Bring me the head of Alfalfa Garcia - 10 / 10 thread

[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.

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

TF I'm liking your thinking. FMV yours us a little more tenuous!

YY - dancing.

And traipsing with pram.

And running after small children / DH all over site

Not to mention the total lack of sleep most nights, got into the pit about 5:30 am most nights to be woken up 1.5 hours later and then abviously you just have to start again with the debauchery.

Saw Dub Dadda who are half of Zion Train who got me and BF into B Days last w/e and hung out with them a lot. Messy. Got name checked as the folk who were to blame for him being such a mess! Always good.

AND I think I prefer them to ZT... Heresy.

AND I think they are coming to DD's 2nd birthday as they are playing a gig in Briz the night B4.

I love having my life back.
DD was a joy all w/e, a total enhancement to the proceedings.

Peace and Unity. Jah man. Rastafari.

N stuff.

Sadly I might be nursing two but I am eating far too much and it is nearly all crap. Here is too more F&V in my diet.

1 nectarine
4 plums
Lettuce
Cucumber
Roasted Cherry Toms

Er...and rather a lot of quiche and some crisps

I am wondering about the status of cobnuts

DH bought some and they are the fresh sort, not old and nut-like. Except of course they are a sort of nut.

My gusts have left and I am tired and have multiple bedhseets to wash.

/ **Symbol denotes my opinion of gym lady

I can;t think sensibly enough tonight Franny, for stragetic come backs, but I am extremely cross on your behalf.

Ick, it smells of cheese in here

I have just read massive chunk of book to dcs and nearly lost voice.

Have stupid bread dilemma.
I don't want to stay up and make it.
I can't get the breadmaker to do it as it doesn't bake properly any more.
If I put a dough on now, I will have to stay up or face it being spoiled in the morning.
If I put in dough ingredients but delay it, it will leak the water into its works.

FK, I pondered for a while over your gusts

OB, I have nosed through your FB photos. Well, some of them.

Bloody Hell Franny, the Gym Woman is crazy. I'd be writing a letter to someone, I think. Not sure who. But if there is no No Spectator rule (and with little children there shouldn't be). If DS needs/ wants you there then you have EVERY RIGHT to stay. She has no place telling you otherwise.

Bero, how is being back at work? Are you coping?

OB are yuo ok?

Ratatouille (minus the courgette - I had a huge yellow one that someone at the allotment gave me but when I chopped it up I realised it was a cucumber and didn't think it would work well being cooked)
Cucumber (see above)
Mango & Guava pop tart
Raisin cinnamon roll

My peas died. I don't know what kind they were but they were crap.

Urrrgh, it does stink of cheese. I am having kiwis for breakfast.

Right, waiting for Sainsburys delivery then off to town for uniforms. What are John Lewis like, Toot? I'm going there for shirts and trousers but the jumper has to be a school logo one from a special shop. Very annoying. There is always a queue and they are expensive.

Go on, tell how my online shop spectactularly negates my fair trade polo shirts!

So...... tired....... cannot..... keeep .......eyes...open.

Need more sleep. Obviously 12 hours a night isn't enough.

Nearly left this morning without DD. Think I should have done to punish DH who is still in bed.

hello hello - I'm a mum to be as well pink, so does that mean I get to eat crap and get away with it too?!

I've startd afresh this morning and had :-

1 plum
1 banana
some sultanas

7 more to go! I rushed about like a loon getting ready for work (15 mins) so I think thats my 10 minutes exercise - I do go up and down two flights of stairs, twice

I think I've had an allergic reaction to something I've cleaned with. Or possibly just an allergic reaction to cleaning. the palms of my hands are itching horribly, but no rash or anything. gah.

(hitler gym woman sounds dreadful BTW)

You should check itchiing with your midwife I think, MamaG. Probably is something external but I think maternal itching can be a symptom of something or other.

All self inflicted, OB! I am knackered too actually. The first night we only got two hours sleep in a layby as we drove there through the night and then on my 'night out' I got back at four and couldn't get to sleep and ds2 woke up at seven. In fact that's the day I called dh an arsehole in front of children. Hmm.

MamaG I think Guad is right, it can be a pg related thing caused by liver function or something, my friend had it.

You should go and tell midwife, not dangerous just irritating I think, and goes after pg.

I'm not due to see MW until 4 weeks - having a scan next week at MW unit, should I mention it there, or does it merit a phone call to my community MW?

I was really hoping it was an allergy to cleaning, so I could tell DH

I would ring. It's probably nothing but I think you should mention it.

