Wedding Forum - Poll- what's your attitude to weight loss...

I don't know what option to choose hun!

I know deep down I don't need to lose weight (5' 1.5" and size 8 - 10, sometimes a 6 if the sizing is all up the wall - I even have a size 0 dress from Marc Jacobs) ..................however, like a lot of girls, I'm never happy with the way I look or feel, maybe it's because my sister is a few inches taller than me and is a size 6 - 8 with bigger boobs, so it makes me feel bleugh!

You get your feeling fat days and other days when you're really happy with your body.

I have put on half a stone since getting engaged (since mid-January) and I want to lose that but I think other than that I wouldn't want to lose more as I know I will start to look drawn and a bit anorexic like.

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I have chosen 'I want to lose weight but am finding it very hard' - I do really well dieting but not so good at keeping it off x

I haven't ticked a b ox as my attitude is slightly different...
Although I think I could have done with losing a couple of kilos, I decided I wouldn't make any special effort as I didn't want to look back at my wedding photo's in 10 years time and say 'oh, look how lovely and slim I was there. I wish I was like that now'. I am what I am and as much as I look in the mirror some days and whish I looked/felt different, that's just how it is. I was surprised at the numbe rof people who thought it strange that I wasn't on a pre-wedding diet and I think it's really sad that there's an expectation for a bride to be to be doing that and putting more pressure on herself when it's already a stressful time organising the wedding.

I'm planning on loosing a little bit as I'm not happy how I am with my double chin when I smile.

I used to think I wish I was a size 6 again till I saw a photo of me from when I left school. I now sort of know how an anorexic feels I used to think my thighs were huge even then and then in the photo my legs are like sticks!

I have lost 14kg and kept it off since November, I am struggling to lose the last few pounds :s
I used to be thinner and put a lot of weight on gradually over a few years, i already have the photos where i look back and wish i was that slim again. Im not going crazy though and some of it (well a lot of it) is getting back to a healthy weight and feeling better about myself generally - it will be hard to keep it off after the wedding but im going to try!

I hate that when me and my OH got together I was 3 sizes smaller than I am now. I have tried to get back to that and even though I have lost weight I havent lost size which matters more. I am still going to try to lose a bit before the wedding although I feel like I am running out of time, and I dont think I will succeed. It makes me sad, but as long as he thinks I look beautiful I guess nothing else matters.

I am joining the gym today though. So perhaps that will do it!

Very interesting to see that even though only 14 have voted so far not one person is entirely happy and convinced they dont need to lose weight (myself included lol)

It's a losing battle for women i think

I would love to lose 2 dress sizes by my wedding date so i can feel good about myself as im a size 16/18 now :(

However, if i dont lose as much weight as i want too then i wouldnt mind, as i like how i look in the dress, its a corset back and pulls me right in... its just my arms. im 5"6 too....

Think its most girls thing, to lose weight before the big day! but i am stuggling hard to get motivated.

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I have voted that I would like to lose some weight but h2b loves me the way I am. I've had major issues with my weight since I was 14. I was always a large child and as a dancer I was being made aware by my ballet teacher that I was too big. Her words were "You will never get anywhere being that size" I had this from the age of 5! I wasn't actually that big, I was a child who put on weight then had a growth spurt. But this stayed with me all through my life. Then at 14 I decided I wasnt going to be bigger than the other dancers anymore and I starved myself. I only ate at weekends and even then it was salad, nothing else. My mum found out and as I was at 7st she told the school that she wanted me supervised at lunch so they sat there and MADE me eat. So I started to make myself sick straight after. This went on all the way up until I met my h2b. It was him who started to make me eat and tell me how beautiful I am. I put on weight and got up to 9 and a half stone and wasnt happy so I went back to starving myself! I am now 5ft4, 8 and a half stone, and a size 8-10, I have a bum and I have 32E boobs. My h2b tells me everyday I am beautiful and he wouldn't change a thing about me. If I do start to lose a bit of weight he watches me to make sure I am eating and not making myself ill after, and tells me I am getting too thin! I am now contenet with my weight and my size, so much so that when my ballet teacher told me a year ago that I had to lose weight off my stomach, hips, bum and boobs my reply was "They arent going no where, this was the shape my mum gave me, so you will have to deal with that!" I dont so much want to lose weight as tone up! But I can live with myself if I dont, and my h2b thinks I am beautiful as I am, so that is good enough for me xxx

