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perchie.girl
RIP 1953-2021
OK most know but for the new people I am in the process of loosing 220 pounds. I get about with a rolling walker due to weight and arthritis. I am sixty years old fwiw...
Monday is my weigh in day.
So it was weigh in day... I gained last time so was Heck bent to count and keep my food diary up to date.
I got in a cleaning mode on the garage.... I let my OCD FREEE and went to work.
There has been a stack of tubs down the center of the garage. MY stuff mostly. A combination of cleaning out my tack room at a boarding stable and packing up my own stuff here for moving to the house later. I have to tell you its A LOT of stuff...
Top it off with the occasional toss of a paper coffee cup over the pile out of sight and out of mind... I was getting antsy over it all.
So I let my OCD FREE on it... Assembled four sets of free standing shelves and had at it. By the time I was done in... I had repacked nearly empty tubs into tubs that contained similar material and moved them to their new storage locations along the mostly unused walls of the garage... Ahem in the process collecting oh say fifty or so Coffee cups that mysteriously appeared as I moved the tubs... (wonder where those came from )
Then i found all deans camping gear and neatly tucked it on top and in spaces the tubs didn't fill. The tub with my harness appeared... Woo Hoo Now it was time to put all the big tubs on the bottom... Remember OCD. I got six of those big tubs placed... Yay... The pile in the middle of the garage with from about six feet high to about four...
Remember I work from a rolling walker... one of those handy grippers to reach stuff on the ground and nothing lifted above the seat of my walker. I have two brand new furniture dolleys purchased just for this job and a folding table for sorting... When I was done this afternoon I had ONe large tub and six small tubs empty and ready to put stuff in that should have made it into a tub...
And the parting shot was when I found a bunch of little debris, dirt, seeds, petrified frenchfries.... You know common garage dirt items... I took great delight in sweeping it up and with a giant push of the broom hurling it toward my sons car.... (who happened to be playing a game with a friend on the internet at the time) which sent me into a giggling fit with every fling.
By now I had gone all day with out food... and, with the exception of my four shots of espresso over ice, no water either. When I got in I was tired.... Took a shower and a couple of Alieve and got ready for my WEigh in at Weight Watchers
So what did I do... I dropped in to my espresso place and bought ANOTHER four shots of coffee over ice.... I love the taste but only took a sip or two... Its still in the car.
Weigh in was AWESOME. I lost 4.4 pounds which puts me into the 5% loss category and got me a charm for my WW charm key chain. 5% is some where around 18 pounds the website has crashed because the news about Oprah buying 10 percent of weight watchers I am sure has a bunch of people looking at the site. So when it comes back up I will know how much I weigh...
It doesn't matter. I realize some of it is just the workout I did today and it will be back up to morrow. Dont care I feel good.
deb
Monday is my weigh in day.
So it was weigh in day... I gained last time so was Heck bent to count and keep my food diary up to date.
I got in a cleaning mode on the garage.... I let my OCD FREEE and went to work.
There has been a stack of tubs down the center of the garage. MY stuff mostly. A combination of cleaning out my tack room at a boarding stable and packing up my own stuff here for moving to the house later. I have to tell you its A LOT of stuff...
Top it off with the occasional toss of a paper coffee cup over the pile out of sight and out of mind... I was getting antsy over it all.
So I let my OCD FREE on it... Assembled four sets of free standing shelves and had at it. By the time I was done in... I had repacked nearly empty tubs into tubs that contained similar material and moved them to their new storage locations along the mostly unused walls of the garage... Ahem in the process collecting oh say fifty or so Coffee cups that mysteriously appeared as I moved the tubs... (wonder where those came from )
Then i found all deans camping gear and neatly tucked it on top and in spaces the tubs didn't fill. The tub with my harness appeared... Woo Hoo Now it was time to put all the big tubs on the bottom... Remember OCD. I got six of those big tubs placed... Yay... The pile in the middle of the garage with from about six feet high to about four...
Remember I work from a rolling walker... one of those handy grippers to reach stuff on the ground and nothing lifted above the seat of my walker. I have two brand new furniture dolleys purchased just for this job and a folding table for sorting... When I was done this afternoon I had ONe large tub and six small tubs empty and ready to put stuff in that should have made it into a tub...
