KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

Low carbing really seems to work for a lot of people. I find it very easy because it has smoothed out the peaks and troughs of my appetite which means that I'm no longer ravenously hungry every two hours and can even choose to skip a meal if I want because it's no biggie. And by smoothed, I mean in mood as well as in appetite.

If you knew me IRL, you'd know that's an unimaginable difference.:o:p

Righty, off to read some more library book and then to bed. Tomorrow is another day and I intend to get the full enjoyment out of the hours.

See ya on the other side, GQ xx

Siebrie

I kondoed two small gifts to two classmates from dd1, who were giving a joint birthday party and specifically requested 'no gifts - we are happy that you come to celebrate with us'. How wonderful is that? One was a set of juggling balls I bought for €0.75 last year, and the other a small wooden agility game I bought or was given 20 years ago, still in its plastic wrapper.
I also kondoed part of a chore: washing and braiding dd's hair. It is washed and parted now, with one braid and the rest in buns for tonight. Will have to do the rest tomorrow afternoon.
DH finally fixed the rabbit hutch, where we had put two of the walls in the wrong way round, so that the drawer did not slide, but stood on the grass.

Slinky

It's interesting what you say about skipping a meal GQ, I try during the week to eat within a 10 hour window as that gives 14 hours 'fasting' per day and I saw a TV programme earlier this year (forget what it was called) where they suggested that simply altering the timescale of when you eat will assist with weight loss if you do nothing else. This generally means that I'll have breakfast sometime between 9 and 9.30am. I work from home, often at my desk at 7.30am. Some mornings when I've been really busy, around 11.30am I start thinking I feel hungry I should have lunch, only to remember that I've forgotten to eat breakfast!

WeeMidgie

Another primal eater here. I'm not using it primarily to lose weight, but to optimise my health.

What helps make it work for me is planning ahead, e.g. I prepare a big box of finely sliced veg base twice a week. Usually onions, cabbage, grated carrots. This can be salad base (coleslaw/other salad), soup base (add other veg to ring the changes) or casserole base. I vary the base ingredients between white onions and red, red and white cabbage, carrots and celeriac. It means I never get bored and there's always something to base a meal on.

It also makes food shopping as a singleton very much quicker! Like GQ I grow veg, but not on her scale. I have perpetual spinach and kale in a raised sleeper bed, and pots of herbs. I live near a Morrie's which usually does its final veg reductions as I get home from work.

I echo the beneficial effect of both primal and intermittent fasting on appetite regulation and levelling mood. Kondoing carbs has been a good thing for me!

VJsmum

Slinky wrote: »

It's interesting what you say about skipping a meal GQ, I try during the week to eat within a 10 hour window as that gives 14 hours 'fasting' per day and I saw a TV programme earlier this year (forget what it was called) where they suggested that simply altering the timescale of when you eat will assist with weight loss if you do nothing else. This generally means that I'll have breakfast sometime between 9 and 9.30am. I work from home, often at my desk at 7.30am. Some mornings when I've been really busy, around 11.30am I start thinking I feel hungry I should have lunch, only to remember that I've forgotten to eat breakfast!

This is what I do. I tend to go 14 - 16 hours without eating and then practice low carb and low sugar around 90% of the time. It sorts my insides out good and proper

I also eat 85% cocoa chocolate. One small square every day
I call it my medicinal chocolate

Igamogam

Finally FINALLY got my eb8y mojo back:) however because it's been an age since I last listed I am limited to 6 items a month only !!!!! Hopefully when these items sell they will increase the number.........otherwise it's going to take me years!

Another bin bag being created for CS ..........OH says today he will sort his clothes......so far just distraction activities *sigh*

Karmacat

WeeMidgie wrote: »

Another primal eater here. I'm not using it primarily to lose weight, but to optimise my health.

