After the applause faded away, and I had an opportunity to look at my beautiful ring, I came hurling down to earth. This ring looks terrible on me. Me and my naturally pudgy fingers even pudgier due to 23 years of poor exercise and a love for the food of my Italian heritage.
Time to get serious.
Well, in the past, I had tried Atkins, The Zone, I even tried the diet where you inject yourself with fluids from a pregnant lady, and most recently I tried the 17 Day Diet - none of them worked. I guess in all of my ventures I at least earned a degree in Yo-Yo Dieting. My mom told me, my fiance told me, my brother and friends told me and finally, I told myself that I am doomed to lose weight the old fashioned way...exercise.
I hate exercising. I would much rather watch Giada DeLaurentis cook eggplant lasagna with ree-coat-ah and mote-sah-rail-ah and all those other ingredients she pronounces way better than us while I look through Brides magazine in my sweats. Thus, the reason for my unhealthy weight. So, I looked at some of the benefits to exercise:
- Weight Loss
- Improved health
- Cuter clothes
- Pride
- Better sex (which is a good way to exercise, by the way! ; )
- I would have a good excuse to wear sweats (my favorite line of clothing)
I got serious. I even put black streaks under my eyes and bought a camouflage shirt. Actually, that's a lie because I, unlike all of the TLC brides, actually have to save serious pennies to pay for my wedding. No Kleinfeld's for me, I would actually rather wear a sweatshirt to my wedding at this point which brings me back to the reason I'm writing this...back to business..
I am approximately 80 pounds overweight. If I lose 80lbs, I will reach a goal that I have wanted all of my life; to have a single-digit dress size. According to theknot.com, I have 572 days until my wedding date (Terrific Tip #1: Saving money buys you time to lose weight) and 80lbs over 572 days is totally doable. 572 days = around 19 months and that's 4lbs a month!
Any other brides out there? Let's do this.
