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General health

Melon Cauli (by the Smashing Pumpkins) - a 10 / 10 thread, all welcome

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FrannyandZooey · 31/08/2007 20:36

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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BBBee · 02/09/2007 22:57

I am going to my book club tomorrow and I am only half way through the book and I feel like a girl who hasn't done her homework. Am off to burn midnihgt oil and read it not bugger about on mumsnet.

If anyone has anything insightful and clever to say about the red tent please tell me and I will copy it.

Boco · 02/09/2007 22:58

I also worried about all the very very young eastern european waitresses in the basement (which is where the restaurant bit was) - where do they live?

I saw Sonia from Eastenders, she was the only other person in a shop, she was pretty and small in real life, i stared at her with delight because i thought i knew her at first. She smiled and moved away fast.

How about Praise the Gourd. I like the word gourd.

I sent you a message on MyFace Bee.

Boco · 02/09/2007 22:59

Bee just go and read all the amazon reviews.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:00

did you write it on your face in red brio hoping I would bump into you? Seems like you have picked up too many fancy london ways.

Boco · 02/09/2007 23:02

That reminds me of going to an eastenders fancy dress party as dot cotton and drawing on wrinkles with a black biro. It was very convincing.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:08

in what world do people have eastenders fancy dress parties?

I made a piue - a real pie. I know that many of you are probably knocking them out on a daily basis but this was my first real pie.

I made pastry
I picked apples
I made leaves for the top

and it wasn't disgusting.

AND fz says it counts as a portion.

I rock.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:09

do chocolate raisins count?

I bought the stuff for LL creamed rice - think will make it for breakfast tomorrow. DD are loads of the dried apricots and her belly stuck out and she moaned all though child of our time.

Boco · 02/09/2007 23:12

Bee you're clutching at straws. Does straw count?

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:15

but if I ate a handful of raisins that would count - then I could have eaten an extra bar of chocolate it's just that the chocolate happened to be around the raisins.

Anywya you are just cross because you have to eat 18 portions a day this week to counteract all the pollution you picked up in London - it is in the guidleines.

Boco · 02/09/2007 23:21

I had 27 portions - all consumed at the breakfast buffet. It was awesome. Huge bowls of fruit salad and grapefruit and orange and tinned apricots and apples and stuff like that - you get the idea. I ate so much fruit i had to have afternoon naps to digest it all. I'm winning. I bet you sucked off the chocolate and spat the raisins out the window.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:27

I made a pie with apples from my tree, not eating some peaches from a tim someone else had opened.

I win.

Boco · 02/09/2007 23:30

how do you know about Tim? Who told you i ate peaches from him? Were you there? Who are you really? Did i know you at Harvard Tom?

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:31

oh god!

Have you had chocolate enrobed fruit from hotel chocolat? here

OMG would make 10 portions really easy.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:32

LOL - I read about it in the Sunday People - too many pictures though - could see your mango and everything!

AllGonePossum · 02/09/2007 23:37

I'm away with my silently cunting mange.
Toodlepip.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:39

night poss (BTW the filthy thread title is all your doing.)

Boco · 02/09/2007 23:39

Night possum. If you have noisily cunting mange you need to see someone.

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:49

Book
Bed
Bye!

BBBee · 02/09/2007 23:51

(see what I did there - you do it with your name - esp. you guadalupe)

Boco · 02/09/2007 23:56

Buy
Our
Cats
Organ

FrannyandZooey · 03/09/2007 08:18

new cheery and rude thread here

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