Project "Have mum and dad around longer"
Is a project to help encourage my mum and dad on their getting healthy kicks. Both are overweight, mum is diabetic and dad is a heavy smoker and I don't want to lose them before I have to.

So far we have had failures in the form of unused bikes, walking poles, skipping ropes, badminton kits and a small trampoline, or trampette if you will. All were asked for as gifts but sit gathering dust.

The part of the project that has been a success is the swapping of full fat to low fat items in the fridge, the adoption of sugar-free drinks and the discovery that Innocent smoothies when stirred in the freezer they become delicious fruit sorbet treats!
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Sat 5 Dec 2009, 10:11, 5 replies)

surely a trampette
is a small tramp?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 11:44, closed)

My Mum is 79
and a few years ago she joined the local pensioners' gym. Y'know, armchairs that gently exercise your legs up and down, and so on.

She still goes several times a week and has a great time. Not everyone who goes is old and they all have a laugh together. Perhaps your mother'd like it?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 13:15, closed)

Nice in theory, but wouldn't work in practice
She lives almost opposite the town leisure centre but hasn't ever been inside.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Sat 5 Dec 2009, 14:20, closed)

Pre made smoothies are packed full of sugar.

(hutchers, Sun 6 Dec 2009, 13:43, closed)

Fruit has a lot of natural sugars
But it's still a good swap on say, the mars bar ice-cream it replaced in their freezer.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Mon 7 Dec 2009, 8:25, closed)