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One of the best thing about bridesmaids is the support. With close to 100 days to go to the wedding, I need a lot of it, especially in the fitness area. I am not a huge lover of the gym or working out. I actually hate the gym. I went once in college and didn’t go back. I tried again after our engagement, but only lasted a few months. I prefer group exercising like hiking with friends.

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So for someone who hates the gym  and is super busy, it’s hard to find the motivation to get in shape.

Maybe not for other brides, but for me it is. So Bridesmaid E started a fitness challenge a while back. We each logged our hours and we could see how much everyone was working out. It worked for a while, but we all stopped submitting our time.

So as the wedding is swiftly approaching Bridesmaid E decided to rev it up, and she came up with the 100 Day Challenge. It’s a bit more motivating because their is more at stake.

Here are the rules—note there are 5 participants:

There are almost 100 days before Miss Starfish’s wedding!! So, to rev up our fitness challenge (and finally offer some prizes for the winners), the last 100 days will be a challenge to log 100 hours. If you do 100+ hours of exercise between now and the wedding, you will be a ‘winner’ and, if not, you will be a ‘loser’!

If there are 5 winners, then we can all go out for celebratory drinks, and the one with the most hours gets treated by everyone else.

If there are 4 winners and 1 loser, the loser treats the winners to a round of drinks (maximum $50)

If there are 3 winners and 2 losers, the losers treat the winners to dinner (maximum cost of $50 for each of the losers, so $100 total)

If there are 2 winners and 3 losers, the losers treat for dinner and a round of drinks

If there is only one winner, the winner gets treated to dinner and drinks! Also, the losers all pitch in $5 for the winner to buy a health food cookbook.

Every Monday, I will collect the minutes for the previous week (so, the previous Monday through Sunday). Every day you are late giving me the minutes, you get deducted one hour!! You can send minutes by email, text, Facebook, BBM, phone call, whatever is easiest. If you remember to send them in, and want to send a reminder to everyone else, that will be helpful… I will try to send a reminder to everyone on Mondays.

We will have to average 7 hours, or 420 minutes every week to get to 100 hours, so good luck everyone! If anyone wants to plan a hike or some other multi-hour exercising trip, let me know!!”

And there it is, my motivation for the last 100 days!

What’s motivating you to get fit for the big day?