Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight

Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight:  the Six-Week Total-Life Slim Down by Peter Walsh         Hardback Book: 320 pages             Genre:  Adult Non-Fiction   Organizing, De-Cluttering Your Home, Weight Lose, Weight Lose in perspective with de-cluttering your home of stuff/decluttering your body of pounds, motivational thinking, Seeing how clearing your mind, serving you body by treating it to exercise as you exorcise the weight demons, the clutter demons and the mindset demons that keep you destroying your own self-esteem

Good book.   I enjoyed Peter Walsh’s take on how 4 things work together in everyone’s life: How you think is going to determine how you feel, whether you mindlessly grab any old thing to eat or whether you think about what you are putting into your body.   When your body feels good, your esteem rises and you feel like doing and being and going and becoming a part of whatever makes you happy.   He talks about how when you feel good about yourself your positive vibe will want you to look and be your best and exercise will give you that rosy glow and toned abs which will boost your adrenaline so you start to do more then you want to be more and exercise will get you moving and grooving then you are going to take a look around you and see how much stuff you have managed to pile up in your house.  You are going to want it out cause you are feeling fierce and have “Eye of the Tiger” playing in your head and you are going to feel like, I can do this and you are going to want to mow through your house recycling that pile of newspapers and magazines you’ve been waffling over, get those utensils out of that kitchen drawer that you bought with full intention of becoming the next top chef but haven’t touched them in 19 years – time to go –donate them to someone or someplace they will be loved and used, and those 6 different sizes of clothes you have languishing in your closet that aren’t serving you that you’ve been throwing your weight behind the door just to get it to close because your clothes are hanging out of it because there are too many for it to hold but like all the contortions you put yourself through to zip those too small jeans you continue trying to stuff more in there.  Time to relieve the pressure before it blows all those non-fitting dreams you are clinging to all over the house.   Eye of the Tiger!  Exorcise thoe non-fitting clothes demons – “Non-fitting clothes COME OUT OF THAT CLOSET!  Go forth to make someone else look beautiful and let me be joyful knowing I helped and oh my gosh!   Look at all the space I made –WOW!  I haven’t seen empty hangers and the back of my closet since 19?? Well, you get the drift.    Now you can revel in the you that you are right now in this moment, not who you wish you were or used to be or might be but the lovely you that exists in the right here right now.   Take comfort and joy in that and speaking of exorcising/exercising – all the work you have accomplished and space you have cleared out has worked up a sweat – lose those pounds, Baby!   Work it!   Keep at it – you can probably unload 25lbs., 50 lbs, maybe even 100lbs of stuff out of your house and now that your house has lost weight you ought to be feeling pretty good about losing some yourself.  Way to go!  Eye of the Tiger keep that beat going and you are going to see clutter going down and out of your house and your waistline, hips, chest and calves shrinking, too.  Now you are down to your fighting weight – keep fighting that fight – live within your mines if it isn’t a need – it is a want.  If you want it badly enough get it but for everything that comes in to your house send thing for thing back out – observe the one in one out rule and you will stay on top of clutter and tame that tiger before it rears up again.  Whew!  I’m pumped up and ready to go knock out my junk room right now!  HA!   That is what this book does for you.  Loved it and highly recommend it.  Motivational, puts things in perspective, no denial anymore.   See things for what they really are and how they steal your joy if you aren’t using them pass them to a place or a person that will put them to good use and see how good it makes you feel for doing someone a solid and smile when you see the clear space left where the item had been sagging against another stack lethargically like a little black rain cloud waiting to burst into a storm at any time and bringing your mood down every time you saw it or looked over it.  YAY!!!  Activity breeds activity put yourself in motion and it’s the butterfly effect throughout your house, your attitude, your esteem , your body, your new life!    Be like the lemur in Madagascar – You’ve got to move it, move it!   Move it out of your house and move yourself around the dancefloor in your happy dance at the joy of decluttering.  Oh and happy dancing burns calories.   Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight – oh yeah!

 - Shirley J