diet aka cleaning motivation

i am not sure what it is but ever since i have started this diet, i am all about cleaning my house. the past few weekends i have spent my time cleaning my house room by room. at this time i am down to my spare room and the closet in my office. well i guess the garage too if you want to count that. for the first time in... well ever i think. all of my clothes are either clean and put away (hung up and in the armourer) or in the laundry room waiting to be washed. my family is reading this thinking "yea right, i'll believe that when i see it". feel free to stop on by!

today i decided to tackle the spare room and with the exception of going through one more tote (which will be done by tonight) and hanging some pictures (that will happen on monday with mom), it is ready for company. the office... well that might have to wait until next weekend.
i am saying this goes with the diet because it ties back in to that i have motivation to do something. i hate the thought of just sitting on the couch and watching tv because i know if i am up moving around 1) i won't be tempted to sit and munch while watching nothing of importance. 2) even the slightest bit of activity burns some calories and 3) almost every channel has something yummy to tempt me, taco bell commercials are DEVIL!!! so i am avoiding the temptation.

another association of the diet and the cleaning is the lack of going out. since i have been on the diet i have really not gone out. again it is all about that temptation thing. don't get me wrong i have been out a couple times and if i drank it was no more than about 2 mich ultras. the rest of the time i drank water. this lack of going out is not only keeping me on track with the diet but it is also making it so i don't feel the need to sleep all day on saturday and sunday to recover from staying up all night. there is more time to clean and get my house in order and since my friends are still out there staying up late, they sleep all day and there are no phone calls to distract me from cleaning. i don't think that slim4life understands the benefit of this. i am all about them marketing this and using it as part of the sales pitch "lose weight AND clean your house". what do you think?

fun tip for today is really more of a shout out. one of my readers sent me an e-mail yesterday telling me how my blog motivated her to get up off her "a" and start exercising. plus she is watching what she is eating. she is by no means a big girl but she wants to feel a bit healthier. so way to go you! i'm proud of you and hope that i can continue to be a motivator for you!