Shedding
Whoops. I thought yesterday was today. The results from the actual final weigh-in for the month show a 2.2 pound loss (or 1 kg, for those who are metric-minded). Better than yesterday's results, but still not too impressive.
Perhaps because I haven't been as successful as I'd like in shedding pounds, I've been shedding other things. My urge to spring clean has come early this year. I started paring down the clothes in my closet, finding something to weed out almost every day. A friend of mine owns only clothes she loves. She says it's never difficult finding something to wear because everything in her closet is her favorite. My closet, on the other hand, is divided into the clothes I love but never wear and the clothes I wear but don't particularly like. I try to save my favorite clothes for "special occasions," which rarely come. I'm realizing what a bad strategy this is, as I'm having to get rid of a lot of my favorite clothes that no longer fit, and that I rarely took the chance to enjoy. So, I could do with half the amount of clothes in my closet, getting rid of the everyday clothes I wear but don't love.
Despite the frigid temperatures, I've been spending quite a bit of time in our basement, sorting through all the stuff we store there. The flood earlier this month moved the basement higher on my priority list. Just about everything in our storage room is stuff fit for a yard sale, so I think we'll have one in the spring. In the meantime, I'll continue prowling around the house looking for more things to shed.
A guy named Dave undertook a 100 Thing Challenge, where he shed all but the 100 most important or useful things to him. That's quite a difficult challenge. My end goal is not to have an arbitrarily-picked number of items (though 100 sounds pretty good), but to shed all unnecessary, unloved, and unwanted things. As I'm going through my stuff, I keep asking myself, "If I didn't have this, would I go out and buy it?" If the answer is probably not, I add it to the yard sale collection.
Tomorrow (really): February resolutions.