Leah: Simply Fabulous Now

“Always A Bridesmaid”

Hi everyone!! I’m Leah, the writer of Simply Fabulous Now – and a long time friend of Ange!

You’ve probably seen my name thrown around OSG a little bit, and I’m always happy to see it’s in a good way ;) I was pretty excited when Ange asked me to do a guest post for her while she is out west visiting her family! Lucky girl!! 

I thought long and hard about what I might want to talk about with all of you wonderful readers of Oh She Glows, and I immediately thought of two things that are happening in my life right now and are so very important to me.

My health and my wedding!

When I say “happening in my life right now” and then list health as the first point, I actually want to say that the importance of health cannot be stressed enough! I began my journey to health about 2 years ago to the date! It was literally this time in 2007 when I really got serious and took matters into my own hands.  You can see my weight loss story here, as I won’t go into loads of details in this guest post but what I can say is as soon as I got real and made significant changes I really noticed changes in my body & mind. 

I feel like this could turn into an episode of Dr. Phil where he sits down with a guest, asks them loads of questions and then says “So how’s that workin’ for ya?” …. and literally, I asked myself the same thing two years ago.  Truth be told, what I was doing wasn’t working!  It wasn’t until I looked at everything I was doing, and then completely did a 180 turn and changed the way I looked at myself, my food, my exercise and my body.  I started eating REAL FOOD. Yeah, I know right? Loads of fruits & veggies, unprocessed foods, WHOLE foods.. all the good stuff!  I exercised because it was good for my body, not because I had to burn ‘x’ amount of calories before I went to bed.  I started looking at exercise as a way to treat my body good, rather than just to burn off the food I had eaten.  Once I looked at exercise in this way, I started enjoying it more.

Now, where the heck does my post title come in?

You know the saying… Always a Bridesmaid ….. never a … wrong!

I am getting married in August!

This brings me to the next most important thing happening in my life right now.  I live in the UK (originally Canadian though!) and I am marrying my British fiancé this August!
Let’s take a walk down memory lane shall we??

Maid of Honour in Wedding #1 (my Sister’s!)- October 2004!

Bridesmaid in Wedding # 2 – June 2006!   

 Bridesmaid in Wedding #3 (for Ange!!!!)- August 2008!                   

Maid of Honour in Wedding #4– Sept. 2008

This summer, I am the bride!! All 4 of these girls are in my wedding and I couldn’t be more happy!

Now, where does health and wedding tie in together?
Not to sound vain, but as any bride knows- we all want to look our best!! I know what you are thinking….but every bride glows no matter what! The happiness takes over and you will look beautiful!

              
Yes, yes.. I’m sure that will happen too ;) but… let’s be honest here, I think every girl knows that we’d love to feel confident and look our best for our big day.

What do I eat to achieve this?
This makes an appearance at least once a day.

Oh yes, the oh-so-popular green monster!!

My diet also has lots of these in it:

…and this…

Don’t forget this..

and …

I ALWAYS try (try!)  to save room for this:

Because what’s life without a little ice cream right??
There is much more to see than all of ^that^….check it out!

Along with the eats, comes exercise.  Right now i’m training for my first half marathon!!
I am running a race here in the UK on July 4th! This is my first half and I couldn’t be more excited.  I have seen many bloggers take the plunge into the racing world and I knew it was about time that I did it myself!!!
All the healthy eats, and exercise… will get me ready for this!!
Dress teaser!!!

I hope you enjoyed this guest post as much as I enjoyed putting it together!!

~Leah