Need urgent advice to lose weight quickly- bridesmaid dress doesn’t fit!

Dieting whilst breastfeeding isn’t an issue, your body will prioritise making milk. I would drink lots of water, eat healthy good quality food (no empty calories or ‘diet food’) and aim to be in 1000 calorie a day deficit. You will be using about 500 calories a day to produce milk assuming you are still reading a fair bit. Your base metabolic rate is probably around 1800 (assuming you are normally active and don’t have excessive amounts of muscle) so that gets you to 2300. So you either need to eat 1300 calories a day (which is difficult imo) or you need to burn extra calories to make the eating goal more achievable. I would try and add 500 calories of extra walking if possible because eating 1800 calories a day is pretty doable. You need to walk around 10km to burn 500cals so that’s about 12,000 extra steps. If you are reasonably active already you might do 8000 so aiming for 20,000 a day should do it. That should bring you back under 62kgs in an week, assuming that’s the target. Good luck!

If it's a zip up the side, could you zip the zip up and get her to put a lace up option at the back? I'd imagine that might be easier than cut out panels from a POV of making it "bridesmaid" ish? But either sounds good and a lot more sensible than trying to lose 2.5 kg in a week.

Just wondering, maybe one of the other bridesmaids has lost a bit of weight before the wedding and can swap dresses with you.

See....oh never mind

Fast.
Only consume tea or water for at least three days. Weight will fall off.

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Eat nothing but carrots.

Book a sauna session or two.

On one day, wear as many clothes as you can and go for an hour-long run.

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Cut carbs and concentrate on protein and veg only. Drink plenty of water. When I was getting married dI tried my dress on and had this issue as we had a delay of a year due to COVID. I swore to the lady at the dress shop I would get in it and she looked at me sceptical and made a bit of a worried comment, but 4 weeks later… boom! I think she was almost quite impressed, but I am used to that type of thing when I need to do it 😂

Find someone with Norovirus and lick them.

I lost several kg in a week.

it wasn’t.., pleasant.

Where doesn’t it zip up? Is it hips/waist or is it chest/boobs?
you have only put on about 1/2 stone. Lots of walking, low carbs and low ish calories for a week and you should shift that.

also was baby due a feed before you tried on? Could be that big full boobs vs empty boobs could get the dress zipped up?

Bridal dresses and bridesmaid dresses are always small. So if you are a ten you should order a 12. Bigger is always better as you can always take something in not let something out. You should see if the bridal shop has something close in style in your size.

Good luck OP, I hope it works out. Have fun at the wedding!

Panel in the back or sides of zip allows (you mentioned side zipper)…
a local dry cleaners might have a seamstress or similar doing alterations 🤞🏻

I think that sounds like the most sensible approach, @AngeloMysterioso - rather than some madcap diet scheme!
It could work, but maybe have an alternative dress on standby anyway?

Can you order another dress and use the fabric for her aunt to make the adjustments?

@Whatsernom - excellent points 👌

Wrong name: Monde's Threads. Her FB page is worth a look for ideas.

OMG please be kinder to yourself. All this pressure for someone else's big day. You have a small baby, are breastfeeding which is amazing so putting yourself through this would be wrong. If you can find a seamstress to add fabric in on the side then fine, but otherwise wear something else in the same color palette. The worst is to crash diet, the potential damage you will do to your hormones and quality of milk is very real. Is it really worth all that. Whatever you wear, the day will still go on and I am sure it will be amazing for the couple. You however, will be uncomfortable and beating yourself up for nothing. No one will remember after the day what you wore!

Where does the zip stop? If around your waist or lower, would one of those reducing wraps do the trick? I've never had one, but I've heard of girls losing a couple of inches and being able to get into a dress after having one.
Gowns rarely have enough in the side seams to let them out much, unfortunately. If it's floor length, is there any option to take some fabric off the length? Or maybe different shoes would give you some extra length that could be taken off?
Another option, if it's just the waist and hips that are the problem, would be to add diamond-shaped inserts into the side seams (splitting one to go either side of the zip) and then adding a wide sash or a band around the waist to cover the inserts.

Oh, that's a good idea - the FB account Mondi's Threads often puts in laces to give that extra bit of room.

A week of extra steps, no carbs (or alcohol), lots of water, last meal of the day by 5pm & very early nights will work as a short term loss programme! Good luck. 👍

Breastfeeding definately keeps weight off for me, if that works for you (I know it doesn't for everyone but surely it burns calories!) Then feed that baby loads! 😁

This. Don't fuck around with shape wear and dieting. Just get back to the (or round to a, if it's not been made) the dressmaker, highly likely they'll be able to adjust by either taking out seams, or adding a panel.