Let it GO! Decluttering (simplifying) your life of (people, places or things) success stories?
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Today is kitchen counters and islands. I don't have a lot of counter space, so not much to declutter. Instead, I'm taking everything off, cleaning the counter and wall, cleaning the appliances, and putting them back. Will take more than 15 minutes, but worth it!
Also, we are taking our broken couch out today, so I will be sweeping and mopping the living room.
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laurenq1991 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »laurenq1991 wrote: »The past few days I've had a feeling that our apartment is a disaster, overly cluttered and filthy. But it's weird because we haven't bought any new stuff and I've been cleaning. I can't even pinpoint what the problem is exactly. I feel stressed out about it and don't even want to be at home anymore. Has anyone else had this feeling? Is it just some sort of societal ideal that your home is supposed to look like it's out of a magazine, and cognitive dissonance that a real-life home with actual people in it is not going to look like that?
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Please KNOW you are so NOT alone...even though you've haven't brought more stuff--"maybe" you are feeling the anxiety from the excess(ive) amount of things/"stuff you do have. Having too much "stuff" can open the doors of depression and confusion...well, at least for me anyway. I found this article that may give you some doable answers:
The Link Between Clutter and Depression It’s been proven. Clutter is a bummer — literally.
here's an excerpt:
"It turns out that clutter has a profound affect on our mood and self-esteem. CELF’s anthropologists, social scientists, and archaeologists found:",,, (for the entire article, click link bellow)
https://www.houselogic.com/organize-maintain/cleaning-decluttering/clutter-depression/
Here's more helpful answers to help how you "feel"
6 Ways to Clean House When You're Depressed
A clean house can help a depressed mind. Learn coping skills that can help you stay on top of your housework. Here's an excerpt:
"One of the key signs of depression is when you suspend taking care of day-to-day chores, like cleaning your house. Depression leaves you feeling so down and tired that you just let things go. Unfortunately, a messy house can add to those feelings of depression — creating a destructive cycle that feeds on itself. " (click link below for entire article)
https://www.everydayhealth.com/depression/clean-house-when-youre-depressed.aspx
Girl, I can't speak for everyone (of course), but my house isn't going to be looking like a "magazine" no time soon, because we live here and are at home a lot, for real, and expecting our homes to be magazine like is simply, ummmm, unrealistic, impractical and/or unreal expectations. (Even though one of my daughters came over yesterday and did comment how beautiful the house looks, but that took a LOT of time (and getting rid of a LOT, I mean A LOT of "stuff" in that year's time and it took/takes A LOT practice/maintenance over the past year to keep it that way too--(the good news is, all of that practice/maintenance I used for N.E.A.T. exercising and helped me blast 70lbs off of my body/life) It's simply Ain't going to happen overnight, like ALL good things, it gonna take time to get there and even more time to STAY there/maintainance). Maybe once all of our (many) children are FINALLY gone/OUT THE NEST though, maybe then I'll have a mazagine looking house--MAYBE
....that's only a hope/dream of mine. Seriously though, decluttering is so NOT about stuff being "picture perfect ALL the time", it's about NOT hanging on to so much stuff, NOT being overloaded/overwhelmed with so much stuff, it's impossible to not only keep a clean house, but to be able to SEE stuff. Sometimes, the clutter is so, ummmm, "natural" we're so used to it--it doesn't "seem" like it's really clutter and/or we feel like you do
"But it's weird because we haven't bought any new stuff and I've been cleaning. I can't even pinpoint what the problem is exactly. I feel stressed out about it and don't even want to be at home anymore.
That may be a "sign" of it's time to get rd of a lot more stuff...maybe not though--but MAYBE . When I got to the point of getting rid of soooo much stuff (nice stuff, memorable stuff, cute stuff and lots of it), I could start "seeing" when things were out of place more easily. Check out those articles and again, know you're NOT alone and we're here with and for YOU!
