Wedding Blog

There are lots of reasons that motivate people to lose weight. For some (like Ash is Fit) it’s a wedding, for others, it’s to be able to play with their soon-to-be born children without getting winded, and for Seth Rogan, it’s to play the Green Hornet. For me? It’s a combination of things. I’m tired of being overweight, and I was blaming my knee surgery for avoiding exercise (it was 2 years ago, I need to get over it). I don’t want my wedding pictures to feature an overweight stranger, and most importantly, I have an audition in June for a local dance company. I want to be back to my fit, healthy, and dancing self.

Here are a few blogs that continue to inspire me:

I first saw Tyler on the Consumerist. I started following his blog, and then I was inspired by him - he’s gone from 344 pounds to 279 pounds in 13 weeks. He writes about his weight loss journey and blogs about his calories, weight, exercise, and everything in between. He even posts pictures about himself and clearly has more cajones than I do. He has run a 1 minute pledge on his blog - for every comment, he promised to work out for 1 minute on the elliptical at level 14 (he ended up with over 90 comments!). Sure, he’s not losing weight for his wedding, but that doesn’t stop him from inspiring me!

My other favorite weight loss blog (which Miss Ballet Flat also loves) is Ash is Fit. I recently checked out her cooking site and tweaked her Chili Bean Burgers. Mr. D (a meat lover) actually begged me to make them again that same week! Ashley has lost almost 80 pounds in 2 years, and was motivated to lose weight for her wedding. I always figure if Ashley can shred levels 2 and 3 back to back, then I can at least do level 1 or 2 back to back.

Of course, no Weddingbee inspiration would be complete without a bit of bee lovin’. Mrs. Avocado continually inspires me as That Wife. A few months ago, I would delete A LOT of pictures of myself - I just really wasn’t satisfied with the way I looked, so I’d delete the photos. A post of hers reminded me that I should keep them so I have some before and after pictures, and that just because I didn’t like the way I looked at something, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

What other bees inspire me? Obviously, there’s Miss Meatball and her Flab to Fab series, and I also Gchat with Miss Ballet Flat daily. She sends me clips of the Biggest Loser, and we gab about our days, diet, and fitness.

I’ve started a weight loss race among my friends, inspired by Budget Beautiful. Instead of starting with 20lbs, we’re shooting for 10lbs, and doing the race in legs, so that the goals are tiny and manageable. Obviously, this race isn’t for people that are at a healthy weight, it’s for people with more than 10lbs to lose. It’s been pretty fun so far. Everyone sends a check-in weight on Friday, and I’m creating little charts for my friends.

What inspires you to be healthy?