Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Weight Loss Wednesday: Who needs exercise when all you need to do is move into a dirty house?

Mama has purchased a house.  It is a dirty, funky, smelly house.  It is full of fur.  I don't think it had been cleaned in the entire ten year period that the previous owners occupied it.  It was a bargain, (no one else wanted it because it was so dirty, funky and smelly), and so between shoveling sand, working on the closing, packing boxes, and cleaning the new house, (three people, one bathroom, in six hours, and I am not lying, six hours to clean one bathroom with three people working), I can barely move.  I forgot to mention moving 1,700 pounds of laminate flooring.  Yes, 1,700 pounds.  I know this because the flooring company printed the total weight of the shipment on the invoice.  I think I heard the truck groan when they put the pallet on the poor old girl.  I am swollen; I am sick, (ten year long fur/dust buildup = allergies), and I can no longer feel my right index finger.  So how much weight have I lost as a result of all this marathon labor?  Let's see...


Exercise
Who needs exercise when they are working like a man 10 hours a day.
Water
Averaging 3 glasses a day.
Food
I'm so tired I have no idea what I'm doing with food.  I recall Sis #2's friend's husband feeding us a salad with dried cherries, and somewhere in there there was some pizza, (the traditional food of moving).
 Confession
Pizza, but who can turn down pizza after 10 hours of manual labor?
Congratulations
Well, there was the salad.
Starting Weight
151lbs
Current Weight
139.5 lbs
Weight loss
11.5 lbs
Dream weight
115

Yup, .5 lbs in a week.  I have hauled dirt, flooring, packed boxes, cleaned walls, hauled buckets, all week and all I lost was HALF A FREAKING POUND!  I would cry, but I just don't have time.  Sis #1 is coming in this evening so now I have to marathon clean my house with the help of J and Sis #2 and here I am hiding in the bathroom to put out this post on time, (yay that makes two Wednesdays in a row now).

3 comments:

  1. I am in awe of you!!! I know it's hard, but you are doing great!! I go to the gym 3 x a week and I don't think I'm losing squat. Keep it up!

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  2. I know how you feel but as everyone says, think of a half pound of butter!

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  3. Okay, that's a half a pound of butter off my belly fat. Thanks y'all!

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