P.S. {{{{{{{ Hugs again }}}}}}}}}
Thanks for responding! I actually started going through and reorganizing some things and I think it's helping. I pulled all of my and my husband's clothes out of the drawers and closets and threw them in a big pile, then went through them all and re-organized the dressers. I feel a lot better about the way the drawers are organized now. I already have some bags of stuff to donate or put in the fabric recycling bin that have been in my closet for weeks, but I also made a large "maybe" pile of clothes that I'm not sure whether to keep, but I have to try wearing them out and see how I feel. I have been slowly redoing my wardrobe over time because my style has changed (I'm going from my early/mid-20s wardrobe to wanting stuff that looks a bit more polished), but I'm not exactly sure what look I want to go for and I'm particular about what I buy, so I have to keep around a lot of clothes that I'm "meh" about just so I have enough things to wear. I think that's a big part of the problem.
Another part is my MIL, as I mentioned previously, is a hoarder, and while the hoarding is contained to her room, it annoys me that the hoarding is there at all. While she is limited by what she brings in because she can't drive and can't carry very much at once, the amount of stuff in there is increasing over time. She does throw out actual trash at least (except paper, that comprises a lot of her hoard), but once an item goes into her room, it stays there whether she needs it or not. Like yesterday my husband brought her a chair from her old hoarder house that he's cleaning out, because she needed a chair. She told him that someone in our apartment building was moving out and offered her a chair so she actually got a chair for free. But even though she didn't need the other chair, and we could use it since we need more dining chairs for when company comes over, she still kept the other chair in her room, and my husband said he didn't want to ask for it back because she would get upset. She has like five tables in there of varying sizes too. She has duplicates of disability equipment like walkers because we bought it for her and then the insurance sent her another one, and instead of giving them back to the place they came from, or giving the extras away to a needy person or something, she just keeps them, even though she hasn't needed any of the equipment in over a year! Whenever she gets one of those plastic takeout containers she keeps it to store leftovers in even though those containers leach chemicals if they're re-used, and she already has several actual reusable containers for putting leftovers in. So I think that's a big problem because no matter how much I get rid of, there's still the elephant in the other room.
Hi again and {{{{ HUGS again }}}} Lauren
Thank you for your reply beloved. Now, please keep in mind, ANY and EVERY thing I say in this thread to anyone, I'm ALWAYS talking to myself firstly, okay?
What you MUST do, from this day forth (no matter unreasonable nor hard this is going to be), we MUST take our eyes off of the "elephant in the room" your MIL, hubby or (fill in the blank) and look at (for some like me, The Lord, The God of the bible, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and Jesus for Guidence/Direction--His Way, His Truth and His Life) AND y/ourselves ONLY). OR if you're not interested in doing that (looking to God for His Help), just make it your business to take the focus/your eyes off of what your MIL or hubby or (fill in the blank that's distracting/discouraging you)is doing and MAKE youself focus on your own weaknesses and ugh/yuck. Start putting the ONUS on/to y/ourself ONLY. Again, this may sound too hard or even impossible, but taking your eyes OFF of your MIL (how she is and what she is doing or not doing) and putting/keeping them (your eyes/the focus) on what YOU are doing and what YOU are not doing (that you should be doing) instead.
It's EASY to point out the UGH/YUCK of how/what your MIL does, because it naturally will take the ONUS/RESPONSIBILITY off of us and on to them--giving us "excuses/justifications" of not doing what we should be doing to better yourselves, and the "seemingly" so RIGHT judgement onto them. it REALLY does. (Now I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN JUDGING FOLK, JUST JUDGING MYSELF IN THE EXACT SAME MANNER AND WAY) I KNOW how right it seems to focus on what someone else is/isn't doing that is contributing to y/our burdens/trouble and woe, but if you will, from this day forth--just MAKE yourself focus on reaching your own personal goals (in weight blastification and decluttering, etc.), and if you DARE throw down the gauntlet with yourself only, something tremendous will happen in and thru you...you will become more and more FREE of/from allowing this yuck situation with your MIL AND may perhaps even inspire her in someway to change too--maybe not, that's not the point. IF you get you own stuff together, and get it together with real JOY (joy that you are CHOOSING to no longer allow other's to control you and handling your business with utter "self-control")...girlfriend, you will begin rocking this thing in ways that will not only encourage you, but help you in so many ways.
