Six Secrets of Wedding Diet Success
Ensure success on your journey to wedding weight loss with these six tips.
If you’re like most women, you’re thinking about losing weight for your walk down the aisle. In fact, a study published in Appetite last year found that 70 percent of brides-to-be want to lose 20 pounds or more. With a wedding as a catalyst, weight loss may be easier in some ways: Looking great in your wedding dress is a motivator about as powerful as they come. But that motivation may be challenged as you find yourself dealing with wedding planning stress and other tough situations that your changing life may produce. To help you create the best circumstances for your wedding diet, Bombshell Bride asked the advice of Elysa Silbersmith Dinzes, Director of Nutrition for health and wellness consultancy Plus One Health Management, who emphasized that you should think of yourself as a whole person and not just a number on a scale or a wedding dress size. Here are six other tips she gives to help your wedding weight loss journey be as successful and enjoyable as it can be.
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1. Assess Your Change Readiness
The stages of change model has been used to help people tackle a broad range of behaviors in their life, from quitting smoking, to acquiring healthier behaviors to weight loss. It holds that we need to take different types of actions depending on where we are in our change path.
Here are the five stages of change:
- Precontemplation: No intention to change, unaware of the problems.
- Contemplation: Aware of problem, but no commitment to action.
- Peparation: Intending to take action soon.
- Action: Actively modifying behavior and creating circumstances to make change most successful; this stage requires considerable commitment and effort.
- Maintenance: Continue with change; prevent relapse into previous lifestyle habits.
[Also read how visualization exercises can help you lose weight.]
As an example, someone who’s in denial about being overweight (precontemplation) needs to first believe that she is overweight. Someone who’s lost the 30 pounds she needed to lose has arrived at…
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i sooo understand the need to always have snacks – if i can make one suggestion, it would be to stash a case of dole frozen fruit bars in your office communal freezer or your mini fridge freezer if you’re lucky to have one. they give you a serving of fruit, not much sugar, only 45-90 calories depending on the bar, and take long enough to eat so that you’re full by the end. plus, it never hurts to have a hydrating snack. they’re on sale a lot of the time, so i’m finding them economical to have. good luck brides!