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Hello and a question
Hi! I'm new around here (I already checked in on the welcome thread). I get married in 93 days and yesterday I got on the scale for the first time in a LONG time and I wanted to cry.
I've been overweight for all of my life, so being "big" isn't something new, but I do want to feel beautiful on my wedding day. I'm determined to lose 30lbs before my big day! It's doable, I know it!
I've been signed up with Weight Watchers for awhile now, I just recently starting tracking again though. My biggest challenge is working out. I have plenty of time, I just need to do it. I have a really hard time working out when people are home with me (I don't want to look like a big ol' fat loser!). I get off work earlier then my fiancé, so that's not a problem, it's my sister. She's living with us and is always home. I just don't want to be working out and probably looking like a fool with her watching me. I'm not comfortable with that I know I'm not too flattering while I'm doing it. I would love a gym membership, I just don't have the money for that right now. We live in eastern Washington, so the weather does not allow me to go for walks right now. I'm stuck and torn.
Any advice or help I can, I would love it.
I've been overweight for all of my life, so being "big" isn't something new, but I do want to feel beautiful on my wedding day. I'm determined to lose 30lbs before my big day! It's doable, I know it!
I've been signed up with Weight Watchers for awhile now, I just recently starting tracking again though. My biggest challenge is working out. I have plenty of time, I just need to do it. I have a really hard time working out when people are home with me (I don't want to look like a big ol' fat loser!). I get off work earlier then my fiancé, so that's not a problem, it's my sister. She's living with us and is always home. I just don't want to be working out and probably looking like a fool with her watching me. I'm not comfortable with that I know I'm not too flattering while I'm doing it. I would love a gym membership, I just don't have the money for that right now. We live in eastern Washington, so the weather does not allow me to go for walks right now. I'm stuck and torn.
Any advice or help I can, I would love it.
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Re: Hello and a question
Plus, you need to keep in mind that you will need dress alterations. Once you start alterations (you shouldn't push your first fitting any closer than a month before the wedding, but you NEED to talk to your seamstress about it) you will not want to lose more than a few more pounds. So you really have about 60 days, and 30 lbs in that amount of time is not healthy or likely.
And actually, your eating is going to make the biggest difference. Working out will help, but may people lose weight just on changing their eating habits alone. So get going with that again. Can you invite your sister to join you in working out, so you can look silly together? Or work out somewhere where she's not? (Like if you HAVE to work out in the living room, ask her to hang out in her room so you can have some privacy for a little while?)
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