Drop a wedding dress size in a month!
Look fantastic on your wedding day with Wedding Journal's amazing exclusive, 28-day wedding diet and exercise guide.
 Wedding Journal's exclusive 'Drop a Wedding Dress Size in a Month' plan is a healthy way to shed inches before your wedding day.
The low-sugar/carb, plan based on healthy foods such as wholegrain bread, oats, low-fat, protein (ham, chicken, roast beef, omega-rich salmon, nuts, eggs etc) fresh fruit, vegetables and salad, with dairy products and wholegrain pasta and rice in moderation, has been devised especially for you by nutrition expert, Suzanne Chalkley and fitness guru, Lynne Hanna.
Easy-to-make recipes, healthy snack suggestions and motivational tips and encouragement are combined with easy to follow exercises you can do in your own home to firm up those problematic areas of bum, tum, waist and especially important for brides... the arms.
MEET OUR WEDDING DIET AND FITNESS EXPERTS
 Suzanne Chalkley
Suzanne is a nutritional consultant for Health International NI and is a leading figure in the field of diet, health and nutrition.
Tel: 0845 8630487 (NI), 1890 740777 (ROI). www.healthinternationalni.com
 Lynne Hanna
Clarins General manager (NI) Lynne Hanna has always been passionate about fitness and sport. Starting off as swimmer, she then progressed to long distance and ultra-running (150 miles). She has also been a champion body builder and in 1999/2000 represented NI in the UK body building finals (in the Miss Figure Category where femininity is key).
Tel: 07764161718 for fitness training with Noel Hanna. www.7summits2sealevel.com
Look good feel better
One of the most common complaints that brides have as they prepare for their wedding day is that they are unhappy with their weight and body shape.
 Everyone knows that losing weight and excess body fat really can be a powerful boost to your self-confidence, helping you to feel more attractive, more energised, healthier and happier and looking stunning on your wedding day. But it is important that you lose weight in a healthy way. Not only will this ensure that you keep your weight off long-term, but also by having a proper balance of all the important nutrients this will help boost your immune system, helping you to manage stress and increase your energy levels – what is needed when planning a wedding.
One important point though is to be aware of all limiting thoughts, if you think you will fail, then guess what - you will! This healthy four-week programme will give you all the secrets to long-term weight loss success.
'Sugar is the new fat' and now armed with this 'Diet Secret' it will be easy for you to start changing your eating and lifestyle pattern so that you can start to look good and feel better about yourself but doing so safely, naturally and healthily.
The following 4-week 'Drop a Wedding Dress Size Plan' will help you lose inches, we want you to focus on fat loss and not to be fixated on what the scales say.
Simple tips to help you get started!
The key to success is enjoyment; commitment and moderation imagine how great you will feel when you drop a wedding dress size in just four weeks?
- A reduction in certain carbohydrate foods is recommended, in particular a focus on reducing all processed carbohydrates such as, white breads, crisps, rice, pasta, cakes, biscuits and pastry. These are all moderate to high GI foods, meaning they convert to sugar quickly once digested.
- It is recommended that in the first week you reduce your carbohydrate intake by no more than 50% (minimum intake 60g carbohydrate – equivalent to 12 teaspoons of sugar). For example if you eat 4 slices of bread in a day, cut this down to two to start with.
- Eat when you are hungry and not before. Look to your own body clock, not the one on the wall. Some people find it easier to eat little and often.
- Drink at least eight large glasses of water every day.
- Get the day off to a good start with a protein based breakfast. This encourages fat burning and due to the fulfilling nature of protein, it may prevent the desire for snacking mid morning.
- Clear out the fridge and cupboard of all the foods you should be avoiding!
- If you work, prepare snacks/lunches to take with you.
- Set time aside for exercise. It is an important part of your lifestyle change.
We have created this bespoke four-week Wedding Journal food plan to help you lose weight, body fat and inches both easily and effectively. The menu choices have been designed to fit in with your busy lifestyle. There is no need to be weighing food portions, counting endless calories or having to rely on tasteless low fat meal replacements.
LET'S GET STARTED WEDDING DIET: WEEK ONE
Day 1
Breakfast
- 1 boiled egg
- 1 slice of wholegrain toast with butter
Lunch
- Chicken and bacon salad*
- 1 kiwi fruit
Snack
Dinner
- Pan-fried salmon steak
- Sautee onions
- Steamed green beans, courgettes
- Cauliflower cheese
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 10
Day 2
Breakfast
- 30g bowl porridge (made with semi skimmed milk) served with 1 halved apricot
Lunch
- A bowl of vegetable broth
- 1 peach
- Snack
- 25g mixed nuts
Dinner
- Pan-fried chicken fillet, sliced onions and mushrooms served with steamed broccoli, cauliflower and courgette
- 30g bowl of strawberries and raspberries
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 12
Day 3
Breakfast
- 2 poached eggs
- 1 slice of wholegrain toast
Lunch
- Cold cooked meat salad (ham, chicken, roast beef)
- Lettuce, tomato, cucumber diced red onion served with dash of olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Snack
- 25g portion of brazil nuts
Dinner
- 2 slices of roast chicken served with steamed savoy cabbage, cauliflower with cheese sauce and asparagus spears
- 1 small roasted sweet potato
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 9
Day 4
Breakfast
- 1 bowl of no added sugar muesli with semi skimmed milk
Lunch
- Avocado and prawn salad
- 1 satsuma
Snack
- 1 45g pot of greek style yoghurt with 5 blackberries
Dinner
- Sirloin / fillet or minute steak with optional pepper sauce
- Sautéed onion and mushrooms
- Steamed green beans
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 10
Day 5
Breakfast
- 2 slices ham off the bone
- 1 slice wholegrain toast
- Half grilled tomato
Lunch
- Tinned tuna in sunflower oil served with diced red onion and 1 teaspoon mayonnaise
- Side salad with iceberg lettuce sliced cherry tomatoes, half a green apple diced with 50g of hard cheese cubed
- 1 slice of sesame ryevita
Snack
- 1 25g portion of red skinned peanuts
Dinner
- 2-egg Spanish omelette using cold cooked ham, onions, red and green peppers with 1 small diced cooked potato
- served with green side salad
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 8
Day 6
Breakfast
- 2 slices of grilled lean bacon, 2 slices of mozzarella cheese and 3 cherry tomatoes
Lunch
- 1 bowl of vegetable broth
- 1 slice of wheaten
Snack
- 1 sliced kiwi, 10 blackberries served with 2 tablespoon of Greek style yoghurt
Dinner
- Pan Fried peppered salmon fillet with avocado salsa *
- Roast vegetables – red pepper, onion and aubergine
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 8
Day 7
Breakfast
- 2 poached eggs on slice of toasted wheaten bread
Lunch
- Greek style salad with feta cheese
- 5 Brazil nuts and 4 almonds
Snack
- 1 oatcake or ryevita with slice of cheddar cheese
Dinner
- Roast pork fillet served with broccoli, cauliflower and snow peas.
- 1 roast sweet potato
- 1 teaspoon apple sauce
- Approx total teaspoons sugar – 11
NEXT WEEK WE WILL BRING YOU THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS OF YOUR WEDDING DIET AND A UNIQUE PRE-WEDDING EXERCISE PLAN.
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