KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

It's like a roller-coaster, this carby-eating then crash of energy and ravening hunger every two hours, it totally dominated my life. I was always thinking about food. I wasn't eating so frequently out of boredom, I was doing it because I was so hungry I felt like my stomach was trying to consume itself and I was shaking with low blood sugar.

Now, I sometimes look at the clock and think I haven't eaten in 6 hours and I'm not hungry, should I eat something? And I'll mentally review what I've eaten that day and if I feel that the quality and quantity are sufficient, in terms of nutrients, I'll just leave it.

Eating this way is such a transformation that one feels almost evangelical about it and like rushing up to some fellow citizen struggling down the street at twice the weight they should be and hugging them and telling them that it doesn't have to be this way! It's fixable! It's not too difficult to fix this, we have the un-technology to help you - just eat the diet our species was evolved to eat!

Ahem. I don't do this, of course. But enough people at work are intruiged at how the weight is melting off to ask how I'm doing it, and I tell them paleo. Some people may make changes as a result, some may not. I'm intending to weigh 10.5-11 stone this time next year, instead of just over under 16 st which was where I was 3 months ago. My hip pain has vanished, my knees are happier, the puffy legs (fluid retention) has gone and I feel so much healthier.I weigh 14st 3 lb today, so still plenty of wobbly bits to use up.

:D:D And I can get into smaller clothes which I already own which is very money-saving, isn't it? And the larger sizes of clothes will be kondo'd down to the charity shop to benefit someone else, I'll have fewer clothes overall but feel happier and look better in them.Win-win. :D:D

VJsmum

If you ever see my husband, could you do it to him? He won't listen to me.......

I am spending the weekend painting furniture

But I have just dropped a tin of paint over the floor :eek:

Hope OH doesn't come home too soon......

GreyQueen

I wouldn't presume to boss another woman's hubby, that's her job. Hope you can get the paint off the floor, it didn't land on carpet, I hope?!

PollyWollyDoodle

This is quite inspiring. I'm overweight, although quite active- I must have tried every diet there is over the years but decided a few years ago that I wasn't doing any more. They all worked to begin with, I lost weight - and then I'd end up putting the weight back on and a bit more.

I know what I should be eating but dieting has messed up my relationship with food. I eat a lot of pasta, rice and potato although I eat lots of veg as well. Your description above could be me, GQ - I get bad-tempered and shaky if I don't eat, and missing a meal invariably triggers a migraine (which ruled out the 5:2 diet). I am wary of trying something new but this does sound as if it might suit some of my problems. Thanks for the link.

Karmacat

I get the shakes when I'm hungry too ....

Food processors! I have a food processor (off ebay, one third of the usual price) but I've never used it to be honest, I don't think I could cope with the stress of learning it at the moment. I'll do what I can for now.

I have a vision of me pottering out into the garden picking a pinch of each edible green to eat immediately - chives, lemon balm, rosemary, raspberry leaf, hairy bittercress, alchemilla millefolium, nettle, sorrel, oregano, they're all in my garden right now. Can't quite do it, but I'm getting there.

GreyQueen

I've just fixed lunch - salad and some bacon and some hg things like beetroot and some sesame seeds shaken over the top and some olive oil.

It's tasty, inexpensive, fast and nutritious and will sustain me for several hours. What's not to like?

PWD, only you can decide what to do and no one should tell you how to feed yourself. If you do decide to move towards this way of eating, and your diet is presently heavy on carbs as described, you will probably benefit from tapering out of them (smaller and smaller portions) rather than going cold turkey.

Incidentally, some migraine suffers have had total and complete migraine relief on this kind of food. I've been an intermittant migrainer myself in the past so I know it's a form of misery often under-estimated by the non-sufferer.

Whatever you decide to do, the very best of luck with it.

VJsmum

GreyQueen wrote: »

I wouldn't presume to boss another woman's hubby, that's her job. Hope you can get the paint off the floor, it didn't land on carpet, I hope?!

Ok



The paint is mostly cleared. Luckily it was on the tiled floor, the CoD is rather, erm, pinker than I thought it would be....:rotfl: the colour is nougat, so I guess I should have expected it

dragonette

Hmm, I think you have all inspired me to try lower carbs eating (a slow change over tho). A few months ago I couldn't have even attempted it, but I can walk along to the grocers at the end of my street easily now so it's worth trying

High density carbs have always been what powered me through, but with no heavy manual labour now I don't need them as much. No diet had ever worked for me - at all. I was listening to the food programme on radio 4 earlier discussing how our gut microbia affect what foods are healthy for us. I haven't found mine yet but am v tired of being 3 stone heavier than I want to be, and being lighter would mean using less energy day to day

Right, I have veg to prepare and a flat to tidy! Have a good day all

pavlovs_dog

Anyone else struggling to declutter digital media (DVDs, CDs etc)? This is one area where I really struggle with the "but I paid £sss for that!" mentality.

We have an extensive DVD, CD and video game collection between the two of us. As I have previously posted, we have managed to save space by storing our favourite DVDs in DVD books in the sideboard. All being well, a gumtree-er should be coming to buy our defunct DVD storage unit this afternoon :j However, whilst this has saved space and organised our collection, I haven't been able to bring myself to kondo our collection.

I accept that this is totally ludicrous, because there are things that I know haven't been used in a very long time (e.g. my CD collection, fully digitized for use on my iPod, has sat in boxes in the attic since we moved in almost 6 years ago). We have a shameful number of DVDs unwatched, many still in cellophane.

We have long since successfully stemmed the incoming tide, as almost all new acquisitions are digital. Our old stash has however remained my nemesis.

Today I have dipped my toe into brave new waters. I have registered with music magpie and have listed 20 DVDs. If they are all approved, it should snag me just over £5, plus a few extra pennies via Quidco. I've started with the DVDs that I could probably have talked myself into giving to the CS anyway, taking the view that if MM live up to their questionable reputation and don't pay me all that they say they will then I'm no better or worse off than having CS'd them anyway.

I'm hoping all will go well and it will inspire me to further wittle down the stash.

Slinky

The point I make to people if they ask me about low carbing, is it isn't a diet in the sense that you are denying yourself food and feeling hungry which is the misery of trying to lose weight in every other way of eating I've ever come across. I eat plenty of food, just the right sorts of foods (actually I eat some of the wrong sorts of foods too, I'm not a complete saint) which means my weight is under control. I knew on holiday that I was piling weight on - I could literally see a roll of fat growing across my stomach, but I didn't care, as a return to low carb eating would see it go again.


We eat lots of meat, cheese, eggs, full fat yogurt, cream, nuts, oily fish - what's not to like? Never count calories, just don't need to. Our own homemade cauliflower rice has replaced most pasta, rice and spuds. Oh and plenty of dark chocolate is consumed also!


My blood pressure is normal also, for the first time in about 12-15 years.