Keeping on the straight and marrow - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

[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.

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.

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cheers zips

you see we are both coming for diffrent directions and I just thought it would be easy to find and has a cafe - I guess I am trapped in child mode and instinctivley go for child friendly places even though we will be without them!

seems silly to go all the way into town when all we are going to do is sit and chat!

have a nice time weeding - i will think of you and look at the weather!

LOL at Pink "on the 10 / 10 thread of all places!" Pink you are VERY normal I am sure and stickers is a very small vice.

Avi I think the like a bikes are meant to be very good. Stop teasing about Eden - I would really like it, or even more - Arden. They are both laughable with my surname. I did consider using dp's surname for this baby to get round it

Zippi I think being caught snogging by the post office man is wonderful and as UR says somehow very English. Possibly in a Carry On way. The milkman would have been even better.

Boco I am so pleased you and dp liked the film! I am really, ridiculously pleased. I should never actually have lent it to anyone in case they hated it. I wouldn't have been able to feel the same way about them afterwards Can we talk about it please? Isn't it marvellously quotable? My favourite is "always looking for the new experience" and "Do you sing and dance? Uh no, I thought not."

Oh I have eaten 1/3 pineapple, raisins, 3 kiwis. I make that 4 and a half.

lol pink too.

have had porridge - okay not a vegetable but quite healthy. I think boot camp is good idea - I need a kick.

Am having bean soup and apple for lunch and apple mid morning and, er spinach for tea but I don't know what with. Am not very 'planny' ATM.

yes well it's not boot camp but it is trainer camp

everyone aim for 10 today
it's not that hard

Look slovely lasagne.
Will make htis week.

I actually realy like black beans.
When we stayed at my friend's last year she had made this scrummy bean casserole thing, and it converted me!!
It is quite spicy, but really tasty. And very low fat .

Whilst dds love stickers, they like ot stick them on dh and i. Which leads to embarrasremtn, especially for dh when he goes to work with kitten stckers on his shirt!!

i'm sure hatton will be fine

i am on the verge of tears of crossness and frustration whiuch i have no doubt will bw worse before the end of the day

the oplumber is being awkward he is in refusing to sign off the boiler mode because it is side on in the cupboard....everyone is so unhelpful

it is the storuy of this buiold they are all a load of whingers who get me down

the boiler has been there for fucking 18 months so now the kitchen is built around it and i t is in a fucking huge cupboard with enough clearance to get the front off if a bit awkward he is being awkward about signing it off

and he is trying to oconvince me that the leak he hasnt been able to fix on the incoming main is now condensation

which is bollox but he just cant fix it

i am so stressed

i hate the place

and it still has to have the building inspector and none pf these people ever offers any soultions just pass the buck to someone else all the time

and i have no food to take with me and i am going to do this garden in the middle of no where so nomhope of anything to eat let alone ten fruit and veg

well i suppose i cant moan because my annoyances are just annopyances and other people have real difficulties and mine are all self inflicted

sorry it is probably a good job i have physical work to do

i just hope the ground isn't a complete rock

and her dog ios locked up

Sorry about all the frustrating stresses Zippi, hope they all get sorted.

Have a nice time with your friend Bee

I'm having a terrible morning.

DD1 put her school shoes on this morning and started screaming that there was a needle in her foot - took me ages to unbuckle her shoe - and there was a big wasp in it - which sent her completely into hysterics. She sobbed for half an hour and said that she wishes this day was a dreeeaaaam! Can't get her to put tights and shoes back on atm as it's sore. Had to phone school and say we'll be in when she's calmed down. Meanwhile dd2 started screaming in my ear, wailing that she wants Sugar-Sugar the plastic gorilla and will I get it for her - and coupled with the wailing of dd1 I had one of those red mist moments - snatched up dd2 to run up the stairs with her to get her away - and I slipped on the wooden floor and managed to fling dd1 before landing face first on the buggy. I've got bleeding hand, fat lip and twisted ankle. Dd2 is still crying out of shock - not hurt, and dd1 is still wailing about the wasp sting

Waaaaaaaaaaaah!

So, I'm calming down here for a moment.

a WASP? You poor things, I hate wasps. Did you kill it? Hope your day improves.

had lots of fruit for breakfast but can't be bothered to list it.

