Help! Can I go from a UK 10 to an 8 in 10 weeks?!
Jamaelsh
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Okay, okay so before anyone tortures me for already being a healthy weight - my excuse is valid! I'm getting married in 10 weeks and I just literally brought the most beautiful vintage dress in London - I am seriously in love with it! However, it's just too tight to be comfortable at the moment, I can only just about squeeze myself into it - and I dont want to have it adjusted. It's just an estimate but I think I'd have to drop 10-15 lbs to be comfortable in it. Has anyone managed this in 10 weeks? Is it even possible???
(Forgot to mention, Im 5'5/6 - currently 135 lbs, average frame?)
(Forgot to mention, Im 5'5/6 - currently 135 lbs, average frame?)
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Well, I'm sure you're going to get a lot of answers here, but seeing as you are already at low weight/healthy weight for your height, I'm going to say no not a good idea to even consider trying to lose ten pounds in 10 weeks. Also, the less you have to lose, the slower and harder it will be to do so.
Any way to get the dress altered?
And congratulations on your wedding! Best wishes to you! (Please consider another route besides trying to lose 10lbs! You have more important/better things to worry about...like getting married!)0 -
Have the dress altered and enjoy your lovely day!0
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If you don't want to do alterations:
I think 5-10 would be a reasonable goal. 15 would probably be too aggressive (meaning: take a LOT of work and adherence, potentially make you miserable, maybe not be healthy). Wedding and amazing vintage dress should mean you spend the next 10 weeks all excited, not miserable, and you're going to need your energy and an even temper, which aggressive dieting can compromise.
That said, it might be less stressful to do the alteration.0 -
Go to a seamstress and have it altered. That seems like an aggressive goal for such a short time frame.0
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Am I the only one wondering why the OP didn't just buy the dress in her current size?0
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misskarne, because vintage dresses come in the size of the woman they were made for originally.0
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Am I the only one wondering why the OP didn't just buy the dress in her current size?
I'm going to guess since she says it's "vintage," it likely came from a vintage store and not from a standard dress shop. You can't help what you fall in love with.
OP - Since you're already at a very healthy weight, I'd go to your local gym and see what you can do to tone in addition to a reasonable weight loss goal. Best of luck!0 -
Well, I found that in the smaller sizes, losing a size went much faster than in larger sizes. The difference between a uk 10 and 8 is less than between larger sizes.
A pound a week is a reasonable goal (yes, even at a lighter weight--I had no problem losing at a pound a week, all the way down to 117), but it will take close adherence to your calorie goal. Are you willing to weigh everything to ensure you're eating what you want to be eating? If you do want to lose ten pounds, you won't have much wiggle room in your intake. Are you able to easily keep to your calorie allotment and not "cheat" or splurge for ten weeks? If you have that kind of willpower, then give it a try. Evaluate how you're doing in four or five weeks, and if you haven't lost four or five pounds, then I'd suggest looking into alterations at that time.0 -
*shrugs* I read it as a dress in the vintage style, not necessarily an older dress made for someone else.0
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Can you wear shapewear under the dress?0
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I would think your best option is to get it altered. Imagine if you try to lose the weight and then a week before your wedding you lost 2 pound not 10 and don't have time to alter it and you end up being married in a potato sack with head and arm holes cut out.
Did you think about that????0 -
As the poster above pointed out, it's a lot safer to just alter the dress so you KNOW it'll fit, because there's always a chance that even if you try really, really hard, you just won't lose the weight you wanted to. Then you'll spend your wedding day feeling uncomfortable and, if it's tight in the way that the ill-fitting bridesmaid dress I wore last summer was, dizzy from lack of oxygen on account of your ribcage being unable to expand against the crushing pressure of the corseted satin. 0/10; would not recommend. (I ended up taking a suit jacket from one of the groomsmen and wearing it most of the night in order to cover up the fact that I had the dress unzipped as far down as my waist. I just kept telling everyone I was cold.)
Research seamstresses in your area and find one with really good reviews so you know they can be trusted with an irreplaceable dress, and have the seams loosened just a little bit. It'll be worth it.0 -
It would be difficult, but probably possible. I would say go for it for about a month and a half, see if you are making progress, and then take it to be altered if need be. Congrats!0
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Yes, it's possible....but as you are at a good weight already it will be hard! Believe me i know....it was v. hard for me to lose just 5 pounds (at 5'4 and 135).It's just an estimate but I think I'd have to drop 10-15 lbs to be comfortable in it. Has anyone managed this in 10 weeks? Is it even possible???
(Forgot to mention, Im 5'5/6 - currently 135 lbs, average frame?)
I think maybe you could go to your local Gym and ask them to put you on a lifting program. I've seen many Ladies on MFP that swear by weightlifting.
It actually changes your shape without having to lose too many pounds.
Cardio and healthier eating will obviously help too.....but maybe check out a lifting program.
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I would take it to a seamstress now and see if it is possible to take it out. If so, I wouldn't have it done right away but arrange to have it altered in 8 weeks time when you will know if you have managed to lose a few pounds.0
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Personally I'd just get it altered.
