Less Clutter At Home, Less Fat On You?

Organizational Expert Peter Walsh: There's A Connection

(CBS)  If you live in a cluttered home, you're not alone: Americans as a whole spend an astounding 9 million hours each day looking for items they've misplaced. Whether your home is piled in paper or stacked with boxes, clutter can wreak real havoc on your life and, according to organizational guru Peter Walsh, be indicative of an unhealthy way of thinking, and living.

In his new book, "Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More," Walsh shows how the clutter in your home might even be adding to your body weight!

He discussed it all in a three-part series on The Early Show.

Walsh, a regular contributor to "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and the organizational maven on TLC's "Clean Sweep," showed people how to reclaim their lives from physical and emotional clutter that was taking them over in his first book, "It's All Too Much."

In his new book, Walsh sheds light on the connection between de-cluttering and losing weight, and offers practical strategies for de-cluttering your life and, by extension, shedding pounds.

On The Early Show:

Monday, Feb. 11, 2007

Walsh discussed the clutter-weight link. To see the segment, click here.

Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008

Walsh showed how to do a "fat tour" of your home and elminate clutter and weight at the same time. To watch that segment, click here.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008

Walsh checked out the offices -- and refrigerators in them -- of Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez and Dave Price to see how cluttered they are and suggested ways to de-clutter them and make their lives easier. To check out that segment, click here.

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To read an excerpt of "Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?" click here. The excerpt is Copyright 2008, Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster which, like CBSNews.com, is part of the CBS Corporation. All rights reserved.

[honestabe8]

Hermit22: Wash their mouths out with soap? My gosh, what are you, 12? If you don''t like the language on TV, turn the frigging channel.

[hermit22]

ps. for all the "good advice" t.v. people keep shoveling out....when they SWEAR and take God''s NAME IN VAIN....they should have their MOUTH WASHED OUT WITH SOAP. i am so disappointed to hear "THE writers" are back, because now it will be more violence and filthy stuff. same old. same old. and these FOOLS get PAID for that.

CBS should fork over a few bucks for some HUGE big bars of serioulsy tough SOAP, the clean kind, not the "slop opera" type, and CBS and all the other t.v. "owners" should start scrubbing swearing and filthy mouths right on the t.v.! NOW that would be good t.v. THAT would improve the HOMES of america. THAT would "clear the clutter" in the culture. duh!

[hermit22]

why should that disheveled looking man,with wrinkles in his shirt, tell anyone what to do in their own house? WHY do these over-paid t.v. people give out that STUPID advice to "throw it away" when they could do a service to the homeless and poor and needy who LIVE UNDER A BRIDGE in this rich america! by saying "GIVE IT TO THE SALVATION ARMY!" now would that be expecting too much!? i''m SO TIRED of these over-paid rich t.v. people spouting out stupidities like "NOBODY looks good in yellow"....that is a clasic from oprah! duh! when she could have said with some thought...."GIVE IT TO THE SALVATION ARMY!" or the local mission or whatever! shape up, YOU louts!