Up the Apples and Pears - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

[FrannyandZooey]

FAB TITLE BY FMF (AND BBB)

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

thanks F&Z - that will be really good because I will look all thoguhtful won't I.

Yes and with the consistency of the cake (wholemeal flour etc) you could probably incorporate Boco's footprint idea as well

F&Z do you want to borow the bees book for DS to see from that science set?

Your DS is so lovely.

mooncup talk alert - menstrual references

Well she was just so shocked when it appeared, and she said 'is that BERLUDD?', and it was a very busy service station - somewhere on the A5 where they had no water because of the floods, and then she said really loudly 'why does it live in your bottom mummy? WHY?' - had to avoid eye contact with people as i came out and tried to get water out of the taps where there was no water.

Oh yes please! I meant to buy it but I haven't yet. It has probably gone by now, hasn't it?

Oh well done BBB. Mooncups are something I prefer to deal with alone. At a push, dd2 can be in the room - although I do have to be careful now in shops selling mooncups as she points to them and shouts, "Mum! Bum!".

Zippi - - hope you feel better soon.

Dolly, those ulcers sound horrific!

Have had a bolognaise sort of thing with TVP and lots of veggies.

Am menstrual which makes me v. grumpy and negative. Am struggling a bit, esp. as ds1 is suddenly growing up yet still having lovely little boy moments but shouting a lot and hitting people. It's all rather scary. And he has decided to get rid of most of his books - including precious ones which we have enjoyed together for years

one of those people in teh service staion was ahundred.

Okay F&Z - will hunt it down in the mess tht is his bedroom.

Have you finished yet? I have read Boco's warning. I have not read the last 7 posts.

is it safe or do I need to go back to my sailing club?

We haven't finished yet 100, we menstruate for days and days, oooh, WEEKS sometimes

Oh bleugh to the lot of you.

I don't care. I'm moving to Newport or Vermont or somewhere. We have a house, and a sailing club. It's all going swimmingly.

We're going to wear Ralph Lauren leisure-wear, drink iced tea and NEVER EVER menstruate. Oh yes.

The American version of ther Mooncup is called The Keeper. Sounds a little sinister I think.

And you think Mooncup sounds sweet and unassuming I suppose? Oh no. It sounds downright creepy I think.
But there we go, what do I know. Tra la la la.

The Keeper summons up visions of strange cloaked figures with padlocks. I couldn't insert one of those.
Mooncup is whimsical with just a hint of feminine mystery.

I like the Keeper now you put it like that TooT. I'd like to dress you all up in big cloaks with padlocks. Would overcome the public emptying problem.

I emptied mine between posts

Oh I am sorry. It was my naughty side. I have to be a good(ish) responsible mummy all day. When the dcs are asleep I regress

Well DON'T. Not when I'm around. You must sit up straight and make proper conversation and keep your. . .well. . . habits to yourself.

And the weather TooT. How has it been today?

See? Like that.

TooTicky, my DS is only 10 months and i already dread the 'growing up and growing away from you' bit. It's a rotten job, being a mother, for the successful mother enables her DC to become a separate-from-me, confident individual who will disappear to some unfathomable part of South America without so much as a postcard and people will say, "oh well done, your DC has grown up into such an independent person".
Mrs C, glad to hear that you don't have to avoid gluten. That's a plus.
Zippi, sorry to hear you're low, it's rotten being treated like that, in fact it stinks, shame on how your ex-DP phrased it, "found someone better", grrrr
Aviatrix, I do believe you have not yet confessed to WHAT ELSE you bought.
and the rest of you, please stop being so funny, DH heard peculiar strangulated-mirth heee-her heeeee-her sounds from the study and now seriously doubts that I am reading a deeply complicated academic book in here, as i said I would. I'm always bemoaning the lack of time i have in the day to do any concentrated reading and here I am, 'wasting' said precious time.
oh yes, fruit and veg, this thread is really a great focus and I am upping my quota every day. DS grabbed a handful of my stir fry tonight when I wasn't looking, a bit of brown rice with onion and sesame seed in it, I didn't think a baby should have sesame seed so now feel a bit worried - am I being daft?

I believe some people are allergic to sesame, but you can't avoid everything. I have never worried about sesame

So, 100x, it is quite cloudy here. How is it where you are?

I didn't do very well yest. Didn't manage 5 let alone 10

its blardy hard to get going isn't it!

eewwwwwwwww at mooncups

thanks all of you..

will try not to post just feeling very sad and lonely, I think he must have met her some time ago and is trying to pretend he didn't but I just don't know really..nothing really fits except he seems to have had some sort of alien take over

I just wish I didn't feel so sad so that i could cope

Oh Zippi, i'm sorry you feel so bad - do post though, if it helps at all. I can't think of anything helpful at all, but thinking of you.

MamaG, mooncups.