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[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.

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Pruni not bad. What exercise are you going to take up, then?

I just got huge deja vu, now. We have had this conversation before haven't we, and this is the point at which you disappear off the thread

Message withdrawn

Could quinoa be on the superfood list? I have some lurking in the cupboard

I've just looked on the Flylady babysteps thread. I think I might try it don't worry my allegiance is still to vegetables. I wasn't going to post on there just lurk!

Franny - you were asking about beetroot. I started a thread a while ago and got lots of ideas and lulumama did the same a couple of days later!

Yeah I reckon we'll stick quinoa in

so:

beans, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, soya, spinach, tomatoes, walnuts, yogurt, apples, kiwis, avocado, dark chocolate, bananas, cabbage, carrots, flax seeds, garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, olives and olive oil, pomegranates, quinoa, and nuts and seeds in general.

cut and paste if you want to add anything else

BBB I am sad that you have to edit yourself on here I thought we were such an accepting thread. Nobody even mentioned my BFOB were made of leather, for instance. Do we give off a pious whiff or is it just peer pressure to conform? Please be yourself

Tatties did you find your ring? I keep thinking of it.

Shall we stick beetroot in as well? [hopeful]

I have stacks of it in the fridge as usual

Yes yes. Add beetroot!

I can't believe you waited until I had gone to bed last night and then had some kind of veggie menage a dix without me

Right, today

Sultanas
A peach
Strawbs
Greek salad (leaves, cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, olives)
Another peach
carrots
Sprouting Brocolli
Butternut squash
Raspberries

And, most shocking of all, DS actually ate sprouting brocolli for the first time ever (this is the boy who eats baby corn, carrots and occasionally peas, and NO OTHER VEG), declaring as he did so

"I want some brocolli of my own, I need to eat something green"

I can;t spell broccoli, can I

Frayedknot - i'm always in bed earlier than this lot. And apparently, I'd not be allowed to join in their sleepovers anyway as Little Red Riding BBBEE is scared of my Great Big Teeth and Great Big Ears etc etc. But she did mention tying me up...so maybe I don't want to join in...Or maybe I do? {confused Gemini emoticon}

must go as hairy Bikers are in Kerala. Thereby combining more of my secret fantasies than you could shake a stick of broccoli at.
Or brocolli.
Whatever.

oh no just ignore me at the minute am being all introspective and weird. Probably lack of caffine or something so I guess you bought it on yourselves.

LOL at menage a dix

good going FrayedKnot and SmallKnot

here's the list of our superfoods:

beans, beetroot, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, soya, spinach, tomatoes, walnuts, yogurt, apples, kiwis, avocado, dark chocolate, bananas, cabbage, carrots, flax seeds, garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, olives and olive oil, pomegranates, quinoa, and nuts and seeds in general.

Can someone tell me what we want to DO about them? I mean have we got a goal or something or are we just, well, eating them, a bit?

I keep snorting at me thinking of Tatties' ring all the time

arf arf

BBB are you ok? You seem a bit up and down

Superfoods

I have lots of those as I've been shopping today.

can I ask, does anyone else suffer from migraine?

I've had them on & off since my teens, and recently they've got worse again, and I always get them just as my period finishes.

Anyway, I'm tentatively wondering if tomorrow morning I will wake up with one or whether

no coffee
no citrus fruit
no chocolate

and huge amounts of other f&v will have had some effect.

Zippi your day out sounded fab, btw

Ooh you are in the right place FK, lot of migraines on here

I tried to buy withnail and i in choices where they are in receivership so big sale on...couldn't find it on the shelf so asked the girl if they had it and

and she said how do you spell nail

so i spelt it and said withnail is one word and she said really

i said yes you've never heard of it then
and she said is it a film?

so she then said oh it's on the system for rent

but not for sale

so i said where is it then and she said in the drawer

so i said no i meant in the shop

so she said over there you can have it for 30 days

so i said oh i wanted to buy it

so i bought blade runner which i tried to buy the other day by haggling for more off the price but they wouldn't let me

so i put it back

but today decided i wanted it

but it wasn't in the right place but bizarrely when i went to look for withnail and i it was there instead

so then i decided i would rent withnail and i and tried to find it over there but it wasn't there so went back to the counter and then remembered that i wasn't a member

so now i have a burning desire to watch it rather than blade runner just because i haven't got it

and i can't decide what to have for dinner

No Franny I have not found my ring yet (Although I pretend to be all sweet and innocent I really do have a dirty mind and was hoping someone would appreciate the double entendre )

Feeling all premenstrual and yucky but made bubble and squeak for dinner which was lovely comfort food. I think a trip to the gym would have done me good but I just didn't feel like it.

FK, migraines here too, awful isn't it? Although I have not been too bad recently. I usually get them in the run up to my period. How do you cope when one strikes? Avi suffers too I think.

Tatties, if they are really bad, I take painkillers, which don;t work, but I get so desperate I end up wolfing them down, otherwise I can;t cope with anything. They have only got bad again in the last 5-6 months and I know I need to find a better way of dealing with them.

What I really need to do when I get one is go and lie down in the dark and sleep, but usually that just isn;t a possibility!

They have been lasting for 2-3 days and last month I had a really strange aura for 2 days beforehand when my speech felt very slow and I kept going dizzy. It was quite horrible.

Hoping this month will be better

Sounds awful FK, really debilitating isn't it. What painkillers do you take? It might be worth seeing the doc about it. When I have been really bad I've had to get dp to stay home to look after ds... is there anyone who can help out when you get one?

Oh Zippi you must be starving. It's late, - withnail and i will turn up somewhere for £3 when you're least expecting it.

FK that sounds horrible, i get like that sometimes, but luckily not too often.

Just been for dinner with friends, my dds best friends and her parents, was nice, ate in the garden and the kids played, and then cycled home and the girls are hysterically exhausted.

BBBee i wasn't being offended, really, not at all, it's a good question - you're other thread. I was being needy, i'm having a needy day to your introspective one - i feel old and wrinkly and crabby today.

You're right, met dp at college - in my first year, been together for 12 years, with a short break in the middle.

LOL Zippi. I like the bit where you said 'where is it' and she said, 'in the drawer.'

Am just back from A&E with dd. Oh gawd, she collapsed post river swim on the sofa, raging temperature and then when I was putting her to bed she had weird rash on her legs. A non-blanching rash. So started an mn thread of suspected meningitis, as you do, and then went to a&e.

Upshot is: could be /couldn't be. Which is nice. We were given the option to sit in Paediatrics for four hours or come home and keep a beady eye and whizz back in if we think necessary.

I hope I did the right thing coming back. I think I did. She seems happier. Oh bleurgh. Is probably just tonsillitis or something, right?

Also I don't have much confidence in this doctor because she was 13 yo and said 'you must wake her every 2 hours through the night and check for drowsiness.' I said 'what are you talking about? She's five. I could carry her down the street at 3 in the morning and she wouldn't wake up.'

Oh bugger, bugger, bugger.

Then she said 'Well you seem a sensible person' and I said 'Are you saying my name is Anne' and she looked confused.

I think I might be hysterical. Where ARE you all when I need you?

oh god 100 - how horrid - I hate these situations. To what degree if any has calpol had effect and does she seem better now than when she first seemed ill?

I have called an ambulance for DS once when home alone and suspected mennigitis.

I have spent a whole night in A&E with DD (similar to your situation) and they kept me there as they didn't know.

DS was an ear infection.
DD was a chest infection.

Not that that makes any difference to your situation but I know your pain.