Motivation

I am a Bride to be who is getting married in May of 2008. I would love to have a support group of women in the same boat as me trying to lose weight and tone up for the big day! Lets motivate each other so we can look and feel great for our weddings! (not to mention the honeymoon!!!)

I'm a bride to be thats getting married in Nov 2007, I've been loosing weight since christmas and am still go another 1 st 10lb to go with a lot of tonning to go since I has lost 76lb so far.

You are doing so great! What have you been doing to lose the weight? What is your typical diet?

June 2008! Woo hooooo :)

I'm on the 1200 calorie diet. I've lost almost 120 pounds so far, and I'm still lookin to lose 35 more, maybe even 45 since I have a year to go... Exciting!

What are your heights/goal weights? I am 5'9" and currently weighing 168, I would like to be 145-150 by my wedding.

I'm 5ft 6", and weigh 142lbs I'm wanting to get down to 118lb.

I eat about 1400-1200 cals per day except saturdays where I go out guilt free for a meal.

I'm trying to eat alot more fruit and veg, fish, poultry, low fat sweets. I'm not a big alcohol drinker.

Been going to the gym 3x a week, and do step classes 2x per week.

kookiesangels: It sounds like we have almost the same amount of weight to lose until our goal. It would be nice to track your progress to keep me motivated!

x17star17x: Your pictures are incredible and SO motivating! I will definitely keep track of you as well!

Would you girls like to buddy up to help keep the motivation going? It would be fun to do since we are all getting married fairly close to the same time and don't have that much of a difference in how much we want to lose.

DO it. We should all be friends :)

Anyone have their wedding dress picked out? I have an idea of the one that I want, but since I still have pounds to drop, I cant go and order it.

Have you guys ordered your dress?

I just bought my dress on Monday. I made sure that they can take it in with the weightloss. It can go down 2 whole sizes so I should be just fine. I found the dress a few months ago and have been having bad dreams that they discontinued the style. I had to buy it so my mind would be at ease. You can look at the pic in my profile!

I dont see a pic in your profile....

Did you set a primary one?

I have a feeling they will discontinue mine too, but ohhhh well I guess.

I still have more than 2 sizes that I want to lose before I get married. :)  I am having a real problem tho. My wedding is in June, and I want to wear a "jacket" because I am not comfortable with my arms. Um.. Did I mention the wedding is in Arizona? It's going to be HOT!

I just uploaded the picture so maybe it takes a while to show up?

I bought the buff brides video to help tone up and love it! It is a 46 minute workout and you really feel it!!! It is a cross between cardio and strength training. It came with an exercise band that is incorporated into the workout and is pretty cool. I love how they do the crunches and squats with it.

Wow what a beauty. Aw such a cute little family too :)

Problem is, Ive weighed nearly 300 pounds, and I'm going to weigh 140 (in 37 more pounds) so  skin is an issue. I cant stand it. Always gotta cover no matter what the temprature :)

Thanks...those are my men! My fiance is a firefighter and is currently in Lake Tahoe fighting the fires. I miss him!!!

David's bridal can be a pain but they have a sleeve option on all of their dresses now. You can go to the website and look at their options and play around with them. Have you though about an off the shoulder dress to have the sleeves on the upper arm but still showing the shoulders?

This is really strange but I have the same dress as you tootsiegirl579, is yours in silver sequence? I got mine in the begining of March it was too small for me, I like the fact you can adjust the corset at the back so depending on weight and bust size everything looks great.

Your family are lovely, I need to upload some photos of myself.

I'm 29 and will be 30 in september this year, also I live in the uk and the weather rains all year round.

my fiance has been working away since Feb to pay for the wedding, I miss him too so know what your going through

My dress has silver and pink embelishments that run down the front and back. It doesn't lace up though...that would have been nice!

I am 27 unless you ask my son. He tells everyone I am 21...I love that kid! LOL I live in Northern California so it is pretty warm all the time with a lot of sunshine.

Depending on the fire my fiance can be gone up to 21 days. It has only been 3 days so far and I can't wait to see him. I guess that is a good thing that I miss him...= )

Right checked my weight 140lbs, not holding much breath staying this weight as tomorrow is my gradution day at uni and i'm planning on having a big steak and chips, also going away at the weekend with fiance Chris to a music festival I know all they sell is cheese burgers and chips and beer,

Hey girls,
I'm getting married this October. I just got my dress two days ago - I'm wearing a red bridemaid's dress, actually. Our wedding is going to be outside in a park, and we're decorating everything in fall colors. We're going to buy some silk flowers and leaves tomorrow.

As for losing weight, I've gotten started, but I'm obviously not going to be skinny by my wedding. It's a great motivator, but I just want to lose the weight for life in general. I'm around 253 lbs right now, down from about 280 last fall. I don't have a specific number expect to lose by the wedding, but anything is better than now!

I did get my dress is a size 20, though, which I am very happy about. When I went in to first try them on, I asked for size 24, and it was huge. Then I tried size 22, and it was just a little big. When I came back a month later and tried size 20, it was perfect, but I am still losing weight and will have to get it altered.

My mom jokingly says to me "Stop losing weight!" Because she's worried about having enough time to get it altered. ;-)
Edit: Just for fun, have any of you tried the David's Bridal "Dress Your Wedding" program? It's pretty fun. Here's mine!

I have tried the David's Bridal dress your wedding. It was a lot of fun to see how it came together. Fall colors sound fun and a red dress is realy cool! I am sure it will turn out great!

awww I want my dress! Heck I want my ringgggg O.o

Right now I am in a size womens 10 - 169 pounds.

After losing 30 more, what size do you think I'll be at?

I wanna get my dress but cant until I know it will fit properly. Time ticks to fast for several alterations. Plus it's costly.

Where is everyone getting married?!

I just found this thread.... getting married September 22............11 weeks from this Saturday.  I have lost 10lbs so far, and need to lose about 17 more.... I know it seems to be excessive... so I will settle with 11 (a pound a week)  These last few weeks have been crazy... and my dress was supposed to be in around May, called and they told me JULY>...... HELLO?????!! It's July..... I am starting to get worried.  Just ordered the invitations..... talked with the minister.... now I need to look at some flowers.

Stats right now  5'3", 138 lbs. (since my 10 lb loss) wear a 10 (or thereabouts)

I have been staying at about 1300 calories and doing TONS of cardio... seems to be working... if I can stop having stupid cheat days like today  :(

tootsiegirl579

I tried that dress on and loved it!!!

shoeofkuribo

a red dress?  You are my hero!