If it's apples again I'm leafing - 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

Sorry Boco. I'm not laughing at dd being hurt but I did lol at why she hurt herself

Still not catching up properly and not eating huge amounts of good stuff but I did 10 mins on the stepper last night

oh no! lips and faces very nasty places to injure - they bleed so, and it looks upsetting

boco WHY can we not get lots of things done every day? some days i honestly struggle to say anything sensible we have done
it's just a constant round of tidying, preparing food, washing people, changing clothes, wiping floors, washing up, wiping noses, wiping bottoms
it's just a whole day of WIPING really
and to think i have an IQ of 154

oh i ate soya beans and sweet corn

must be 8

long weekend coming up whoo! what is everyone doing?

Do you really have IQ of 154 Franny? That's about the same as Carol Vorderman. At least you could COUNT the number of wipes, and divide them by the number of tissues used, and times by the number of poos done. And then plot them on a chart and work out the mean average monthly. If you wanted. A lot of people couldn't do that.

We'll get more done Franny, as people begin doing their own wiping. And you have to have days when you remember why you do it and why you don't choose to do something else.

Lol at 100s ds1 - it's obviously something they have to work out for themselves, this keeping your eyes open thing.

100? What do you mean? What, exactly, did you say to her?

Is bad enough I went to a very boozy 40th birthday party in a pub tonihght with 80s music and dancing and my ds2's bloody teacher was there, only I didn't notice until well after I had been spotted dancing very enthusiastically to The Smiths...

Oh god, every time I say hello to her now, she'll think I'm trying to stalk her.
Just how stalkery did you make me appear?

Well done little TooT

Franny's fretting. Sorry. Can't think of reassuring words atm because I feel like I am swimming through treacle but, I am sure it will get better for you. DS will learn to read and I am sure you look quite delicious without your clothes on.

Salad Bar (10)

`did you really get 10 at a salad bar bunny? if you tried to get 10 at a salad bar here you would get 10 portions of mayonnaisey pasta, probably

i most certainly do not look delicious without my clothes on
i never looked that good to start with but at least all the bits were in the right places
now it looks like the scene of a tragic accident
with road cone and areas taped off and stuff

boco yes i have but i must say it doesn't seem to have done me as much good as it has carol vorderman
i don't seem to have a great deal of common sense to go with it, maybe that is it
and she doesn't have traffic cones and tape and stuff

we need a new title

can i have my own section for boasting about ds2? shall I ask justine?

DAILY BOAST ABOUT DS2:

he can say 'dada' 'ds1' and 'banana' (note absence of 'mama' )
we had a friend round last night with a baby 2 months older who didn't do BLW and it was very different how they ate
i was feeling slightly meh about BLW as I do from time to time but i am convinced again now
if you are lazy person who likes to eat your own dinner and go on MN while you do it, i can confidently state that BLW is the business

Franny, post a naked pic and let us judge

I have a tummy of shame, if that is any help. And minimal breastage. Not even PERT minimal breastage.
Sigh.

Fabulous for Tootlet Toot.....

Oh I feel for you franny, it is so dispiriting. It is easy to give advise I suppose but it is about finding your own way around it.
I was highly recommended to take carob powder where energy was concerned but appreciate with BFing it might not be for you.
And saying don't be too hard on yourself, FWIW, I think you seem to do amazingly, because you are so absorbed by the DC's and always doing stuff with them and going to fab places.

Could you try giving yourself a time span to accept the current status quo, take the pressure off
yourself and then say right, when this routine settles down, I will introduce x, y or Z and so on and so forth?

Boco, Fab on commissions, I have avoided them for ages as I wanted to build up enough work to exhibit but it would be lovely to start them again now. And for poor DD. I always landed on my face as a tot....

I am hoping that in about 3 years when DD is older my painting will take over from current 'gainful employment'.....but won't complain if it happens sooner.
Speaking of which I am so busy and am struggling to do a great deal of wiping at all...
But I buzz when I am busy so feel more like my old self.

