Coldpizza, we moved to This Old House in 1996. There are boxes in our basement from that move. I am so ashamed.
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Hi Coldpizza, I love your idea of throwing out an item every day. I’ve got a heap of stuff I’m determined to never need again. I’m up for the challenge. When you look at 365 days, that is a considerable haul. Hope your unpacking is going well. I can imagine K-Lo going through those 20 year old boxes. It would be like Christmas come early. We’ve lived in this house, which we built ourselves from concrete and rammed earth, for 30 years having taken 5 and a 1/2 years to build. We’ve never had a lot of storage but still manage to accumulate “stuff”. The house still isn’t complete but we love it. Just needs finishing touches😄😂. Down to 111.9 kegs this morning after 36 hour fluids. Now have lamb bone broth cooking in my daughter’s slow cooker. I’m a total convert but a real pain in the rear for my family as I keep commenting on what I’m reading etc. hopefully it will slide into the background of our lives as it becomes second nature. All the best from not so sunny Qld. It has been raining this morning and we’ve got the fire going to keep the place warm. xx
Coldpizza, it was very cathartic. I tried on everything. Fit into outfits I couldn’t get into last year. Found a beloved gold pin, $105 in a pocket. And now my closet is organized and I have a pile of stuff for next weekend’s flea market. Even my husband got into the act… briefly. I’m borrowing one of the rolling wardrobe racks so I can hang everything up. Must get singles and quarters.
The extended weather forecast is iffy…..
I just ran into a colleague who has the same body type as mine, but she’s 15 years younger. She said in hushed tones, “I’ve been meaning to ask you. Have you lost weight?” Oh yeah…. “HOW?” And like a true convert, I told her about my new religion. She said I saw the outfit you were wearing yesterday and it just hit me. An outfit I haven’t worn in at least 4 years. I sent her links to Fung, Varady and Mosely. I think she’s hooked.
This morning I had a breakfast meeting with one of my “business network” friends. He’s a thin guy who eats a ton. I thought to order a toasted bagel, lox and cream cheese — my idea of heaven… but instead I ordered an egg, onion, peppers, cheese burrito, and ate only half. Still at 120 lbs. I could really stay here, but I’d like to have a little more wiggle room.
THIS IS MY WAY OF LIFE.
CP, at the end of a meeting this morning, another colleague asked if today was a fast day. Pause….then it dawned on me that he had been talking to my “stairwell” colleague from yesterday. She sent me an email that he and another woman may start together. Fun and games!!!
Wish me luck at the tag sale tomorrow!
Hi K-Lo and Coldpizza, I loved your reference to your “new religion, K-Lo. That’s just how it is, and my addiction is this forum where I spend a lot of my reading time. But the dust is piling up around the place. Must get more active. Coldpizza, my heart goes out to you with your current struggle with lapses on FDs. I’ve struggled with that this week for the first time but am keeping my eye on the long term goal. This is a road bump, my friend. They are there to slow you down but they are not a barrier. You just carry on. You know you can do it because you have done it. You are going through a time of change in a new home. I bet that dratted cortisol is doing its best to up the insulin etc and make you hungry. Know we are geeing you on. 👍👊🙏💪💐🎤
Coldpizza, hi! 🙂 *wave and smile
I know a woman who started a “get rid of one thing a day” challenge and ended up getting rid of 700 things – so it can be done!
K-lo, don’t be ashamed of the unopened boxes from several moves ago – EVERYBODY has them. It’s a part of the human condition, I believe: human beings have to have at least one box from ten years ago that contains books you don’t know you possess and kitchen utensils you never missed.
K-lo, congrats, it’s great to hear that this is working for you – the lovely feeling of fitting into your old clothes and of building better eating habits! Fabulous!
Coldpizza, I am feeling with you in your struggles – this is a long shot, but maybe the LPNG fasts are something that doesn’t work that well for you? Maybe your body or mind get stressed out by long fasts? I am SO rooting for you. Maybe we should work out a challenge that keep us both motivated and accountable? And Fuvvie is right, you may be in a stressful place – and HELLO increased cortisol levels?
As for organizing and deep cleaning, I LOVE it, but it’s an entirely unrequited love, my place is still far from the minimalist heaven I would like it to be.
Have you tried flylady to get you started?
