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

I was in a pub fight once. Some people we were with had a fight, and one of them tipped over a table full of glasses, and the MASSIVE bouncer (who died about a year later in a knife fight) grabbed dp and dragged him outside and started punching him - and so unable to verbalise the injustice of this, I jumped on his back! Everyone else started fighting too, in the street. Those were the days. Never been in an actual fight though, only shaken off a bouncer's back. Dp was attacked quite a few times in New Cross, he's had his nose broken and clothes ripped - he's very tall and did karate at the time so did hit back which made it scarier.

Franny my friend had her baby two days ago and called him Wolfgang!

oh you talked some poor bugger into it then
no it's a great name, but not for me

OMG it's in the air! DS1 and DS2 have just had a MASSIVE fight, and beaten each other up! And I didn't say, 'where are your freaking survival strategies?' to either of them, I have sent them to their rooms.

how exhausting. I have shouted a lot, in a v. unorthodox survival strategy type way. . . .

mind you not broody anymore!

i had dermatology appointment

she asked about cow's milk; i said we still didn't give it
she thought for a bit and said "well does he have fromage frais?"

100, babies don't fight
they just wave their legs and laugh and suck their toes

Hmmm. they grow though, and i thought I liked them when they'd grown.

What do I do now. Leave them? I told them it was all over, they were to go to bed. Also quite odd because DS1 did standing and refusing, and so i did shouting because I thought I might not be able to move him. Oh dear. I do hate it when it gets ugly

What do I do? Do we have to discuss it? I really can't think of a new or meaningful variation on 'it's not okay to kick your brother in the face, and it's not okay for you to hit him over the head, and could you both not swear too. thanks ever so much.'

They know this right?

have a family meeting tomorrow and ask them to suggest house rules
discuss, agree, write down, stick on wall

we are doing this tomorrow

Oh 100x,doyour children swear too? Oh good. Well,not good,but I feel somehow reassured.

okay good idea. We used to do this, and haven't in ages. We'll do that, we need new rules I think.

I went up and said 'you both know you shouldn't xyz, you're up here because I'm not having that in this house, if you carry on like that, the same will happen again. Now you've both calmed down would you like some hot chocolate'

they did solemn nodding, and then cheerful nodding.

jeez, they do wind each other up those two, CONSTANTLY. I didn't specify exactly how I would be dragging an 11 and 9 or 16 and 14 y-o up the stairs in the future.

oh god yes TooT. DS1 with particular relish. I did HOW DARE YOU bellowing, but then was crap and said 'you and ds2 need to sort your shit out'

Excellent role model. Am sure you agree.

100x
oh I do like you

I amactually quite helpless with laughter

Was crap wasn't it?

God.

can someone please join me in ing at the consultant who thought i was too thick to know that fromage frais has cow's milk in?

LOL at you two

Oh I amsosorry Franny.I did indeed but forgot toverbalise it.

There.

Am going to make hot chocolate now. but shall I tell you why they fell upon each other and started beating each other up? Properly fighting to hurt they were, not playing? Because ds1 told ds2 that he had been frightened of milk until he was 6.

I amgoing for a RUN.
I have eaten FOOD.

what, they were fighting because ds1 had unfairly accused ds2 of being afraid of milk?
or because he had cruelly but honestly brought this up? or what? i don't understand yet

is he scared of fromage frais at all?

TooT have a sit DOWN
and eat some PIES

I haven't got a lecturn and my recipe books are pleasingly covered in smears of chocolate. I'm not even allowed the toaster on the worktop, it goes away in the cupboard each time we use it. But if I had one it would be a perspex Lakeland one

Franny sorry to hear about family stuff.

EEEEEEWwwwww @jello salad

Don't know if family Pink are coming to meet up now. Can't get my head round the planning

Lovely pasta bake for dinner with big chunks of courgette, onion, pepper, mushroom, bacon and mushroom sauce. Mmmmm

Also apple, juice, raisins, celery/pepper/cuc/lettuce/toms.

Still no exercise. Will try to run over the weekend.

But can I count ds putting on 17oz in 2 weeks

LOL That does sound like quite a 10/10 type of argument to have, what with all the exclusions and dairy fear.

We did try to make family rules once, dd1 was very good at it, but dd2's were all 'no one is allowed to cut butterflies' and 'you can't dress as a clown' and I didn't bother to write them down.

oh another thing the consultant said (wrt his diet)
"well you will know whether his diet is adequate from his weight chart"

ermmm.....