Post-Wedding Motivation

kmvflute

I'm sure I'm not the only one out there...

I got serious about dieting and working out for my wedding-went from 196 to 178 on my wedding day (goal for the wedding was get get under 180!). The wedding dress and wedding pictures were the biggest motivator...not to mention wanting to look good my new husband :-)

Our wedding was on Sunday, September 4 (and was just about perfect!). The wedding diet ended when I went to bed the Friday evening before, as I wanted to enjoy all the deliciousness of our rehearsal dinner, welcome party, wedding food and CAKE!

I intended to get back on track, albeit a bit more relaxed about it, right after the wedding (our honeymoon is delayed until next summer due to my husband being in the middle of training for a new job). Enter a full week of laying on the couch and eating all the foods I had denied myself leading up to the wedding...cupcakes, chips, cookies...and only working out once all week for 30 minutes, when I had been doing an hour or more 5-6 days a week...

Started logging again today, and intend to keep doing so. Changed it from 2 lbs a week to 1 lb a week, to give myself a little more freedom, and did squeeze in a workout. I'm 5'8", and my eventual goal weight is around 165.

Any other newlyweds out there? Now that the "wedding diet" is over, how are you staying focused?

BranMuffin21

Ahh I am so in the same boat! I was doing fantastic about the week before the wedding and normally I have great self control I lost it all just before the wedding and then kept saying I will wait another, then another day until I became too scared to look at the scale. Well today I did and immediately started counting again!

kgs0201

hey! yyyesss exactly right there with you! i actually started a group because I needed something to motivate me. Just started a week ago and always taking new members so feel free to join us! not everyone is a newlywed but that was my reason for starting it and at least one other member is in the same boat. would love for you to join us!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/334495-fit-for-fall-calling-all-jm-fanatics

Sadie98072

This would have to be such a common thing. I think its because its a pre-wedding "diet" not a lifestyle change that everything goes to pot after the wedding. You have reached your goal, you have been restricting your food and now its over you can relax for "a while" which turns from a week or so to months, chuck on a few kg that you promise yourself you will start losing tomorrow or from Monday or next week or Jan 1.........
Make sustainable changes with your food intake, find an exercise you enjoy doing and you will have long term success.

TammiAcker

October is my 1 yr, but I feel like it wasn't long ago that we got married. My motivation is now a healthy future and planning for a family. I want to be able to run and play with my future children. I want to be able to sit on the floor without my legs and feet falling asleep. Funny I'm actually more motivated for that than I was for my "wedding diet". I want my body to be in a healthy place so there are no complications with a pregnancy. I now have about 50lbs to lose. I workout 5 days a week, only 30 min a day. I've been running 3 days and strength on the other 2. Feel free to add me if you want

ahavoc

I've been married for 31 years, but let me tell you something. Being fit is a life-long task. You don't suddenly wake up one day and say "I'm done". You work at it continually for the rest of your life. People who regularly exercise eat cake, and ice cream, and cookies, but not all the time. They work out and eat healthy and that makes having the extras possible without sabotaging anything.

My biggest motivator is the mirror, and my second biggest motivator is all the other beautiful women in the world that my husband looks at. I want to be one of them in his eyes. And don't think that men don't look, they do, and hopefully that's as far as they go, but give them an excuse, and they'll stop looking at you and start looking at someone else, if you know what I mean.