I asked my beloved husband a few weeks ago, something that his response blew my mind and brought me such JOY, I could hardly stand it and inspired me something wonderful. Here's what happened. I said...I wish God would help me not be as bitter and angry with (a person that is not a "toxic" person at all--is a really wonderful person, but frankly gets on my last nerve--probably because they are just like me--ya know, the ole "it takes one to know one deal" Thank you Jesus ). My husband said..."He already has helped you...you NEED to make a CHOICE to be kinder and more patient to/with this person--because you CAN...it's a CHOICE, just like The Lord wants/commands you to--the problem is NOT this person, it's YOU. This person is not "making" you do/act anything ugly--it's what's in YOU that's making you react that way. Once you do/obey The Lord 100% and forsake this bitterness and frustration and treat this person with mercy and kindness, your bitterness and frustration will disappear slowly but showly" I hugged and kissed my boyfriend-ish husband and thanked him profusely for loving me enough to tell me THE TRUTH instead of going along with me and "gossipping" (cause that's what I was REALLY doing...I'm NOT saying that's what you're doing, but that so was what I was doing--FOR SURE) about them. I immediately started treating this person with more kindness and patience and BOOM...I'm seeing a HUGE difference in them and me already. I now see that what "works my nerve" about them is again, they are so much LIKE ME (I've got a LOT of the yuck I see in them, in me, period.)--hmmmph!
Lauren, beloved I wish it wasn't so, but life has proven to me that many (if not most) of the time, when I'm pointing a finger at someone else...FOUR MORE (I'm including the thumb) is point back at me. Long story short, work out y/our own issues and problems FIRST and completely get a handle on "you"--THEN we'll be more able, willing and ready to help someone else. Jesus put it this way: "take the BEAM out of y/our own eye FIRST, them we'll see clearly to help take the splinter out of someone else's eye. Again, I'm talking to myself really and letting you listen.
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Well, it's 2019 (ALREADY?!?) Seems like just yesterday it was, ummmm...1967 or 2003 or something. WOW, time flies fast.
Don't know if I did this right for quoting, but it really made me laugh! One of those years is when I graduated high school (you can guess which one, lol), and your right..time does fly fast. & seems to go faster all the time!1 -
My weight blastification hasn't been going so good, so now it is time to get with the decluttering. Most parts of my house look passable..just don't look behind closed doors too much!
Haven't been feeling well this week, so after sleeping most of the day yesterday, I was up at 3am. Made myself some tea & honey & got my book out. It is called "It's All Too Much" by Peter Walsh. If any of you know him..he's an organizer that used to be on TLC program "Clean Sweep" & I think he was on Oprah channel some, too. I have read this book many times & it really gets you thinking about your stuff. Anyway, along the lines of decluttering the places (clothes especially..the ones I am saving for when (or if) I get the last 10-15# off) that need it, I decided I need to reread the book. I recommend it. 2 -
Oh, and I agree being debt-free is great! A long time ago, I figured out a budget (I am more the numbers person or as Dave Ramsey says..the nerd, lol). I just got tired of living paycheck to paycheck, when I felt like we had decent jobs. Now, we are enjoying retirement. (of course, I try not to get overconfident about it, because like they say, we can all be one step from homeless)2
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RetiredAndLovingIt wrote: »
Well, it's 2019 (ALREADY?!?) Seems like just yesterday it was, ummmm...1967 or 2003 or something. WOW, time flies fast.
Don't know if I did this right for quoting, but it really made me laugh! One of those years is when I graduated high school (you can guess which one, lol), and your right..time does fly fast. & seems to go faster all the time!
