Crafting snowflakes, removing guilt and this week's goal

I am so happy .   Achieving last week’s goal, Coby and I gathered foam snowflakes, sparkly stickers and glitter glue to make 24 of these > 
and a few other ornaments for our tree.  As we crafted our snowflakes we listened to Christmas tunes on my iPod and chatted about all sorts of things (school, Harry Potter, friends, his cat Hermione.)   He kept thanking me and telling me he loves the ornaments and wants to keep them forever.  These are the moments.  These are the moments we cherish but so easily miss when we’re too busy, busy, busy.  

It was a good week.  A very good week.  Acknowledging my recent fear of the scale and letting myself know it was ok to stay off it for a while has given me a new freedom.  Emotional eaters (which most of us are) know how stress can make us mindlessly pop comfort in our mouths.   Fearing the scale, and being afraid to admit it, was making me want to eat.  I stopped myself, but I felt guilt just for wanting.  Guilt.  Just for wanting.  Letting go of the stress – the scale – took away the fear and guilt and the strong urge to overindulge.   I felt happy all week.  Confident.  It was good.

This week's will be another non-food related goal. 

Goal for the week of December 13, 2010:  Declutter!

This is the perfect pre-Christmas goal.  I’m not going to tackle every room.  This week’s goal will just be Coby’s room.  I’ll start there to make room for new toys, books and games.   When I go back to this post in September, I recall that number 4 on my list of First Year Goals is “Declutter My House”.  This week’s goal will be a start. 

Getting rid of house clutter is similar to losing weight.  Excess weight is like clutter on our bodies.  Shedding the clutter, be it body or house, gives us room to move and breath and feel good about ourselves.   I’m up for that.