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How to Lose Weight by Cleaning Out Your Closet

January 30, 2015 by Susan

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Susan here with a fun look at a surprising benefit of cleaning out your closet. This post is sponsored, but my ideas and opinions are always my own.

How to Lose Weight By Cleaning Out Your Closet

I’m fed up with 2 major areas in my life: my weight and my overflowing but uninspiring closets.

So I’ve decided to tackle both at the same time…

Here’s My Plan… Will You Join Me?

  1. Take out ALL the clothes from your closet.
     
  2. Vacuum and get rid of all the dust that’s built up since you first moved in.
     
  3. Try on EACH item of clothing that you don’t wear regularly.
     
  4. For each item, ask yourself the following questions…
    • Do you wear it regularly?
    • Is it in style?
    • Does it fit? Is it only one size too small? If so, wash and hang it in your GOAL clothes.
    • Do you love it?

    Based on your answers, create a pile of clothes to keep and a pile of clothes to donate.

  5. Wash and hang or fold and sort into three categories…
    1. Current Season
    2. Out of Season
    3. Goal Clothes
       
  6. Every week, take out and try on one item from your GOAL clothes to measure your progress and inspire yourself to keep exercising and watching what you eat.

A Fun Flowchart to Help

Be realistic as you work through your closet and ask yourself these questions.

Clean Out Your Closet Flowchart

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Your newly lightened and freshened up wardrobe will feel like a huge load off your shoulders!

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How to Lose Weight By Cleaning Out Your Closet

 

Disclosure: I am not providing any medical weight loss advice in this post… it is just for fun. This post is sponsored, but my opinions and ideas are my own.
Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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9 Comments

  1. Inspired Cleaner says

    July 10, 2015 at 7:46 am

    What if you do it once a month? I live in a very crowded city, so the dust builds up in seconds. I think that if I wipe it off everyday it still won’t be enough. I try to clean the house once a week, so if I take out all my clothes and reorganize my closet, I suppose that I will loose weight at the end of the month 🙂 I won’t wash them if not necessary but that way will burn calories 🙂 Thanks for the idea! Probably will donate a lot of my clothes because that pile will be the biggest one.

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  2. Rebecca Parsons says

    February 8, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Really great advice on cleaning your closet.

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  3. Jordan says

    February 4, 2015 at 12:24 am

    Very cool idea! I could definitely use this! 🙂

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  4. vickie couturier says

    February 3, 2015 at 12:22 pm

    interesting,,sounds good ,,my closet needs cleaning out badly

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  5. Karen Glatt says

    February 3, 2015 at 11:22 am

    This is what I am doing now. Cleaning out my closet! This is very helpful in helping me decide what to get rid of in my closet! Thanks for sharing this!

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  6. meagan bs says

    February 3, 2015 at 11:04 am

    this is a great idea! certainly can’t hurt!

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  7. anne says

    February 3, 2015 at 10:47 am

    Accurate and excellent. thanks.

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  8. Yunar says

    January 31, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Couldn’t believe from cleaning closet and try each clothing inside it will became a great procedure to check our body weight, simple yet effective way.

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  9. Keenly Kristin says

    January 30, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    This is so clever (and useful)!! At first I was thinking, wow, lose weight by cleaning a closet? It must be a huge closet — or I must have to do it really fast! LOL. Great suggestions!

    Reply

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