Frack.
This morning it hit me. In just under 10 week’s time, I’m going to be married.
I think it was the invitations that did it. Yesterday I sat down and finished off a few stray invitations. TechNick had done the majority of the work, addressing invitations and envelopes, stamping every invite with a pretty leafy stamp in silver ink, buying and affixing stamps to all the envelopes… Bless him!
So, now it’s becoming real. The invites are on their way, we’ve narrowed down our vow choices (really must finalise that), have venues and celebrant planned, I have a dress… in fact, there is now really not much to do until a few weeks before the day.
Except for one. You see, it’s winter, it’s cold, I’ve been busy, I’ve eaten perhaps a tad too much chocolate… that’s right, I am porky! Now, most people look at me and scoff at that statement- but we all know when we’re at that ‘comfortable weight’ for ourselves. Not to mention I have a rather sheer and unforgiving wedding dress to wear in the not-to-distant future!
So, dear readers, I am here to ask for your help. Tomorrow I will skulk down to the gym, and ask them to re-activate my membership – my whole ‘I’ll just go for walks and do some pilates at home’ thang isn’t really working for me. Alas, I think I’ve come to the realisation that I only really stick to exercise a) when I’m in an environment where that’s the only choice, and b) when I know I’m forking out my hard-earned cash for the privilege.
All I ask is that you help me stay honest. And stay on track. And for those lovely women out there who have gone before me – please share your advice! Not only on this minor topic, but on all things wedding and marriage.
Oh, before I go, something a bit more on-topic – here’s a peek at the handmade wedding rings TechNick and I are getting. They are being made by an old friend of his, who is now a professional gold/silversmith and jeweller back in the UK – Georgina Ettridge.
We chose these to match the style of my engagement ring..
I’ll have to wait until a few weeks before the wedding to see them – Nick’s parents are bringing them over from the UK. I think they are just beautiful – a little different, and symbolic, too. I like to think of my engagement ring as symbolising marriage – there is both the rose (the diamond, symbolising all that is strong and joyous) and the thorns (the swirly-spikes, symbolising all that will be trying and difficult).
So, the count-down has begun – wish us luck!
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hahaha you’ll be fine jess! you can do it! run those threadmills like you’re training for the olympics!
i should probably do the same for mine..i’ve been eating too many donuts. argh. But it’s winter you know.
I went crazy and lost 50 pounds in the six months before my wedding. I was at the gym every day (sometimes twice a day). I’m quite the rolly-polly type, so exercise isn’t my thing. I kept motivated by thinking about my dress. I wanted it to fit. I needed it to fit. I taped a photo of it to whatever machine I was on at the moment and just stared at it when I wanted to quit before my goal time.
You can do it!
You can do it! Nice to smooth off some of those lumps and bumps! Plus, you’ll be ready for summer! 🙂
Hey Jess, its gonna be alright, try to relax and take some time off, stress and lack of sleep making fat!
And maybe try some different sort of exercise while ur at it!:D
Exciting! Just don’t lose too much weight as you want to fit nicely into your dress (not too tight, but not baggy either) and I think you look fine anyway (in the pics I’ve seen) 🙂
My marriage advice (because I’m soooo experienced after 8 years – LOL) is be willing to forgive each other and keep communicating. Don’t let anything, esp. silence, come between you guys.
Look fwd to seeing wedding pics in 10 weeks’ time!
I’ve been working out for 5 years. You need to adopt a change of lifestyle, rather than hope to exercise off unwanted pounds. Not eating enough and exercising will make you increase in weight, not decrease. You need to eat carbs before exercising, and protein after. It’s a false situation; eat better all the time, and exercise to be fit. Better to be fit and overweight than thin and unfit. I have a personal trainer who has finally got my body to start loosing weight by eating regularly, and eating MORE than I used to. My body had gone into a kind of starvation mode where it stores fat because it was not getting sufficient carbohydrate. Now I eat three meals and snack, and am loosing weight. It took a year for my body to get to this stage, and all that year I was doing CV work. You need to do an hour of CV work, work where you sweat, to have any impact on your body, so really I think you should get fit, and not ask for the moon! 🙂
😀 Great advice, Linda 🙂 I am usually relatively fit – but I took a break from the gym over the last 2 months, thinking I could just save a bit of money and exercise outside.. but I realised that for me, the motivation of having a place to go is really important.
It’s funny, I was only going 2-3 times a week – and until I stopped for a while, I had no idea how important that maintenance exercise was for my body! Both for general fitness, but energy and mental well-being, as well.
So it’s time to get back to it!
Congratulations!
Your ring is beautiful!
🙂
I think if you’ve done the gym thing before it shouldn’t be too hard to re-ignite the will to run!! I can’t see why though – I think you look gorgeous already? 🙂
Thanks Nina,
Awww Sam *blush*…
Oh such exciting times!! Best of luck with the countdown running smoothly (I’m sure it will). I hope you aren’t getting too much un-solicited advice (it seems to go with the planning of weddings…I know we had plenty!!).
PS. Your rings are absolutely stunning!!