16 March

Tips On Losing Weight Before A Wedding - My Top Three Tips

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I’m a thirty something mother getting married to my soul mate in June. I’m approaching a sixty pound weight loss. To put it in perspective, I’ve been overweight for most of my adult life and I’ve tried countless diets, which I’ve mostly failed long term. Below are tips compiled using what I think are the reasons I was successful in both losing and keeping of the weight.

Use Your Wedding As Your Motivation: I know this is going to sound awful, but I have always had my own health and my daughter’s well being to consider and yet I was never fully and completely motivated to lose weight until I knew that all eyes were going to be on me for my wedding day. I wanted my husband and his family to think they were making a fair deal, so every time I was tempted to cheat, I would picture my purposely too small wedding dress and know that I wanted to fit in the dress and look dazzling in it on my wedding day. I saw my wedding day and my weight loss as a chance at a fresh start I wanted to fully embrace.

Focus As Much On Toning As On Losing Pounds: I now know that a toned body is every bit as important as a slim one. Lean muscles are just as important to looking good in a wedding dress as being at your ideal weight. While I absolutely believe exercise is very important, it’s the toning that has made the biggest difference in the way my body looks in my wedding dress. Don’t worry that you’ll get manly or big muscles if you tone. Unless you’re using extremely heavy weights and bands or taking body building supplements, you won’t. Toning correctly really only makes you look lean and helps makes your weight loss efforts much more effective.

Be Honest When You Chose Your Wedding Diet or Weight Loss Plan: It’s very important that you consider your real habits, preferences and personality when you chose your diet plan. For example, although I’ve stubbornly tried them repeatedly, the Adkins or low carb diets just will not work for me. I had to admit to myself that I love carbs and desserts and if I constantly deny myself I get very grouchy and lose my motivation. I also do not have the patience to calculate calories, what I’ve eaten or what I can have. I think medifast has worked so well for me because it addresses these things. I can eat snacks and carbs all I want and my meals are prepackaged and made for me, so I don’t have to spend a lit of time making hard choices or calculating. Instead, I focus my attention on exercise, toning and readying myself for my wedding.

Be Realistic And Not Drastic: I started my weight loss plan last October because I wanted to give myself plenty of time if I had some delays or plateaus. Honestly, I haven’t. There has not been one week that I didn’t lose weight, but I did not know that going in. I would also advise that you avoid crash or severe diets. I have had too many friends who have suffered hair loss, cavities, nausea and sallow skin. A bride can’t look great suffering these side effects. I’d advise a plan on which you can eat several times per day, so you don’t feel hungry, nauseous, or faint and have enough energy to run around planning and enjoying your wedding.

Lindsey Price has lost almost 50 pounds on Medifast. She is also the author of “Getting The Most Out Of Medifast” Ebook. You can get a free copy of the ebook by visiting her Lose Weight For Your Wedding website at http://loseweightforyourwedding.blogspot.com

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