Girrrlll...I remember 1968 AND 2003 like it was the other day, for REAL. I'm so there with you about time seeming to go faster and faster these days--YAY for time and it's flight!RetiredAndLovingIt wrote: »My weight blastification hasn't been going so good, so now it is time to get with the decluttering. Most parts of my house look passable..just don't look behind closed doors too much! Haven't been feeling well this week, so after sleeping most of the day yesterday, I was up at 3am. Made myself some tea & honey & got my book out. It is called "It's All Too Much" by Peter Walsh. If any of you know him..he's an organizer that used to be on TLC program "Clean Sweep" & I think he was on Oprah channel some, too. I have read this book many times & it really gets you thinking about your stuff. Anyway, along the lines of decluttering the places (clothes especially..the ones I am saving for when (or if) I get the last 10-15# off) that need it, I decided I need to reread the book. I recommend it.
Here's to hoping you will be feeling better and better and 100% well! Sorry the weight blastification hasn't been going as well as you'd like, but honey aint nobody rushing nothing, take your sweet time and do it right and righteously. How excellent of you encourage yourself and move on the decluttering, despite the "stalls" of getting down to the size you want. I just LOVE attitudes like that--BOOM!
Never heard of the author, but it must be a terrific inspirational book for you to read it again--YAY YOU and
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RetiredAndLovingIt wrote: »Oh, and I agree being debt-free is great! A long time ago, I figured out a budget (I am more the numbers person or as Dave Ramsey says..the nerd, lol). I just got tired of living paycheck to paycheck, when I felt like we had decent jobs. Now, we are enjoying retirement. (of course, I try not to get overconfident about it, because like they say, we can all be one step from homeless)
Wow...just WOW and Bravo, bravissimo!
I would highlight the most excellent points you've made, but your entire post is, ummmm, UTTERLY REAL AND FABULOUS. Thank you ever so much for posting this. Your post is going to help more people than you know, including lil ole me.
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Today is kitchen counters and islands. I don't have a lot of counter space, so not much to declutter. Instead, I'm taking everything off, cleaning the counter and wall, cleaning the appliances, and putting them back. Will take more than 15 minutes, but worth it!
Also, we are taking our broken couch out today, so I will be sweeping and mopping the living room.
There is so much less stress, and more joy now!
You are so doing it right and righteously...I LOVE your posts Snoo--so inspirational to/for me and others reading this post. BOOM!1 -
I just watched the "Emptynesters" episode of Tidying with Marie Kondo".
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80209469
I haven't read her book, as it's often sounded a bit woo-woo and cult-like, but the show was pretty cool.
It reminded me of me and my husband, and how decluttering our crap brought us closer together.
@IdLikeToLoseItLoseIt Thanks for letting us know about the show!3 -
I had 12 days off work over new year. I did lots of tidying.
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I had 12 days off work over new year. I did lots of tidying.
Uhhhhhhh...these pics shows/tells somebody is truly a minimalist first class winner and all time champion, and that somebody is YOU O! These pics makes/inspires me to admire you even more...with your magazine home looking self!
I love it...so very minimalist, so very peace/serenity-filled, so very understatedly elegant, so COOL...just like you--BOOM!
P.S. I don't know which I LOVE more, your abode or that DARLING kitten.
{{{ Hugs and the HIGHEST of fives boo }}}}
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »Today is kitchen counters and islands. I don't have a lot of counter space, so not much to declutter. Instead, I'm taking everything off, cleaning the counter and wall, cleaning the appliances, and putting them back. Will take more than 15 minutes, but worth it!
Also, we are taking our broken couch out today, so I will be sweeping and mopping the living room.
There is so much less stress, and more joy now!
You are so doing it right and righteously...I LOVE your posts Snoo--so inspirational to/for me and others reading this post. BOOM!
I also ended up cleaning the wall. I figured I'd better while the couch isn't there. 3 -
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »Today is kitchen counters and islands. I don't have a lot of counter space, so not much to declutter. Instead, I'm taking everything off, cleaning the counter and wall, cleaning the appliances, and putting them back. Will take more than 15 minutes, but worth it!
Also, we are taking our broken couch out today, so I will be sweeping and mopping the living room.
There is so much less stress, and more joy now!
