Wedding Blog
The countdown to the wedding is hanging precariously over my head, ticking away as the 30-day mark looms closer and closer… which will, of course, only speed toward the 15, 10, and 5 day markers! And before you know it, we’ll be at the night-before-the-wedding-point. Eeh.
I think Mr. S is starting to feel it too, however he’s not feeling the need to get a jump start on DIY projects or plan out the timeline. He’s instituted “two a days” in the Stiletto household.
The Stilettos aren’t strangers to a whole lot of exercise - in fact, our workout regime has changed little due to the engagement because we were already going to the gym 4, 5 or 6 days a week. But with the thought of the wedding and the beach honeymoon on the horizon, Mr. S thought we needed to kick it up a notch during this last month. When he mentioned 5AM workouts to me, I told him, “absolutely not. No way. Never going to happen.” I have too much on my plate right now (I mean, come on - I’m planning a wedding here!).
Eventually, I softened to the idea and have found myself getting up at 4:30 AM to take the dog out, get changed, and dash off to the gym with Mr. S for 45 minutes of good cardio. Some evenings include returning to the gym for more cardio (and, I know, I need to get back to the weights, as much as I’ve been ignoring them!), or staying at home for pilates.
Between you and me, I love it! I have more energy during the day, I feel great, and I love being at the gym when they’ve just unlocked the doors. And, since getting workouts in at this stage is crucial, if I have something after work that conflicts with my normal workout, I know that I got at least one workout in for the day (rather than having to give up my workout completely for that day) and I can always supplement at home with lifting some light weights or doing a quick pilates DVD.
Will 5AM workouts be with me after the wedding? I wouldn’t bet on it. But as we power through these final weeks, I’m motivated by how great I want to look and feel on my wedding day!
How early is too early for you to work out in the morning?
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um, yeah, i can’t relate to this at all. but i think it’s very impressive! you guys will be bouncing with energy for the last (and usually most tiring) leg leading up to the wedding!
I’m hitting the gym after work, since I was up too late working on the to-do list to hit the gym in the morning. But, I actually HAD entertained the idea of “two-a-day”-ing it with the wedding so close!
wow–4:30am is the middle of the night for me! How early do you go to bed? I’m impressed!
good ole two-a-days!!!! lol! work it out Miss Stilleto! 
i can occasionally do the 5am workout..usually its if i know im not gonna be able to hit the gym during lunch or after work, or heading into the weekend on a friday morning, thats usually a good motivator to get out of bed!
I have always had ambitions to be a “morning worker-outter,” I can’t do it though! Kudos to you, lady! Somehow, I can much more easily work out at 11p at night than at 5a. I wish I could make myself do it though! It’s a nice way to start off your day…
I totally missed the getting buff to be a bride memo. Fell off the bandwagon ages ago
@JJ: We go to bed between 9 and 10:00, but that’s not too much earlier than my normal schedule. I honestly thought this morning would be SO hard because Mondays usually are, but it wasn’t hard to get up at all!
@Miss Snapdragon: I’m not a morning person, but I like to get to work early and leave by 4 rather than get in late and leave late…so if I want a morning workout, 5am it is!
I have to wake up at 5am in order to get out the door for my hour long commute so I can get to work on time. No way could I work out too. I need to workout period!! HA! You are inspiration Miss S.! You should take 30 day and T-1 day to wedding photos in sport shorts and a sports bra or something. I bet there will be a big difference even though you are already in shape!
You are a brave girl! I get up at 5 am to get to work by 6:45. An am work out is not happening. I try to work out on my days off.
@Curlysue: Ha! I had thought about doing that because I’m so paranoid about wearing a bikini on my honeymoon, but I chickened out with the picture before/after thing, we’ll see…even though i work out a lot, still a lot of jiggle in the middle 
Oh and I hear you on the commute! Mine is a good 45 minutes, ugh.
Wow, I’m impressed! I work out in the evenings and have been trying forever to motivate myself to switch to mornings. I just can’t get up and out that early!
I hit the gym between 4:30 and 5 am more mornings than not, which means going to bed past 9 is pushing it, at least for me. It’s not my ideal, but I could find plenty of excuses why not to go after work. Plus, I like having that sense of accomplishment at 6 am. Oh, and I am SOOOO not a morning person!
Miss Stiletto - great ideas! I was just thinking how I need to do more to get into better shape and I think you inspired me to do sunrise and sunset at the gym! I usally will do a 6am spin or box class, but then nothing after work. Where do you work out? I belong to LPAC and love their classes.
@AbbyM: Awesome! And you’re better than me - I’m a wuss and never go to classes I’m up on the NW side of the city so we go to Galter Life Center (attached to Swedish Covenant Hospital) - great facility and about the only gym near us. Good luck with your two-a-days
That’s incredible! My FI and I have been setting the alarm for 5:45 am for morning work outs and we more often than not hit snooze until it is too late to go. How do you manage to actually get out of bed when that alarm goes off that early!?
@Bridebella: I have a fiance who has the best will power in the world! It’s because of him we never miss going to the gym unless there’s a natural disaster (don’t think I’m joking!), which is a blessing in disguise…sometimes feels like a curse when I’m really unmotivated!
Very impressive. Any morning is too early for me to workout - I’m not a morning person. Right after work though I have no problem. Good luck!
OOo i used to do 2 a days for army stuff. 6-7am cardio, class all day, another few mile run at 6 or 7pm for an hour. I certainly couldn’t do it now without going nutty. I was doing essentially two a days in the evening–heavy cardio AND heavy weightlifting. I do take 6am classes occassionally. But now I do just one or the other–short cardio with weights or long cardio or long weights now. But i prefer to work out in the evening as i’m at my desk at 630am sometimes. If I went in later, SURE! I’m a morning girl. You are super motivated! And it’s short term which is good.
