Weekend / Weigh-in / Stuff
OK so I weighed in on Sat. morning - 97.2KG a gain of an entire 100g. I can live with that! But I have to be a bit more serious this week, so I have already planned our dinners and when I’m going to the gym this week (Wednesday and Friday).
The weekend was really good. On Friday we went to pick up the kids at school - of coruse we’d arranged it with D first but kept it a secret from the kids so they were happily surprised. They’ve been asking to go bowling again for ages and there’s just always something going on where we just don’t have the time to do it. The last weekend we had the kids we brought them home a few hours early (per request) so we thought we’d get a few hours in return.
So we went bowling and funnily enough T kicked our butts practically all the way through until I caught up with her and we both had a final score of 100. R was in 2nd and P last but of course he was SURE he’d won because he had the least points! :D 5-year-old logic!
After bowling we went to this Pancake place in Oosterbeek - we love it there because the service is so good, it’s a big place, but it’s never overcrowded. Plus the dutch pancakes are to die for! Then we had to take them back home, or rather to their Oma and Opa’s place as they were staying there that night.
Saturday - We cleaned and tidied but in a really nice relaxed way. The place was already super clean from when we had the open house, we just needed to tidy up a bit and give a once over to the table, dust, that sort of thing. Something that has bothered me for quite some time is that I have no friends really in this area, no social life. I met a couple of girls back in February/March this year who actually live near me, one in Arnhem, one in Doetinchem and we have discussed setting up a cooking club specifically in our area (there are plenty of other clubs and groups in Amsterdam, the Hague, Utrecht, etc, but nothing in Gelderland). Anyway, to make a long story short - we’ve gone out together, just the girls, a few times; once for dinner with partners (all the boys are Dutch, the girls are American, English, Australian) and now it was time to have some action in the kitchen!
I had some allergies to deal with, so my idea of grilled salmon wasn’t going to fly. Instead I made a non-breaded Chicken Parmesan, home-made tomato sauce and linguine. I have a booming basil plant so I asked one of the girls to bring tomatoes and mozzarella cheese and I’d do a little salad with the fresh basil and some olive oil/basalmico.
We drank lots of lovely wine, the Chicken/pasta/salad turned out so well (I am amazed sometimes that I can cook something for the first time and it’s truly GOOD), everyone was happy, chatting, getting along well. The other girl brought dessert- my, my, my! Also extremely tasty but not good for the waistline.
They all left around 23:15 as everyone has busses to catch. We stayed up a bit to watch a Depeche Mode DVD and then crashed out completely probably an hour later.
Sunday - I felt like a real grown-up. I’d had a “party” and the house wasn’t’ trash, no one puked in the WC, nothing was even broken during the course of the evening. We’d even soaked the dishes the night before!
I did sleep in a bit as I felt a bit fuzzy from the night before. Drank tons of water and then got myself started. Cleaned the kitchen, did more laundry and then got started on my closet… the dreaded closet! Basically I have all sizes from 40 to 48 and they are (were) stuffed in the closet, drawers, in plastic boxes under the bed, in the kids’ closet… everywhere. I don’t need those things reminding me that I have nothing to wear that I like. I don’t need those things laughing at me and making fun of the way my body is right now. I don’t need those things sticking their proverbial tongues out at me every time I unfold them and try them on, even though the last time they didn’t fit me either… tossing them back in the cupboard and holding back tears.
What I did: well, thankfully I got some great advise from www.organizedhome.com and I pulled ALL the clothes out, separated them into sizes, put ONLY my current size in the closet and the rest packed up in boxes indicating the size. As I get smaller, I can then get rid of size 48 and go to my box of 46’s, open it up and decide from there what I want to keep and what can go. Obviously, when I get down to 40 I’ll have to check if my clothes are still somewhat in fashion, but most of my stuff is pretty classic so I’m not too worried about it. I did throw away stray socks and all underbits that were not in my current size. One of my rewards as I get smaller will be to buy new sexy underbits. A girl SHOULD have nice new panties - not have to wear the old ones!
I also sorted out all my shoes. Boots that I can’t wear because my calves are too big. Shoes that aren’t really appropriate for the weather. Funky shoes that I just won’t wear as a fat girl. So they all went into the box and some even into a pile of give/throw away. I STILL have at least 12 pairs of shoes left! It’s enough!
The feeling I had this morning when I went to my drawer, pulled out a current sized panty, a current sized bra, a current sized tee, socks that didn’t gather at the ankle (and matched), and my black leather ankle boots that I thought were missing was that of pure satisfaction. It’s amazing that decluttering your home actually declutters your soul at the same time 
We still have several works in progress, but it really makes me feel good to have this kind of control in my life. It makes me so much stronger!
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