Bridal diet/ exercise plan?

I've been working out 3 to 4 times a week, an hour each session (focusing on cardio some days, and weights other days).

I've been minimizing my carb intake. I try to avoid white breads, pastas, and desserts.

If you minimize your calorie and sugar intake, along with at least 30 minutes of exercising for 3 to 4 times a week, I promise you that you'll see results.

If your wedding is in March, it's not necessarily a bad thing to start implementing healthier choices and daily activity a year in advance. It also depends on when you go dress shopping. If you're losing a significant amount of weight, I would wait to go dress shopping later on.

Also, SQUATS ARE YOUR FRIEND.

The most success I've ever had was with Weight Watchers. I've done lots of crazy-pants diets, cleanses and "jumpstart" weekends. WW is sane. It's not a magical diet, it's nothing you don't already know. The magic is in the meetings. Showing up at the same meeting every week gives you some accountability.

Start now and do Weight Watchers. Its so easy and its a slow weight loss so its sustainable.

Start now.

Start with small changes, don't try and do everything at once. Consider talking to your doctor or seeing a nutritionist to get on a healthy, long term plan. 25-30 pounds is a big and difficult commitment. You can do it, but it will take a sustained effort over time. Also consider a few sessions with a personal trainer to help get you on the right track. The key is to build muscle while losing fat.

Know your weaknesses and triggers and plan around them. If you always come home from work and sit on the couch and snack, try going straight from work to the gym with a healthy snack in your bag. If you are an early morning person, try fitting in 30 minutes before work. If you tend to over indulge in fast food, spend some time on the weekend grocery shopping and meal prepping so you have healthy and fast to make food ready at home.

If you need to be held accountable, find a buddy. If you like following externally imposed rules or guidelines, try a program like 21 day fix, beachbody, or weight watchers. Don't bother with 'fast' or very restrictive diets- you will crash and burn. Focus on setting yourself up for a lifetime of healthy habits rather than just short term weight loss.

Expect to plateau, that's normal and a signal that you need to make another change.

I’ve lost about 15lbs this year so far, here’s what I did!
4xs a week: swimming laps for an hour, then pilates for a half hour with alternating muscle group focus (Monday is abs/obliques, Tuesday legs/glutes, etc)
1-2xs a week: ultimate frisbee for 2hrs

Diet:
Breakfast: Black coffee and something small
Lunch: Boiled egg whites or a slimfast
Dinner: Prepared meals delivered weekly from a local company all under 400calories.
NO alcohol. This is due more to a health issue than trying to lose weight, but goodness have I noticed a difference.
Saturday dinner I cheat a bit and allow myself a little more wiggle room.

Hope this helps!

• Drink half your weight in ounces of water per day
• Cut out junk food, sweet, alcohol, soda, starchy foods
• Eat lots of meals with whole food - green veggies, not green veggies, lean proteins, and fruit
• Cook more instead of going out to eat
• Don’t focus on the junk food you’re not having, think about all the yummy recipes you can try or come up with
• Look at Pinterest for easy healthy meal ideas. I just got a spiralizer and I’m obsessed with it. My husband and I will have zoodles with a homemade sauce and extra veggies on top at least once a week. I make taco salads and low carb wraps which are also really easy. We also usually rotate simple protein, starch, and veggie meals.
• don’t completely restrict yourself. Have a small treat once or twice a week or have a “cheat meal” or two on the weekend. You don’t want to make yourself miserable!
• Exercise at least every other day for at least 30-60 minutes. Maybe start with 30 and slowly increase your length of exercise. I’m currently at 90 minutes.
• Do a balance between cardio and weights. Raising your cardio endurance is great and you’ll burn more fat as you lift weights
• Find a workout buddy who can help keep you accountable
• I naturally pack more muscle so I have a larger than normal booty. For toning it and growing it, I follow Kaylee Ullom and Megan Grubb on Instagram. They both always post workout videos to their accounts and I will just save them and copy them in the gym

View Quoted Comment Please don’t follow this diet. This is not enough nutrition, especially for someone exercising regularly.

Obvious diet tips include cutting out sugar and alcohol, eating more veggies and lean meats. I follow low carb because it allows me to keep my calories low without counting calories for every little thing I eat. Even when I indulge in a fatty salad dressing, I rarely go over 14-1500 calories for the day. Fat and protein are filling. Also make sure you’re getting enough fiber.

