Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
Aussie clutter expert reveals relationship between mess and fat.
"Being fat is easier than working, easier than raising a family, easier than making money, and definitely easier than getting up and switching off the TV," says Peter Walsh, clutter expert and author of Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?.
Peter believes our obsession with being instantly gratified and wanting to have everything we want now is not only making us fatter but is also creating unrealistic expectations which lead us to assume we can lose weight in the same amount of time as celebrities, and with very little effort.
Since releasing his international best-seller It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff two years ago and becoming a regular guest on Oprah, Walsh has discovered two key factors which link our overfilled homes with our expanding waistlines
"Firstly, clutter is rarely about the stuff, it's a whole lot deeper than that," says Walsh. "You need to look beyond the clutter for answers to address the underlying issues whether they be fear of losing memories, worry about the future, low self-esteem, or the inability to move past grief."
"Secondly, your home is a reflection of you, not just in some airy-fairy way, but in a real and tangible sense," says Walsh. "It's no accident that as our homes become more cluttered we've become fatter. It makes sense that if your kitchen is clean and organised and your fridge is well-stocked with ingredients for planned meals you're more likely to cook and think about what you're really putting into your body."
Walsh believes anyone can break out of the cluttered-house/clutter-body cycle-they just need to be honest with themselves and be willing to work it. "The fat didn't appear overnight and won't disappear overnight so you're going to have to work at it and implement some new habits."
"Start by establishing your goals and be realistic! Then get organised. Plan your meals, schedule in your exercise time and create a kitchen that will inspire you to cook and get healthy," says Peter Walsh. "And most importantly, never lose sight of your goal!"
Peter Walsh, Australia’s clutter expert helps you organise your life (and lose weight too)!
Reality check:
The thin clothes that you hope will fit again one day are making you fat.
The baggy clothes you hide behind are making you fat.
The pantry chock full of disorganised food is making you fat.
Even the dining room table covered with mail is making you fat.
According to Australia’s leading clutter expert Peter Walsh, it’s no
coincidence that our love affair with ‘stuff’ and filling our homes with
it is linked to our expanding waistlines. It also doesn’t help that we
beat ourselves up when we fail to drop 10 kilos in a week like the
Hollywood starlets who bounce seamlessly from the maternity ward
onto the red carpet.
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? is not a diet or exercise
book. In fact, it’s an antidote to all those fad diet books that simply
focus on food and what you can and can’t eat. Using his experience
as a clutter expert and having helped hundreds of people all over the
world, Walsh’s approach is straightforward: organising your life will
help you lose weight. This book is about obtaining a simpler, richer
life; one with less clutter and more energy so you can live in the now.
From giving yourself a reality check and setting goals (we mean realistic ones!) to organising
everything from your life to your kitchen cupboards so that food becomes something that
nourishes you rather than poisons you, Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? will declutter
you from the inside out so that you can live the life you’ve always wanted to live.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Walsh lives to conquer clutter! He’s the organisational guru on the US show Clean
Sweep, a regular guest on the Oprah show and the voice of reason on his weekly radio
program The Peter Walsh Show. When not aiding the de-cluttering of people’s lives, he lives in
Los Angeles and Melbourne.
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
Published by Simon and Schuster
Author: Peter Walsh
ISBN: 9780731813605
RRP: $24.95
Review: I love this book, I've started my own reality check and now a regular on ebay, clear that stuff out girls, and stop wasting your time cleaning and procrastinating.