Fuvvie, you are right, we need to find a balance, looking at the long term goal and not being stressed out be current challenges, but not being too complacent either. It’s difficult but we might get better with more practice?
And still, we are all so much more than our bodies and our weight.
I see I am rambling – so, off to bed with me!
Good night and good luck, and coldpizza, thanks again for sending me good thoughts – I’m doing the same for you tonight!
Hi Coldpizza, I really pushed the envelope at breakfast. It was high fat with Brie, avocado, pork belly sliced like bacon, kale coleslaw with olive oil and vinegar dressing. Then fish with really thin chips and rocket with vinegar dressing with a glass of a delicious New Zealand Cabinet Savingion for lunch after we went for a walk. The ocean was polluted by all the run off from the rivers following the heavy rainfall we experienced. It didn’t look at all inviting and the beach at Mooloolaba had at least a metre of erosion. now home again and checking in after doing a heap of laundry. Incidental exercise. Congratulations on your new low Coldpizza. No matter how long we take, we will get there. Bye for now.
Just noticed how I spelled Cabernet in above post. Shocker! Hope your voice has settled. You can’t sing without a voice and our singing provides such an outlet. 🎶🎤🎼 I’ve got a flute lesson tomorrow. I must print out the music from Irish jigs I was supposed to have practised this week.
I hope that having a little at dinner on fast days works better for you. As long as it doesn’t turn you into a flavour chaser. That’s what I find hardest once I have some food. I start looking for something tasty. Maybe I need to have a tablespoon of vinegar to cut the other flavours out lol.
Wow Coldpizza. Talk about dedication to the cause. I would find it very hard to give up my DVDs and I have tried to sort books. Got rid of about 60 but have hundreds still. Silly really . My husband would love me to get rid of most of them. Better look at this author on tidying that you are all talking about. I think she should pay royalties to all the declutterers on this forum. FD today. One interesting thing I have picked up from The Art and Science of low carbohydrate living is to have enough salt to balance out what you are losing from your low carb diet which is natriuretic, causing the kidneys to dump sodium. From what I can make out , this affects the balance between sodium and potassium and you lose some lean muscle to sacrifice potassium to get in balance, even with enough protein in the diet. I wonder if this contributes to feeling cold? Of course, I might have the wrong end of the stick completely but the way we are changing our weight and metabolism is bound to affect us in a variety of ways. I doubt if you have to worry. Lots of people on the website have complained about being cold. Better get on and vacuum the floor. OT and Mother due here in the next half hour. Good luck and keep up the wonderful job you are doing. You are inspirational.
Coldpizza – Don’t worry about getting cold. I get that too. Apparently most of our heat comes from digesting food, so when you don’t have food to digest, you will feel the cold more. I put a heated wheat pack in my bed for my feet to sit on and that helps and I also have a hot shower if I am really feeling it. You’re doing good, just keep going!
Hi Colizza and all your followers. Blue cloudless sky here today with a very chilly wind. We’ve bathed blow-dried and groomed the two dogs. We’ve been putting it off as it was wet and cold. They’re enjoying lying in the sun but I’m inside in front of the fire. I’ve got a horrible cough at present as well so ended up not going for the walk yet that I told Buttonboots I was going to do. 😷🤒 I know it will bring on the wheezing. But am going to do the plank today getting ready for the challenge on Friday. Friday likely to be extra challenging as they want to send Mother home on that day. Life is about to get considerably more challenging, particularly mood wise. Continuing to work with the psychologist on that one. Doing back to back FDs as I just can’t get off the seesaw between 110.9 and 112.2. Obviously overeating on NFDs although I’ve not had huge helpings of anything. Just can’t afford to stray into the world of sugar and grains. Not that I’ve had sugar as not using it in cooking. The odd potato chip and rice twice. Not even having nuts at present. Starting listening to the audible book about tidying yesterday. 4 hours long and have just heard the first 56 minutes. Very interesting. Don’t know if I can do it, but will see the book through and then make the decision. I’ve been keeping books so that when the superannuation runs out, I will have plenty to read🤗 Had better get moving before I put roots down into this chair. Wishing you well in your endeavours. Must pop in on Lolly before I get up and see how things are going there. Xx
How does it go coldpizza? Just read your thread, hope you are doing well. It’s funny that you write about clutter, for many years I have felt the same way, like my clutter is affecting my emotional well-being all the time. I started cleaning recently, decluttering one room at a time, but I have many rooms to go! We have lived here since 2004 and with 3 kids, and my shopping obsession, there is soooo much stuff in my house. Funny thing is that I haven’t wanted all this stuff for a few years, but doing a deep cleansing is hard for me. I just need to see it as a process.