For workout, focus on anerobic exercise (weightlifting) while mixing in a little cardio. Muscle burns more calories than fat so building up your muscle helps you lose fat more quickly. However, don’t worry about numbers so much because muscle weighs more than fat. Classes are great if you can afford them. I love spin, cardio kickboxing, and yoga. Look up exercises online for any areas you specially want to target.

And make ale sure you’re getting enough water and enough sleep! Being overtired really inhibits weight loss.

You our only need to lose about two pounds per month, or half a pound a week to reach your goal, you can do it!

View Quoted Comment Just jumping back onto this thread to agree with PP - do not follow this diet.

This is not sustainable, healthy living.

This is is not enough nutrition for someone who exercises regularly.

Not going to post another novel because I already did on here but just here to reiterate, there are better, healthier ways to eat clean, cheat a little, and not deprive yourself of necessary nutrition.

To those who said it's not a healthy diet, it was approved by my nutritionist- my dinners are loaded with all kinds of great stuff. I hate the taste, but I'm a super picky eater. I can't do the whole veggie packed thing (won't touch a salad), so my nutritionist and I came up with something I could actually eat. It's not for everyone, but it is an alternative to people who would rather shoot themselves in the leg than eat too much green.

View Quoted Comment Yes but you’re talking to a nutritionist and you said it’s for your personal health issues. And it sounds like you’ve been following it for a while with your routine.

You shouldn’t be recommending it to anyone, especially someone just venturing into a healthy lifestyle. For someone who’s just about it to start increasing her physical activity, jumping immediately into a diet that restrictive can lead to fatigue, exhaustion, fainting, etc.

For a average, active person who can eat vegetables and does not have any health issues, that is not a sustainable diet. I run and lift weights five times a week for at least 60-90 minutes, I would pass out if I followed your diet for a day.

Not trying to rag on your personal health, I know you can’t really help it and you’re just following your nutritionist, but diet plans created specifically to help or treat a specific health issue are usually not meant for the general public.

I have lost around 11 pounds since the end of December on Weight Watchers! Its not fast but it is very maintainable. I still go out with friends and have fun at food related events! It is so livable and something I can do for the rest of my life. I have decided I am not going to do anything to lose weight I can't keep up with for the rest of my life. I am also working out at the gym 3x a week. I am working on building my cardiovascular endurance now, and I will start adding more weights in March. I am Feb 2019 wedding and I want to lose 32 more pounds. I would love to make it to goal by then, but I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't happen!

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The only health-issue related part of that diet was the no alcohol part. The rest of it is straight up because I'm so picky and trying to lose weight. I've had this routine since the beginning of last month. It's fair to point out that it's not for everyone, but to the same point, everyone is different and needs different amount of sustenance for different levels of exertion. I, personally, don't need much to exercise a lot. OP may be similar, or she may need quadruple, it just depends on her body.

View Quoted Comment You didn’t specify what your “small thing” is in the morning, but you’re living on less than 1000 calories a day based on what you wrote. And if you’re 100 lbs, maybe that works for you, but it is generally not advised to eat less than 1200 calories per day. Also there is zero nutrition in egg whites so I’m confused as to why this would be recommended by your nutritionist when egg yolks are one of the healthiest things you can eat.

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Typically a parfait or eggs (whites and yolks) or something of the sort, depends on how early I get up. I also have a protein shake after the gym. I'm 154lbs. I usually clock in around 1200 calories- sometimes more on the days I have a cheat meal or I'm doing a LOT of cardio like ultimate frisbee.

I've been trying to cut out junk food and eat more veggies and lean protein but I also do a combination of HIIT and pilates 6 days a week for 30-60 minutes depending on how I feel and I do 100 squats a day (without weights for now but I plan to work my way up to adding weights). It's not much, but it gets me moving and sweating (plus my ten minute walk to and from work each day) so it works for me. Any weight loss that is going to be sustainable is going to take time. That being said, if you drink a ton of pop and then suddenly cut it out and replace it with water, you could see a pretty quick difference. But if you already eat relatively well and start moving then you'll definitely feel a difference within a week and see one within a few weeks.

Low carb and intermittent fasting is the best way to go! Look up the Keto diet! lost 40 pounds and have kept it off for a year!