As much effort as I put into getting "fit to wed," I've always thought this idea that a woman's wedding day is the peak of her beauty is ridiculous and so short-sighted. It kills me when I've heard women lament that they were so "skinny" on their wedding day and wish that they could be that size or that exact weight again. Really? Why can't we embrace that we age and give birth and our bodies continue to change, yet we're always gorgeous in new ways?

At the same time, I totally understand how that gung-ho motivation for getting/staying fit can slip away after the Big Day. Getting married (all those people and all those photos for posterity -- agghh!) can turn the biggest couch potato into a total gym bunny. But that doesn't mean you can't continue to be fired up after the fact. Here, eight ways to stay on track after you've walked down the aisle ...

A friend of mine is a real natural mama -- and as much as her energy inspires me, it also exhausts me. It exhausts me because some of this natural parenting stuff is a lot of work. For instance, when my daughter first started solids I was dead-set on blending everything up for every meal. That lasted for about a dozen ice-cube trays worth of broccoli and squash. Don't get me wrong -- I would still mash a fresh banana instead of giving her the jarred version ... but pushing those veggies through a strainer, after steaming and blending -- it just did me in. Who has time for that?

Just days after aspiring model Bria Murphy revealed that other women in the industry eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice to avoid gaining weight, the "Man of Steel" himself -- aka Henry Cavill -- told The Gossip Table at the new Superman flick's premiere that he "stopped eating" at one point during filming. Why?!

Specifically, he said, "I ate a lot and worked out like a fiend. But then, only for the shirtless scenes, I really stopped eating." Oh, okay, so it was just for the shirtless scenes. Ugh!

Sounds like disordered behavior to me ...

First came the viral pic of the man on a train ride from Philadelphia who was supposedly raving on a train about cheating and, in turn, has been publicly shamed on Facebook feeds the world over. Now, photographer Kimberly Massengill, aka Substantia Jones, has started a Tumblr called Smile, Sizeist!, which invites anyone who has experienced fat-shaming to snap a photo of their harasser and submit it for publication on the blog, ideally with the story of the incident.

Jones told The Huffington Post that she started the site because "I want fat people to know there's a way to fight back non-violently, another way to shield against the shame and humiliation the harasser seeks to impose. I want to help facilitate a power exchange."

Given how shameful, out-of-control, and prevalent fat-shaming has gotten, I get why there's an impetus for something like this Tumblr. But I can't help but feel like the mentality seems to be, let's fight fire with fire, shame with shame ...

Despite most likely being in the dumps over her recent breakup with Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev has still managed to look put together and stunning. I'm sure those uber-positive, upbeat "picture quotes of the day" she's been posting aren't hurting how she feels and looks, but there's obviously more to it than a sunny attitude ...

Nina confessed to SELF magazine recently that her healthy diet and workout regimen is integral to maintaining her energy and overall wellness. Obvy, we wanna know what the woman does!

If you're already a germaphobe, I recommend you back aawwwaaay from this story, because it might just be too much to handle. But if you're not a germaphobe, this news may be enough to make you one. A recent study of more than 3,700 restroom patrons done by Michigan State University researchers drudged up some horrifying facts about our handwashing habits.

Apparently, only 5 percent of people who used the restroom scrubbed their hands long enough to kill infection-causing germs. Guuugh, how embarrassing! And wait, as if that wasn't enough, it gets WORSE!

Like the expression "it is what it is," the term "bridezilla" gets thrown around way too often. But there are cases when it is completely, utterly appropriate. Like in the case of one Rainbeau Mars, who is reportedly a "health guru" to the stars ...

Rainbeau is marrying Hollywood business manager Michael Karlin, and according to Mars' publicist, wedding guests (like Melissa and Joan Rivers and model Josie Maran) will enjoy "unique activities ranging from breath work classes to yoga and horseback riding" during the "three-day summer affair on the island paradise of Kauai." Thus, in preparation for her Big Day Days, Rainbeau has requested that all of her attendees cleanse with a "vegan, and subsequently live food diet for 21 days," so that "everyone will look and feel their best for HER big day." She has to be kidding, right?

Even the most extreme vegans have got nothin' on a Seattle woman named Naveena Shine. The 65-year-old is making headlines for giving up food altogether in order to become a so-called "breatharian" for "at least 40 days" -- although she'd like to shoot for up to six months! Her goal: To see whether she can subsist on water, sunlight, and tea. (Although, some might argue what she really wants is attention, but oookay.)

Shine stopped eating on May 3, posing the following Q to her Facebook followers: "Plants live on light, then we eat plants. Are we simply not accessing our inherent ability to live on light?" Uhhh, whaat?