You are so doing it right and righteously...I LOVE your posts Snoo--so inspirational to/for me and others reading this post. BOOM!
I also ended up cleaning the wall. I figured I'd better while the couch isn't there.
Yes Ma'am...that's the ticket honey--BOOM!2 -
Today I did the kitchen table. Kind of a slacker today. I'll be ready for tomorrow though
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Did someone here mention the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo?? I'm too lazy to read past comments to see LOL.
I watched the first episode and it is amazing how systematically she helps people get organized. I actually spoke with a client today who struggles with a huge amount of EVERYTHING....although she does have some rooms that are relatively clutter free...her huge spacious home has lots of room for the enormous amount of stuff they have accumulated over the years & is having difficulty letting go. She is making an effort, but her husband is reluctant to get on the decluttering bandwagon. Anyway, I told her about this thread & how helpful it is to see others progressing to rid themselves of being weighed down with stuff. I was also able to refer her to that series...has anyone watched it?2 -
lorrainequiche59 wrote: »Did someone here mention the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo?? I'm too lazy to read past comments to see LOL.
I watched the first episode and it is amazing how systematically she helps people get organized. I actually spoke with a client today who struggles with a huge amount of EVERYTHING....although she does have some rooms that are relatively clutter free...her huge spacious home has lots of room for the enormous amount of stuff they have accumulated over the years & is having difficulty letting go. She is making an effort, but her husband is reluctant to get on the decluttering bandwagon. Anyway, I told her about this thread & how helpful it is to see others progressing to rid themselves of being weighed down with stuff. I was also able to refer her to that series...has anyone watched it?
Hi Lorraine
I haven't watched it yet, but some beautiful person posted the link a page or two over. Looking forward to checking it out!2 -
Hey Gang~
Just wanted to briefly
share, I'm so in love with life--so grateful to be alive and Kicking with a capital K!
I just got in from getting a pedicure and the woman giving me the pedicure treated me like I was her mother or sister. She worked on my feet/toes for over an hour. She MADE me a fruit drink a of the most delicious concoction ever. She MADE me relax, she said she wanted me to relax and feel like I was taking a vacation. The message chair message me so well--wow, such a deep and relaxing message this chair was--WOW, it even deeply messaged the top of my head--all over FOR AN HOUR--all while I'm being pampered to the MAXIMUM getting my feet/legs done. She treated me like I was a queen, like it was her honor and pleasure to hook me up royally. I've had many pedicures in my life, but this was one of the BEST ever and she only charged me $45.00 (and of course I gave her a huge tremendous tip too). She scrubbed and messaged my feet something tremendous. She wrapped my legs and feet in super hot towels, She put my feet in a bag of milk and honey and other stuff HOT wax twice--she then rescrubbed my feet and messaged my feet and legs like again, AMAZING FAVOR THIS WOMAN GAVE ME, AMAZING! Then she messaged the most yummiest fabulous lotion on my feet and legs ever--smelled and felt absolutely DIVINE! Again, she treated me like I was MORE than a customer, MORE like I was a favorite member of her family that she loved a LOT or her very best friend or something. She then GAVE a bag of products to take with me. I hugged her something wonderful and asked her WHY she would give me such a most excellent pedicure, for such a low price and some FREE stuff too and said she just loves me, she said she felt like I was her sister and I just met her today! One of my daughters goes to this place ALL the time and she said "Mommy, I really love this place, but they NEVER give me a pedicure that long like she did for you and they NEVER give people stuff, ever they NEVER give me any goodies to take home with me--ever!
What does this have to do with weight blastification or decluttering? When we choose to LET IT GO AND DON'T LOOK BACK, we become more and more beautiful inside and out and it does something "miraculous" in and thru us and we become more "attractive(literally) to others. I'm not exactly sure what this has to do with this thread exactly, but I wanted to share that as we do this thing--right and righteously, as we CHOOSE to be changing our lives for the better more and more each day...it does something beautiful and wonderful in/thru us that people, even strangers will "see" and will have such a, ummmmm, AMAZING effect/affect in and thru us and to other people we come into contact with. To God be the Glory Forever--I'm sooooo filled with JOY and FAVOR and it makes me so glad I could cry. My feet look and feel like baby's feet. WOW...so humbling and so utterly terrific life is--ALL of it, the good the bad and the ugly--but the "good" MAN...it's just, ummmm so GOOD!
