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

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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 have to say I'm not coming round to the idea just yet either, all the talk of suction and public loos. How do you know if it will overflow?

Zippi - It is almost never possible to be friends I think, especially in the short term. Hope you find the strength to make a clean break and start to feel better soon.

Have had cinnamon and raisin porridge and some muscat grapes. They are delicious. I might dig my juicer out again. I've never really used it much but my friend has been making me some and they're really nice and fresh. She has a super dooper masticating one where the fibre curls out into a pot. I have to scrape mine off a sievey bit in the middle. Only counts as one portion though, yes?

MrsC i totally had you down as a mooncup user! Was about to call you an earth mother, but that's been re-classified as very insulting.

My dad is coming to visit today. Not seen him for months - he usually doesn't show up and then tells me it's my fault as i got the date wrong. Well that's happened twice in three months. That must be why i'm still in my pyjamas - i don't want to make any effort and then have to leave more hurt phone messages about how i'd made lunch and everything. [grrr]

Cinnamon and raisin porridge sounds delicious. Have gone all swooney.

Zippi, yes, post away because even if it doesn't help there's always plenty to distract on these threads.

Some would call me an earth mother. Round here it might be the 'brown rice brigade'! I like the idea of them, but I am also a worrier, and have issues with even needing the loo in public sometimes soooo, I would have to have a very stern word with myself to go out in a mooncup.

Hope you have a nice lunch. I haven't seen my Dad for over two years now. I am going in to town so I expect I'll buy some more sushi.

stupid question but, how do you make cinnamon and raisin porridge? My porridge always congeals like cement in the saucepan. What am I doing wrong?
Zippi, when you are hurt and sad it is important not to shut yourself away as you'll just feel even worse, so keep on posting here.
Mrs C, the fibre curling into a pot sounds both impressive yet also alarmingly poo like, as if the juicer is defecating. Not sure if that would put me off the juice. However, my juicer is also a 'scrape clean the sievey thingy' and it is such a faff I hardly use it, so maybe I should investigate a posh fibre-poo producing juicer.

It was delicious, especially as the weather is all Autumnal. Imagine if the blod test had been positive. A winter without porridge?

Yes, Possum, I think that's why I don't use mine much. It did indeed look a little like defecation but I tried to think little pig's tails instead.

Porridge - put water in pan, use a mix of ordinary and large rolled oats, add raisns and cinnamon, may be flaked quinoi but not today. Simmer until desired consistency, maybe adding more water/oats. Sometimes I put a bit of maple syrup on it.

Oh dear, Toot how old is ds1? Talk to me. I'm good on the 'growing-up' bit - sometimes - everyone else here has bonding down to a Tee. You get everything here at 10/10.

Saggy - you can't be sad about your 10month old, oh no, you have a long, long way to go.

Zipp - moan away. We don't mind. Do you think he made up this 'other person' to get out of a sticky conversation after last Sunday? Just a thought.

MrsC - I also like porridge. Also had you down as a mooncup user. I like how people keep surprising me here.

Boco - Grr. Accept he's not coming. Be pleasantly surprised if he does and say 'Oh, now there's nothing for lunch' or something? My father is useless. He rang me up and said 'I really don't want to come to you for Christmas. I want to go to your brothers. I prefer it there.'

well no fruit yet managed to have breakfast

wish i could stop crying enough to go to the gym and swim

I feel so ill just keep going really freezing and weak..totally psychological

unfortunately dp and me were each others only best friends/only friends i never made any again in rl after i came out of hospital when i met him so it's difficult....I am quite scared of going back where it all started

this afternoon I said I'd drive dd to oxford as she has an interview with oxfam...I think I will be struggling to drive

Oh dear a friend of mine has started a private Google group to discuss parenting

it is 10.30 and I have only just got onto MN

am going back for a bit, I may never be seen again

Oh zippi, you must be in shock I should think. Please post about it as much as you like.

well you have made me smile is "sticky conversation" a euphemism...if not it should be lol

no I don't think she is made up

franny that must be good...

Okay. Oh bugger. Are you meant to be driving to Oxford today? Maybe seeing DD will be a good thing.

BBB, I have just read your Europa Park thread, my pelvic floor is not what it used to be and I am doing more of that stifled-mirth heeee-her heeeee-her gasping whilst crossing my legs. Dammit, stop being so funny woman! I need to do some work. I am procrastinating, as usual...

by the way, I like the moniker 'Saggy', that sums up me to a tee, both physically and mentally, spot on !

zippi - please keep posting if you feel like it. You sound really down - don't go to the gym if it feels like an effort but get out for a stroll if you can, that alwys makes me feel better. I could never do the 'we'll just be friends thing' - always ended up as more than that and then big regrets. Get through the next few days and don't do lots of long term thinking and regretting and what ifs... Let us know how your day is going.

MamaG - when you said you were a bit of 'worrier' I read it as a bit of a 'warrior' - have spent too much time with my young son.

Is F&Z being poached to another forum.

Boco - your house is tidy - well if you start from where my house is yours is a palace.

Well my ponder of the day is 'do I drink too much coffee'?

100 - do you want my tale about being on the plane duing take off and suspecting that in my hurry my mooncup was at a somewhat jaunty angle - well you know what haooens to breast implants on planes....

F&Z have found the book - let me know your address on dimpl e d thigh s at hotmail dot co dot uk

You know what BB, yes, I think that perhaps, just maybe, you do drink to much coffee.

And that's coming from me, fgs.

TOO much coffee. grr.

Still no dad, and he was due at 10. I'm glad i have no food in the house and that there are toys everywhere, and that the girls have gone to play in a neighbours garden. Arse.

BBBee, what are you like with no coffee? Do you become limp and sluggish?

Oh Boco. Do you think he'll turn up at about 3 or something? Or not at all?

Annoyed, on your behalf.

boco - don;t think your dad is coming. Is there something you once mentioned about your step mum and some issue or something or am I remembering all wrong?

I couldn't have coffee on the last day of camping as the stove had run out - I still got the tent down and got away but I felt a bit tired. I don;t know how much of an addiction it is but I do really like coffee. Waking up and having a nice coffee or meeting someone and going somewhere nice for a nice coffee is a real treat. Also as much of my work is done from home a coffee works as a natural break - maybe I should take up smoking again instead.

Did you hear that thing on the radio about the amount of alcohol women consume goes up in the school holidays? Thought it was very funny but completely understandable.

no coffee = headchy and tired

I think I have about 5 cups a day of espresso - but could be remembering all wrong and am really downing a few cups an hour.

(skim read the thread and made some lame jokes about house swapping but boco if you want to stay in oxford you can. I would have to tidy up though!)