32 by 32?

I mentioned here that I plan on not trying on dresses until I was down a few lbs. I also mention the things I was planning on doing in the new year..well it's just about a month into '09 and I've been to the gym exactly..oh wait that's right I haven't! The only exercise I have been getting is shovelling the mountains of snow that seem to never stop falling from the sky and shivering non-stop. Over the holidays I gained 2lbs which isn't so bad...except I haven't lost those two pounds yet.

Blargh.

Let me tell you some facts about me. I was thin my whole life, my mother (who I have yet to mention because the emotional baggage there is waaay over the weight limit for this airline) used to play me and my best friends off each other basically telling one that they would never be as skinny as the other because of whatever reason. I ate whatever I wanted when I wanted, half a cake at 3am? Why the heckballs not? I gained some weight at some point but apparently gained it all the the bust region. I didn't mind the new curves. Then at some point for whatever reason I started packing on the pounds. I knew I'd gained some weight but really didn't have a clue how much until we got back some photos from a party and I saw myself for the first time in a candid shot and burst into tears. Even though I was dressed head to toe in what I thought was a slimming black outfit I looked about 185lbs. I changed my eating habits a bit and just went on my merry way. But it's hard to change your eating habits when you live with a man who seems to lose 20lbs while eating a pizza! Every cupboard hides temptations of the delish variety! A couple of months later I was weighed at my doctors office and the scale was in the 170's, last year it was 159 and then this year it was 171. So that's where I started this time around 171lbs around November 5th. As of this morning I'm 162.8 according to my high tech scale. I'm just about 5'7" and I'm considered small boned. My ideal weight would be around 130lb.

I'm so close to the 150's right now. I know that all I have to do is hit the gym a couple of times a week and not be tempted by the ever present confections and junk food that seem to taunt me everywhere I go! In the last year I've been dealing with some health issues, nothing serious but perhaps being a healthier weight would ease them just bit.

So to recap...

Start weight. 171lbs (nov.5.08)
Current weight. 162.8lbs (Jan.22.09)
Goal. 130lbs.

32.8lbs to go! Wonder if I can get there by my 32nd birthday this June?!

Hello there...

Why hello there Internet! Fancy meeting you here!

Welcome to my tiny nook of wedding blogging. It still feels odd to use wedding in a sentence that talks about myself. I'm still pretty new to the whole shiny rock on finger deal but by no means am I wet behind the ears in my knowledge of weddings and all things that come with them.


I wasn't one of those girls who grew up dreaming about a big fairy tale wedding. For a long time I swore that I wanted to get married where ever I had met my husband to be and if that was the local coffee shop so be it! White wedding dress? NOT ME!! No I would most definitely get married in red or black, I look horrid in white!! I admit my thoughts have changed slightly since then but I am still rather eccentric at heart and like to do things a wee bit more my way..erm our way.

I have lots of weddings already planned in detail up in my head. I always thought that once we became engaged it would just be a matter of picking the right one from the file folders of my brain and then hit the ground running. Except I've got so many up there and I'm always coming up with new ones that I need somewhere to put them. Enter blogging. Although I'm no stranger to blogging, this wedding blogging business seems rather serious.

Anyhow the Mister is playing The Smiths singles on 45" vinyl for me so I suppose I should go join him and quit ruining my posture by hunching over this laptop.