Hi Coldpizza
Well done on your losses.
I am 41yrs old, 5ft 4inches and currently weigh 143lbs – I do 1 water fast and 1 500cals fast during the week, and on NFD’s stick to 1800cals.
I’ve lost 7lbs in the last 4 weeks and want to get to 125-130lbs. I saw 142lbs on the scales last week but then it disappeared! I’m desperate to hit 140!
Look forward to hearing more about your story.
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Lucky Coldpizza. All joy to you having your mother to visit. Enjoy those hugs and the fun you are going to have together. I bet she is going to love holding the thinner version of the daughter she loves. I miss my mum so much. I’m lucky that I have 4 daughters who give me joy and lots of hugs. And they give me so much pleasure. We don’t always see eye to eye and have been known to clash at times, but the good far outweighs the occasional fireworks. Mothers and daughters….great combination. Will be interested to see how you both get on weight wise with this visit. You might be too busy to post, but will keep an eye on the thread for any updates. Hugs to both of you.
Hi Coldpizza and your mom, You are discovering more about each other doing an FD together. What does your mother think of your konmari house CP? And does she like your new house? I’m down to 108.7kgs this morning. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. I didn’t dream this was possible. So enjoying the journey. Aussie hugs
Hi Coldpizza, I wrote a whole post to you but looks like it didn’t ever get up. It was about my happening to be listening to the Konmari audible book and her comments on not letting your mother look through what you are throwing out, because even though they probably don’t need what you are getting rid of, Mother’s feel they have to hold onto some of it. I thought that was very funny. I am loathe to go through my DVDs. Lots of them bring me joy and I will just want to sit down and watch them all. In fact, I feel so lousy with the whooping cough, that I am going to go and watch a movie rather than do anything els. The exercise can go hang! Hugs to you and your mum.
I do understand the bond of clothes. When my mother passed away 13 years ago, I kept several items of her most loved clothes. Most I couldn’t wear as she was so much smaller than me. There was one item, a lovely cardigan, that I finally let go this week, as I felt it should be worn and giving joy to a smaller needier being than myself. My 4th daughter was married from home. The caterers underestimated the number of plates needed and I pulled mum’s dinner service out to make up the difference. So once again mum came to the rescue of one of her much loved granddaughters and added that extra element to the wedding. So you are absolutely right that life sometimes makes corrections.
Not fasting today. Trying to get well. Will stay under TDEE. Love getting your replies.
That’s fantastic about the dress, Coldpizza. By the time your mother’s holiday is over, she will have trained you in new eating habits and over time if you go to give in at meal times on an FD, you will be able to picture you both looking at each other and choosing to get busy elsewhere. I have culottes that I wore the first time I met my future parents in law (yes, the same lady who lives with us now). I haven’t fitted into them for years beyond counting, but keep them in the drawer in case I can ever squeeze into them again, not to wear in public, but just to feel the joy of wearing them again. My daughter once wore them to a fancy dress 60’s theme. I look at her and wonder how I ever got to this size, and could I ever have possibly been her size. I must have been. The evidence is there. And to think I thought I was fat. I must have had maggots in my brain!
Hello Coldpizza and vibrant mother of same. We had the most glorious sunrise this morning, a brilliant fuchsia pink filled the sky highlighted by clouds. It’s supposed to be going to rain today. I brought my mother in law home from hospital yesterday 7 weeks and 1 day post her fractured femur. She said she is glorying in being home. She’s 92 but her dementia does not dim her appreciation of the beauty around her. I’m 3 years behind your mother, Coldpizza. I know I have a good relationship with my daughters but I don’t know that they could use such lovely terms. Loving terms, yes, but somewhat different in nature. Your mother has achieved a lot and it looks like the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree! The family are just leaving for work and school. Chaos reigns supreme. Had better go and wave them off. New low of 107.7kgs.
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