The Cleansing Continues…

Now that I have cleaned the inside I am now cleaning my outside...my apartment that is. I have the urge to purge! Funny enough I used to be the worst packrat and my apartment is always messy. I really do LOVE a clean apartment, but I just have such a hard time keeping it that way. –frumps-

Then I got a book called Clearing the Clutter and learned exactly how wonderful doing just that really is. Basically, you cannot expect anything new to come into your life until you get rid of the old. Also the Feng Shui ramifications and clutter blocking the energy flow and all that jazz. It was about this time that I had been on a Nibs binge whist sitting on my couch and my mind wandered to thinking of my mom. She LOVED Nibs, got hooked on them when she quit smoking before I was born. Plus mom was a packrat in the worst sense…she kept EVERYTHING. When we cleared out the house some years back it was amazing what we found. And she also liked to keep boxes for some reason…empty ones. Don’t ask my why, we had the same house from a year or so before I was born until a few years ago, a good 38 years maybe?…lol. So here I was sitting on the couch, binging on strawberry flavoured Nibs and thinking about my storage space chalk full of empty boxes. I had turned into my mother! lol…which really isn’t bad she was a great woman, but I didn’t need that kind of clutter. So anyways I started purging a couple years ago and it felt so good I go through spurts where I just look for shit to throw out. I am now addicted to throwing things out. When I heard that my best friend still had boxes of notes from high school I have been literally jonesing to get over to her place to throw shit out. Like that TV show of which I cannot remember the name, but where they force people to throw shit out and get organized. See I could SO host that show. I have gone from one extreme to another…but I’d rather be clutter free, then drowning in it.

Course my place is still always messy, but I think it’s much better than it was.

Now I owe a monthly weight in…or measure in for that matter. I am proud to say I lost an inch off my waist but nothing off my hips. The cleanse did an amazing job of ridding me of a lot of bulk. I seriously look like I lost at least 5 pounds. I lost a lot where I don’t measure…lol…I lost on my bum and thighs, especially in between where I measure and probably everywhere else too. I knew it would make a difference but not that big. Everyone has been saying how great I look and so that makes me feel really good. I haven’t done a cleanse in about 3-4 years, so that was probably a lot of it. But, tummy is a bit back….it HAD gotten really flat during the cleanse and for the week after…but my stupid tummy and its stupid problems. It just does not like food! I’ve quit drinking tea during the week…yeah I KNOW! I’ll have to change the name of my blog. But I wanted to cut back on sugar. Plus I haven’t been eating much carbs (and no booze during the week) and been eating in tiny bits every 3 hours or so…but still the tummy’s been creeping in and so I don’t know what’s up. I know it’s bloating and not fat…ugh…I want a new tummy.

But I have been doing great with working out and am hopeful that I can still keep losing and get the toned body I really really want!