Weddingbee Blog

Y’all, I’m freaking out a little here.

My wedding countdown on The Knot is telling me we are hovering dangerously close to the 100-day mark. We’re almost at 3 months to the wedding! There is so much left for me to do, and not NEARLY enough time to do it!

But, we’ll get to all the other stuff I have to get done later. That’s just a whole post to itself. Today, let’s talk about one thing that’s been weighing pretty heavily on my mind lately: fitness.

Now, before I get started, let me just give a little disclaimer. I know that I do not need to lose weight. I’m happy with the size I am (for the most part) and I’d like to maintain my size, and perhaps tone up a bit. But I realize that I don’t have a ton of weight to lose or anything like that.

I am naturally a very active person, so working out is something that I enjoy when I do manage to talk myself into actually doing it. I really love the feeling I get from working out, and I love being active and working out every day.

… But I also love to eat.

Especially things that aren’t particularly healthy for me. And student teaching hasn’t really been helping that. In our classroom, we have small cups of candy placed around the room for us to use as reinforcers for the kids. It a great system and it works for the kids. The only problem? I think I might reinforce myself a little more often than I reinforce them. When I’m sitting at a table waiting to work with a kid and there is a cup of Smarties and a cup of M&Ms sitting within reach of me…well, I just can’t resist grabbing a few. Multiply that by about 20 times every day and…let’s just say it adds up.

Plus, by the time I get home, I’m so exhausted that working out just seems like the worst idea ever. I really feel much happier and more relaxed on the days that I work out, but actually getting myself to do it is easier said than done.

Yeah, that sounds familiar. (Source)

So take too many “reinforcers,” not enough exercise, and a whole bunch of stress and what do you have? A certain Miss Cardigan who is rapidly realizing that she had better do something to stop this before it gets out of control!

Honestly, I want to be able to sit here and tell you all that I’m just going to do it. I’m going to stop eating Smarties and M&Ms, I’m going to work out as soon as I get home every day, and I’m going to resist the urge to get a Coke from the vending machine every day at school. But in reality, it’s just not that easy. When I’ve spent the entire day away from Mr. Cardigan, the last thing I want to do is leave him to go work out—and forget about getting him to join me. Mr. Cardy is not a fan of exercising!

So, what’s a girl to do? I’ve been okay about working out these past few weeks—I’m doing it at least two or three times a week, but that’s not nearly as good as this summer when it was five or six times a week. I need to figure out a way to motivate myself to work out more (my goal is AT LEAST four times a week, preferably five), and I need to figure out a way to resist the junk food.

Do you have any advice for me? I need to come up with a solid plan so I can nip this problem in the bud. I refuse to start gaining weight this close to the wedding! Help!