What helps make it work for me is planning ahead, e.g. I prepare a big box of finely sliced veg base twice a week. Usually onions, cabbage, grated carrots. This can be salad base (coleslaw/other salad), soup base (add other veg to ring the changes) or casserole base. I vary the base ingredients between white onions and red, red and white cabbage, carrots and celeriac. It means I never get bored and there's always something to base a meal on.

Thats very useful - thank you! My energy levels are horrendous I'll continue to use my frozen veg - broccoli, carrots, cauli, sweetcorn - but I need to start thinking again about fresh veg and what's easy to prepare - I'd remembered courgettes, but completely forgotten about cabbage.

The main focus for me will be cutting down on pure carbs like potatoes, pasta and rice (I'm using up the stocks I've got, I'm not chucking out food I like!) and replacing as many portions as I can with veg. It'll get easier soon.

I really appreciate everyone's input on this - kondoing bits of ourselves is very useful

GreyQueen

I've been eating considerably more than 1 square of 85% cocoa Lindt chocolate per day. More like anything from 50-100 g. And still the weight keeps sliding off, such as the tenth of a kilo misplaced in the last 24 hours.

I didn't need breakfast today, although I hadn't eaten since about 6 ish last night, but I have to take a timed medication which must be taken with food or, as my doctor tells me happily, the tablet will sit on my stomach lining and eat its way through like acid and I'll have an ulcer.

Gee, thanks for that warning, lovely visual.:rotfl:So I had a few hazelnuts and a square of that medicinal chocolate to keep the meds company.

What happens to me on a conventional 'good' diet is that I burn my way through a bowl orf porrdige or a bread-based breakfast in under two hours and then an hungry and getting hangry long before my brief midday snack-meal (only have 15 mins on a workday). Then, if that is carb-based, I burn through that in another couple for hours and by 2 pm am becoming hangry, tired and easily irritable. Not ideal in a customer services role, even my employer noticed the difference.

Then I'd crash out of work (where I would have likely been tempted by the many carby and sugary treats my colleagues bring in to share) and into a shop on the way home where I would have purchased some modest-sized snack food, such as a serves 4-6 cheesecake and eaten half of it before tea. And snacked throughout the evening.

Easy to see how I ended up 5 stone overweight, hey?

:j Today, I tried on a pair of trousers which I purchased new last year, still had their tags on, because I gained weight very rapidly and they were too small before they got used. And they fit, goshdarnit, they fit! This means that the ratty pair of trousers which are now too large, plus they'd ripped across the thigh last week (only used for gardening) will be washed today and then ragged.

So, I am kondo-ing a pair of trousers. And I couldn't be happier about it.:D

WeeMidgie

:Great news GQ! Enjoy the purposeful destruction! Re choc, I have none at present, sadly even the 85% hurts my gut.

What a great description of carb highs and lows. I too got hungry quite quickly after even the 'healthy' porridge for breakfast. I last a lot longer fuelled on protein & veg. I've just had breakfast - bacon, tomatoes and rocket, and ate last night at 6.00pm, so a comfortable 17+ hours.

Karma, like you I have energy supply issues, so I found it helped if I approached food supply & prep as an energy conservation exercise. I use a food processor to do the slicing & grating for me. Haven't quite cracked it with the housework... Always a work in progress. I guess kondoing will eventually make its mark!

greenbee

I tried on my work clothes on Friday night when packing and they're getting a little snug round the middle. The last few weeks of builders where I din't move enough and didn't monitor my food intake have taken their toll. I need to lose 2kg from the layer over my abs by tomorrow morning please

I've had a long sleep (well I was in bed for 12 hours, sleep stats show about 5.5 hours sleep as it was a bit noisy early on), been for a swim and am contemplating the free yoga class in 15 minutes to help with posture, followed by a run if it isn't too unbearably hot by then.

I did stock up on healthy snacks at the airport, and have located the grocery store for investigation later today.

Packing (once I'd decided what to pack...) was quick and easy, as was unpacking, and my hotel room drawers and wardrobe are beautifully organised!