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Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More

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Diets don't work. Why not? Because they focus on what foods we should and shouldn't eat but completely ignore everything else that makes us fat. Look at your own situation: You say you want to lose weight, but you just can't stop indulging. You say you'd exercise more if only you had the time, yet you spend precious hours every night in front of the TV doing what? Munching nutrition-free snacks and drinking supersized beverages.

Peter Walsh, the bestselling author of It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, believes that the secret to successfully losing weight is to forget about calorie counting and weekly weigh-ins. Instead you need to focus on how, why, and where you eat. When it comes to clearing clutter (the fat in our homes) it isn't about the stuff itself, it's about the life you want to live. The same is true for losing weight: It's not about the pounds, it's about living the life you deserve in the body you want.

Using his expert techniques honed from years as a clutter expert and organizational consultant on TLC's Clean Sweep, Peter helps you address how the clutter in your kitchen, your pantry, and your home is directly related to the clutter on your body and negatively affects your ability to lead a full and healthy life. This book shows you how to clean up not just the spaces where you eat, but the routines around them: from planning meals and shopping to dinnertime rituals.

Peter knows all the pitfalls and all the excuses. In Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? he gives you the tools (and courage) you need to get over all your excuses, face the issues, and make the change to a better life.

This is not a diet book. This is a book about your life -- about creating the healthy life and body you have always imagined for yourself. Peter helps you kick the food-clutter habit forever. You have only one life. Start living it today.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781416560173
ISBN: 1416560173
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
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• Enough Already!: Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You
• This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True
• Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding


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I ordered this book after reading Enough Already!: Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You which I thoroughly enjoyed. I thought this book was useful in that it had some good ideas about organizing the kitchen and pantry but I wasn't quite as thrilled with it as I was with Enough Already. A lot of what was mentioned in this book was covered in the other.

This book was more of a diet book, with suggestions for eating smarter and healthier. Much of it is just common sense but it's always good motivation to hear it again. There's one section where he talks about getting rid of all the old diet books that used gimmicks that didn't work and that you still have sitting around. I thought that was good advice. Another thing he talks about is getting rid of all the old exercise videos and machines that aren't being used. Now that was something I didn't want to do, although I had to admit that what he said made sense, they do take up a lot of room. So that motivated me to start using them (Would you believe I have exercise videos that are 10 years old that not only have I not tried, but the clear wrapping is still on them?) After not using all this stuff for so long, it was like Christmas again, realizing all the cool stuff I have that was almost like new!

This book is worth reading, but do try Enough Already as well. That one got me cleaning out drawers and doing some big time organizing.

Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat -
This book is fantastic. I wish I'd read it years ago. I know my life would have been so much better. Peter Walsh is right on the mark. Very down to earth but very knowledgeable. For years I've tried doing Fung Shui, this book beats it hands down.

BOTTOM LINE -
I thought this was an intriguing connection - clutter and obesity. Clearly there is something psychological behind the explosion of obesity in our culture. Walsh thinks we overindulge ourselves - "reveling in an orgy of consumption" - and that we cannot get enough of anything - especially food. He explains that we indulge ourselves, spend valuable time watching television, eat junk food, neglect exercise, and have a desire for instant gratification and overconsumption that is out of control. He also observes that many of us seem to be "genuinely unaware of the connection between what we put into our mouths and the size of our waists," (or does he mean butts). Walsh relates the clutter in our kitchen and home to our bodies and suggests that a cluttered home contributes to an overweight body - one is a reflection of the other.

To combat this rather undisciplined state we find ourselves in, Walsh offers rational advice such as organizing your kitchen and pantry, "being present in the moment" when you are eating, and designing meal plans you will actually be able stick with. He emphasizes being mindful of "how, why, and where" we eat rather than on how many calories or which foods we should consume. Walsh presents himself as a coach and encourager rather than a nutritionist or physician. Along with his practical advice, the book includes questions to ask ourselves and worksheets. He also makes some suggestions on meal planning and shopping, though does not include defined meal plans, recipes, or exercises.

Walsh's most important message is that we should focus on living the life we want to live in the body we want to live that life in. I couldn't agree more!! Recommended, along with The 2007 Second Expert Report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective and THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong Live Your Dreams

A cluttered house is a symptom... -
Confession time: Hello, my name is Chrissy, and I have a cluttered house.

I live by myself, and I can't blame the mess on Mittens. ;) I tend to be a busy person and run into the house, drop my stuff, then pick up other stuff and run out. Peter Walsh, probably best-known as Oprah's clutter guy, makes an important point by drawing a link between our busy lifestyles, our cluttered homes (and in my case, my cluttered car as well) and the way we take care of our health. Walsh asserts that clutter in the home is a symptom of clutter in the mind, and clutter in the mind can affect everything from our work to our health to our finances and credit and then back to our homes... It's a big cycle. So, he suggests, clean up your house and you will bring some peace into your mind, which will help you to perpetuate the cycle of keeping the home clean and the rest of your life organized as well.

Some of his advice is great, including his advice on how best to organize your kitchen. Of course, I'll need some time to implement some of his de-cluttering strategies, but I do like the philosophy of creating order from chaos. Maybe I'll have to ask for some file folders and storage bins for Christmas. ;)

Great book, but BEWARE ordering this -
Not long after having bought this book on Amazon.com, I received a 'free trial' package for "Wu Yi Tea," a weight loss tea. I have never heard of this stuff, much less ordered it; however, since this was mailed to the same address as my Amazon order, out of curiosity I searched Amazon.com store on weight loss teas, and THIS book is one of the recommended items with the tea product.

The "mystery tea" was billed to the same account that the purchase of this book from Amazon was, within days after my book purchase. A charge of $4.95 (which ended up being "for shipping & handling") appeared from a company called QFL, Inc. Check them out on the BBB website (they have an "unsatisfactory" rating):

http://newjersey.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=89&bbb=0221&firm=90009173

Coincidentally enough, the unwanted tea shipped to the SAME address that the previous book order had been shipped to (it wasn't my home address). How can something that I didn't order be billed to me AND shipped to a friend's address by accident? Good question.

Other than this scary experience that no doubt is just starting to take shape, the book itself is very good. It is EXCELLENT. I was a diehard packrat, and this book provided a perspective I hadn't anticipated -- it just made SO much sense. Just buy it elsewhere. If you do buy it from Amazon.com, PLEASE monitor your billing account for a charge from QFL, Inc. for $4.95.

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