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

Also eating"gluten free" foods doesn't mean that you lose weight!

Can you unpick the sides and sew in a bit of stretchy fabric in a similar colour? If there's no seamstress on hand you can unpick the invisible zip and have somebody hand-sew you into.the dress with its new stretchy side panels. I suggest this because it's an easy fix which doesn't require any specialist knowledge - speaking as a vintage clothes enthusiast who has done plenty of very simple alterations and who doesn't know how to fit an invisible zip! (Which I agree are horrible pinchy things.)

Jason Vale 7 day juice diet.

The Jason Vale juice cleanse did the job for me but I wasn't breast feeding. Presumably your body will just turn more body fat into milk so you'll lose even more but you'll certainly be feeling more tired. Will be fine for a week, but hard.

Do the zip up, ask a seamstress to insert a corset back?

Do not make yourself I'll with shrink wraps and restrictive garments or wrecking your metabolism by quick fix starvation diet.

If the dress can't be let out the you'll have to wear a different dress in as close as match as you can.

Can you show us the dress and maybe we can find something similar for you?

I’d go gluten free so gluten free bread, eggs and Greek yoghurt or Skyr with fruit and honey for breakfast, big salad with turkey breast and cheese for lunch, sweet potatoes or brown rice, fish/meat, and loads of veg for dinner, fruit and nuts for snacking, a protein shake a day and get running if you can. A light 20 minute jog twice a day morning and evening with a good boob protecting sports bra. Lots of water - at least 2 litres. You will certainly loose an inch or two in a week without starving yourself depending on what your current diet is like.

Have an off the peg back up dress ready just in case, with tags still on so you can take it back if not needed.

It would be nice if you can get into the dress but more important to feel comfortable and enjoy the day.

I don't think a crash diet for a breastfeeding mum with other little ones is a good idea - plus, it could get to the end of the week and she's still not there!
I think you're just going to have to get a different dress, maybe similar colour and style.

Hi OP, apologies if this has been mentioned already. I’m not sure where you live but if you have any Indian/asian outfit shops they usually have seamstress who works there that can adjust garments. If you want quick turnaround they charge extra but can do it. They will also have cuts of material, or can suggest ideas of how they can alter your dress to fit. I only say this as when I went to an Indian weddding and left it very late for my outfit, I paid extra and they asked to come back in 3 hours and had it ready. This was in London.

To get into my wedding dress I had a body wrap. I'm sure there's a proper name fir it. Basically the beautician covered me with some kind of cream and wrapped me in bandages, then left me under a heated blanket. When I got unwrapped I had lost inches. Very temporary fix of course and it's a long time ago so I'm not even sure it's a thing any more.

I do the Big 3:

1. Low carb
2. 8 hour eating window
3. Low calorie

It's doable if you eat fatty/protein food within your low calories allowance, eg avocado, eggs, cream etc (just track it)

This happened to a friend of mine, pregnancy expanded her rib cage so no amount of dieting would fix it. Only solution was to add a panel in the back. You don't even need a 'good' dressmaker at this stage, just someone who can bodge a solution that will last a couple of hours.

I second spanx - the proper ones - mine take me down an entire dress size, they're really wondrous

A jockey friend of mine exercises with plastic bin bags under his clothes in the lead up to each race, so that he makes his weigh in.

Sounds mad, but true!

Which bit of the dress doesn't fit? Shapewear or diet will only help with stomach, not boobs/ribs in that timeframe. Get a panel insert in the back with a corset on top, easy for most seamstresses to do quickly.

Anywhere near Biggin Hill? Amazing seamstress there managed to let out my sister's lace wedding dress by 2inches when it looked like there was no fabric at all.

As a life long yoyo dieter your only real option is a sauna; you essentially dehydrate yourself.

water weight is all you have to play with it a week.

given you are breastfeeding that isn’t really going to work unless your have a store of milk and they will take bottle feeds for 24/48hours.

I’m an optimist with this stuff but I really think your best bet is to work on getting it altered somehow.

edit: just saw about Glastonbury.
a day of on off sauna and low carb diet will do it and Spanx for good measure.
but honestly I’d alter the dress and be comfy

No GP is going to prescribe furosimide so some can fit into a bridesmaid dress! And if they do they want striking off!

As your baby is 9mo, your breastfeeding will be well established and a few days of crash dieting isn't going to wreck it (just as a short illness wouldn't and tbh from your thread title I though salmonella might be a possibility, but that's a bit too unpredictable in the time you have left.

Some ideas:

• drink lots of water
• and nothing but water except a cup of slimatee (Holland and Barrett sell it, it's a v mild laxative, not enough to tip you in to dangerous purging, but enough to make sure everything keeps moving usefully in case changes to diet bung everything up)
• consider replacing some meals with Slimfast bars or similar (nutritionally balanced so your milk should still in turn be nutritious, but hideously ultraprocessed so might leave you feeling hungry)
• so eat lots of (watery) fruit and salady stuff (undressed, the salad that is, not you)
• small amount of lean protein
• nothing white/processed or with sugars (except what is naturally in the whole foods)
• find really good distractions for when you feel hungry your willpower doesn't have to hold out for that long
• get your DP/DC/best friend to massage you (or pummel as much as yourself as you can reach) or use manual lymphatic drainage techniques (google for info) to help move on any water reduction
• best shapewear you can find

And take an evening dress that fits, so once photos are all done you can change into something that won't squeeze you to pieces. Then get very drunk on one glass of fizz as you'll have been running on empty for so long in the run up.

If you can't get it to go up then a pashmina to hide it will suffice

I would book a body wrap the day before and get some good shape wear.
Don't change diet too much if your breastfeeding.