Yesterdays list was good.
Raspberries, x2
orange,
plums,
juice,
mushrooms,x2
tomatoes, x2
peppers,
onions,
broccoli.

got out on my bike (yayy!!)
Today feels like a good day.

oh franny, me and my long-lost friend were singing ''Oh Yea Girl, Tonight we're gonna make love.. It's business
It's business time''
to a real smooth operator who was trying to chat us up..
And thinking we were really, really amusing, when in fact no-one else had any idea what we were singing.

Well I think we just have to accept that we're not 22 and we've had children, and we bear that on our bodies. And there are lots of advantages to being older and wiser and cooler and life is good and interesting and curious and complicated, and long may it remain so, and it'd be weird to be 38 and not look like you've travelled anywhere at all.
I think I might have just told you to count your blessings Fra.

Moll - oh it was fine, I said a couple of weekends ago you camped out opposite my house, that you send me weird postcards, that you ring and hang up when I answer. Really. Nothing to worry about at all.

ah well,as long as you don't mention the fact that I changed my Christiam name to match yours...it should be ok.

100, nope, TT not living in house.
But we let him run around the living room most evenings, for our amusment.
And to try and get dd2 more familiar with him.

second load of washing on line, the smallest things make me happy
Dd2 is v teary - she says she is missing dd1. I am not so sure.

Raisins
other dried fruit

Morning! Only been up about an hour but still feel dog-tired. When does it end?

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You are doing brilliantly. Just get lots of rest. And cake.

Oh yes, I did mention that Moll, natch.

Someone send a sunday supplement round here now. I am middle class Thrift Queen this weekend. I have painted the manky grotty chair in ds2's room duck egg blue, and made a cover for the seat out of an old pillow case. I also have more painting plans. . . .

I would also like to say to Pink and Franny - while making do and mending and delivering ghastly homilies all day - that having two small children is not easy, and it is v. tiring and endless and wiping and doing and crying and all that is HARD, and you must remember that and not think everyone else is gliding about over-flowing with joy and in control. Is not true, but it's also fun whilst tiring, as you know.

Hugs and manly pats to Franny and Pink.

I feel like everything that you've both listed from time to time, but I know it normally coincides with a rough patch (always to do with sleep, or lack of it), and that it will end. I've also come to terms with the fact that things go pear shaped, things get better, then they go pear shaped again for a while. It's the nature of the beast. Fighting against it is futile and a waste of energy, so I just go with it instead.

No Franny I lied But I did have:

huge pile of leaves
fruit (x2)
bean salad
peppers x lots
cucumber x lots
hummous

so seven perhaps.

Avoiding dairy and meaty things meant no mayonaisey stuff.

I would like to wax lyrical about the salad bar, actually...

It is a sandwich bar type place (like a nice version of Subway) with all sorts of sandwiches and soups and a really good salad bar.

All salad stuff is organic, their coffee (free refills!) is fair trade. They claim to use no artificial trans fats, no msg, no high fructose corn syrup. And, a kids meal costs $2.39 for something that would costs $6-8 elsewhere. And they have free icecream

i have been shopping
unfortunately i went BEFORE i read 100's post about not being 22 anymore
so i have bought underwire and sparkly eye liner and a sun dress
i feel much better

That does sound good franny, sparkly makeup always picks a gal up.

I have had opposite experience today. My sister's wedding is next month, and my mother, knowing I can't afford to buy a dress, brought round her one glam friend with some of her designer dresses for me to borrow. Which would be fine but she's a size 16 and age 55. And they sat outside and demanded I try them all on. They were all HUGE on me, and I looked ridiculous, and there were v. high shoes in one size too small. And they made a big thing about how we'd pin here and sew here and it'd be FINE. I looked like I was dressing up in my mum's friend's clothes! And they went off with my mum determined to alter them for me. I'm going to need to be assertive BEFORE she butchers the posh clothes.