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What bride doesn't want to lose some weight to look perfect on her wedding day? Take our Diet Wizard to find out which diet programs can help you lose that extra weight before the big day. Our comprehensive diet analysis examines your lifestyle and dieting preferences, and reviews your needs versus the major health club chains, commercial weight loss clinics like Weight Watchers, LA Weight Loss and Jenny Craig, medical weight loss, healthcare pros, and popular celebrity diets. Then BestDietForMe.com provides you with unbiased, in-depth reports on your matches, complete with detailed reviews of these weight loss programs, to help you choose a diet plan that’s right for you…

Dieting For A Wedding  Next Page >>

Understandably, every bride wants to look her best on her wedding day. After all, she is the focus - all eyes will be on her, her wedding dress, her appearance, her hair, etc. Hundreds of photos will be taken of her that will last for years. It's no wonder that many brides to be, along with all the hundreds of details of arranging a wedding, also focus on losing weight in a short timeframe. With all this pressure, it's not uncommon for brides to resort to rapid weight loss, quick-fix, fad diets such as retail diet pills to drop a few pounds. This can be unhealthy and could even wind up ruining the day, or the honeymoon, because the woman is weak from losing too much weight using a quick weight loss method.

Nutrition and fitness experts agree that these are the most common mistakes that weight-conscious brides make:

1. Starting your diet too late. You didn't gain the weight in a matter of 4-8 weeks, so why set unrealistic goals and try to lose it within that short time frame? Instead, plan ahead, including a fitness or diet plan along with all the other wedding-related tasks on your to do list.

2. Be realistic about your weight loss goal. If you've never been a size 4, why expect to be that size by your wedding day? You are unlikely to achieve a magical transformation, so don't even consider it.

3. Using a radical diet program to lose the weight quickly and with little effort. Yes, you've seen all the ads, TV commercials, and infomercials promising rapid weight loss without exercising. You've seen the dramatic before/after photos (with the disclaimer "results not typical"). Are you still going to fall for that? Experts advise against

Avoid being tempted by such fad diets, taking over-the-counter diet pills or laxatives, or using diet plans that focus on eating one kind of food (i.e. the cabbage soup diet, grapefruit diet, etc.). Many of these diet products, including ones using herbs or stimulants, can be dangerous and are easily abused. Don't fall into that trap.

In addition, the weight you lose on a crash diet will probably come back, twice as much. After depriving your body of food, your body will crave fatty foods and junk food, leading to extra weight gain. Is that the way you want to start your new marriage?

4. Not exercising. Exercising regularly under normal times is difficult. Trying to maintain a regimen when you're inundated with wedding planning details can seem impossible. However, experts agree that diet (eating a healthy diet and the right foods, in proper portion sizes) AND exercise go hand in hand. Try to incorporate small periods of time when you can go to the health club for 30 minutes a few times a week (your local Curves outlet?), do some extra walking, jog for 20 minutes, go to that jazzercise class, swim for a few minutes, anything. Just do it! Extra bonus -- exercising regularly will give you more energy to handle those wedding tasks and it acts as a relief valve to counter all that wedding-related stress. Think of it as your one hour "break" or vacation.

5. Skipping meals. This is not a good idea. We know it's easy to get bogged down in wedding planning details and lose track of time. But, skipping meals is unhealthy and can lead to binge eating--something you definitely don't want to do if you want to fit into that beautiful dress in 3 weeks! To avoid this pitfall, try packing light snacks and eating several small meals during the day.

Some Bridal Fitness Resources

* The Complete Bride's Workout Guide, by Bonne Marano (New Page Books)

* Fit To Be Tied Online (www.fittobetiedonline.com)

* Buff Brides, by Sue Fleming

* Bootcamp360 For Brides, by Tamara Kleinberg (Harper Collins)

One can also do a search online for articles about weddings and weight loss, or use one of the major wedding websites such as modernbride.com. Or, try chat rooms of women's health websites such as iVillage.com. You're likely to meet other people in your same situation and can share stories and obstacles with them, creating an online support system to get you through this stressful period.

In response to demand by women about to be married, a small but growing cottage industry of bridal shape-up programs has emerged in the fitness industry over the past several years. There are now books, web sites, and cable TV's Discovery Health Channel even aired a 10-part series on how to get physically fit in time for your wedding.

Regarding specific body parts, many brides are especially determined to tone up their arms and shoulders, since they will be exposed by the wedding gown styles that are now popular. Gowns seem to be much more revealing than in years past, baring arms, shoulders and backs.

Which Weight Loss Program To Chose?

America Online recently released its AOL Search results survey of topics that received the highest volume of online queries from January 1 to March 21, 2005. It found that Americans are thinking about baseball and diet plans. As for weight loss programs, Weight Watchers^® is at the top of peoples' minds. In 2004, dieters were focused on the South Beach Diet, but now Americans are turning back to Weight Watchers, as the low-carb frenzy fades. Other popular weight loss methods, according to AOL, are: 2) South Beach diet, 3) Dr. Atkins, 4) Diet Pills, 5) Gastric Bypass Surgery, 6) The Cabbage Soup Diet, 7) Jenny Craig, 8) Body For Life (Bill Phillips' diet plan), 9) LA Weight Loss, and 10) Diabetes & Weight Loss.

Interestingly, while Weight Watchers^® is the most searched for diet nationwide, many dieters are beginning to discover the strengths of diets like Medifast, and eDiets, and searchers in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Cleveland are showing greater interest in The South Beach Diet.

Another popular Internet search term currently, since it's Spring and lots of weddings are planned for June and July, is weddings. Those planning that big day are most focused on the following topics: 1) wedding gowns, 2) wedding invitations, 3) wedding cakes, 4) bridal showers, 5) engagement rings, 6) bridesmaid dresses, 7) mother-of-the-bride dresses, 8) wedding favors, 9) wedding songs, and 10) wedding bands.

In BestDietForMe.com's opinion, the best weight loss plans to use to get in shape for a wedding are those that don't involve making radical, major changes in your eating habits or lifestyle--those tempered by moderation. That would rule out restrictive low-carb diet plans such as Atkins, cabbage soup, or South Beach, and also such drastic measures as weight loss surgery. We'd favor programs such as Weight Watchers, NutriSystem or Jenny Craig, or plans developed by a registered dietitian or nutritionist. During this hectic time, brides to be might find that a weight loss program that offers already-prepared meals that can be popped into a microwave, like Jenny Craig or NutriSystem, might be worth the extra money, at least for the short term. That way, you don't have to worry about cooking nutritious meals, measuring portion sizes, etc.--all the work is done for you.

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