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Week End Recap

Happy Friday friends! I had a really mixed week, productivity-wise. Started out procrastinating way too much, but I've had weird spring cleaning bursts of energy every night! It's like I cannot possibly clean or organize enough things in my house. I'm still trying to purge my closets too, so those are a work in progress. I will share at some point though!

Detox has still been going well. I have slipped up a few times and eaten more carbs than I would like (I confess to eating 3 pieces of cake at the office potluck on Wednesday...oops). Otherwise I've been doing well in the diet department, and I think I have lost about a pound. Very good news. Exercise isn't going quite as well, but I have gotten back into Just Dance for Wii and I went for a walk last night. Baby steps. It's also been 7 days without any unnecessary spending! All I've spent money on is food. Hopefully all these trends continue, because I'm feeling really good overall.

Since I've been taking a lot of things out of my life, I've decided to add something really important that I've been slacking on lately, which is phone calls to my nearest and dearest. Started the trend last night by calling BFF Julie, whom I had not spoken to I longer than I'd like to admit. So so good to catch up with her. Next up is my lovey who is in Denmark in grad school. I can't wait to hear how that is going, and when I can come visit :)

Happy Friday, loves! Hope you have an incredible weekend!

Diet 101

Don't make delicious Paula Deen chocolate chip pound cakes for your coworkers. You will be tempted to eat the whole thing way before it makes it to the office.

Life Detox

Happy October everyone! While I'm sad to see September go, I'm happy to welcome October. This month I'm taking advantage of the mini beginning of the month "fresh start" and detoxing a bunch of different parts of my life.

1. Diet
2. Exercise
3. Shopping/spending
4. Home

Diet: John and I both managed to reach some gross out point this weekend and have vowed to to some sort of "detox" diet for the month of October. Caveat: this is not a true detox. We're mostly just ramping up some healthy eating, and mostly limiting our carb intake. I think this diet will end up being a lot like the Paleo diet, but with dairy. I just need to stay away from the Halloween candy aisle!!

Exercise: I just need to start doing it. Period. Gym, Wii, dvds, running outside. Don't care what it is, I just have to do something. It'll probably end up being some combo of all the above just to keep it interesting.

Shopping: I've talked about my "no shop" months on the blog before. I haven't been keeping up with them as much as I should have this year. And after switching a lot of my spring/summer wardrobe out and my fall wardrobe in this weekend, I realized (again) that I have more clothing than any human being would ever need. Seeing a lot of it piled up on my guest bed just sort of put me over the edge. And saving money never hurt anyone! I'm on the verge of paying off my car (2.5 years early!) and making a really special big purchase I've been wanting for years. Noshop-tober will help with both of these things.

Home: Purging more of the clothes mentioned above. I. Have. Too. Many. I do love most of them, which makes it hard, but I seriously need to take about 100 more items out of my closet and to consignment. We'll see how this goes...

I'm planning a post later this week with some "truth" photos of all my closets and clothes piled on my bed, just to show the general clothes/shopping gluttony. Its bad, but its time to be honest!