Instead of radiating positive, glowing energy, they show up tired, stressed, not as themselves and not really in a good mental spot because they haven't been eating properly for months.ĬOURTESY OF KATIE STURINO A wedding industry issue I’ve seen so many of my friends do a lot of drastic things to get down to a certain size for their wedding. Going into this marriage, I realized that this concept didn’t make sense, and no, actually my body did not need to change so that I could tie the knot.

That may well mean that you look like a different person and for the rest of your life, and the pictures are there to remind you, Well, I'll never be as small as my wedding weight. Then you take all these photos at your wedding and you print them out and you put them up in your house.īut after the nuptials, most women gain back the pounds they shed. You're in this exciting time and you’ve made this really big choice to give your whole self to someone and build a life together, but immediately you feel you have to change your body. The two should have nothing to do with each other. It's really about this strange societal moment where it's understood that 1) you get the engagement ring and then 2) you have to lose the weight. There’s this idea that you have to start your marriage at your thinnest and most of the time, it has nothing to do with your spouse. It's really weird when you sit down and think about it. This time around, I thought, What is this phenomenon that as soon as you get engaged and you make a commitment to someone, the second thought you have is, I'd better lose weight? The strange link between weddings and weight loss That's how, in the lead-up to my second wedding in 2019, I found myself in a totally new headspace. But life carried on after we were married, and eventually I went through a divorce, launched a successful body-positive platform and happily, I hit it off with someone new that I could tell was a good match for me. I remember feeling really badly that I couldn't lose weight the first time I walked down the aisle, and it added to the stress of planning a wedding. What Is the Health at Every Size Movement?

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