Wedding Weight Loss Buddies

I'm not losing weight for a wedding but a holiday in August:-) and want to lose about the same as you:-) please add me and we can help each other:

I just got married in January, but my husband deployed a few weeks later, so we haven't been able to spend much time together since. However, toward the end of the year he'll be coming home and we're going to Disneyland, and I'd like to be able to be about 30-35lb less by then!

If you're interested, I moderate at bride-to-be support group (I started it last summer when I got engaged; I'm getting married end of July): http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/107053-bride-to-be-support-group

40-45 in 5-6 months is pretty aggressive unless your total weight loss goals are 100-150lbs. You might make it, but you may be more likely to relapse after the wedding and gain a lot back. If you only need to lose ~50 to get to ultimate goal weight, ~1lb/week is probably the most aggressive you want to be and once you're in the last 15-20 it will come off more slowly. @Kgrace1114, 20lbs in about 6-7 months sounds more feasible. Keep in mind you will probably need to maintain the last month or so since you'll do a final dress fitting and won't want your body to change too much between that and the big day (if you have a dress with a lace up back, it allows a little more flexibility for gain or loss between final fitting and wedding day).

Do what you can for your weight loss and forgive yourself when things slide (it happens and you want to be able to enjoy the menu and cake testings!). Planning a wedding is stressful enough, don't let yourself get so focused on your weight that you can't enjoy the process. The other thing to think about (especially when the focus is a wedding and the dress and all the pictures) is whether the most important thing is the number on the scale or how you look. If you really are more concerned with a flatter tummy and toned arms and awesome butt, then you probably want to do more strength training activities than just cardio. You might not lose as many pounds, but you'll lose inches, which may matter more for pictures that won't include your scale.

Don't let the wedding become your ONLY motivation for losing (that contributes to the rebound I mentioned earlier); you restrict all the things you love to lose all this weight "for the wedding", then after the wedding, you reward yourself by enjoying it all again or just lose motivation to keep working because what you were working towards is done and you put a lot of the weight come back. Have goals for the wedding, but also goals for beyond the wedding.

Congrats on your upcoming nuptials. Feel free to check out the support group and/or friend/message me.

I'm getting married in Oct 2016 as well!
I lost 220lbs almost 8yrs ago but since meeting my hubby to be in 2014, 24lb has crept back on.
After xmas I had a shot at losing but lost motivation pretty quickly.
With only 6 months to go, I'm feeling pretty determined (currently my summer clothes don't fit either so I need to do something!).
I'm not a fan of exercise but I bought a bike and I've found it a fun way to burn some extra calories