Wedding Forum - Official Weight Loss Thread - hints and...

How Re you loosing weight mrs H 2B?

Brilliant well done. I'm starting Monday with running biking and swimming alternatively so dnt get bored. And then bk to slimming world as before Christmas I lost ten pounds in four weeks lol. Got months yet but I know they will creep up before I know it. And also I feel like an elephant haha

Same here miss weddles. Plus I feel rotten so tht no good is it haha xxx

Yeh I'm like that. I dnt have much trouble loosing it it is maintaining it lol. But making husband to be help me been as he qualified personal trainer and doesn't do it for a job anymore lol

Yeh tht my ideal weight to not be obese. Bloody stupid bmi charts. Lol xxxx

Well I was supposed to be starting today as have less than 8 months until the wedding and my goal weight is 8 stone 3 and I'm currently at 9 stone 1 and am having an operation next week which means I can't exercise for at least 2 months, but instead I'm sat here eating chocolate biscuits! Some major motivation needed over here! Lol xxx

I am giving up alcohol for january...wel until the 24th lol also back on WW and hoping to start cycling and walking again when the good weather comes in xx

I'm getting on this too! I have lots of weight to lose and no where near enough time to do it in. I'll just do the best I can. Eating healthy has started, and off to buy an exercise mat this morning to start Jillian Michaels workout.xx

I don't need to loose weight to fit in dress but just want to loose weight I'm just over 9.5 stone and my ideal weight is 8.5 - 9st so ideally I want to loose a stone. I got down to 8st 13 for my wedding day which I was happy with anything under that though and I start looking too thin.

I'm gluten free and been very naughty and not followed over Xmas so feeling horrible and bloated! So hopefully when I on Monday when the diet starts I will loose quickly x

I have some weight to lose, eaten way to much over Christmas. I hate counting calories though and I hate weighing myself. Weighed myself for the first time last week in half a year and was not impressed. Eating less and exercising more for me will be what 2014 is all about!!

Diet started today and so far so good H2B is also on a diet which makes it easier doing it together :) x

8PM x it avoids me from snacking in the evening if I set a time and after 8 isn't supposed to be good for eating close to bed time.

I'm going bk to SW Monday and have bought myself some dumbells for my new exercise regime! Here's hoping I can stick to it x

Well done to everyone whos lost weight and looking to start! Youve all got much more motivation than me!

Healthy eating and exercise starts from Monday for me. My only problem is i feel like i need to comfort eat all the time, and i just cant get into the mood to work out. Ive booked myself into a couple of classes, one being 'Piloxing' which ive heard is pretty hard but totally worth it in the end, so hopefully i will get my fitness mojo back!

My weigh day is Thursday's MrsH-2B, but I was naughty and weighed myself yesterday too just to see how I was doing! lol xx

Me and a bridesmaid have decided to put our money where our mouths are by putting £2 into a pot every week at which time we'll also weigh ourselves and take our measurements. We'll be doing this up to the wedding in October and whoever loses the most wins all the money. I've put on sooo much weight over August to Christmas but I know it'll come off quickly - I managed to drop 2 dress sizes in 2 months from eating healthily and exercising when I was to be a bridesmaid in 2012, this time round though I have even more incentive and I'm currently training to become a fitness instructor so I'll be doing even more than the 14 hours a week I currently do... fingers crossed I'll be getting soome honeymoon spending money coming my way.
Best of luck to everyone and remember that muscle weighs more than fat so make sure you all get your tape measures out and track your progress that way too.

ooooh this seems a good thread.. getting married in april, never really dieted before. Want to loose 2 stone, which i think is doable to get from 13 to 11 stone. my wedding dress fits perfecty at the moment, but dreading the honeymoon with my little tummy!!! i like the idea about doing it with the BM and putting money in a jar!

though i know my crash dieter BM would wipe the floor with me. lol

You could always impose a no crash dieting rule to up your chances. Our rules are no diet plans, just healthy food (three meals a day plus snacks), plenty of exercise and we're allowed the odd treat along the way. Crash/fad dieting would be tempting but ultimately casuses too much harm to the body so we banned it.

Ive got 17 weeks now until the wedding, 10 until i pick up me dress though!
So on me diet as of today!
Doing a bar for breakkie, shake for dinner and meat and veg for tea then gonna start exercising like crazy!
Any tips on how I can tone up me arms would be IMMENSE girls as this is my problem area!
Fingers crossed we can all do it together!
xx

For toning arms first make sure you're nice and warmed up then for triceps (that's the back of the arms/bingo wings) I'd recommend some tricep dips (if you haven't got a step you can use a chair or perhaps the stairs), if you have some weights you can also do tricep extensions and tricep kickbacks (if you google each one there should be some videos on you tube demonstrating the moves). For bicep toning with weights/bar/cans of soup if nothing else available I'd suggest doing some bicep curls (mixing it up between full and half curls).
For shoulders do some punches out in front as well as up in the air, preferably with some weights for resistance and throw some flyes,lateral raises and press ups in there too for a sexy back as well as toned arms and shoulders. Remember to intersperse these moves with some cardio to keep your heart rate up and try to do some leg moves to keep your body working and using up more calories to pump extra blood from one area to another. Oh and make sure you cool down after otherwise you'll be sore in the morning.

VictoriaB - swimming is great for all over exercise. If your pool also has a gym or offers classes then its worth checking out what's on offer to mix up your routine as the human body very quickly adapts to a particular exercise and therefore doing the same moves over and over on a regular basis will lose its effectiveness. if there's a circuit class on offer then I'd definitely reccomend giving it a try - there will be different moves targeting every area and each session will have slightly different moves. A friend of mine managed to shift 10lbs in 2 months just from adding a 45 minute circuit class to her routine 3 times a week... that's almost a stone towards your target weight well before your wedding.
Great that you love food, continue to enjoy the healthy food you like but just keep an eye on portion sizes. Its absolutely fine to indulge in the not-so-healthy food once in a while so long as it is the odd treat every now and again and that once you have indulged a little you get straight back on the wagon and don't splurge. For instance you have a really healthy lunch but then start craving a chocolate bar so you go ahead and have one but then you go back to having a healthy dinner and not giving in to the little voice in your head that says I blew it with the chocolate so I may as well have a take away for dinner as well.

Just weighed myself for first time in three weeks and put on five pound I'm so annoyed. Back on it today. Just wish weather would change would be so more willing to go for a run lol. Never mind got 16 months to go and I managed to loose ten pound in four weeks last month. Xxx just need to get in routine

I too am on the healthy eating track. I lost 2 stone but some back on over Xmas and would love to lose another 2/3 stone n def tone up arms. I am using the fitness app which tracks exercise n calories. Here's hoping - at least I have my focus, the vision of me in the dress x

Starting again today. Doing one week before checking weight. I got the bus to work today so that I could walk home, and I'm targeting 1400 calories, half an hour of walking, cycling or jogging on a trampette, and a few minutes of toning each day. That was working before Christmas so hopefully I'll see the effects soon. I don't need to lose much; my dress is a sample which already needs taking in, but I want to look my best.

MrsH-2b I do get numerous pains in my boobs but never as a result of exercise. I'd say to give different sports bras a try by going into the changing room and actually jumping up and down in front of the mirror to see how much bounce you get (you're aiming for none, or as close to none as possible). If the bra definitely isn't the problem then probably worthwhile popping to the docs and seeing if they can pinpoint what the cause may be.

Fingers crossed the new bra does the trick.