Wake Pea Up Before you Goji - 10/10 thread

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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

dh is one of these awful munro bagging types so if you can't beat them, join them!

Have done a few and would like to do more, but it's been 3 years since I was last up a mountain under my own steam.
As for dc3, never say never!

I climbed a hill mountain last week in Wales. Phew, it was hard work.

Ok, getting prepared to be judged!

Breakfast - fruit juice, cereal and coffee/ fruit scone and coffee if at work.
Lunch - sandwich normally chicken/ham/tuna with salad. Fruit if not working, chocolate if I am.
Tea - normal meal would consist of meat, carb and at least 3 portions of veg.

Admit to one day per week when I will eat rubbish, but it is only one day.

Work 2 days per week - 12.5 hour shifts.

well that's not bad for starters
i feel like i have yapped enough today so will leave you in capable vegger hands
my suggestion will be have a bean or lentil based evening meal sometimes

fucking hell, flappy. tea with 3 porions of veg! Get outta here. You belong on this thread

Evening everyone and hello Flappy.

I used to do a fair bit of walking in fact I am supposed to be consolidating my ML training at the moment, except that I have got sidetracked retraining and planning a career change.
I certainly have no plans for dc2 or dc3!

I managed 6 today - need to rethink breakfast.

The struggle I have is that I am soooooo tired atm. I was awoken at 5am this morning with the blutty birds making a racket.

Love the idea of fruit picking but have never been. DS would enjoy it too.

Have lovely weekends everyone, I am off to bed after the eviction.

lol at Pointy

Half a banana - DS swears he doesn't like them but when I have one he always eats half of it
Juice
Artichokes, broccoli, capers (on pizza)
Lettuce, mint, rocket and dill salad (from the garden) x 2

Five maybe. I did do some walking too and it was very humid and hot so I think it should count even though it wasn't brisk walking.

pointy we are going to have to make you some stickers saying i did big swearing today

well what a crap night
somehow ds2 manages to wake me up and feed every 3 mins without actually waking himself up
plus i have a cold
plus ds1 woke up crying about the Gnormans moving to Sweden
thank god we are out for the day or i can tell i would do shouting

100 have you buggered off because i pointed out you weren't thrilled by my listing? i hope not
come back
you are lynchpin of group and anyway you DO eat f+v and are generally wholesome presence (in Anne incarnation) and amusing subversive influence in brie and coffee mode
plus i want to hear more about why dp lost 2 stone in a month or whatever
i got quite concerned about it and questioned Boco at the meet
were your ears burning?

and please can we all boss Flappy around a bit
i think she wants us to
right Flappy lentils or beans for your evening meal at least 2 days a week
and piece of fruit with your breakfast

I'm not sure I can fill Franny's bossy boots , but I'll have a go.

Flappy:

Have less cereal but add a chopped banana and some berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries etc), and/or some dried fruit. So, that makes 3 portions.

Mid morning snack of fruit, 1 portion.

Lunch: raw carrot sticks, cauliflower, cucumber, humous and a toasted wholemeal pitta, 4 portions.

Mid afternoon snack: cereal bar that contains a portion, or fruit, 1 portion.

Dinner: meal with 2 portions of veg. Strawberries and raspberries with cream and meringue, another 4 portions.

That's 13 portions there!!

I wish I could take my own advice!!

I should take your advice too, Lemur

I find it v hard to eat fruit and breakfast. Excpet dried fruit.

I have 2 loads of washing on, have stripped spare beds, started to tidy up and need to bake a cake.
And collect dh's father's day tree.

And we have step son here tonight. So need to do another bed for him.

Flappy, my BIL was in Iraq for 3 months over Xmas, and my sister had only had their baby a couple of months earlier. It was horrible.
I don't know how you all do it.

Raisisn

Pooor Franny, not having much sleep is horrible. I hate that fuzzy feeling when they seem to have woken more than every hour and the day looms before you. I think you often get a second wind in the afternoon though, and there is always cake! That helps me get through it. And small children are small for such a short time and then you have the rest of your life to sleep like a baby. There, that probably doesn't help. But I tried!

Ooh, there are children cycling through Thetford forest on Lazytown. I think I can see one of SB's imaginary orchids.

Flappy - you sound like a no nonsense sort of person that just gets on with it. Good for you. I reckon you will be great at focus, in fact, maybe you will be cracking the whip at some of the rest of us slackets in no time.

I have had a superb breakfast

sultanas
dreid apricots
grapefruit juice
pineapple, loads (2, poss more)

5 already

Oh no Franny darling- of COURSE not! Sorry, I thought last night (whilst at ver boring party) that it might have sounded sniffy. I didn't mean it to, I v. rarely take offense to anything - am worryingly ambivalent actually.

I meant it quite seriously. My life is peppered with those 'but why are you doing this?' moments. Loads of them, when you then think 'yes, actually, WHY am I doing this?' (Though you didn't say 'why are you here'? I know that)

Deep innit.

Have v. busy day ahead. But no hangover, even though I drank a lot. You know I think I didn't get drunk because I was so bored.

Oh no we're v. sensible. And just changed the way we eat. I, for instance, now eat 3 meals a day - and have lost weight. Go figure. DH ate rubbish a lot, has cut that out, is tall and naturally slender, so it just fell off him. Annoyingly. We both feel better - is quite a positive thing not a worrying thing, promise.

Wow, pointy, that is quite impressive.

100 - 2 stone is A LOT though, it's hard to lose 2 stone and that was such a short time. I have worked really hard and I still can't get that extra half off to make 2 stone. I think it is clinging on for dear life.

I like green fruit atm, green grapes, green apples and um, can't think of anything else but if I had it I would eat those.

I know, it is a lot. He does have a different metabolism, I think, certainly to me, and men do apportion their fat differently don't they? He used to eat well, but he also would wander down from his study and eat a load of rubbish - and he's just cut that out. We both eat really well, and actually have made an effort to cook nice food - loads of fish, and good salads and he eats fruit now, which he didn't before. It hasn't been four weeks, but eight. His weight loss has slowed down now, is tailing off I think.

Why thank you, Toot. I did have gooseberries in my chutney but those were brown.

I can do you some unripe raspberries aswell if you like....

Do you know at first glance on threads I'm on I thought it said urine not unripe

There was a programme about extreme health food freaks on last night, that's probably why. One woman drinks her own wee every day, another couple have a lemon or coffee enema every morning and none of them ever eat anything cooked. One family had three children and they'd only eaten raw food their whole life! Looked pretty well though.

Hello

I have turned the monthly corner into irritableness, please feel free to ignore me

Guad when is the definitive age that they "are not small anymore" and I can start sleeping for 10 hours a night again?

I am hopeful it might be about 6...?

It looks like it's about to pour down

Fruit has to be red for me at the moment.

Am particularly fancying cherries.

most of my faveourites are red - cherries, raspberries, strawbs, pomegranites watermelon.

I feel very glum. this time of year is usually camping and festivals and bonfires and wedding anniversaries. And instead we are skint, have no festival or holiday plans at all, and dh is away for our wedding nniversary on wednesday But worst of all didn't even realise he was going to be away then

Dunno, FK. We are not there yet with ds2, he often wakes up for a cup of milk though he didn't last night. It's not like that baby waking though. That is hard.

Molly - can you do lots of free stuff, picnics and nice drives and visiting friends and things? Why don't you plan a faux anniversary when he's back?

Molly.

I have eaten way too many cherries

And just spotted a bastard blackbird stealing half ripe cherries off my tree.

More fresh peas and strawberries form garden
tomatoes
pear