We’ve gotten up early a few times to go for a run while its still “cool” (North Central Florida can be a killer in August) but we usually talk each other out of it with a few at home workouts I wish we could be as dedicated as you two and actually get out of bed!
@Miss Stiletto: OMG, Stiletto, I go to Galter - I freaking love it! I took a water aerobics class a few weeks ago, and it was just about the funniest thing ever in my life.
I get up at 415 most mornings and head out for a morning run. It took some gtting used to, but now I really enjoy it!
I’m struggling with getting back in to one a days (okay, one a weeks). good for you!
I’m slowly becoming a morning-worker-outer. I’ve always wanted to be, but been too sucked into a cozy bed. As life has gotten more hectic, I find its nice to go into the office at 9am knowing I’ve gotten that behind me for the day. That way not project, staff report, etc. derails my fitness goals.
I’ve also started to notice that if I don’t get there before 5pm, its way too easy for me to bag it and say “I’ll do a hard workout in the morning.”
I love working out in the morning too! I just find it hard sometimes to get out of bed and actually MAKE it to the gym in the morning. I used to be up and to the gym by 5:30 am. These days I am lucky if I even make it to the gym period. We’ve been going after work and it really is a different thing. I am going to try to get back to my morning routine. What I liked best is doing cardio in the morning and then doing weights after work with FH.
You are right though, it is so much better knowing that if “life” gets in the way at least you got our workout done!
I’m super impressed, the closer the wedding gets, the less we work out! In the winter we were doing 5:30am work outs and I was getting up at 5 to walk the dog… I can totally relate to how wonderful it feels knowing you worked out that morning. I wish I still had that kind of motivation!!
Thats awesome for you!! I’ve been trying to get into that habit for a long time now I just haven’t had anyone else to hold myself accountable to.
Sooo not a morning person here, but kudos to you. I’m running a half-marathon the week before the wedding and the mr. is training for a triathlon in september, so not two-a-days, but not bad. Keep it up.
I’m normally up at 5:15 to walk the dog (3miles), but FI is a teacher and has been on summer break, so I have gotten lazy since he’s home with the dog all day. Every monday I swear I’ll get up…there are only 2 weeks left of vacation, so soon I’ll be forced to get up again.
um, anytime in the morning.. lol. i have a hard enough time getting out of the bed for work, and i like work. i can easily see myself rolling back for “10 more minutes” of sleep. again and again.
I love morning workouts! But I have to leave for work by about 6, luckily I only have about a 15 minute walk. No big commute for me My gym doesn’t open till 530 so it doesn’t really work. You are inspiring me, though… maybe next month when my schedule changes, I’ll start 2 a days!
work ittt
stiletto you make me want to be a better gym member! i should have gone today after work but i lazed out. maybe 5am workouts are for me? gotta try it
I am sooo not a morning person, so I walk at 10:30 with friends. 9 is about the earliest I could be up working out. Now, at night, I’m fine until whatever time.
While I’m not a morning person, I also HATE sharing a lane when I’m swimming and my love of being alone won out. 5:30am swim sessions, whoo.
You are a BRAVE BRAVE lady! I am not a morning gal but you inspire me to give it a whirl one of these days.. or at least think about trying to get up that early!
Holy Moly! 4:30? I get up at 5:30 for work. Our apt complex gym doesn’t open until 5 (and I can’t afford another membership elsewhere) so I’m kinda stuck. FI and I try to go in the evenings. I’ve also been playing around mentally with my work schedule. I could start going in an hour later (leaving plenty of time to work out) but working 7-4:30 is somehow so much more doable in my mind than 8-5:30! We’ll see as we get closer to the wedding!
As someone who is reading this on the treadmill @ 10am I admire you! I’m off for the month (teacher) but never in my life have I been a morning person. Good 4 u!
Read this last night - got so inspired I have 81 days to go so I convinced my FI to get up with me at 5a this morning - went for an hr long run, at work now and going to a personal training apt. later Thanks for the post! Keep up the good work - hope I can too
@Miss Snapdragon: Fun times! Well hopefully we’ll finally be meeting so that maybe we can actually identify each other at the gym And then I’ll get you on my evil 5am workout plan…hahahah!
@Miss Stiletto: Never!!!! Although, I am on marathon training and have come to accept that I will have to do morning workouts… Sometimes.
I think 6 am is the earliest I could work out. I’m a night owl, so I have trouble getting to bed early enough to not be dead to the world at 5 am!
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i do 2-a-days too! i go by 5am then again in the evening w/ the mister. i love it. (and i also love knowing im not the only crazy one!)
I am a 4:45am gym rat and have been for over 12 years, very rarely do I miss and I do a lot of “two a days” just part of my routine and health. I would rather be enjoying the beautiful weather here in Colorado in the afternoon since I am in the gym in the morning. I would rather walk the dogs, trail running or tempo runs and sprints in the afternoon than sit my butt on the couch and watch mindless tv and snack out of boredom.
Good for you about being so dedicated, and who knows you might miss the 5am workouts….. or maybe not!
I’m so impressed. I used to workout in the mornings, but I just can’t do it. I love the “2-a-day” concept though…maybe that will kick in some time between now and November.
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Mrs. Stiletto, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, Non-Profit/Fundraising
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Engineer and Photographer
Engagement Date: March 2, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: The 19th Century Club
About Me: My fiance and I love living in the city of Chicago with our cats Basil and Linus, and vow to never move to the suburbs if we can possibly avoid it! We’ve poured ourselves into planning a wedding that reflects our personal style - modern and high contrast with a vintage twist. Blogging keeps me creative, baking keeps me happy, and grande nonfat no foam sugar free vanilla lattes keep me sane.
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