Little House Tools for Weight Loss!

Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 04:00

If you are looking for some tools to help you lose weight, here they are:

For the past month or so, I have been redesigning the vegetable garden and building a deck for our family. Because of all of the hard work, I have lost almost 10 pounds! I could stand to lose 5 or 10 more, so I guess I'll just have to garden MORE, which is not a problem for me.

The re-design of the garden was a lot of physical work because we wanted raised beds but didn't have much extra soil. Our solution was to till the entire area, build the garden beds from untreated lumber, place the new beds where I wanted them and shovel all of the surrounding dirt into the beds. In essence I obtained "raised beds" by lowering the areas around the beds by about a foot. That is quite a bit of digging and shoveling. Ma and the girls even helped with some of the shoveling. I am not all the way finished, but here are a couple of pictures that I took before we planted anything (except the extra-early tomatoes):

Soon, we will post pictures of the garden full of plants! As for building the deck, I've posted before about it's progress. I now have the entire floor on but I still need to build some railings and the overhead shade trellis. Here is a picture taken when the floor was about 3/4 done:

It has been nice losing weight because of these two projects, but they have delayed our garden plantings and I haven't been able to write as much as I would like in my blogs. Soon both projects will be done and I can hopefully get back to regular updates here.

But what happens later?

Posted by Purewater on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 05:01 - Link

Later it will be easy to gain the weight back as you sit lazily on the deck all day in the shade eating up all the food that comes out of the garden!

Love the pictures of the raised beds. If you want to keep exercising and have a bit of sport, you could convert them into a minature golf course instead of planting veggies in them. (ha, ha)

:D

Posted by Chas on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 10:08 - Link

That is very very cute! I agree wholeheartedly! I need to lose weight and I hope to do it in those ways! I do like Purewaters comment about lazily sitting on your nice new deck eating fresh veggies!! :)
Have a great day!
Blessings,
Chas

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Posted by blessedmomof10 on Friday, May 25, 2007 at 11:03 - Link

Great boxes!! We had boxes for years...... and then our family grew...... now we need about a 1 acre garden........:)))

Have fun and may you be blessed with a bounteous harvest!!

Gloria :)