Getting rid of the clutter!

I know not dealing with the clutter that takes up room in my house is just eating away at me. I know putting things to one side to deal with later just makes things add up. If you think about it it shows all over you too.

With out dealing with it sooner it leaves time for dust to settle leaving it all the more harder to deal with. Learning that baby step and taking things slow, tackle one thing at a time.

So I wrote my list, first I just wrote down the things that bugged me most. Then I put them in order of which one needs to be done first. Thinking of daily life and when I am in the moment of getting tings ready what is the obstacle that is standing in my way and would make life just that much easier?

My bedroom was the number one. When we first built our house we had put our big desk in our master bed room. Then it got out of control trying to use the computer or do things at the desk. The desk was more of a dumping ground than anything. So, we got a laptop this past Christmas and got rid of the desk.

The problem wasn't completely solved because then there were the boxes that held all the stuff from the desk just sitting there in the corner waiting to be sorted. Of coarse the longer it sat the more we added to that pile of needing to be sorted stuff.

Yesterday was a great day. I had my list and I knew what I wanted to do first. Taking my new tools that helped me with food, I put them to use with cleaning. I hung a sign to remind me, I am cleaning the BED ROOM to be a bedroom not storage! So anytime I was tempted to give in and say I'll put this here and do it later, I'd look up and see it and it reminded me how great it will feel to have space to walk and have a bed room again!

To think all this is stemming from the basement, if I had never cleaned it out and started to organise things down there I wouldn't be able to find more storage space for thing. Now I can bring the al the clothes and sort them out in the basement were they wont be in the way and we have plenty of room to do it in now. We had 4 baskets of clothes that were either too small for the kids or needed to be stored for Gabby to use as she grows, even my pregnancy clothes. Do you know how great it felt to get the size 22 pants and frumpy clothes out of my way? I can't believe the amount of weight that has been lifted yet again.

Not only for tackling a couple of things on my list but for getting the scale out of my house! I even found an old scale it felt so great to be able to through it away! The other one I sent it of to my hubby's parents house. He's not ready to let it go yet. In time I am sure he will understand, I think we have gotten much better at complimenting and encouraging one another.

I also wrote myself reminders on my list. Things to think of because I know sometimes what I am thinking when going threw old things. How long has it been since we used this? Think, can you truly say you will use this with in the next year? You don't have to though everything away, you can put it in a yard sale, or simply donate it, just get it out!

Tackling one or two things once a week, or when I know I can handle it and not get over whelmed. That is key, because that is how the piles started in the first place. You go in all gunning for it and use up all your steam before the job is done and done right the first time.

Now I can take these feelings to the next thing on the list, just remember how great it feels to be getting things in order and get rid of the extra baggage.

Thank you for reading, and I hope I may have been of some help to others out there with clutter problems.

Be Well
Jamie

Just thinking

Wow, I can't believe all that Paul Mckenna has to offer us. So many people out there like me that have struggled with weight and just can't find the magic to make it all just disappear. We all wanted some pill or something that would make us wake up the next morning to start with a fresh thin body because it would make life so much easier and happier.

Who would ever think that we have that magic built right inside of us? It's been there all along and we just kept on smothering it with mindless eating and dieting.

I have been catching myself as I walk by a mirror or see my reflection in a window, and say wow is that really me? I can't believe the changes and I am the one who did it! Last Saturday before my youngest daughter's first b-day party I was getting dressed and I was so excited because I was going to see people friends and family I haven't seen since Easter time. Not only to see what they might say about how my new shape is taking form but to see the real me starting to show from the inside.

I wasn't sure on which shirt to wear with my only size 16's I have, my capris,I wanted to be comfortable and not have something draped on and make me feel frumpy. I found an XL tank top (far from my 3X I've been wearing) I haven't worn in years and I felt good and was worried about how I could still see my top roll. Of coarse I was home with just my kids so it's not like they could reassure me or tell me if it looked like I painted my shirt on, I mean I knew it wasn't that bad but I always feel like I need others approval or opinions. So I stand there judging myself yet again, an old nasty habit. I stopped and really look. I started to get teary eyed and said Jamie what are you doing to yourself. Look at you, you look awesome. Just think how much fat isn't showing anymore and you feel it you know you do, your comfortable and you know you don' care what others think. You just lost 52 pounds in 5 months show it!

My mom came over to help me gather kids and stuff for the party up at her house and her face said it all when she first saw me. She basically said what I was thinking. So I felt even better after I had another opinion.

Every now and then I get this feeling like wow is this me? Is this really my body? I will reach to scratch my shoulder and acually feel a shoulder bone. Ya maybe still a little squishy but I can feel a bone. Or when I go to rub my eye or scratch my face and can actually feel my cheekbones or even just feel the difference in how it's not as squishy. Just taking little mental notes and letting them seep in is so motivating and makes me feel proud and with this new journey letting myself feel proud and happy for me, it's allowed.

I had to tighten up the draw strings again on my shorts today and that made me feel real good. I can't believe how much not only I have don e but for being able to witness that I am not alone. So many of us are going threw these changes and it's been so wonderful sharing it with all of you.

Wishing you well and a great journey
Jamie

Ah it's so great

I am so happy to have gotten my hair cut. It was well deserved and fits well into the new me. I know I have kind of a goofy look on my face in my new picture. I was trying to take it myself and I felt silly no matter what I did my smile didn't look natural. So I did some silly faces and I think this was the better out of a few.

Thank you to all you lovely ladies for all your support and guidance. I can't wait to read more of your lovely blogs. Keep on writing!

Best wishes and always Smile!
Jamie