If you are seriously committed to losing weight and reorganizing at home in the coming year, why not start right now in the kitchen? This project will involve approximately 2 four-hour sessions and will positively support your commitment to weight loss and improved fitness in the coming year.
De-cluttering and reorganizing your entire kitchen and pantry areas can psychologically and visually prepare you to make life-long changes in the way you think about food and food preparation. If you're like most folks, you'll find a lot of expired food products in your kitchen cabinets and refrigerator as well as foods that don't support the new, healthy eating habits you want to develop. Get rid of this old stuff now!
I've helped many clients de-clutter and reorganize their kitchens. Inevitably they discover small appliances and other items that are taking up valuable counter or cabinet space and are totally unrelated to the way they currently live. The same is true for packaged and canned goods. Expired products migrate to the rear of cabinets. You'll probably find that these dusty cans and packages contain foods you stopped eating years ago.
When you restock your cabinets with fresh goods, group like items together. This will help streamline food preparation. Seeing the components of healthy meals and snacks when you open a cabinet or the refrigerator will support making healthy food choices when you're in a hurry to prepare a meal or grab a snack as you fly out the door.
Keep a magnetized shopping list on the refrigerator. When you're running low on produce and other healthy foods, make sure to write these items on your shopping list. Train your housemates to do the same. Whoever uses the last of any item, writes it on the shopping list. Spend some time with your family discussing healthy menus and snacks that appeal to everyone. Shop once a week for the ingredients. If you know what you'll be preparing each day and have the ingredients on hand, you'll be less inclined to fall into the take-out and fast-food trap. Organize your kitchen so that it's easier to take a piece of fruit from an attractive bowl on the kitchen counter than it is to grab a cookie or M&MTMs from an opened bag lying on the counter.
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