Anyone else need to lose weight for their wedding?

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I need to lose at least 2 stone by June.

Tbh I haven't done too bad over Christmas and haven't gained afaik? avoided scales.

I'm 5ft 8 and weigh just over 13 stone. Am a size 14. My stomach is my worst area, legs and arms are fine as are boobs.

I only want to get to a size 12 as don't look so good as a 10. I used to be really skinny when younger and hated it.

Anyone else need to lose weight for their wedding? I'm not even looking at dresses yet until I lose some.

I'm in, wedding in December stone and a half to lose

Hi rusmum. You have a long time to do it, good luck.

10st 7 today so some of the weekend bloat has disappeared.
An OK day.
Breakfast - banana
Lunch - lamb tagine & couscous followed by a banana
Supper - salad. But not a particularly healthy one as, along with a load of leaves & veg, it included 3 new potatoes, an avocado (well, only half the avocado was in the salad but I ate the other half waiting for the potatoes to cook) and 3 rashers of bacon.
That should be me done for the day. Fast day again tomorrow.
Off to do some wedding research. Still haven't booked a venue...

Tried the dress on, almost fits! It zips up but bit tight around the boobies It's low cut too. Eeee I'm brave haha.

Aw thanks for the lovely dress comments can't wait to wear it!

Well done for yours doing up FSC whoop!

Had weigh in today and lost 2.5lb. Sadly now celebrating with back on the wagon tomorrow...

What kind of venue are you looking for Dancingwitch?

Welcome rusmum

Yay for dress zipping up and well done on the weight loss amroc

I re measured.today, my waist is now 29 and Half.inches! Woohoo! Down from 32!

Well done on weight loss amroc. And inch loss 5madthings. Your waist is tiny!

Weight loss of 2lb here this morning so scales finally catching up.with theinches!

I am only 5 2 so my waist isn't that small for my height? I am very hourglass though.

Hello RUSmum and welcome.

I'm away on Sunday to give my family some support. I'll be happy to stay the same that week.

I'll keep logging in though to keep an eye on you lol.

Some good weight loss stories here over the last few days. Well done everyone and for those like me who are having a bit of a struggle I'm sure it'll be ok on the day and alright on the night ;-)

2.5lbs ON

I still haven't managed to get any exercise in because of working 45+ hours a week and trying to do college assessments (I have a group presentation tomorrow night - eek!), plus I've been picking at rubbish but I was gutted at weigh in this morning. I knew I hadn't been great for a couple of weeks but I really wasn't expecting that. Anyway, onwards!

B: Baked oatmeal with stewed apples and yoghurt, my weekly Starbucks tasted burnt so almost all of it went down the sink

L: Baked potato with beans and 30g cheddar, 2x clementines, Activia 0%

D: 3x Tesco "healthy living" cumberland sausages, potatoes, veg, gravy

S: Banana, Weight Watchers peanut butter crunch bar

Mrs b I think with your exhausting schedule you are doing well just to put 2.5 lbs on . I'd easily do double or triple that. I don't need an excuse to reach for the choccy box but upset, stress..any sort of disruption puts me on overdrive.

Weight loss needs some degree of planning and with your schedule I'd be pleased if I found some time to breathe.

I'm old. It does worry me at the amount younger people have to cram into their days to make ends meet. When I think back to my mums day, life was so leisurely and almost stress free providing the key elements were place; ie a man who loved you, a job that paid a liveable wage, friends and family close by.

It was like some sort of utopia that I'm pleased to have experienced. We kids didn't have play dates. We played out in the street with skipping ropes, a couple of balls, tag etc

I feel like I sound like some dinosaur. My mum was naturally slim. There wasn't the bombardment of food beamed at us 24 hours a day. No need for weight watchers or SW . Chocolate was a treat now and then. Not a crutch to get us through the day.

I could weep when I read posts like yours mrs b. just where is the time to just Be in your week. It's not good and not healthy. We only need to look at our animal friends. How they rest , play, eat when they are given food if they are pets or eat when they are hungry if they are wild and manage to catch something to eat. We've come a long way from a healthy lifestyle I fear.

