Help me get ready for my wedding!! Need to lose 30 lbs

Have you entered your stats and goals into MFP and gotten a calorie goal?

I won't lie, 30 lbs is hard, the first 15 will be fast though and you will feel amazing once you've done it! I'm the same age, I got married this year so if you want extra help feel free to add me I dropped a similar weight!

sunandmoons wrote: »

dmac112988 wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your advice and input I really appreciate i slack sometimes i won't lie because of my work schedule but I feel like if I don't start now I won't ever so I have to do this

You don't have time to slack if you only have 4 months to lose 30 pounds. Buy a food scale. Weigh everything you consume, log it. Stay within your caloric goal. 95 % of loss is what you consume. Tighten up and remember your goal.

Everytime you think about slacking, think about you in your wedding dress or tux.

Great advice there^^^

Keep in mind that your wedding is just one day, and it will be attended by people who love you for who you are, not what you look like.

Your health is for life, so do all the above to learn healthy habits to keep you at a healthy weight for life.

Learning to live within your calorie limit by eating the foods you love in moderation will help you to lose weight, AND will teach you how to maintain a healthy weight afterwards.

Don't be like so many brides and me, and pig out after the wedding and put it all back on!

jolenegrew wrote: »

I am in a similiar position. I am getting married in in june I started 18 months ago to lose weight when wedding was booked and so far I hve lost most of it. I have now plateau and want to lose the let 6-7lbs I workout between 2-4 nights a week but still no joy any advice

Log and weigh everything you eat accurately.

Don't expect to lose more than 2 lbs a month.

A lot of this loss will be hidden by hormonal water fluctuations so don't worry if the scale doesn't go down every week.

bdorri00 wrote: »

I'm wanting to lose about 30-35 lbs before my wedding in June as well. That gives me a little more time but I would like to get there more quickly if possible and not have to stress about it as we prepare for the wedding.

Just wanted to say, getting there 'quickly' is usually a very bad idea if you want to keep that weight off/lose healthily. It's important to lose at a healthy rate so that you dont lose lean body mass- if you lose weight too fast you risk losing muscle as well (any weight loss will mean losing muscle, but if you lose too fast you risk losing more).

Also those that set sustainable habits (ie. not crash dieting, and making changes that they'll stick to) are much more likely to keep the weight off in the future. Not to mention to lose 'quickly' you often have to put yourself into dangerous deficits, which along with losing LBM can lead to all sorts of other health issues. Just something to consider

ETA: 35 lbs before June is do-able though. 35lbs in 7 months equates to about 5lbs a month, which should be easy enough at the start (although will be slower the closer you get to your goal). Good luck!