extravaganza thing - was there anything to do in the evening at the poor people hotel?

er, no. Not really. We had a nice time though. We drank in the bier garden, and the dcs mucked about on the lawn, and er, we ate. That's it.

There was this lovely waiter, who was very intense and nervous, and he gave us Uno too. So we played that.

Tbh we were just quite grateful to be out of the razzmatazz for a bit. I think staying in one of the park hotel's would have pushed DH far far over the edge.

oh beer garden sounds fine - thought we might be locked in the hotel room with nothing to do.

Was hotel nice -travelodge style?

oh I don't mean that I think that travelodsge is hte pinnacle of nice.

Can you get good coffee?

LOL. It's all coffee with you - I love ya BB. Yes coffee at breakfast is good, strong, filtered, comes in a pleasant silver pot.

Are you staying at Hotel Louer? Is that what it's called. Loewer maybe?

Yeah but, 100x, what you were saying about bonding and separating etc - bf doesn't mean that you're having too much of one without the other. DD2 is really very confident and independent - she's never been worried about being left with other adults, - i always put that down to bf, i think it's made her more secure and able to separate, - i'm a bit tired and not sure if i can reason this coherently actually, but i know exactly what i mean.

Now just remembering that BBB met dd2 and she was all floppy and not so brimming with confidence, but um, usually she is. Ok.

lol. No I understand exactly what you mean. I'm attributing my children's sophisticated palate to brie and coffee - I like making these kinds of assumptions.

Bottom line is you do what feels right, and that usually is right. But don't tell everyone, otherwise MN will have to close down.

I've posted on your guest thread.

boco your children were charming and sweet - I think my brutish ds scared then with al the footbal in the head stuff.

Have posted on your guest thread too. If he is sitting outside I hope it is a clear night and he takes it personally.

Grrr. There you go highlighting that 'these types of assumptions' are all a bit ridiculous and tenuous. Yes yes, you're probably right - just these personal myths that enable you to feel like you're doing something right.

100 - I assume all great things about my children are solely due to my fabulous child rearing.

BB so do I. And all the bad things are in the genes, from dh's family obviously.

About the "didn't you feel it was time to move on?" question

yes, of course. At the point where ds did. (even though I personally would have liked to continue). But he was ready to stop and told me so, and I had the luxury of having been able to carry on up to that point - THAT was the right point for US to stop. Would have been different for another mother and child. Sorry it has stirred stuff up for you 100 but there's never any harm in looking back at these things I don't think. No point comparing what you did with what another person did though, the important thing is did you do what YOU wanted to do at the time, and what worked for you?

Will shut up about it now, and eat fruit.

Have eaten very ripe mango (kind of mango squidge), apple, raisins, grapes

must get my arse in gear and go to work

i think overripe mango tastes disgusting..ihaven't any fruit now so will have to shop later

feeling worn out after my triathlon yesterday...dgs has terrible chicken pox the poor mite has a face absolutely covered thatone where they all join up into a big mass..started thursday so is still going to get worse..has thm right in the corner of his eyes

Morning all....it's Lullabys appointment today, isn't it? Could of course be confusing something....

Well, had a Galia Melon so far....

Hm...ys is throwing a major tantrum right now...screaming blue murder at me, all because he wants to use the same bloody cup as yesterday and the identical but washed up other cup won't do....if he continoues he ain't gonna reach his 3. Birthday tomorrow, lol!

zippi...did you take part in the triathlon...if so...not sureprised you are knackered out.
Those chickenpox sound dreadful....my boys were all lucky really, they all just had it mildly!