It started sometime in the summer. All over the country people began receiving one page reminders to save the date. For those who are not up on wedding lingo, save the date reminders are pre-invites to a wedding you receive prior to the actual invitation to the wedding. Some might take these little pre-invites as pretentious, un-necessary evils, but those in the know recognize that they are in fact love notes from the bride and groom proclaiming, "we are overjoyed and bursting with the fact that we are getting married." The couple are happy and why shouldn't they be? A wedding is a cause for celebration, a time for joy, a time for overwhelming stress over fitting into your dress.
Every year hundreds of thousands of women in the world get engaged, and a large percent of them set dietary goals to assure that they are svelte and petite come wedding day. Setting dietary goals is a wonderful thing but a word of caution for the bride to be, setting realistic goals can save you money and heartache in the long run.
If you are currently a size 16 and you want to be a size two come July chances are that you will have to do some unhealthy dieting to reach that goal and many of you will fall short. Time and time again we watch with a certain amount of inner panic as the bride to be on whatever wedding show we are watching (there is always one on) struggles and fails to fit into her dress mere days before her wedding. The bride or the brides family usually has to purchase another dress that was not the brides first pick for her to walk down the aisle in, talk about a fun sucking moment.
All of this can be avoided by setting realistic goals for your wedding day. If you know you have six months until your wedding day you should only plan on losing two to three dress sizes in that time frame, leaning closer to the two than the three. For every ten pounds we lose, we lose approximately one dress size. Four pounds a month is the average weight lose for people who are sticking to a healthy weight loss program. Four pounds a month for six months equals about 24 pounds, which is two and a half dress size. This is a healthy achievable goal. Trying to lose anything more than that is not impossible, but improbable and unhealthy.
If you plan on trying to lose weight it is important that you see your doctor, and if possible find a nutritionist in your area to help you plan a safe and healthy diet to stick to in order to lose a reasonable amount of weight. As for those tacky bridesmaids gowns, you are on your own for that.
Happy Eating!
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Actually she's not. She USED TO BE a vegetarian. Her fiance Stephen Moyer told a reporter this summer:
"Anna’s not a vegetarian. She was at one point." He pauses. "But, she likes her meat and two veg, know what I mean?"
If you do a google search the article will pop up.
Actually the reference to meat and two vegetables is a sexual reference and Anna is still a vegetarian and this is the wrong article...
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