I’d been flirting with 169 before we began to feed ourselves with pizza because we were working so hard…
then the party, and the cake…followed by a long convention, being wined and dined by DAW, and oh, too many calories.
I’d made it to 175 before the wedding. At my worst, I hit, on return from the con, about 181, but I’m back, two days later, to 176, so not so bad, me! The rest is going to be good behavior for a couple of weeks.
The peonies (which bloom at different times) are still blooming, the azalea and two rhodies are holding out, and the iris are blooming, one of our best flowers…there’s a lot of it.
I’m back at work, making good headway.
And we’ve got the house in such good order, a little tidying up is not onerous.
I can say we’re absolutely happy to get on with life and work, and we’re trying to make some permanent adjustments in the house to make the house-keeping a lot easier. We now have actual silverware (well, stainless) that matches, we have everything in such good order even the oven is clean. And we are not going to lose that state of affairs without putting it back the way it oughter be.
I stay jealous — you weigh about what I do, and are (AFAICT) somewhat taller!
Since you put in so much work prepping for the wedding and subsequent reception, I’m not surprised you would like it to stay neat a little longer. 2 years ago I installed a dishwasher, which has greatly helped with keeping the kitchen tidy; now I just need to stay ahead of the crumbs on the countertop. I discovered that Zorro was helping by hopping onto the kitchen counter and hoovering up anything she found interesting and unattended…
Once something is clean it’s so easy to keep it that way.
We did a massive pre-hurricane clean-up a few years ago and have managed to keep it that way.
Sounds like Miscon was a good one….fun before reality sets in!
I’m jealous as well – the clutter just kills me. We cleaned up three rooms last Labor day for my wife to have a reading group over, but lost the battle on two of the rooms since.
Might have to resort to my #1 son’s favorite method of cleaning: throw everything in garbage bags and bring it to the dump.
I think it was easier to clean before the big recycling push – now I have to convince myself that there isn’t any use for some toy or household item before I get rid of it 🙁
We live down the street from a recycler/charity sales place, and our rule is, if it’s useable, we take it to them, if it’s flat recycling, it goes in the blue bin, if compost, it goes in the green, and trash goes in the brown.
Most important, however, is rolling shelves and adequate hanging to free up closets to be closets. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F51A58/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Cheap, and it holds a closetful. Basement. 2 of these. This lets me have a closet: my room is a bit shy of closet space, as in, one, skinny, closet. THis lets me put only currently useful things in it for access.
Tomorrow is “weigh” day…..I use the same scales every week, at about the same time of day. Last Friday, I was at 187 lbs. Today, the jeans felt just a bit tight in the waist, but that could have been the way I was sitting on the couch, legs crossed, slightly slouched, as I was holding a laptop desk (a plastic board with padding under it) and working crossword puzzles in a very large book. Well, I’ll know tomorrow. If it’s 187, I’ll be happy, if it’s lower, I’ll be happier. If it’s higher, then I’ll have to review what I ate over the past week and see if there is something that needs to be cut out.
I don’t follow a particular diet, it’s pretty much whatever I want to eat, but I do watch the amount I eat. No going back for seconds, no snacks, and a decent breakfast, usually a bowl of oatmeal, which fills and also because of the protein and complex carbohydrates, takes longer to break down, so I don’t get hungry two hours after breakfast. Lunch is when I’m hungry, same with dinner. Not a lot of fats, at least, not saturated fats, though I’m not averse to a cheeseburger once in a while – grilled, not fried.
The scale this week at Weight Watchers was up a pound. I’m where I want to be so I’m not too concerned. Besides, my first thing in the morning weigh-in at home was about right. I’m blaming the other on the large bowl of pear-ginger steel cut oats.
Lol! I made it back to 175 this morning, old, old plateau weight, once I hit it or undershoot it. A plateau can work FOR you as well as be hard to break open—in this case, I piled it on, but the minute I went back to the diet drink for 2 meals, my body seems to have gotten the message: hey, 175 is where we make a stand. And stand it will. Easy getting back to it. Just wait until I make it clear the new target is 165.
Weighed myself at noon today, same scale. 186, so I’ve lost another pound. That’s from 212 at the beginning of November 2013, and previously, my weight had fluctuated from a low of 185 to 220. I had several things that contributed to this weight loss, especially losing my oldest cat, the doctor bills were enough to wipe out my grocery money for the month. Plus, being sick for over 3 weeks with whatever was going around, I just didn’t want to eat, didn’t care to eat, and unless I was faced with passing out where I stood, I didn’t eat. That evolved into actually making a conscious effort to lose weight by changing the eating habits and that’s where I am now.