I'm sure your dh will suggest gloves.

hi

only one unclear thing on my rules i do eat couscous and bulgur not i dont

well i am back on it as i have got rather unfit of late and i am annoyed at not being fit enough to go up germaqnys highest mountain and down again in one day with fit 30 year old men

this is an irrational annoyance as it invoves a glacier and via ferrata

but nevertheless i have got crap latel;y

went to the gym yesterday and i am down on my weights

and i was tired

i think i need to go back on spatone

so yesterday i did do gym and swimming

this morning oats abd blackberries

bf is terrible for my food when i see him as he eats typical single man stuff

tho i do try and get him to eat half mine

gym lady sounds ridiciculous how do these people get customer service jobs

i would complain in writing to her and copy to her boss

Gym woman sounds seriously unhinged...good luck dealing with her.

Good start this morning, breakfast was :-

Strawberries
Banana
Red apple

I had a similar episode with DH actually Guad...

Sunday night, put DD to bed as all friends camping around us were in bed and she was dead to the world and went off on our own. Lots of fun was had. I realised it was getting lighter... and lighter... and that it was actually 7:30am

So, I said - right it's your turn to hold it down, go home and look after DD, I'm coming back too but am going to sleep seeing as that is all you have done all w/e in the day whilst I have played grown up.

Anyhoo... Got back to tent, he'd left his phone behind, went back to get it, didn't come back till 12:30 in the afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My brilliant friends had got DD up as I was unconscious, played with and fed her for a couple of hours at which point I woke up and rang DH screaming blue murder for all to hear....

I finally got the line out that I have been saving up for the last few times he has escaped without phoning.

'Who the fuck do you think you are - some single 25 year old with no family or responsibilities? Well, you're not. You're an idiot fast approaching middle age with 2 children and a wife who are sick of you behaving like a twat'.

Good huh?

He let me sleep till 7:30pm after that so I guess he heard me.

I was very tired and emotional I should point out. I'm not normally so vocal. I like to play the long game..

Anyway, this is his last chance. One more episode and there will be no more catering chez OB for a month.

Gosh, you are much more relaxed than I am. I would have been terrified that they'd wake up and wander off. I was worried about about ds2 waking up and sneaking past dh while he was asleep, in fact, that's what made me return at 4am just in case!

I was actually having a great time but I'm a worrier. Of course they were both asleep. This is why I don't relax, twice I followed them to make sure he really was watching him as he runs so fast amd can climb and open zips and stuff.

I felt bad though, as it can't be very nice to think that your wife doesn't trust you to watch your own child, but he just doesn't watch him like I do. And it's dark, and he won't wear his glow stick, and there are people stumbling everywhere and so on.

I met one woman that had lost her two year old for over an hour. The stewards found him in the overflow field that is far from the main area over a road. That would have done me in.

There were relaxing points though, where he was asleep in the pram mainly. We had a few ciders and lunches listening to bands with him alseep and that was great. DS2 really enjoyed the freedom of wandering around, this is the thing with big age gaps, not all holidays suit all ages.

Salad, juice, half a croissant in John Lewis. Toot, you will be pleased to hear that they sell fairtrade trousers and shirts in there.

Yes, John Lewis do do some good things, but they don't tend to put them on the website, and our nearest one is in a nightmare place. My mum has been there for me before, but I think dd1 really needs to try things on.

I have been cooking lots and eating little.

Zippi, when did you go up the mountain? Sounds fab!!

OB, is it national NHS let's not bother to answer the phone day? Have had appointment letter for ds2 - says appointment, not op - so want to clarify whether it is in fact for the op, or if not, why we need to go again. I keep getting the "high volume of calls" message. Blah.

MamaG honey you need to get that checked out

My mate (RubberDuck on here) had a condition known as Obstetric Cholestatis and had to be induced early... itching palms with no rash a classic symptom iirc

eeeeeeeeeeeek TigerFeet - just read the link

Signs and symptoms

Hallmarks of ICP include the following symptoms:

Itching of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet without presence of a rash YES*
Itching that increases in the evening YES*
Darker urine YES* (sorry if tmi)

• Lighter stools - no
• Increased clotting time - ???!
• Fatigue - yes, but doesn't everybody at 31 weeks?! Increased nausea - YES*
• Decrease in appetite - ha, it takes a lot to put me off my food!
• Jaundice - I'm quite sallow by nature, DH says I look like a Simpsons character most days but am no more than usual
• Premature labor - not yet

Will ring MW again NOW

dunno bout non answering of phones day. deffo chipping off from work early day. At least for me.

Guad - she was in travel cot in her own 'room'. She can't get out of the travel cot, and if she could she couldn't get out of her room. [evil parent] plus I knew she was totally knackered and wouldn't wake up.

yes, ring them and check, MamaG.

OB - I wasn't suggesting your dd wasn't safe just that I wouldn't be able to do it. For a start, I have a houdini that gets out of cots, through tiny spaces, over walls etc, and I also have wakeful baby. He is happy and contented and a joy but bloody tiring at the moment, can't relax for a second.