HELP 5 weeks till wedding

Depending on how much you have left to lose, 10 may or may not be reachable.

The wraps only work temporarily. They just remove water from your body making you lose an inch or two but that loss comes back as soon you eat or drink anything.

You can try low carb... You will lose weight which will most likely be water and the like... Not all fat but it can help you slim down a bit. Once you go back to eating carbs the weight will most likely come back.

Why did you get a dress that would be too small if you lost weight? Get a good slimming under garmet to help.

I'm sure the dress will fit if you don't lose the full ten lbs. 10lbs doesn't make much of a difference unless you are small to being with in which case it would be difficult to lose ten lbs in five weeks safely.

no on the wraps...just be in a calorie deficit and exercise.

You can do it, lots of times you'll lose weight rather quickly in the first couple of weeks. Count your calories and move your butt!!! Congrats on the wedding.

Go and start doing heavy lifting, if you're not already (Stronglifts 5x5 is a good programme). I was steadily losing weight for 12 months, and after 4 weeks of lifting, I finally had people noticing and remarking on how I looked. Everything tightens and firms and you feel AMAZING after a few weeks - strong and confident. That will make a huge difference to rockin' it on your wedding day. (I've got 12 weeks until mine, and lifting is doing wonders!)

There is no quick way to lose real weight. You may be able to lose water weight but no guarantees that it will amount to 10 lbs and if it does, you may want to get that checked. You will need to eat at a deficit and work out. Lifting weights will tone you and make you look better in that dress than tons of cardio but in 5 weeks again, no guarantees on much of a difference.

I read somewhere in a deadline like that the best thing to do is go camping!!! May not be possible w/ wedding plans but if you can....escape for a week ;~) Take only fresh veggies, a few fruits, and very lean meat to BBQ over the fire. Hike miles everyday!!

Have you been dieting to this point? (adaptations to long term dieting will make it a lot harder to do, it will be much easier if this is where you are starting).

However that is not a reach at all. Most of the comments of the healthy loss blah blah mindset. You have a large amount of motivation to hit a specific date in the near future where maintenence afterwards would be nice but not part of the equation right now.

Crash diets work (in the short term), and this is the sort of application they are best used for. The best (and safest) crash diet that is fairly heavily used is Lyle McDonald's Rapid Fat Loss Handbook (google is your friend). Anybody that knows anything about bodybuilding has heard of it.

Basic gist is that its a protein modified fast. You eat practically nothing but protein. The only exercise you do is limitied heavy weightlifting (cardio will ruin everything, stress hormones will mess things up). It is frickin torture, but you'll drop upwards of 4 lb/wk, and it works for already lean people. Granted this is very much for short term application only (2-3 weeks tops), before settling into a more reasonable diet. Unlike the crazy losses at the start of low carb diets which are just glycogen, this is legit fat loss.

The diet is designed for fitness models with unexpected photo shoots popping up in the next couple weeks and is very, very well proven (lots of guys use it for cutting between bulking cycles too).

Trying to do things the slow and steady way will probably not work for you. You should have started 1-2 months ago to lose that amount the sustainable way.

Jillian Micheal's 30 Day Shred DVD, on amazon for like $10, 20 minutes a day, everyday. In FOUR weeks you will fit into that dress! I lost 15 pounds doing that and minding what I eat.