Oh dear. Sorry I didn't mean to go all doom and gloomy. I hope you don't feel I just singled you out ;-)

Honestly Dowser, I'm exhausted. I'm so stressed that it's affecting my sleep, I feel guilty because I'm eating badly and not getting to the bootcamp classes that I pre-paid for a year so it feels like I'm wasting money as well, I HAVE to pass my college assessments because my work is paying for the course and failing it means that I'd have to pay back the full £1200, I'm barely seeing DP and he has been lumbered with dog walking duty for days on end now.

Not to mention the fact that every penny we earn is going towards the wedding and this month I've been left with £150 to myself, which needs to cover my food for the month as well.

I'm skint, stressed, tired - can I stop the world and get off now?

Aww! Mrs B. you poor love. There's a big hug coming your way. Losing weight sounds the least of your worries.

I think I've lived in the best of times. I'm very grateful. Wars had ended. It felt even as a child an uneasy peace but it was peace. The adults began to relax a little. Plans wee made. We had a car, holidays twice a year . Cheap ones ones, once with family and one in a hotel in a coastal resort but I got to know my country a bit better.

We got a tv, then when I was well into my teens (17) a phone and a colour tv when I was about 20. Stuff just taken for granted now
People started to care more about their houses. Fitted carpets became all the rage and then fitted kitchens.

We certainly weren't rich but we weren't poor. My parents brought up with wartime austerity were cautious and I do believe they had a stress free existence.

I see what my family have to do to survive and I think where did it all go wrong. My SIL looks ready to crack at any minute and I barely see my son as he's always at work.

This is not progress. Far from it.

Funny they are talking about pressure on loose women. People are beginning to talk about where did it all go wrong. JSP is talking about people leaving with £35,000 debt just for studying. So wrong. We should be investing in our young people not hanging a millstone round their necks.

Try to be gentle with yourself and build some essential you and him time. That's the most crucial thing . If you can downscale your wedding and save some money so you don't have to work so hard that would be a bonus.

We are having the bare bones of a wedding. Think frugal pensioners. The money has been spent on taking them abroad for the week. I'm going to wear the cheapest of dresses, may even just wear one of my own( I have plenty lol) I'll be doing my own hair and make up. No photographer. Our meal is three courses for €9 !

The emphasis will be on family and the few friends that straggle over having a blast together.....and oh yes while we are all there we may as well get married!

Perfick!

Thanks Dowser, I'm coming over all emotional!

We're already eloping to cut some costs but DP and I discussed it last night and it looks like we can save another £1000+ by moving the wedding from next June to next April. The weather might be a bit more hit and miss in New York but we're heading down to Cancun for the honeymoon and it means that we won't be there during the hurricane season.

We'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for sunshine on the wedding day!

Thanks Dowser, I'm coming over all emotional!

We're already eloping to cut some costs but DP and I discussed it last night and it looks like we can save another £1000+ by moving the wedding from next June to next April. The weather might be a bit more hit and miss in New York but we're heading down to Cancun for the honeymoon and it means that we won't be there during the hurricane season.

We'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for sunshine on the wedding day!

I'd forgotten your wedding is still quite far away. Oh you can take some of the pressure off yourself then weight wise.

Like me it's a long haul ( sept ) I feel like I'm just maintaining my current weight which isn't too bad. Once the weather picks up and I feel more like going for walks I'm sure I will be more motivated.

Maybe that should be your tactic. Work out a rough diet based on whatever is comfortable for you. I think 1300 is mine but you will need more. Build your glass of wine into it or whatever takes your fancy

I'm not filling in myfitnesspal at the moment as I'm know roughly what I'm eating as my diet doesn't change that much. Having green buggery juice as we speak. Maybe that would be the way forward. Watch the carbs and go for lots of protein, plenty of veg a little carb and some treats till you're through your course. Then you can throw yourself into the diet and classes.

Yeah, there are 15 or so months until the wedding but we also have a beach holiday booked for ten nights in September (I didn't know we were going to be getting engaged when we booked that, I'm starting to resent having to pay that £1000 each when it could be going to the wedding) so I don't want to look like a beached whale for that.