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Cleaned out my knife drawer today. Wiped all the surfaces I've cleaned off, and swept through the house. Hubby says the work I've been putting in shows. YAY!3
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
It gave me the boost I needed. My step tracker died yesterday, so I was a little lost. Today I just timed myself.1 -
NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
It gave me the boost I needed. My step tracker died yesterday, so I was a little lost. Today I just timed myself.
Boosts are so wonderful and helpful. That's interesting about your step tracker, one of my daughters just asked me today am I still tracking my steps ( I used to track them last year, before my "Let it Go and Don't Look Back" adventure). I told her no and actually forgot all about my step tracker. What's even more interesting is, just yesterday I got a hankering to start up more formal exercising (lifting weights (the max is 100lb plate thingys) and using the rower from my home gym machine thingy, start using my full body stationary bike and using my elliptical machine and working out with that beloved Leslie Sansone ( I love her)--I have a ton of really terrific videos of hers). I'm starting to consider beginning these things again, because I'm feeling such a hyped up energy that mere N.E.A.T. exercising alone and dancing while doing N.E.A.T. is just not/no longer satisfying/releasing the uber energy I'm feeling of late. I even got the "urge" to RUN yesterday (honey, I don't do NO running, period)... but I wanted to yesterday.
I'm going to take my daughter and your mentioning step tracking as a "sign" of sorts to begin more formal exercising. I haven't been "Led of The Spirit" to do ANY formal exercising since starting Let it Go and Don't Look Back business. I believe I am now being Led to start using these things--again, my energy is sky high, I can dance for more than an hour (well, I haven't time it, but it seems like an hour) and still have a TON of energy more and more each day. How exciting--Thank you for posting this Snoo! 3 -
@NewLIFEstyle4ME it's those positive vibes you're sending out!! you were probably smiling too?
A few years back we walled in the dining area and I've been using it as my office with one wall shelving and full w/books & stuff. Dh has been wanting that wall down and it's all headed into a bedroom. So I have pledged to go thru this multitude of boxes and thin it out. Would like the end result to be organized, better than presentable, and done this month. (Oh and he promised to actually eat dinner together with the table in the dining area. With the table moved, his fishing rod wrapper can be setup on that wall/needed at least 12 foot, so he won't freeze in the garage). Anyhow, I'm laying this out to be accountable, otherwise these boxes will sit and sit.3 -
@NewLIFEstyle4ME it's those positive vibes you're sending out!! you were probably smiling too?
A few years back we walled in the dining area and I've been using it as my office with one wall shelving and full w/books & stuff. Dh has been wanting that wall down and it's all headed into a bedroom. So I have pledged to go thru this multitude of boxes and thin it out. Would like the end result to be organized, better than presentable, and done this month. (Oh and he promised to actually eat dinner together with the table in the dining area. With the table moved, his fishing rod wrapper can be setup on that wall/needed at least 12 foot, so he won't freeze in the garage). Anyhow, I'm laying this out to be accountable, otherwise these boxes will sit and sit.
Hmmmm, maybe I was smiling, I know I find it something wonderful how people are ALWAYS smiling at me (before I got down to size--when I was obese/overweight), it was babies and children always smiling at me--but now it's a LOT of people and it's so beautiful to me, it's so, ummmmm...lovely and adorable too. When I first started blasting the pounds and inches away, it seemed like women were kinda "meanish or more, ummmm...snarling/having "tudes" at/towards me for NO reason at all--just looking all "Hmmmmph" at me, BUT when I began to drop A LOT of the pounds/inches and ounces-getting super slimmer and trimmer/healthier. No more, the snarls and eye-rolls from women (strangers) lessened and lessened to no more, now it's just TONS of lovely, kindhearted/admirable smiles to/at me--YAY! I hear people talking about how terrible the world is, but I am finding people to be so kindhearted and EXTRA friendly these days...I LOVE THAT!!!
