Health & Fitness

Secret to Wedding Weight Loss - No matter how much weight you want to lose for your wedding, you'll want to do it right. We all know that starving yourself not only doesn't work, it may actually cause weight gain. Plus, you'll want to feel your best and have a ton of energy for your wedding day and during the wedding planning process, right? Never leave out any whole food group or stick to eating just one type of food. Eat a balanced diet of healthy food choices to ensure you'll be a healthy bride. So, lose weight for your wedding the smart way - by following the advice of experts in the health and fitness fields.

Below are a few healthy wedding weight loss diets to consider:

1. Quick Wedding Weight Loss Diet - The only diet created exclusively for brides with a deadline in mind. Get fast results to sport that honeymoon bikini confidently. Learn secrets of fast weight loss from a professional trainer. Free ebooks include with this special offer.
2. South Beach Diet - EDITOR'S PICK! It's easy to do because you get all of the online support, menus, shopping lists and recipes. No special food to buy, no exclusion of any food groups, but, you will have to cut out sugar and "white" unprocessed products like white bread. But, we found this to be super easy, healthy and yummy. The first two weeks require that you cut out fruits and grains to sort of detox but after that it's a breeze of a diet program. This is not a low carb diet like Atkins. I've lost 40 lbs and my significant other lost 50 in about 6 months. Give it a try.
3. Online Diet Tracker with DietWatch.com - Winner of Forbes Best of Web Award. - Tons of recipes, food plans, expert support, tracking tools and online help to reach your wedding weight loss goals. Free diet profile.
4. Get help losing weight with eDiets.com - An online portal provides access to every diet imaginable. Free diet profile enables ediets.com to help you find the best weight loss program for your personality and eating style.
5. Diet Delivery Programs - These seem to be all the rage today. With all of us, especially brides and grooms and all of us planning weddings, stressed and stretched for time, having all the right foods delivered right to our doors seems like an answer to a prayer. However, not all of these programs are alike. There are fresh, frozen and dried food choices. Personally, I've tried Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig's Jenny to Go, which both have the shelf stable and frozen food choices. Jenny's food is a tad better but honestly, my dog sniffed the Nutrisystem meal and walked away! Now I am venturing out into the world of fresh food delivery. I tried Chef's Diet - customer service is hugely lacking. I'm going to try ZoneManhattan.com. I'll post an update when I know more. In the mean time, check out the Top 25 Diet Delivery Services. February Update - Zone Manhattan was a bust. The food was really boring - basic foods the same everyday. Dinner was most nights grilled fish and vegetables. Very little taste. No spices. Boooring....
6. The Flat Belly Diet - This weight loss program seems sound in theory. Problem is, the website is horrible. I would think Prevention Magazine would have prepared better before unveiling this diet plan online. I had daily "service unavailable" message (so did others which I found out by way of their online forum which was the best part of their website). Many of the features were "being worked on" as told to me by other members in the forum as well as a moderator. Recipes and instructions were unavailable. There's a lot of specialty foods to buy and this plan could get very expensive. I'm not sure if you can actually lose just belly fat but any fat lost is beneficial I suppose. If you want to try this plan, buy the book and don't pay for the online plan until (if ever) they work out the kinks.
7. I'm back to The South Beach Diet - It's a sane plan with lots of good healthy foods. I always feel good on it and loose weight. I got off track last year after some rounds of surgery, but now that I'm going to be the mother of the groom soon I want to look and feel my best for his wedding day. They have a new Super Charged Book that has some new recipes and some tips for 20 minute interval workouts. This is not a low carb diet where you eat tons of bacon and eggs. Very healthy.
8. Weight Watchers - Lot's of people swear by this diet. My soon to be daughter in law lost a bit of weight for the wedding on it and she uses it to maintain. I have a hard time being that strict with adding the points - but she swears by it. of course, when you're in your 20's it's a bit easier to loose weight, for a wedding or anything esle, than when you're over 40. Just the sad fact of life.