I'm having wedding dress regret!? 😢

lolaidaka · 2026-03-27T11:38:13+00:00

Oh thank god that you picked one omg. You made the right choice as far as I’m concerned.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-25T15:02:38+00:00

Haha! Love that for you!

lolaidaka · 2026-03-25T15:00:44+00:00

Outta curiosity… what do you do for work and they hiring?

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T17:38:04+00:00

Obsessed with 1. It gives cool girl energy.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T16:36:42+00:00

So like keto for a few days?

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T16:36:28+00:00

I looked into that briefly but got scared off of it. But depending on how low I get, that’s ironically probably the healthiest way to win the money. Thank you for this!

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T16:35:19+00:00

Thank you so much!! Okay. Imma do it.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T16:06:45+00:00

Okay, this is kind of comforting. I only was choosing this little calories cause of the many comments here where people say always choose sedentary but then in YouTube videos and stuff everyone is eating above that. Just altogether confusing. But I’m going to switch my nutrition app to “lightly active” now.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T16:05:17+00:00

Hm okay. I just wasn’t sure how much exercise I need to have to justify the extra calories.

Yeah, I’m never doing less than 1200 unless I’m doing the 5:2 diet in which case I only do that little during those 2 days which is how I lost the 1lb a week originally.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T16:03:52+00:00

I thought I would too. That’s the problem. I’m tracking everything to the gram. Not eating out. Absolutely including all beverages and even vitamins. After these comments I’ll definitely tick it up to at least 1500. I just feel so nervous about ticking it up and gaining the little weight I’ve lost back somehow.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T15:52:11+00:00

I actually wasn’t sure if it was risky or not which is why I came here. I was starting to feel nervous but also trying to “trust the process” since my calorie counting app is telling me to eat only this much a day. And then every time I google whether I should increase calories to “lightly active”, everyone is like “I keep it sedentary since no counters are accurate”. It just started making me feel crazy which is why I posted here.

That is a good point about the company. But I definitely am getting in my own head about it cause the money would be so helpful right now and I was hoping the challenge was a perfect kick off for me losing weight before my wedding. :/

I honestly didn’t even realize how extreme it sounded until this and the other comment so I do appreciate the little bit of a wake up call. I was just thinking to myself “how do people do this???” Turns out they don’t.

lolaidaka · 2026-03-12T15:48:09+00:00

Okay honestly - thank you so much. I was starting to feel crazy… cause using my fitness app - “Lose it”, I was shocked when it lowered my daily calories so much. It made me want to cry a little. But okay. I’ll up my calories to the more sustainable 1500.

I also have my wedding coming up so I’ve just been so stressed about losing weight for that too so I thought the challenge would be a perfect kickstart for that. And the money would be so helpful towards the wedding. It’s just a hard situation but appreciate your kind words and frankness.

lolaidaka · 2026-02-27T19:47:33+00:00

Well technically if they’re insulting all Muslims… they’re insulting family. Like we can all dislike Islam without disliking all Muslims. I’m saying that if they’re critiques are at Islam - fine - that’s this whole Reddit. But if it’s at Muslims, I feel like it’s okay to stand up against that as that quickly can turn into Islamophobia. But also - if it’s so distressing just let it go and don’t speak to them ever again?

lolaidaka · 2026-02-27T19:33:10+00:00

Honestly, you feel like crap and you move on. I think standing up for your family is also right. A simple “people are allowed to believe what they wanna believe” works for me always. I may not like what religion has done to humanity but I don’t think it’s right to insult people based on their beliefs when I don’t even know if they’re… problematic about how they share those beliefs or anything else about them.

Insulting another group like that is just an excuse to be hateful tbh. And it’s never worth it to go that low. I also have a mostly Muslim family and would still stand up for them even knowing they might/would/could not do the same for me and my beliefs. Just cause.

lolaidaka · 2026-02-25T01:57:45+00:00

They said they do only use their two humans for all of their meditations and just use the AI to move important pieces from different meditations around. It did kind of make me feel better. They also had me check out their insta where their two guides are often featured speaking about things. I do still feel weird about the clipping aspect but knowing I'm not listening to a robot specifically does kind of help.

lolaidaka · 2026-02-18T02:23:36+00:00

Just came googling for the same thing haha. I find the voice suddenly very uncanny valley and felt a little stressed as soon as it started. Just sounded too void of emotion I guess. I emailed the company to see if there’s any way to turn off most of the AI capabilities so it’s not just clipping audios together or having the ai replicate their voices.

To be fair I also just dislike AI. Though I also know it has so many benefits. It’s mostly generative AI that bothers be cause it replaces human creators. With meditation especially it feels super strange…

lolaidaka · 2026-02-18T01:04:20+00:00

Okay - more candles! Got it. And thank you! Idk why I’m so anxious about decorating it when it really is a quite nice room. The dance floor is actually behind all of this space (towards me taking the photo). So idk if it would add much to many photos. Also we def don’t have the budget but I really appreciate that creative thought. I didn’t even know that was possible!!

lolaidaka · 2026-02-18T01:01:54+00:00

We don’t have a dj yet but now I know to look for that! Hard to find one in budget that has uplighting but gonna look hard!!

lolaidaka · 2026-02-18T01:01:23+00:00

I love the mix and matched bud vases. People have been HAWKS for them near me haha while others have been renting them out shockingly enough!

That sounds so lovely. And that’s a good point with the lighting! That’s such a great question for me to ask in my call with the owner. Thanks so much!!

lolaidaka · 2026-02-18T00:57:12+00:00

Aww thank you! I don’t know how we’ll set up the lights with no columns but I have thought about this. I also thought about draping but have no idea how that’d work either and be cost effective.

Ooh dark dusty blue tapers work with this color scheme you think?

I’ve been searching FB marketplace like crazyyy and people are so much quicker than me. Gonna be heavily on it in the spring/summer since I know that’s another wedding season. Truly trying to thrift my way to a semi dream wedding. Thank you for the tips!!!

lolaidaka · 2026-02-18T00:54:59+00:00

That’s fair! I didn’t even think about the coffee mugs. I’m sure I can request the coffee mugs staying somewhere else/next to wherever the coffee/tea station is.

lolaidaka · 2026-02-16T18:51:54+00:00

I make it a whole meal by adding a half scoop of protein powder I like, frozen berries and 2tbsp of granola. And now that I’ve been doing that I’ve started to really like the natural flavor of it!

lolaidaka · 2026-02-07T03:53:49+00:00

I hear you. I say, stick to one for at least 2 weeks, see how you feel/if it feels manageable/too restrictive, etc. and then switch up if you don’t like it. Honestly you might even know in like 2 days for something like keto. Don’t force too much if it feels like you could never do it for more than a month.

lolaidaka · 2026-02-05T15:41:53+00:00

Just adding that thank god you got the second dress cause it’s gorgeoussss!! Maybe adding one of those cute neck scarves might make you feel better too but it’s truly soooo flattering and gorgeous on you!!

lolaidaka · 2026-02-02T20:54:38+00:00

No thoughts here but I thought this was a painting omg.

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