Feb. 27

Good Morning Botts:

I woke up at 4 am this morning...hungry!  I weighed myself and I finally lost another pound.  I was checking my email and found an article.  This is the intro:

"According to the British Medical Journal, current guidelines suggest adults do 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week, yet more than a third (35.6 percent) are far from meeting this target. Why? Two articles published in the BMJ this week argue that the 150-minute objective is unrealistic, especially for older people, who generally become more immobile as they age"

One of the most fit people at my gym is the cleaning lady...it got me thinking. My goal has been to clean for 3 hours a day.  I record movies and plop myself in my comfy chair.  At every commercial I set my kitchen timer and clean for 10 to 15 minutes. This seems so simple, but it is helping my re-weight loss.  It is so easy to sit in a chair for 2 hours and then get up to eat a meal or a snack and plop back down.  Cleaning a bathroom is a great workout.  Stretching to clean the shower walls and floor, kneeling to clean a toilet, shaking the rugs, washing the floor by hand, cleaning the sink and the mirror.  Vacuuming and moving furniture.  Hauling laundry over the stairs.   According to OH, I burn 240 calories for 1 hour of moderate cleaning.  I also went shopping and to the pool for a swim.  Have a great day everyone.  Tri

My meal plan today:

B: Jimmy Dean delight

S: lettuce, ss peas, cucumber slices, tomato, rf cheese, seeds, croutons and Brandigirl's ranch dip

L: quinoa, beef, celery, onion

S: 1/2 avocado, salsa and multigrain gluten free crackers

D: quinoa and beef, celery, onions and bok choy

S: grapefruit, sf sponge cake and sf pudding

A good workout AND a clean house, how can you not like that?!  Congratulations on the weight loss!

I would love if you came for a 3 day visit... Lol.. Or 5 days... You can get as much exercise as you like.. I can feed you... I am a good cook. 

Btw: every so often I have lady come to help do detail cleaning in our home... She usually comes for 5-8 hours. She is so good and does not take breaks.. And since I do work with her at the same time...by the time she leave - I need a nap and a strong painkiller.  Unless I am not home - I can't just sit around when others work on my house... 

I do work long hours and with my back issues - it is cheaper for me to higher someone to do some detailed cleaning than to do it myself. (behind toilets, baseboards, Windows, etc etc) 

I agree.  I quit my job the March after my RNY because I thought less stress and more time to spend on myself would help me lose weight.  I have more time than money for cleaning now.  It takes me 45 minutes to clean a window.  My windows open and fold in all directions and the bottoms and screens get amazingly dirty from year to year.  Then there is the basement which houses past sports equipment which I will never be able to do again and stuff we no longer use. Washing, folding and stuffing a sleeping bag for example takes a day.  Cleaning out the lower kitchen cabinets was like crawling into a cave on my hands and knees. What a sight that was!!