Taking longer than I had expected
Current weight: 222.5 (+2)
My title reflects my feelings toward our house selling and my weight loss. Because our open house was so well attended and a guy stopped by on his own last night who was really interested, I was expecting a few people to contact our realtor today to at least go through it again with their realtors. So far, nothing. I realize that I’m being completely unrealistic, especially in this market, but I just want to have it sold. I know that it WILL sell, but when? But as I have acknowledged, I’m not a very patient person.
This issue is parallel to my weight loss. I know that I WILL reach my goal, but when? The pounds can’t come off fast enough but I realize that I need to be realistic. So for tonight I’m going to try to relax and not worry about what’s going to happen and when it will happen, I just need to trust that it will happen.
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I ended up ordering Applebee’s last night. My fear of losing control this week may be irrational but then I realized, “So what if it’s irrational.” A guy I went to college with was seriously afraid of confetti. Seriously. And the poor guy taught middle school so as soon as those kids figured it out he was dead meat. Anyway, if he can live his life being afraid of confetti, I can live my life being afraid of not indulging on Sunday nights. Granted, I would be thin much more quickly if I could conquer this issue but I will get there eventually. And maybe someday I’ll figure out how to not depend on this ritual but as long as I don’t consume 10,000 calories in the space of a few hours it should be ok.
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I took the day off from working out today and it feels ok. It’s my last day at home with my older son before we both go back to school and we had a picnic instead, then we had an appointment later in the afternoon. It’s officially my rest day anyway so it’s not a big deal. I’ll get back on the horse tomorrow.
Progress toward workout goal: 92/300 (no change)
A rest day is always good. I had a rest weekend and it was AWESOME!!
And I am so the queen of NOW! I’m not happy losing 2 lbs a week, I want to lose 10. If I can’t lose 10 lbs in a week then why bother. I fight that attitude and way of thinking pretty much every day. I’m getting better but it’s still work.
We did not have an open house Sunday. Our house has been for sale for six weeks and it is the first Sunday that I decided not to do an open house. When I made that decision last weekend, I kind of slacked off on keeping the house “show ready” during the week. And wouldn’t you know it, we had six showings this weekend. We are getting lots of traffic, lots of people that seem really interested and spend a lot of time looking, and then no offers. It’s making me miserable.
Selling your house is such a stressful time, I am dreading when I have to do it in a couple of years. Already I am stressed about it!
Patience is not a virtue, as far as I am concerned, it is an ordeal…
I feel for you, Brandie. To be quite honest, this was supposed to be our starter house but, as the years went on, I just never could get motivated to go through another move so we just stayed. Even now, I just plan on keeping this house when we move part time to Florida after retirement. I know the market is bad but it’ll sell. Just try to hang in there.
As for the weight…you are the Queen of healthy living. I honestly don’t know how you hang in there but you’re going to be exactly where you want to be before you know it!
I think slowly whittling away at things like not indulging on Sundays is the way to go. Sometimes it’s best to take small whittles instead of going for large chunks that may only set us up for failure. Weekends use to be a HUGE problem for me..from Friday night - Sunday night, I would undo all the hard work I’d done during the week. Now it’s usually just one or two meals of indulgence instead of the entire weekend… it doesn’t feel as scary as I thought it would be to let go. You can totally do it in time!
As long as you don’t give up it’ll happen
Not sure where you are from but here in Southern California houses are selling like hotcakes- it’s insanity!
WOW. I totally know the feeling and I sympathize on both the weight loss front and the house for sale front! Hang in there though, the market has GOT to turn around. For both our sakes
(my house is currently for rent, I wouldn’t be able to sell where I live).
I understand the guy’s fear of confetti. Right now, I’m “afraid” of what happens when I hang out with friends and they have all kinds of badness. But we both must remember “slow and steady”, and we can’t be afraid of life events (dinner at Applebee’s, hanging with friends, etc.)
Good luck