16 weeks to go for me. Annoyingly, DP mentioned just now that he has lost a stone this year! Mind you, he did have DV for a week and has been exercising pretty much every day other than when he was ill.
A good fast day here. Chicken, mounds of veg & some noodles for lunch and then a quarter of a fresh mango hoovered up off th children's plates at tea time.
Dowser - I am so glad that I live now. The freedom I have. And the work opportunities that have been open to me that even 10yrs before would have been quite unusual for a woman (even if not the job itself, being able to wear trousers to work and things like that). In previous generations, I would either have been an interfering busy body (as my maternal grandmother was) or on prozac.

I'm going to try a bit harder today.

I was doing good till went to the pub last night when it became a case of, oh sod it I'll have a gin and tonic..

Then a few snackeroonies when I got in.

Back on Mfp today

Morning all,

STBMB sorry you're having such a struggle. I'm doing NVQ work and had a load of e-learning to do too so can sympathise. Fitting it in with work and dss plus step gs takes some doing. Your course sounds like it's pretty stressful though. Hard to do that as well as working full time. Plus it's just motivating yourself to do it isn't it? Bloody hard!

2lb off this morning. I didn't eat hugely yesterday plus had over an hours walk up and down hills. Dancing tonight so if I eat healthily should shift another pound?

I bought some more decorations for the room. Nice little glass vases for the tables. I just need to order the flowers for them now. Plus am going to try to grow some in the allotment. I ordered more tealight holders so will have 40 of those, plus all the fairy lights and bunting.

I'm going to ring the restaurant today and book a table for after the wedding. If I can decide whether to go to the one next to the registry office or go into Durham? I'd prefer to go into Durham but the other one is so convenient.

Has everyone ordered their bouquets? I'm thinking small hand tied?

My hair I'll do myself as worked as a stylist for 15 years, plus do some now still.

Freakin My bouquet is going to be gypsophilia with burgundy roses. My auntie is doing them all as a wedding gift as she's a florist :)

My second fast day of the week today- hopefully I wont feel as starving as Tuesday! Weigh in tomorrow so expecting a decent loss.

Todays menu-
B- Cambridge Lemon Yoghurt Bar
L- Roast Gammon & Salad
D- Steamed Cod & Veggies.

Down to 10st 4 today :-) I always like this as it means I am a healthy BMI and I can claim I am the same weight as I was at Uni even if it was just the month after a boyfriend dumped me and I lived on chocolate

Dowser - I think we're quite similar in our eating habits. I am fine in a controlled environment like home but it is when out that I struggle and then, once I've undone the seatbelt on the wagon, well, I may as well fall off it!

Go - on my fast days, I find it easier if I don't have breakfast. I now tend to have all of my calories for lunch but include within that a banana which I delay eating for as long as I can. Sometimes I need it with lunch, sometimes I can wait until 3 or 4 pm.

I hadn't thought about flowers! Help! What else have I forgotten?! Rings occurred to me the other day and so now DP is deciding whether to get one or not. He's never worn a ring in his life so is reluctant too but most of his friends who are married wear one so he feels he should. I don't mind whether he does or not. However, I need a wedding ring as otherwise I'm going to have to get my engagement ring re-sized (I'm a couple of stone lighter than I was when we bought it 4 yrs ago).

FSC do you love somewhere with gorgeous countryside for walking in? I get quite envious reading about all of the walking that you do.

FSC I did the flowers at my friends wedding. It was a country style wedding with a marquee on their land and I dd the flowers for the church and when
N I saw what they were charged for one hand tied bridal bouquet and two bridesmaids they should have asked me to do those as well. They were £120 for the three and they were a dammed sight easier to do than the church flowers.

I think I got about 6 church displays, medium size, 1 large display for the top table, 2 medium for the cake and present table, and 8 buttonholes all for about £50 . Foliage was from the garden.

I'm not a florist either.

Easy peasy, save a fortune.

Ooh gotred I'm excited to hear how you get on doing 5:2, it's something that would probably work well for me but I'm such a big baby when I'm hungry, I get really emotional and angry

Looking forward to your weigh in report!

Flowers aren't something I need to consider but DP read on an elopement blog that there is a stall outside City Hall in NYC that sells little bouquets for $20 so I'll probably just grab one of those. Easy peasy!