How utterly exciting this/these projects are Cory! I can tell ya, as you get rid of those books & stuff...it's going to be AMAZING how "thinned out and "lighter" it's going to look and be. Here's to cheering you and your beloved hubby on. It's going to be fabulous--just watch and see...BOOM!1 -
NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
It gave me the boost I needed. My step tracker died yesterday, so I was a little lost. Today I just timed myself.
Boosts are so wonderful and helpful. That's interesting about your step tracker, one of my daughters just asked me today am I still tracking my steps ( I used to track them last year, before my "Let it Go and Don't Look Back" adventure). I told her no and actually forgot all about my step tracker. What's even more interesting is, just yesterday I got a hankering to start up more formal exercising (lifting weights (the max is 100lb plate thingys) and using the rower from my home gym machine thingy, start using my full body stationary bike and using my elliptical machine and working out with that beloved Leslie Sansone ( I love her)--I have a ton of really terrific videos of hers). I'm starting to consider beginning these things again, because I'm feeling such a hyped up energy that mere N.E.A.T. exercising alone and dancing while doing N.E.A.T. is just not/no longer satisfying/releasing the uber energy I'm feeling of late. I even got the "urge" to RUN yesterday (honey, I don't do NO running, period)... but I wanted to yesterday.
I'm going to take my daughter and your mentioning step tracking as a "sign" of sorts to begin more formal exercising. I haven't been "Led of The Spirit" to do ANY formal exercising since starting Let it Go and Don't Look Back business. I believe I am now being Led to start using these things--again, my energy is sky high, I can dance for more than an hour (well, I haven't time it, but it seems like an hour) and still have a TON of energy more and more each day. How exciting--Thank you for posting this Snoo!
It sounds like God is sending you a message!
My step tracker was cheap. I just wanted to know if I'd use it. It wouldn't even link to my phone, was supposed to, but I didn't care. I will get another, better quality. I used it to motivate me at first, then to beat my record. Lol1 -
{{{*Cue music/song from the old Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack--"Wonder of Wonders Miracle of Miracles*}}
Down 71lbs (well, according to Mfp's "fuzzy math" I am down 71lbs (it's technically 70.6lbs down though) and I'm ultra mega THRILLED, cause I'm in the 140's baby (OH YEAH ) for the first time in 20+ years!!!!
Thank you Jesus and BOOM!!!!!!! Wow...the 140's at last
(tears of JOY). Y'all's little (literally) friend over here is both humbled and filled with JOY unspeakable. Once again, BOOM!
P.S. Good things happen to those that WAIT, let us continue to take our time and do all we have to do, right and righteously.
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »
It gave me the boost I needed. My step tracker died yesterday, so I was a little lost. Today I just timed myself.
Boosts are so wonderful and helpful. That's interesting about your step tracker, one of my daughters just asked me today am I still tracking my steps ( I used to track them last year, before my "Let it Go and Don't Look Back" adventure). I told her no and actually forgot all about my step tracker. What's even more interesting is, just yesterday I got a hankering to start up more formal exercising (lifting weights (the max is 100lb plate thingys) and using the rower from my home gym machine thingy, start using my full body stationary bike and using my elliptical machine and working out with that beloved Leslie Sansone ( I love her)--I have a ton of really terrific videos of hers). I'm starting to consider beginning these things again, because I'm feeling such a hyped up energy that mere N.E.A.T. exercising alone and dancing while doing N.E.A.T. is just not/no longer satisfying/releasing the uber energy I'm feeling of late. I even got the "urge" to RUN yesterday (honey, I don't do NO running, period)... but I wanted to yesterday.