I've voted I should probably lose some but H2B loves me as I am, but I also have tried and am struggling at the moment because I need to lose some as I'm not usually this weight and don't like it but I just don't want it enough. >.<

thats what I like about ww. I can eat what I want but I have to watch the portions and make sure I stay within points.... luckily at the mo im not missing anything so havent felt the need to try and 'budget' for anything. Only thing I miss is pringles but given I eat a whole tub and thats about 45 pro points thats nearly two days worth of food so I am sterring clear of them. May treat myself to a curly wurly one day soon as I know they are low in points and will last ages if I put it in the fridge frist.

overall it averages out to a 16 :)

I just need to tone up a bit rather than loose a great deal of weight, I'm not dieting as such just cutting out coke, crisp and the usual junk x

i lose LOADS off my tummy and boobs become non existant..... yet my bum stays the size of a house!

I voted number 4 but I'm not claiming anything miraculous here! I find it extremely difficult to lose weight, so I've decided if I start now and do it slowly maybe there's a chance it'll stay off. So far I've lost about four pounds, which isn't much in almost four months, but slow and steady wins the race and all that....I hope!!!!

Well I'm a mixture of the last three!
My h2b loves me the way I am, but I was unhappy and had no confidence in the body I was wearing, and this in turn made h2b sad that I was sad.
So i have been trying really hard to shift the weight, almost at the 2 stone gate now, sometimes it's really easy and other times it's reaaaly hard to shift a pound, but it's important to me and so that keeps going, the joy I will feel when I jump on the scales and they tell me something I'm not ashamed off!

I am not starting my diet tomorrow........it HAS TO BE TODAY!
I cant believe i have hit 13 stone! I have alsways been 11 stone and thats right for my height ....5' 8......but I can really feel the excess 2 stone and I feel fat and my clothes are uncomfortable.

2 stone is 3 months might be a challenge but if I try and only lose one stone.....well its better than none isnt it?

I have today actually had a healthy breakfast..(before I even decided going on the diet ) I had Museli with semi skimmed milk..
I think I will have roast chicken for lunch, with veggies and potatoes....(I am not depriving myself and I think veggies are healthy anyway)
Then for dinner i will have salad I think.....instead of a big mac meal which I sometimes do on a weekend.

i need to loose weight but find it hard to do so, i dont like cooked meals and just pick at things or grab something when i am hungary ive recently started the slim fast diet and been on it 2 weeks and lost 4lb so far but i seem to start these diets then have a bad few weeks then see myself in the mirror and start the diet process all over again, i have been with my fiance since we were 13 and i love him to bits and i know he loves me so therefore at times i am completely happy with the way i look and he says he loves me and fancies me and would still love me no matter what size i was xx

My pre-wedding panic lasted all of 2 days, I've just got back from eating my own bodyweight in food at Harvester! H2B has got really fit in the last year, he's worked really hard to lose weight and get muscly and looks great- and it makes me feel even worse about how I look. It's always him that wants to go out for dinner, get takeaways etc as he can burn it off so easily and I never have the will to say no! Final dress fitiing next week so i need to do something drastic now!
Like others have said, i probably need to tone up more than anything, dress will hide most of me but am very conscious of my arms- plus my BMs are so thin! x

Good idea InDreamland... will get started on it tomorrow... Have some little weights covered in dust somewhere! Along with a toning belt, skipping rope, toning ball, exercise DVDs etc- they all only ever get used once! xx

Oh and well done on low cal meals thread suzky! x

i want to loose weight but im struggling :( H2B is happy with me how i am but im not

I would like to lose some weight but I do think its pretty silly to deliberately buy a dress thats too small so that you slim into it because it can be stressful enough planning a wedding without that additional pressure. The other thing is its so unnecessary! I say this fully knowing that most of us are self-conscious about at least part of our bodies and want to look and feel our best on the big day, but really its all about getting a style of dress that flatters you and fits well!

That is so true Linzi-Jo. And as you've said previously, this obsession we girls tend to have with our bodies and how much we dislike them can be really unhealthy. x

clbronze............whe I read about you eating your own bodyweight in a harvester I laughed so much I wee'd a little bit!

Well, I fetched H2B a big mac meal......BUT I didnt have one, I had 4 Ryvitas with stilton..........definately not the same!
I enjoyed it mind you, but I had a milkshake :(

Salad for tea.