The Fruits of our Labour? 10/10 thread, all fruitmunchers welcome......

[TooTicky]

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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oh dear, i've only had orange juice and then strawberries and raisins on my cereal. I'll try and do better, but I'm going out for what will probably be a very unhealthy lunch so I don't think I'm anywhere near worthy of a vegetable themed nickname yet!

Well you've done better than me. I've only had about half a pear.
(Wrong end of the week really, have already raided garden for all ripe peas)

Franny, are you still in the bath? [concerned]

I hope you are sleeping comfortably, or having a baby or something.

Where is everybody? [forlorn]

I think I probably was when you typed that TooT
I had a very nice soak but then nearly did myself a mischief trying to get out. I don't think women are meant to get this pg. I will go and have long whinge on the overdue thread to try to get it out of my system for another 3 minutes

pequod the jammies are beautiful. We have LOADS of lurkers on here, we should have a come out come out week some time and see how many we get. We have MNHQers lurking and all sorts. Truly.

raw broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, courgettes, dipped in hummus. V nice especially the broccoli. Am pecky now so going to go and stand next to fridge with door open. Does anyone else do that? As if waiting for food to jump into your mouth and say eat me.

oh and Boco you did brave partying
I hope you feel better soon
stick to vegetables next time

Mmm, enchildadas with courgettes, peppers, carrots, corn, mang etouts and tomatoes.

And dh made them so even nicer.

Hello Pequoid, tell us about your F&V!!!

TooT, is the boot sale near you still going, or did it move?
We went to the free one on A350.

We got dd2 a coat for.......10p!!! Can you believ it? And a hat for 10p, and dd1 a dress fo r10p. madness.

My sister is coming home form hopsiptal today, she hopes. Should be going ot see her |Thursday.

ahhhhh boot sales
happy days

I think I was quite brave.
I talked to a man whose opening line was 'what does your husband like to do, apart from have sex with you?'.

And I said 'um... well, he quite likes reading'

And he said 'won't catch me reading no fucking books, no fucker goin to tell ME what to do!'

And I said, 'no, I think you might be thinking specifically instruction manuals, most books don't tell you what to do'.

And he went off to talk to someone else.

ooh lordy
that was madder than you would expect at the average party wasn't it
read those Magnus Mills books yet? [fear]

boco how weird

I am mid-cleaning / tidying frenzy. I wonder how much I can get done before the boys come home.

Boco you are brave and good at witty comebacks. I would just be stood there like this

in fact I think the man must have been reading the Magnus Mills books and taken them as instruction manuals

I need to eat something. Cheese sandwich I think

I am eating cheese and crackers and some white chocolate
it is a pale yellow kind of snack

I have just had cheese sandwich, some gorgeous tangy blackberries and a fig

I am doing Natural Consequences.

The natural consequence of my doing natural consequences with ds2 is that he has gone barking mad, and I am doing deep breathing, and trying to stay calm.

Grrrrrr.

It is very wearing. And he is very provocative, and I am talking too much.

And everyone else has gone out for lunch and for a nice walk because the natural consequence of Refusing To Get Dressed or Come Out or Be In Anyway A Decent Human Being is to stay at home, and not have any lunch.

I think.

I am off-loading.

DS2 does this ALL THE TIME - refuse to get dressed, move, come along with us, do something, anything that everyone else is doing.

I think the natural consequence of my doing natural consequences with ds2 is that I will explode.

Thank you for listening.

Is it possible do you think, that we shall ride the wave of this barking behaviour and all will be revealed at the end of the day and he will see it is much better just to come for lunch? Or not?

I haven't lost my temper yet.

I read the scheme for full employment but that's the only one - which is the one that's like the village?

The woman next door is lovely, but some of her friends are quite drunken gruff villagers. One of the women wet herself.

Also - could someone please explain to me in short words why it is that a person might lie on the sofa and say 'I'm not going anywhere with any of you, ever and no I won't get dressed and no, I don't want to and I shan't'

and why then everyone else gets knots in their stomachs about it - because it happens ever such a lot - and we all get tense and why a person wouldn't just say

'Oh do we have to? Okay then' and put their shoes on.

I might lose my temper in a moment. I am typing and ignoring instead.

Also why does it have to be a War?

And how do we stop it being a War?

Thank you.

[bows]

[bows with gritted teeth]

100 I don't know but I think I may need to know
we have this on a smaller scale and it drives me nuts
I wish you all luck with it

Oh Franny. Thank you.

I always think everything is about attention. Because nobody thinks they get enough of it - and perhaps they don't.

But somehow ds1 and dd get that life can't work if we all just strike out on our own and refuse stuff all the time.

I have challenged this. He has gone nuts. He ran out the house earlier. He threw stuff off my desk on to the floor. He is very articulate in his fury, which is quite horrible.

Oh god 100x, that is hard work. Is he cross generally?

If that happens here then dp tends to do shouting from hell and everybody ends up faintly terrified.
That's no help, is it?

Do you have any idea why he doesn't want to do things?
My dcs (well, ds2) sometimes goes on strike but it is generally because of something.

God I don't know that's hard.
Why would he be doing it - for the attention? Is he angry about something?
I've been doing natural consequences of not eating lunch is that you don't go to granny's house to practice putting up the tent - but because I very very much wanted them to both go so I could not have children in the house for an hour - it just meant that I went on and on about the consequences while they didn't eat lunch for 3 hours, and then I gave up and they went anyway, so I am obviously rubbish at this.