And the parting shot was when I found a bunch of little debris, dirt, seeds, petrified frenchfries.... You know common garage dirt items... I took great delight in sweeping it up and with a giant push of the broom hurling it toward my sons car.... (who happened to be playing a game with a friend on the internet at the time) which sent me into a giggling fit with every fling.
By now I had gone all day with out food... and, with the exception of my four shots of espresso over ice, no water either. When I got in I was tired.... Took a shower and a couple of Alieve and got ready for my WEigh in at Weight Watchers
So what did I do... I dropped in to my espresso place and bought ANOTHER four shots of coffee over ice.... I love the taste but only took a sip or two... Its still in the car.
Weigh in was AWESOME. I lost 4.4 pounds which puts me into the 5% loss category and got me a charm for my WW charm key chain. 5% is some where around 18 pounds the website has crashed because the news about Oprah buying 10 percent of weight watchers I am sure has a bunch of people looking at the site. So when it comes back up I will know how much I weigh...
It doesn't matter. I realize some of it is just the workout I did today and it will be back up to morrow. Dont care I feel good.
deb
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Deb, that is AWESOME!!! Feel good and be happy!!
@perchie.girl
DANG!!!!
I am so happy for you!
And yep, don't get down if it swings back up a bit, the fact that you moved so much, got so much accomplished, and cleaned up a mess is so magnificent!
The more you move and do, the easier it will be to move and do, so the more you will move and do!
A great cycle that will help the weight come off and stay off!
Super happy for you deb!! What a high!
DANG!!!!
I am so happy for you!
And yep, don't get down if it swings back up a bit, the fact that you moved so much, got so much accomplished, and cleaned up a mess is so magnificent!
The more you move and do, the easier it will be to move and do, so the more you will move and do!
A great cycle that will help the weight come off and stay off!
Super happy for you deb!! What a high!
perchie.girl
RIP 1953-2021
Deb, that is AWESOME!!! Feel good and be happy!!
LOL... yep... planning on buying more shelves..... If you dont assemble them the whole way it makes two sets of two shelves that free stand and you can assemble them as a four shelf unit later on... when I take em up to the house. the extra leggs either store under neath or between tubs.
deb
perchie.girl
RIP 1953-2021
@perchie.girl
DANG!!!!
I am so happy for you!
And yep, don't get down if it swings back up a bit, the fact that you moved so much, got so much accomplished, and cleaned up a mess is so magnificent!
The more you move and do, the easier it will be to move and do, so the more you will move and do!
A great cycle that will help the weight come off and stay off!
Super happy for you deb!! What a high!
Love them rolling consequences... More steps toward moving home .... Lots of wins.
deb
Yep, yep yep!!
Woohoo, Deb! Great job!
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
This fitness stuff reminds me about something I need to brag about.
For the past month or two, every morning when I take the dogs out for a pee, I've stopped in the same spot to do some morning stretches, trying to touch my toes with straight legs. Now, yesterday, we went out for a run for the first time in ages, and afterwards, I was doing some stretches, and decided to try something I haven't done in a long time. I sat on the floor, legs flush to the carpet, and tried to reach my toes with my hands, and for the first time in probably about 15 years I was able to touch my toes! I had quite the feeling of accomplishment. And my back has been feeling a lot better lately too. It's amazing how much more mobility you can get with just doing a one minute stretch routine daily. My next goal is to touch the floor with my fists, and at some point I want to be able to put my hands flat on the floor. That's going to take a lot more stretching though, I have very long legs.
For the past month or two, every morning when I take the dogs out for a pee, I've stopped in the same spot to do some morning stretches, trying to touch my toes with straight legs. Now, yesterday, we went out for a run for the first time in ages, and afterwards, I was doing some stretches, and decided to try something I haven't done in a long time. I sat on the floor, legs flush to the carpet, and tried to reach my toes with my hands, and for the first time in probably about 15 years I was able to touch my toes! I had quite the feeling of accomplishment. And my back has been feeling a lot better lately too. It's amazing how much more mobility you can get with just doing a one minute stretch routine daily. My next goal is to touch the floor with my fists, and at some point I want to be able to put my hands flat on the floor. That's going to take a lot more stretching though, I have very long legs.
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