For some unfathomable
reason most people assume that all brides lose weight before their wedding
days.
They don’t.
Everyone knows how
hard it is to lose weight, right?
Even if you have no
personal experience of trying to lose a few pounds yourself, you must be aware
of the struggles of people around you. In fact, it seems how fat or thin
people are is the only thing certain (terribly dull) TV channels and magazines
ever report about!
We can be absolutely
certain that losing weight is hard to do if you are overweight to begin with.
We can be equally certain that if you begin with a healthy BMI it is even
harder.
I’m no clinician. I
don’t have any training in nutrition or exercise or biology. But I do have
extensive experience of dealing with women. Women of every conceivable shape, size,
age and attitude who are all thinking about looking their very best for their
imminent wedding days and special occasions.
A lot of them are trying to lose
weight regardless of whether they need to for heath reasons or not.
Most of them do not
succeed.
Over the last 20 weeks
I have been training for a marathon. This has involved consistently running 100
miles a month and expending an extra 5000 calories a week exercising. On the
advice of my coach I have also been writing down everything I eat and drink.
During the course of
my training plan my calorie expenditure has gone up dramatically and my intake
has stayed roughly the same, as has my weight.
Surprised?
This is a perfect
illustration of how brilliant our amazing bodies are!
My body has adapted
perfectly to my increased training regime and held on to all the energy it
needs to keep me fit and healthy throughout it.
Brides have brilliant,
amazing bodies too.
When a bride is a healthy weight to begin with but
decides to eat less or exercise more in order to become smaller for her wedding
day, (which baffles me for many reasons but not least because presumably her fiance
didn’t require her to be smaller before he proposed, did he?), her body will
behave in the same way as mine has. It will work its little socks off to keep
her safe and healthy and hold on to every little calorie it can for dear life!
A healthy body is a perfect body.
Your body is amazing!
If you are lucky, it is moving you around, enabling you to see, hear, smell,
touch, taste and do fabulous things!
Please be grateful for
it, please try to love it and look after it, and if you really can’t bring
yourself to love your brilliant body just yet, then keep trying to focus on all
its wonderful positive attributes and at the very, very least, PLEASE! don’t EVER actively or verbally hate your brilliant body in front of your daughters.
All of womankind will
thank you for it.
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