I'm not 100% but the difference between a uk 10 and a 8 is almost certainly NOT 15lbs. You could probably fit into it better if you dropped only 5-7lbs? if you can get into it now you can't be far off? I'm roughly your weight and swing between a uk 6-8 in trousers/skirts at 5'5 (I seem to carry my fat internally) with a weight variation of about 7lbs. Trust me, the smaller the size the fewer lbs it takes to change dress size/fit into snug dresses etc.
You should be fine to lose about 5lbs in ten weeks if you really don't want to get it altered.0 -
What if you do not lose as fast as you wish or if you lose at the wrong places?0
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I'd suggest all the suggestions! Try to loose about 5lbs (.5/wk) see a tailor, find some "supportive" undergarments (nothing crazy, see spanx) and, if you can, lift heavy to tone up.
Something is bound to work a bit!
Congratulations!0 -
Aim for 1lb- 1 1/2lbs a week, every 10lbs usually means a drop in dress size.
Could the dress be let out? a professional dressmaker could tell you that.
And a workout like the 30 day shred really is great for inch loss all over, if you stick with it every day for 30 days as well as keeping an eye on the calories. Any time I did it I lost loads of inches and I'm a size 8/10 myself
I lost 20lbs slowly over a year and am down almost 3 dress sizes but I workout a lot
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Get it alterec, you are fine the way you are. Look for a good seamstress that has done alterations on vintage dresses before. Trust me it can be done without harming the dress, my mum used to do it all the time. You can even add to the beauty of the dress. Your health is too important. Good luck with the dress and enjoy every minute of your wedding day.0
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I'd get running for 30 minutes every other day, it changes your shape as if you have lost weight. Keep your calories in a deficit at the same time. Other than that have it altered and enjoy your day, some things are more important x 0
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I am only about 4lbs under my wedding day weight (got married in June 2014) but if I tried my dress on today I know it would be hanging off me!! I started lifting weights a few months ago. It hasn't made a big difference to the scale but my body has changed shape so much. Don't worry so much about the number in the scale... 0
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Dropping a dress size in 10 weeks at your weight should be pretty doable, as it's probably only a 10 pound difference or so (I'm not a lot smaller than you but I find even five pounds is sometimes enough to switch sizes when you're already fairly small.) It's aggressive enough at a pound a week when you're already at a fairly low weight, so you'd have to be pretty strict about counting correctly, getting exercise, not "cheating" (exceeding your calorie goal) etc, but it's certainly not impossible.
If I were in your position, I'd be working on meticulously counting my calories, getting as much exercise in as possible, and finding a good pair of Spanx, but also checking with a tailor to see what kind of alterations are possible and how quickly they can be done, just in case. Because it would be pretty bad not to have a backup plan.
I'm getting married in a couple weeks myself and I lost just under 10 pounds in about the same amount of time for it, so I know it's not impossible or impossibly stressful, but I had to be pretty strict about it and weigh and log literally everything I ate because I had pretty much no room for error.0 -
Go to a good seamstress and see if it can be let out. If it's vintage, it might have generous seam allowances built into the fabric. A professional seamstress might be able to make some changes to it, like changing the back to a lace-up corset to allow for more give.
Between that and some Spanx, you might be able to get it closed. But beware of the stuffed sausage look; clothes that are a bit too small can tend to make you look bigger, not smaller -- which I assume is NOT the look you're going for on your wedding day.
Other than that, you might be SOL. You're already at a low weight for your height. And even if you do manage to lose some weight, you can't predict where it will come from. If the dress is tight at the waist, but you end up losing from your arms or ankles or neck or whatever, then that won't help you at all.
Next time, buy a dress that fits. (Okay, it's a wedding dress, so hopefully there won't be a next time. But you get the idea.)0 -
The dress should be fitted to you and not vice versa. Get it altered, be happy that you are at a good size for you, focus on the upcoming day 0
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I'd agree with lots of the replies you have got already - it is possible, but you will have to be very strict with your calorie counting and incorporatimg exercise. Give it a month, see how its going and how the dress fits and if you're not sure you'll get there, it may then be worth thinking about getting it altered - I'm sure you won't want to be stressing about it right up to your wedding day!0
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Depends on your bone structure and how much muscle you have, as well as how much effort you're willing to put in, you don't want to look gaunt in your wedding pictures0
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On the surface, it sounds reasonable at just over 1lb a week. However, other things will come into play such as will that put you at a too low/borderline too low weight for your height, (gets harder to lose, the lower you get) what your body composition and bone structure is like (fat loss while retaining muscle will be a greater size loss than the same weight in fat and muscle), where you store fat (is the area that's tightest, the last place you lose?) how much effort you put into it etc
I'd certainly give it a go, but maybe as a back up, have the option of someone to make last minute alterations if necessary.0 -
Yes you can but you are probably looking at 1000 calories per day max and exercising on top of that without eating calories back.0
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