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Sweating for the Wedding

Lisa Eirene

About Lisa Eirene Lisa lost 110 pounds through calorie counting and exercise. She swims, bikes, runs, hikes and is enjoying life in Portland, Oregon. Her weight loss story has been featured in First Magazine, Yahoo Health, Woman's Day and Glamour.com.

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  1. Carbzilla

    Funny you should mention this since I’m still having problems getting motivated lately to lose the 15 lbs I’ve gained since getting my job 2 years ago. I didn’t do squat to lose weight for the wedding we attended in the Bahamas, and I didn’t have time to do much for Rylee’s wedding so I was actually going to use YOUR wedding as a motivator! Ha! The irony. But I think that’s different….I should lose 15-20 lbs to be more healthy. It’s not like I’m a size 6 trying to be a 2.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Ah, totally use it as a motivator. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to use an event as a goal to lose weight. I just don’t get the “lose tons of weight for the wedding” stuff I’m seeing! And after our vacation, I DO need to lose a few pounds. ooooooof!

  2. Marc

    There is a young lady at my fitness center that does her weight machine circuit and wears her ‘Sweating for my Wedding’ tank top. I think she must have added some extra glitter or sparkle something something on hers those because it catches the light like a disco ball:)

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Hahaha! Glad she was able to be-dazzle it!

  3. Suzanne @WorkoutNirvana

    You are SO right! The pressure, fitspo, endless nauseating Pinterest bride stuff – it’s overwhelming. When I got married 10 years ago there were magazines and that’s about it. But I STILL got extremely thin for my wedding with excessive cardio. Unfortunately I was not strength training much and I’m pretty sure I could’ve broken in two. Good job keeping a perspective. A little body fat is normal!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Part of me wishes that Pinterest didn’t exist. It’s kind of given me a complex! And then I realized that all the wedding stuff and even the fitness stuff I see on there is totally staged and the people are professional models. That helped.

  4. Diane Fit to the Finish

    There is a lot of pressure on brides with all the television shows, Internet websites, etc. I didn’t feel a lot of pressure waaaay back then but I think it was because there was not so much emphasis placed on thinness. Maybe because obesity wasn’t as prevalent as it is now?

    1. Lisa Eirene

      No, I think it is just the internet culture.

  5. Sara

    Trust me, once you see yourself in THE dress, the size won’t bother you too much because you’ll be looking too hott to care. And at least in my experience, sizing wasn’t too far off. I wore a 12 and that’s my normal size… The only stress I had was that I bought the dress 1 1/2 years before the wedding and I just had to still fit into it. Christmas cut things a little close but it was easily reigned in. You are the queen of maintenance by now so you shouldn’t have any big worries 😀

    1. Lisa Eirene

      I hope so! I am going shopping in October. I’m starting to get excited about it!

  6. Jess

    Losing weight for an event doesn’t work. The motivation needs to come from a desire deep inside you to change. But, you know that!

    I’ve been asked if I’ll lose anymore weight before the wedding.I’ve put on 4 pounds in the past few months so I want to lose those so my dress fits well (since I put the weight on after I got the dress) but other than that I have no desire to lose anymore weight. And if I did it would be because I wanted to, not because of the wedding!

    1. Jess

      Oh, and not all dresses are a huge size. I’m a 10 (US6) and my dress was an 8 (US4)!

    2. Lisa Eirene

      I understand! I’ve gained a bit this summer. I need to reign it in and get back on track. Just to get back to where I was maintaining, not for the dress!

  7. Andrea@WellnessNotes

    I’ve several friends who lost a lot of weight for their weddings and to fit into a certain dress. Most of them gained it all back very quickly. It’s sad that losing weight almost seems like one of the “normal” wedding preparations for many. There is of course nothing wrong with continuing to work on being healthy, but to lose weight essentially for one day is not good in my opinion.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      It made me sad that is the norm now too. I just think it’s unrealistic and while losing weight for your wedding isn’t a TERRIBLE motivator, like you said–if it’s not something you want to do for the right reasons the weight won’t stay off.

  8. Biz

    You are going to be a beautiful bride! And yes, I saw the t.v. show where the woman had the feeding tube while grocery shopping, at the hair salon, etc. – so insane. I felt like calling the fiance and say “run away as fast as you can – she’s loony!”

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Oh that’s terrible! I’m glad I didn’t see that tv show.

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