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Shiny happy peapods laughing - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

836 replies

FrannyandZooey · 13/04/2008 22:06

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

OP posts:
lullabyloo · 15/04/2008 22:13

crystal hair jewels & honeymoons?

ooo er

eternalstudent · 15/04/2008 22:13

Get on yer nerves

pinkspottywellies · 15/04/2008 22:14

I always thought Bath people were generally, overall better looking than Bristol people! Very strange!

BBB you can't put me at the bottom of The List then expect me to be The Torch

eternalstudent · 15/04/2008 22:14

Get on yer nerves

lullabyloo · 15/04/2008 22:14

ay I know

will be down there soon
yipeeeeeeeeeee

eternalstudent · 15/04/2008 22:15

It's true PSW. Mainly because the Bath folk have less fun and therefore more money to spend on Creme de la Mer.

BBBee · 15/04/2008 22:15

oh pink i forgot to tell you that you have jumped to the top of the list - see is fickle.

eternalstudent · 15/04/2008 22:15

I know a song....

eternalstudent · 15/04/2008 22:17

Back once again with the renegade master.

Sorry, will leave you to your musings.

N Night

pinkspottywellies · 15/04/2008 22:47

By the way BBB I know you said I was near the bottom of The List but, and I can handle the truth here, was I actually bottom? I was wasn't I?

lullabyloo · 15/04/2008 22:49

Oh lol at the fretting over this list

Bee,what have you done?

BBBee · 16/04/2008 00:19

no - 100 was bottom, i was next.

UnderRated · 16/04/2008 01:06

F&V: raisins (x 2), apple, 1/2 banana, 2x pineapple (portions not whole ones), red cabbage (lots), carrot (not much), hummous, grapes. Probably 10-ish. But not very varied.

No real exercise but I did push a stroller containing 1 large 10 month old, a 3 yr old (lazy) and DS. I reckon they weigh about 100lb altogether plus the weight of the stroller. Was bloody hard work. That must count to something. About 20 mins there and 20 mins back but at a slow pace.

It was hot enough for no coats today. Yippee!

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 07:18

i aacidentally got up at ten to six under the impression it was ten to seven

couldnt sleep because i am worrying

i am drifting back to insomnia

didnt have any coffee yesterday either

i am closing down my business

so another failure chalked up

decided this in the night

actually closing it will cost me money but so does keeping it going when it is still losing money

i have had oats and granola and luxury fruit sald lol

and herb tea

Original poster
FrannyandZooey · 16/04/2008 08:04

"BBB you can't put me at the bottom of The List then expect me to be The Torch"

LOLOL at this
Pink I have also been brooding on this and I am coming to the conclusion that Bee has put all the people she LIKES down the bottom: eg, 100, herself, you
so where does that leave me, at the top like a Billy No Mates?

I would like to say Boo and Bah and Humbug and Frustle Frustle to people having Other Meetups when I can't come (you see I told you it would make me jealous and even up the score)

zippi how do you feel about closing the business? I am sorry you are feeling it was a failure. I would like to say something encouraging about nothing ventured and it all being a learning process but you may feel cross and pinch me

Avi the fact they won't compromise on that makes me feel anxious for their flexibility about anything else
This is a particularly sore spot for me and I had to find somewhere VERY flexible - they are wonderful about that actually
I presume you think it's good otherwise though so will hope to hear good things

Apple, melon, grapes, raisins

OP posts:
BBBee · 16/04/2008 08:13

zippi - i am sorry are feeling low. It is a brave decision you have made - proactive and decisive. Also you were brave enough to try wheras for many people the fear of failure means they never try.

I feel the need for a quote, but have poor memory:

"try, fail, try again, fail better"

or something like that.

trying is brave

BBBee · 16/04/2008 08:15

franny of course i like you you silly goose.

fk was very high too and i love her and so was lully - how can anyone not like lully!

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 08:16

it is abit crap as i ha high hopes but as it has cost me a small fortune and i have just been pointlessly cling ing on to it for years

i started it in 2002 i think and it has only ever lost money

so it has been mad really

i dont really know how much it cost me tbh depending what you factor in on the grounds that i could have possibly found someone to give me a job for 6 years tho i wouldnt have earned much tbh

i just want to ge tsome more gardening jobs

and or do anothe rgardening course

i am worried aboutg finances if i look beyind the fact that i appear to have money in the bank which is a complete illusion as a) it is all borrowed and b) my otugoings are huge
c) my income is if you are an optimnist and discount the fact that i am paying out on a failing business which will cost me money to wind up my income from actually woirking is 40 quid which is laughable that doesnt evben pay my fuel for the car

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 08:18

the sjhop was the financial disaster par excellence not to speak of me spending 6 days a week in it for three years why i did that i dont know

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 08:22

i think it is worry and bottled up stress which is making it so hard for me to concentrate and remember stuff

i have given up writing things down so i have this constant kind of fur in my head of things that i should be remembering to do and think about and i just think about my social life instead

a social life i cant actually afford obviously

the house masrket looks set to crash and of course that is where my future is

and my debts

i have ended up with a masterpeice of bad timing if i had managed to finish the house and sell it i would have made money but i am hopeless at making money

i even spent years with exh being not well off sacked him once he was earning well and now of course her is a very very eligible partner lol

oh well

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 08:23

i should have started a separate thread for all this angst but i only want to talk to you lot about it not the whole board i dont think in general i will be viewed with much sympathy probably rightly

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 08:34

i am feeling a terrible failure in my life

i have two long term relationships that were failures

shop was a fialure

interior design business was a fialure

website was a failure

realtionship with my brothers is a failure

bringing up children two thirds a failure

house build a failure

hose i live in a failure

carreer nononexistent

mental health a failure

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 08:36

ill probably turn out to have hiv just to complete the picture

zippitippitoes · 16/04/2008 09:06

sorry not the right place t post all that stuff

eternalstudent · 16/04/2008 09:27

Don't know what to say Zip... I'm sure you're not a failure.