Body Clutter

As I've been weeding through old clothes, making trips to Goodwill, throwing out things in the fridge that expired months and months ago, I've come to realize, I have too much STUFF!

And then, crammed into the bottom drawer of my nightstand, I found this book! Ha! By the dog-eared page that I found, it looks as if I got about 2/3 of the way through it and probably hid it there because someone was coming over and I didn't want them to know I was reading a book about being fat. (After all, it's not like they couldn't look at my current weight and tell. Ha!) Anyway, the book is written by these ladies that also have written about killing the clutter in your home, and how getting rid of the excess is the ticket to living clutter-free. And in the book I have, they relate it all back to your body. Some of the very same reasons we have too much clutter in our homes are the reasons why we have "body clutter", or, excess fat. Obviously I'm re-reading it, with plans to finish it, and it's definitely spurred my decisions to get rid of things that maybe I wouldn't have otherwise. All things that I truly don't need.

It is kind of geared towards "stay at home moms", because that's what the two authors are/were, but certainly every bit of advice that they offer can be applied to our own lives even if we have a day job. Another thing the book encourages is "getting dressed to shoes" every morning just as soon as you get up. This means rolling out of bed, every day, and making the first thing on your list be getting all dolled up and the claim is that when you feel pretty, you take better care of your body. Totally makes sense to me, and to a person who works 3 days/week and is off the other 4, I know just how easy it is to lay around half the day in your pajamas being a slob!

There is also a mantra in the book called "HALT", which stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. We all know I fall victim to Tired all the time, especially after coming home from work in the mornings! I'm only three chapters deep in the book this time around, but it has really offered up some very common sense advice. All the things it asks you to do work with your current diet. In fact, what I hate about most every self-help book that is out there regarding weight loss is that they bash competing "diets". This book is not a diet. In fact, they say that all programs, including Weight Watchers work. If. You. Do. Them! I'm very much looking forward to making the principles of this book a part of my Weight Watchers routine. I'm going to go get "dressed to shoes" just as soon as I finish this post, even though it's hours until I need to leave the house. Just to experiment!