Well I started rearranging my home. All 2,650 square feet of it and then I'm going to start on the building I call my studio (600 sq ft) but is going to be my future one room school house for the wee ones as today is their last day of public school. YEAH!!!!I have decided the baby is going to be one on June 1 so I am commandeering her nursery for my "project" room. I need my own space and since the lil ones are taking over my studio this appears to be the only place I have left to even consider.
This is a huge project. HUGE. There are 9 people living in our home. 9 people have a lot of stuff. I have set out to go item by item and assess its usefulness and purge at will. No clutter. No frills. No gratuitous "fluff". This has proven to be a therapeutic thing along the way. I have redone one bathroom complete with painting and my own art work (I did shots of all of the girls feet :)
These are my oldest daughters dirty colorful toes.
My mind is a jumble of things, rearranging my physical world always helps my mental state. Plus it goes with my whole "move more eat less" thing I got going. I know house work doesnt sound all that taxing but lemme tell ya, if you spend 6 hours in a day painting with a roller... its works those arms and the legs and butt with all the squatting and crouching and all.
I have been trying to really look at the "normal" weight people in my life and see what common traits they share. One of them is they seem to always be moving. They seems to have less of a tendency than I too put things off until later. They do things even when they don't feel like it just because it needs to be done. They rarely skate by on the bare minimum in terms of activity. I'm beginning to conclude that my obesity is as a huge out word manifestation of my chronic procrastination habits.
If I were honest and not politically correct I would dare say it would stand to reason, the fatter one is, the lazier one is. Ouch, did I say that out loud? It isn't a four letter word its just an adjective and yet it carries so many connotations, so much levity. Lets look at the facts though before we get all offended. Huge people do less because its harder to do those things that thin people have no trouble doing. Its like a vicious circle. We move less because we weigh more and we weigh more because we move less; but I wonder, if I just did all my days like I faked it this weekend and ate normal instead of like the super sized me, how would I change?(BTW I was dying earlier this week from all of the crouching down and squats I did while on that nearly 2 hour shoot. The muscles in the backs of my legs were killing me and I dare say the thin ladies I was photographing didn't wake up Monday morning with leg cramps from squatting their asses in the sand).
I had my normal sized hubby wear my pedometer for a bit. He walked on average 15,000 steps!!! You know what I average with out walking for exercise? Around 4,500 steps. Seriously!!!!! I am baking, cooking, cleaning, watching kids, doing laundry and puttering round the house. I am wayyyyy under the 10,000 steps they say a healthy human should travel during a day. Again; move more eat less. I gotta kick the lazy out of my buns. Even a house wife has 10,000 steps in her BEFORE exercise. If I want to affect the core of me, change what got me here in the first place I have to alter this lazy tendency.
The journey begins with a single rearranged and prearranged step...
ooh, lazy! it's true, often the thinner people are the ones who can't sit still. even in a chair. i'll go so far as to say that i'm not lazy, but i am a very 'still' person... it's a fine line :-)
ReplyDeletethis is from an interesting article i posted on my blog a little while ago:
'Professor James A Levine from the Mayo Clinic has spent ten years studying the role that everyday movement (non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT), plays in metabolism. His discovery: people who tap their feet, prefer standing to sitting, and generally move a lot burn up to 350 more calories a day than those who sit still. That adds up to nearly 37 lbs a year!'
cool, huh? it also talked about how our modern lives play a massive role in our changing sizes. elevators, escalators, remotes, cars, dishwashers etc, are all super handy, but they're ripping us off from some pretty serious non-exercise fat-burning.
anyway, this comment is getting way too long. cool photo xx