I didn't get skinny for my wedding.....

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Yes. I only lost 40LBS when my goal was 100LBS. The month before the wedding was when it really hit me that I wasn't going to reach my goal in time (duh!). I practiced a lot of self-love that month.

It consisted of shopping, salon, and wine. Lots of wine.

I do not consider 40 lbs a fail. That is amazing! I too am focusing on self-love. I have nothing to gain by self-sabotage, right?

No matter how hard I tried I ended up gaining like 20 pounds. That was definitely a fail.

Me!!! Not a huge endeavor, but I was hoping to get back to the lowest weight I've been as an adult (158....I'm about 165). Didn't happen. With 2 months out, I'm just going to be more active, do more pushups, and try to eat better

I didn't drop 2 dress sizes like I wanted but I did have GREAT arms for my wedding courtesy of my trainer. And I had a corset back that sucked in/hid what I considered to be the trouble spots. DH told me I was the most beautiful girl he's ever seen no matter if I was a 2 or a 12. If you're confident, stand up straight with your shoulders back you'll rock the dress and look amazing!

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Yup. THIS GIRL.

My plan was to drop 20 and I only lost 5. Oh well! *shrug*

My wedding is in ten days. Not only did I not lose weight like I needed to... I gained weight. Luckily, my dress still zips. I just need to find a way you be happy with my photos. We splurged big time on photography and didn't even get e-pics bc I hated how I looked. Well, now it's only gotten worse. Nothing I can do at thus point.

Exaaaaactly, RequiresSnacks. Love the username, btw.

So.....I bought my dress a year ago, and I was like, "yeah, maybe I WILL lose weight!" Nope. And you know what? I don't caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare. I would totally rather eat doritos and be laughing, than salivating, angry, and telling people to STFU.

I still have some time. although my first dress fitting is next weekend and i am so not where i wanted to be by that appointment. lol. at the beginning of the year i was like, 'OK! gonna start this work out routine. gonna get in shapppe. gonna be a hot bride. oh yeah.' then i kept saying, 'oh, next week. i'll start next. i have so much time.' lol. yeaaah.

i mean, i'm not trying to lose tons of weight. i'm just trying to tone. at this point, i'm being realistic. i'm me. i'm lazy. and whatever. lol.

I feel like this is gonna be me! Because I only want to lose a few pounds and get tone I am gonna start after the holidays b/c I can't resist all the holiday goodies LOL We will see what happens from there!

When we got engaged my goal was to lose 25lbs by the wedding. (I still have over a year). So far I've gained 5...

Me! I was about 155-158 when we got engaged and wanted to be 145-149. I just wanted to be out of the 150s...well I am out of the 150s but on the wrong side of it! I'm up to 162.

I'm telling myself it's muscle because I have been working out. My dress fits which is the important part and I'm just trying not to stress about how fat my face will be in photos.

Not weight loss but I did say I was going to go to the tanning bed for the month before our wedding (really didn't like the idea of a spray tan), now I'm 9 days out and still pale, and it's too late for me to do a spray tan trial (I've never done a spray tan before and I'm too scared I'll wind up orange if I don't know for sure what color they should do). OH well!

Best. Username. EVER.

I tried working out for about five seconds. That didn't work. I'm pretty sure that I lost anywhere from 7-10 lbs. in the last week before the wedding and it was ALL due to stress.

You didn't FAIL at all! OMG - you've done something amazing! 40 pounds?! Seriously? That's like 5 dress sizes!

I did the math and though with all the stress of wedding planning and a new job, it was utterly unrealistic for me to also tackle weight loss simultaneously, even if I should do it for my health as much as wedding photos.

My weight has fluctuated over the years, and sadly I was thin only when I was the sickest with my chronic illness... my metabolism is so jacked by now, I honestly only care that I'm healthy and not in pain. I literally spent 8 months where I had stomach pain every. single. day. It suuuuucked.

So I'm rooting for ALL of us to have some self-love on this one.

I'm totally with Janeen and RequiresSnacks!

The good news is...you will look and feel the most beautiful you have EVER LOOKED on your wedding day. No matter what size. Seriously. Enjoy it!