Why do you build me up, butternut baby, chestnut lentil me down? 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

in a supermarket or health food shop?

i think i am just too entertaining he keeps saying lol to everything i say lol

Both I think, Aspells organic cider vinegar is in most shops but I would try and get some proper stuff if you can.

sample

me: so when r u next going out meeting women u been chatting to on the internet

him: lol dunno

Zippi - do you think he is likely to morph into an intelligent articulate being in person? I don't..

I think I am going to find out..how long has that taken?

about 2.5 hours

MrsC - maybe Wednesday as i have no childcare so can't run the artclub this week. Will see if i can find a lift to the station...

I ate an avocado. It was a bit ripe.

Re jam jars: small cars, bubbles, crayons, coins (pennies), sweets (in wrappers), mini bath things, wind-up toys, stickers, hair clips, jewellery (cheap stuff obviously), playing cards etc

Zippi, I don?t envy you with your ex coming to visit . Yuk. Hope your msn guy improves!

I ate dried prunes for breakfast. Eeek

a whole avocado?

there should be some kind of award for that

I am having turkey and watercress and spinach salad with sourdough toast

for sourdough toast read 'dense warm cardboard'

well he doesn't have to be that intelligent just not monosyllabic..anyway i have managed to organise our date if he doesn't bottle...surely he can't between now and half seven

well, it was quite a small one. You see how desperate my eating has become, when i manage one portion but string it out across several posts.

i could eat melon and work like mad for the rest of the day now..i am skiving college

I relatively often eat a whole avacado (can't decide whether to do or at that).

lol. I could make a pomegranite spin out over weeks in that case...
Have eaten nothing today except for some warm choclate from choc tree decorations kits.
In my defence I have been helping my friend clean her house afte well-meaning mate decided to knock down most of the celing in the name of DIY.. Whole house coverered in inches of 100-year-old black grit and plaster

actually i haven't eaten anything either just coffee which probably explains my excitable mood

oooh coffee

I do miss coffee

mind you I think I would even choose wine over coffee

I think we need a holding bay thread for the more excitable / unwell / anxious / unhinged of us to wait in until normal 10/10 eating can be resumed, we can just drink caffeine and shake.

rofl

don't you think the thread is more like a holding bay though, where we hover, chat and discuss neurosis and then every so often, someone has an epiphany type moment where they say, I have eaten loads of fruit and vegetables today and I feel loads better.

Then everyone crowds round and says, mmm, your dinner sounds lovely, 'can I come and eat in your house?' before shuffling back into place.

I don't generally tell about all the things I consume - just talk about the good things I have .

it is like a f&v version of buying the Sunday papers and never reading them, but feeling like you have done something worthy and intellectual

even if you have eaten wagon wheels and cheese toasties all day you are still a 10/10er and therefore nutritionally superior

Exactly Frothy - or paying gym membership but never stepping foot in a gym. Which is why i'mm expecting my Veg license to be revoked and to be tossed out the back of the church hall onto a pile of veg peelings and banana skins.

..And zippi will be there, snogging a boy by the bins.

sounds fab

I will be wandering around with a tray of particularly yeasty sparkling wine