Real estate is booming here, too (except for this weekend. lol) And I did work hard physically -- I ached every night, and also the following mornings. It was as distressing as it was physically taxing, because I feel like we should not have all this junk. :-P Glad to have gotten this far, at least.
Wow - you must really have worked hard at the packing/unpacking, cleaning, etc to lose 3 lbs. A lot of times, we don’t stop to think that the cleaning, even running the vacuum, mopping and other things are actually forms of exercise. When you’re lifting/carrying heavy boxes, it’s like lifting weights. They say that diet is the majority of losing weight, but I’ve found that I have to starve in order to cut enough calories to lose significant weight; however, if I add 30 minutes of exercise to my daily regimen, I tend to lose some, except when my thyroid levels are completely out of whack.
Scrimping on what you eat can actually have adverse effects (aka slowing down metabolism), so I’m glad you didn't do that.
It seems like you’ve been packing and unpacking for a long time. Maybe your son will love his new high school and you won’t have to move again.
It’s always hard to know what to do with real estate sales. Of course, you don’t to take a low price, yet, if the price is decent, holding out for a higher one could end up losing the sale. Also, if you take the bid, the house will be sold and you’ll be done with it. The real estate market seems to be booming here. From the way it sounds, interest rates haven’t become much of a factor, yet, but of course, we’re at opposite sides of the country, so who knows?? Good luck with it and I hope the weight loss continues as long as you want/need it to.
Have a good week.
Well, exercise seems to have done things for me this week. We were on our last days before our house listed for sale, and I was cleaning out its garage, packing things neatly that were going to stay on the shelves while the house was being shown and taking the more raggedy or unpresentable boxes to our new house. There wasn't anyone to do it but me, and I kept getting notices from my phone that I had fulfilled my targeted number of steps for the day (something I had never told it to track, but apparently it has done so, and has also assigned me a targeted number). Anyway, after days of schlepping heavy boxes and bending and stretching and running up and down the garage, and eating only about two meals a day (though not scrimping on what I ate in those meals), my weight is down more than 3 pounds. Couldn't believe it when I got on the scale. I'm used to these things going in the tenth of a pound. I should do this every day (and will, in the foreseeable future. The stuff in the house for sale is going to need unpacking when we get it to the new house.) It hasn't been pleasant work, but it's worthwhile, long overdue, and as a bonus seems to have had a good effect on my waistline.
We "went live" with the house on Friday (it went up for sale and showed on all the online sites that day) and the house looked great in all the ads and onscreen. We had an open house Saturday. It was the first beautiful day we have seen here for a while, and as a result there weren't a lot of people coming through, maybe six families altogether. But the first family that saw it made an offer, a pretty good one, so we might not wait for any (possibly mythical) bidding wars. The real-estate agent thinks interest rates have gotten people nervous. I think we should give it more time (our last house took two weeks to get good offers), but I'd hate to be stupid and lose the best chance.
In the meantime we're more or less living out of boxes in the new house, so now that the old house is clean and tidy, I'm on that task. I think I'll be packing and unpacking boxes until the end of time. Here's hoping I can keep the mental lucidity required to sort things out, and find places for the things I want to keep.
Have a great week!