Decluttering – Page 8 – a hippie with a minivan

getting back into the routine…

Last week I finally got back in the pool to do laps…

My trip back west gave me 5 extra pounds though surprisingly I haven’t gained any inches and even more surprisingly things are filling as well or even bigger than before…I am not too sure about how that happened…I bought another pair of jeans last week and bought a size 16… I never thought that I would do that so soon… It makes me feel great though!

now I want to start losing again…

I thought that getting back in the pool would be hard… but again to my surprise it isn’t.. the first day my rhythm wasn’t there as much but it came back pretty quickly and today I am at the same level as I was before the summer hours hit…

So I am getting back into my routine of 2-3 nights a week and it really shows in the way I feel overall…

Getting out and swimming for an hour makes me feel great… I sleep better and the next day and for the next few days I feel that It gives me energy and I feel less lazy… I want to do things…

I even clean the house more…

I bought clothes…

ok… ok… maybe not that news worthy to some… but for me who never buys clothes… well it is something worth mentioning… honestly…

I have never spent so much in one day on clothes in my life!!! actually I have never even spent 1/3 of what I spent yesterday…

I really needed it though…

All of my clothes were too big…

I was at the mall a few days ago and I had Khéna on my back and Xavier was telling me that my shorts were falling down and when I checked they were half way down my bum… I was waiting to lose a little more weight before I bought a few things but It just hit me that there is no more delaying it…

So… I started trying out clothes and at first was looking at the sizes that I am used to…

A few months ago… I was wearing a size 22-24 so I started looking at those but then realized that I was there because it didn’t fit anymore… so I asked an employee what size she thought I was and she said 18… so I tried one on and yep!!! 18! I can’t believe that 30 pounds took that much off!!

So I bought…

-2 new bras ( and I mean real bras… not nursing… REAL…. I haven’t bought a real bra in about 7 years!… my boobs went from droopy and navel gazing to HELLO THERE!!!)
-clear straps for the bras to wear with my spaghetti strap tops…
-2 tank tops
-2 t-shirts
-denim bermudas
-Khaki bermudas
-a pair of jeans
-black shorts
-lounging pants
and a bathing suit…

you can just imagine what I spent… 😐

But… I wanted to cover all of the basics… so that I can use what I have in my closet that still fits and also everything I bought is mix and match…

It felt so weird spending all that money on clothing for me…

and I have to admit that I kind of even liked trying on new clothes that fit well and make look and feel pretty good if I may say so myself…

eta… a few pics…

Plateau…

I am on a plateau right now… still hanging around 223-224…

The pool went into Summer hours and it makes it a lot harder to go… I would have to leave the minute Simon gets home to get my hour in… which would mean that supper would have to be done completely before Simon gets here… (I often use the time Simon gets home to go into real action with supper…) and that I would not be able to eat with the family… or eat a hot dinner…

I need to get walking more… or biking or something… I need to get off of this plateau and start losing again…

the scale is moving…

but I don’t really believe it yet…

Not expecting to attain my first goal so soon, I let it go by without noticing, or acknowleging it…

I started my weightloss journey at what I thought was about 240 pounds around xmas… I started to swim in feb and started getting serious about losing in April… By then when I would get on the scale I could sometimes get it to read 228… Then I got the new scale and really I was 13 lbs heavier… Meaning 241… Which in turn means that I started off my journey at 253…Almost the same weight as I was before I lost weight before getting pregnant with Xavier…
So… With knowing my real weight my first goal became to get down to where I thought I was before getting a better scale… 228… I was nearly there about two weeks ago and thought about being so close…but then I got AF and my weight stayed up a bit…and l though I weighed myself, i didn’t really register the weight… Until I weighed myself the last few days and I am now at 223…5 lbs less than my first goal and down about 30lbs from the begining of the year… I am feeling great and i am starting to notice a big difference.. So first goal done!…next goal is 208.. My lowest adult weight to date…. Just 15 lbs to goal!! I can’t believe it… though i am starting to see the difference in the mirror..

music to swim to…

I have been swimming 2-3X a week now for the last few months… it is something that has now become a habit and if I miss a usual night I feel a bit weird… like there is something missing…

Not only have a gained more strength in the pool and can now go the 55 min that I swim with minimal breaks I have also gained more energy out of the pool (when I am not in the midst of AF of course)… I have also been able to shed a few pounds and inches which also feels amazing… and I am not going to stop… When I look at the numbers I have lost about 20 pounds since the beginning of the year and about half of that in the last month and half…

The only thing about swimming is that is pretty boring… I mean going from one side of the pool to another and only hearing the splashes of those around you because the of the training sessions in the next lanes over… at least when the pool is quiet the quiet is relaxing but this is not the case at this pool… So when Simon talked to me about getting me a gift for Mother’s Day that meant that I could listen to music while swimming I got really excited… what he was originally looking at was a water proof case and earphones for the player I have now but I took over the search and found what had the best reviews albeit a bit more expensive… So, around Mother’s Day I bought this…

Finis Swimp3 v2

The SwiMP3 V2 Waterproof MP3 Player allow you to enjoy incredibly high quality audio while swimming!

The SwiMP3 V2 is a fully waterproof MP3 player that uses a unique system of sound transfer to provide you with incredible sound clarity under water. Standard players transmit sound through air and water, causing you to hear only muffled noises and poor sound quality. The SwiMP3 V2 uses “bone conduction” – sound travels from the cheekbone to the inner ear to give you excellent sound quality — in fact Beethoven used this same technique after he became deaf to compose music by placing his head on his piano. Bone conduction technology is a safe, and has been used in military headsets.

So… I bought them from the US (link above) for 100$ less than what I would have paid in Canada… and it took about 10 buisness days to get it… which means that I got it today…

So I loaded a few tunes on it and headed out to go swim and yeah… I might look a bit weird but it was so cool to be able to listen to music while swimming…

I got stopped by a few fellow swimmers who even tried it out and thought that it was the coolest and I think one or two of them might order their own… Anyway… like the description says, they use bone conduction.. so when you are out of the water and it is against your cheekbone you can’t hear anything really but once you get your head in the water and start swimming the sound is amazingly clear and they are really comfortable so you don’t even feel them…

and my swim today… went by fast and easy….

So… I got to ask… what is your fav music to get moving to?