Dp did the killing. I don't know why a wasp would have been around. I'm not sure i've been stung by a wasp before - does it really hurt this much? dd is crawling to the bathroom, slowly and with much sobbing. I've run out of the soothing sympathy thing since falling over and dd2 is being a monstrous person and just threw her shoes in the bin.

My dds have my surname too. Part of the reason we haven't got married is that his family really want me and the girls to take his name and i don't want to, and it'll be harder to keep ignoring it if we actually got married.

that's a bit silly isn't it.

no, not silly. I have finally decided to keep my own name but I think DH is a bit funny about it, just a bit. Dc's have his name though. I tried to change it for a while but it was wrong. I am my own name and thats that. Perhaps if DH had a wildly glamorous, maybe Davenport or something it would be different. It is a very ordinary name.

Hello .

Thank you for the trousers which arrived this morning TooT.

When DH and I got married I changed my name to his. Prefer his surname to my old one - it is more interesting.

Wasps shouldn't be allowed in March, and definitely not in shoes.

I have eaten a banana.

I have three days of work in the office left and two working from home. This feels rather little really. Also managed to palm something off on someone else yesterday so have even less to do. Today is an at home with children day.

I don't think it's silly at all either. I would resist on similar grounds. I kept my name but dcs have dh's and mine as a middle name. It didn't really occur to me to insist they have my name as a surname, I find I don't mind that at all.

Wasp stings DO REALLY HURT. They are more painful than you think. Can you put some insect bite cream or something on quicly? Her needle thing is right, they are very needly and painful.

MrsC. I was thinking you when you are ready you should do a thread as lots of people here who will have had similar and there will be good advice for you out there. We will do hand holding.

Franny - I suppose I know that with ds2 example aint ever going to cut it with the knife and fork. A good tip is to hold the fork on its own first, and hold a bit of kitchen paper or something in the other hand, so they're not tempted to pick up. I don't like nagging - and I always find star charts a bit demeaning, not for you Pink, oh no but I have a thing about them - SO what I say is 'it is fine when you're tired to use your fingers, but it is HELPFUL to be able to use a knife and fork when you're out - so we're going to practise from time to time, just so you know how to do it.'

That seems to work - no nagging, and he often says 'I don't want to practise today' and that's fine too.

Hope that helps. Anyway - fork first, something in the other hand, then graduate to knife and fork.

See. I am expert and fine and gross motor everyday skills. [hmmm]

Though all mine hugely motivated by a sticker when younger - from someone else. Hugely pleased, every time.

Boco, poor all of you! I have had three wasp stings - don't remember them being MASSIVELY painful, just shocking. But then, I don't remember sticking my bare foot under boiling water being painful so I am maybe not 100& reliable

Apple and raisins.

DS uses a fork, and very occasionally a knife. I like the idea of having something else in the other hand.

My dcs have dp's name.

I don't really do sticker giving as a motivational thing - we do have stickers but not in any controlled way.

DS gets stickers occasionally at school and can remember why he got them.

I feel a waffling coming on. I think I may be examining my own child rearing philosohpies which have mainly been hit and miss and not that consistent and I have little idea what I do and don't do.

But my children are generally happy types so I must be doing something right

don't get me wrong we do HAVE stickers in the house
am not insane anti-gluey object person

anyway very sorry to hear about day Zippi. Sorry as well i said 10 f+v 'is not hard' when you have a day like that ahead of you. I hope it all worked out unexpectedly well.

Boco oh no! I have only been stung once and yes it did hurt like buggery. Well maybe not quite so bad as buggery . It ached for quite a while though, it doesn't just go away.

100 that is great, I just need to stop the nagging don't I so your ideas and Pink's ideas will do that and it will all turn out fine.

have made frittata with onions, mushrooms, cabbage and sweetcorn to have for dinner

1/2 glas oj so am on 5 portions I think

love to everyone, rushing
xxx

oh and I was ok about the possibility of changing to dp's name, I didn't really care WHAT names we all had, as long as everyone was happy, until dp said well there was no way he was changing to MY name, as he didn't like it

so that was that, I have stuck with it and ds has it too [stubborn]

ds doesn't seem to care a hoot we have different names - and we all have 'B' surnames so we occasionally get letters to 'Mr and Ms B' or similar, from family and friends