The wedding diet: How much of weight loss is realistic
The church doors are thrown open and dozens, if not hundreds, of pairs of eyes are directed at you. You wear a beautiful, incredibly expensive wedding dress – your hair style and make-up are styled by professionals and you look fantastic. But still: You feel – if only for a brief moment – because it’s simply the last few pounds that did not wanted to leave.
What happened – did you wanted too much too fast, did you set an unrealistic goal for yourself?
In the middle of the preparations for the wedding: somewhere the point is coming, when the bride thought about her figure in the dress. Every woman wants to look at her wedding photos in ten years and look beautiful and crisp in her wedding dress – that’s a fact! (We do not want to discuss our own expectations and those of society at this point).
As if the decision for a dress was not difficult enough, the future bride meets her “physical limits”, because the figur emphasizing dress, which looked at the model on Instagram or Pinterest so great, is not so great at the moment. Here and there you can see a rounding, and the thought of the “sausage in the pellet” is closer than the “most beautiful woman of the day.” A decision is made in exactly this moment: a diet program must come and it must be fast.
And maybe it’s still 8 months to your wedding day, maybe just 4 weeks: the figure and workout plans are as different as the periods; What remains the same is the realistic expectation that a bride should have against a reasonable weight loss:
Between ½ pounds to 2 pounds of weight loss per week is ok. More is unreasonable.
More weight loss means that you will start a crashing diet and your body will working against you. With the crash diets you lose mainly water and valuable muscle mass. In addition, our body ensures that the fast lost pounds are packed back as soon as you are finished with the crash diet. This means that you will stand alone with more pounds than before. And that does not make any sense.
Realistic goals: The planning period
The studied sport scientist Julia from Innsbruck gives brides tips on how they fit the fastest in their dream dress. “Of course, we’re not all the same, so there’s not one way to get to the fastest.”
Julia recommends a weight loss period of three months when it comes to losing a few kilos and getting a more defined body. The reason: This is a manageable period, for which women can also motivate who do not like to sport that much.
The recommended procedure of the sports scientist:
“The fastest way to fit your wedding dress is when you combine strength training with interval units. Try to train three times a week, get a good friend or a personal trainer for the time, and the success is quickly visible and helps you to cope with the “wedding stress”. In general, after about 6 weeks, a first training success comes “.
Science stands with Julia on the same side: Studies have shown that a fixed period and above all a clear goal lead to more customer success. Brides, who know exactly what they are working for, record the larger number of customers than women, who “simply want to lose weight” decrease. Could also be due to the fact that stressed brides tend to eat less. Isn’t it?
Losing weight: A slightly different perspective
We have seriously asked ourselves whether the whole weight loss before the wedding is worth at all. Where is the fun when, after the first bite, the bad conscience creeps in after trying the wedding cake, and even the rehearsals become a torture because only lean egg whites and green vegetables are on the menu? The daily hour cardio adds to the mood, and the bride is limp, badly moody and constantly irritated. This is pushing for the wedding stress – just the joy of every gram that gets lost, cheers up.
And then it comes, the day of the wedding. Then you want to really approach. In the honeymoon, one does not want to hold back any more, and before one knows oneself, one is at home and in the bad habits in it. So the nothing about the long-term toned, healthy body. Is it worthwhile to add to the whole planning stress a diet, with which one risks, that every treat becomes to the weight loss nemesis?
From the view of us as photographers, we find, of course, every effort one of our brides makes to look slim and rank great, for the more a bride (or a couple) feels in one’s own body, the more natural and beautiful the pictures become. But whether the bride feels beautiful or well, does not depend on a number on the scale. First, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and your love has fallen in love with you because you are the way you are. Second, the diet is an additional stress factor – when you invest time in yourself, then work on your self-love and self-acceptance. If you use a weight loss and sports program, do it. If not, then do not let yourself be taken by the self-imposed slenderness delusion in the wedding preparations.
Because in the end everything will be fine anyway.