I'm going to take my daughter and your mentioning step tracking as a "sign" of sorts to begin more formal exercising. I haven't been "Led of The Spirit" to do ANY formal exercising since starting Let it Go and Don't Look Back business. I believe I am now being Led to start using these things--again, my energy is sky high, I can dance for more than an hour (well, I haven't time it, but it seems like an hour) and still have a TON of energy more and more each day. How exciting--Thank you for posting this Snoo!
It sounds like God is sending you a message!
My step tracker was cheap. I just wanted to know if I'd use it. It wouldn't even link to my phone, was supposed to, but I didn't care. I will get another, better quality. I used it to motivate me at first, then to beat my record. Lol
God is "Leading/Guiding/Teaching me for sure--all the time, everyday and He is sending me a "message" Leading and Guiding me to begin to formal exercise. Girlfriend, I can't tell you how much of HIS FAITH (not mine--the Faith He GAVE me) it took for me to "follow/OBEY-Him", when/as He Instructed me NOT TO DO ANY EXERCISING AT ALL-FOR MORE THAN AN ENTIRE YEAR. Ya know, The Word says "God's Ways are Not our Ways and His Thoughts are NOT our Thoughts. It took pure unadulterated FAITH for me NOT to do ANY exercising except decluttering/N.E.A.T. exercising and dancing while doing my N.E.A.T exercizing ONLY. Because EVERYTHING in me told me I MUST EXERCISE to blast these pounds/ounces/YUCK off of me Nope, The Lord Led me to "follow Him" in this Adventure and BOOM--Here I am, after a year + in getting down to size, without an ounce of loose skin and looking and feeling like a 20-30 something year old (20-30 years younger than I actually am). WOW!!!
He ( God, The God of The bible, The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus) The Living and True Invisible God, My Father is and does send/give me "messages" all the time and in different ways, I believe this (your posting about the stepper watching, my daughter asking about it and the super mega energy I'm FILLED with of late). It makes me want to CRY (tears of joy, excitement, gratitude and humility), how FULL of Mercy, His Teaching me His Way, His Truth and His Life and His overwhelming Patience and Goodness He is to me. I'm THRILLED/HUMBLED/HONORED to DARE to seek Him with EVERYTHING in me, seek Him with my "whole heart" and put my 100% of my hope against hope and trust and belief in Him (with His Invisible yet Very Present Almighty Self) and be such a "fool for Christ (sake)" and I'm so GLAD He made me this way...SO VERY GLAD!!! 1 -
NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »{{{*Cue music/song from the old Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack--"Wonder of Wonders Miracle of Miracles*}}
Down 71lbs (well, according to Mfp's "fuzzy math" I am down 71lbs (it's technically 70.6lbs down though) and I'm ultra mega THRILLED, cause I'm in the 140's baby (OH YEAH ) for the first time in 20+ years!!!!
Thank you Jesus and BOOM!!!!!!! Wow...the 140's at last (tears of JOY). Y'all's little (literally) friend over here is both humbled and filled with JOY unspeakable. Once again, BOOM!
P.S. Good things happen to those that WAIT, let us continue to take our time and do all we have to do, right and righteously.
CONGRATULATIONS! I'm so thrilled for you! What a huge accomplishment.4 -
NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »{{{*Cue music/song from the old Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack--"Wonder of Wonders Miracle of Miracles*}}
Down 71lbs (well, according to Mfp's "fuzzy math" I am down 71lbs (it's technically 70.6lbs down though) and I'm ultra mega THRILLED, cause I'm in the 140's baby (OH YEAH ) for the first time in 20+ years!!!!
Thank you Jesus and BOOM!!!!!!! Wow...the 140's at last (tears of JOY). Y'all's little (literally) friend over here is both humbled and filled with JOY unspeakable. Once again, BOOM!
P.S. Good things happen to those that WAIT, let us continue to take our time and do all we have to do, right and righteously.
CONGRATULATIONS! I'm so thrilled for you! What a huge accomplishment.
Wow Snoo...the 140's from almost 220lbs this time last year
All Glory to God ALONE and super mega ULTRA Thanks to YOU too . You and the peeps that have replied to this thread have helped/blessed/encouraged/inspired me more than mere words can say! 3
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