Millie, I need to circle back to your post on tidy house>tidy mind>tidy eating pattern. I’ve really been thinking about this a lot recently. My house has been in a real mess lately as we’ve been having tile and hardwood installed. I’m more than a little surprised at the impact it has made to my eating patterns. I am not dealing with the mess at all well. I sometimes joke about being a little OCD but maybe it’s not really a joke. It’s been very stressful having everything out of place and messy. I’ve never been a clean freak, but I don’t do well with disorganization and I’m really not happy about things being out of place. It’s leading to me not journaling my food intake (where’s my pen and notepad that I keep on the counter) and not measuring my quantities (dang, the scale is under a pile of dishes sitting on the kitchen counter) and not getting in my exercise (the mini tramp is in the basement behind a bunch of furniture) and being very stressed about the entire thing. Am I really that structured? Yeah, I guess I am. I just never really thought of it that way when I was busy putting clean dishes at the bottom of the stack so that the dishes all got used about the same amount (plus the glasses, the tupperware, underwear, socks etc).
Where am I going with this? Well, I guess that I need to face this aspect of myself and prepare for it. Just because the house is disorganized doesn’t mean that I have to be. I can dig out my scale, my journal is on my pc, the treadmill is still upstairs and accessible. If I can keep these things on track, maybe it will help me deal with the rest of the mess.
“I just never really thought of it that way when I was busy putting clean dishes at the bottom of the stack so that the dishes all got used about the same amount (plus the glasses, the tupperware, underwear, socks etc). ”
You must NEVER drop by my house without at least a week’s warning. Lucky we live on different continents.
When will your work be done?
On a serious note, I wasn’t really joking when I said that this should be a WW topic. I wonder if anyone would say that their diet is never affected by a disorganised physical environment? Or a disorganised work-life? Chaos promotes stress and stress promotes disordered eating. The stress of a messy house is usually (except in cases like yours) something we can control.
Don’t worry, I don’t expect other people to subscribe to my madness of ‘circulating’ dishes, clothing etc. It doesn’t bother me when Rick empties the dishwasher and puts the new clean dishes on top of the old clean dishes, at least not enough to change them.
The installer hopes to have the majority of it finished Friday afternoon. I hope so, I need time to get everything back in place and cleaned up before the inlaws show up Friday night. Then Saturday I have more inlaws showing up and Sunday my step son and his family will also be here for Thanksgiving. I expect to have 8 adults & 2 children for Thanksgiving. You can imagine why I’m a bit anxious about the mess.