Plump up the yam, til your beet are stompin, and the jam is pumpkin - 10/10 Club

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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

oooooooooooooooh......I had a mad passion for Jem in the Lucy Irving 'Runaway' book when I was in my teens

Idris, you have my sympathy and admiration...I never would have known from your posts. And you probably won't read this now, until your train reaches its destination.

If you're still thinking about co-sleeping, Wombling, I didn't with my first and did with my second and had a immeasurably easier time with DS2 as a result. We had an adjustable crib which sat at the same height as the bed, and in theory he was meant to go back into that after night feeds, but in practise he normally ended up snuggled up next to me. He wore a grobag, and I got by with pyjamas and the duvet half over me, but on occasion he got snuggled under the duvet and didn't seem to come to any harm: if anything he slept better.

Once I'd got used to it I never worried about safety - you are aware of where they are, even when you're in quite a deep sleep. So it worked really well, for all sorts of reasons, and when DS started to sleep through at 12 weeks and we moved him out, I rather missed it.

Lully - I went to the frost fair last year. It was ok, but was a bit disappointed - queues for sledging with huskies so huge that we didn't get close. Some very funny performance people wondering about - giant gliding angels and strange creatures that freaked dds out - was nice, but not as nice as i'd hoped.

Also, my uncle was going out with lucy irving and she chucked him to go off to the island.

We co slept before dps sleep disorder - right from the start and was much easier then not doing it. She slept above the duvet in her sleeping bag thing.

lullabyloo - oh YES, me too, me too!! (I read and re-read that book when I was younger. I also still fantasise about Mole End - what was the name of the lovely beardy flute player who 'owned' it? I also loved him very very much...)

boco, please don't tell me she is a cow, I spent my teenage years wishing I could meet her as i identified with her quite a lot...(apart from her having an humungeous IQ and me being, well, erm, average )

ooooh I feel really quite poorly again

I am seriously starting to worry that I am not going to manage the meet up

Noooooo!
STOP THAT NOW!!!

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we did co-sleeping just cos the little b*ggers wouldn't sleep. They still didn't sleep even in our bed, it just meant less walking about. We got them out as soon as we could but they were still both about 1 when it happened

I couldn't sleep with them in bed, I was a wreck. dd1 is spiky and really uncomfy to sleep with and dd2 has eczema and was forever scratching her arm, it sounded like someone scratching cardboard. And crying. Both of them stirring and crying.

I envy all those people who talk about what a lovely snuggly experience it was for them. For us it was a complete sleepless mare and months on end of shaking with fatigue.

Sorry I am just being hit by apparently random periods of nausea and I just can't do anything while it lasts. It was so bad on Monday I thought I had a stomach bug (Tatties has told me it is ok to talk about it vaguely on here bless her).

Sorry but I think it is quite possible I won't be coming. I will think about what I need to sort out in case I'm not. Nothing much, I don't think - it should all be organised for you when you arrive, I hope.

Franny NO NO NO! Oh no I am so sorry you are still feeling awful. I will cry if you can't come. Are the boys ok?

oh franny I hope you feel better soon and get to go

but if you feel lonely and miserable if you dn't get to go I will still be around for moral support and veg talk

Oh F&Z that is so
I'm sorry that you feel so awful.

You've done a marvelous job of organising - it's all very very thorough and easy and we'll all be fine. Of course everyone wants you to come very very much, but don't feel responsible for us all getting around or meeting - we'll figure it all out.

Could you just come to the hotel and lie in a darkened bedroom and we could take it in turns to bring you lemons and ginger tea and do a bit of staring?

yes they do seem to be, I think it is just morning sickness and I obviously had a lucky good day yesterday

ds keeps bringing me things like sticklebricks and " a nice pen for drawing with - you can keep this Mummy!" and stuff. I am trying to be very very grateful while wanting to say "yes yes now leave me ALONE"

dp luckily intercepted him bringing up some chocolate. Ugh I have not been able to eat any since the weekend.

oh sorry the yes bit was to Tatties asking if the boys were ok

I will shut up about it now but have just been panicking about not coming to the meet up and had to splurge it

gizmo that was a very nice thing you said. Thank you . It made me .

There seem to be quite a few 10/10ers with DPs with depression. I think seeing things through your eyes helps me a bit, definitely in seeing a bit of how it affects others.

Gizmo, are you in Cambridge or did I make that up? If I didn't then my train goes on to you (we're in Bedfordshire but I normally get the train from just in Herts as I can park the car for free and the train is slightly cheaper. The fact that I could walk to a station nearer our house is something I conveniently ignore ).

Franny, you have my huge sympathies on feeling urgh. I do notdo early pregnancy at all well and feel much symapthy for anyone else in that state.

oh poor franny

can you drink ginger tea
it was the only thing that helped me
sip room temp water constantly & eliminate caffeine completely.
cutting out wheat should also make quite a lot of difference
light reflexology too can be helpful
Travel sickness bands to the nei kuan point on the wrist sometimes make a difference

I knew noone else would come to the meet and it would just be me on my own and I was already panicking about the hotel and the smoking and now I don't even know which hotel I'm meant to be smoking in!

I had pancakes for breakfast and chips for lunch and dmum is just getting chinese takeaway for dinner. Not very 10/10 but I'm on holiday

hovis crackers were the only things I found helped with morning sickness

Oh no Franny we will all be so if you can;t come but you musnlt worry though, we will be OK

I had morning sickness most of the time from 5-12 weeks and although not that bad, the waveyness of it was horrid. I mean feeling perfectly OK one moment and then feeling perfectly not OK the next.

I did find for me eating something was the cure, but you need to find the thing that you can eat all the time and it's OK. I think mine was dry biscuits of some sort.

I've been working this afternoon and this morning we had the first school visit.

It was actually better than I thought it was going to be and I feel reassured on certain things.

The children are only allowed to take fruit to school for snack time - is this normal now? I thought it was great obviously but wondered if in fact it's part of the healthy eating thingie anyway.

Today I've had veg & lentil soup, remains of veggie chilli, some chard, grapes, apple compote.

I'm also a bit fed up of apples and although the pears are lovely right now we don;t have any.

oh franny iw ill be your sub lieutenant

try to have ltos of low gi stuff and ginger stuff

i have texted the kitchen fitter and he said no probs rich

and i have got someone to date me on monday lunchtime who works in trafalgar square..just to make the most of my train ticket

PSW - all rooms are non smoking now, surely? It is illegal to smoke under any premises with a roof...

But i'll be there...I cannot possibly not go, having used up all my savings to come...

Franny, I am hoping and praying you will feel restored enough to venture along...Big hugs to you though

That is very organised and economical of you Zippi.

I've made a bit of a mess of my plans. I'm staying with friends on Saturday night, and then i thought seeing as i'm coming i'd like to see some of my other friends and as i can't come out with you all in the evening with dd2, i thought maybe one of them would like to come and visit me in the hotel. I emailed a couple of friends and got confused, and now i'm meeting seven different friends all at the same time - they don't all know each other - then i have 2 friends offering to babysit so i can go out, but have double booked the going out bit. They're all coming to the hotel so at least i only have to be in one place. Can't wait to see them all but hope they don't mind my bad planning.

Franny

Poor you. But you should go, you'll feel better if you go out and do things, you always feel worse when you stay in because all you can think about is how awful you feel.

I bet you're going to have a girl.

Yup, they're all nodding, and rocking with fetching scarves over their heads.

FMF that's what I thought but when I phoned to ask about a cot they said it's a smoking room.