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How to Reach Your Bride Weight Even During the Holidays

OWD — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:43:50 -0500

We've talked before about how, for many of us, dieting is part of wedding planning. And we've discussed how that wedding diet can be extra difficult during the holiday season. But many of you were still struggling, so we've just posted a new article: Holidays Vs. Your Wedding Diet.

As you carefully watch what you eat to make sure you look great in your wedding dress, there might be one event you didn’t factor in-the holidays. The average person gains two pounds over the season (it’s not uncommon to gain 5-7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Years), and for the girl who’s already watching every morsel, it could be the wickedest time of year. Check out the full article here for a few jolly tips to keep you healthy, happy, and fit.

The Holidays Vs. Your Wedding Diet

OWD — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:30:24 -0500

For many of us, wedding planning includes dieting. At OurWeddingDay.com we encourage making healthy, reasonable adjustments to your eating and exercising habits, rather than trusting fad or crash diets to help you reach your goal weight. However, around this time of year, what is "reasonable" becomes tricky.

Holiday meals are notoriously heavy, with lots of sweets, carbs and liquor, resulting in a 5-7 pound weight gain between Thanksgiving and New Years for many people! So what's a bride-to-be to do?

Check out Dr. M.J. Wegmann's article, 4 Ways To Avoid The "Holiday Weight Gain" for a little guidance. Of course it ultimately comes down to willpower, but Wegmann outlines some common sense ways to truly enjoy holiday fare without going off the rails!

Check out the full article here.

Peggy Olson Got Married!

OWD — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:33:58 -0400

Ivanka who?

Only a couple weeks after we told you about stunning Christina ("Joan") Henricks' wedding, her Mad Men co-star Elisabeth ("Peggy Olson") Moss ties the knot! (Check out Joan's wedding diet here.)

This morning on The View it was announced that Elisabeth Moss and Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen got married on Sunday, October 25.

Congratulations Elisabeth & Armisen!

The Cookie Diet

OWD — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:56:20 -0400

Because for many brides-to-be, the "wedding diet" is a part of the wedding planning process, we've discussed crazy sounding diets before... but The Cookie Diet just won't go away.

The Cookie Diet, in which you live off 1 small meal and 6 cookies a day, has already won itself celebrity fans, imitators and a recent write up in The New York Times:

"The Cookie Diet is very appealing, because it legalizes a food - the cookie - that is banned from most weight-loss programs," said Jenni Schaefer, author of "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover From Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life" (McGraw-Hill, 2009).

"The diet gives people a false sense of control, simplifying balanced nutrition into one food: the cookie," she added, however "[T]here are no clinical studies on any of the diets and that a key ingredient in Dr. Siegal's cookies - special amino acids, which supposedly curb appetite - is known only to Dr. Siegal and his wife.

"It's the particular mixture of proteins that does the job," Dr. Siegal said. "All foods do not handle hunger the same way, and high protein foods curb hunger." The cookies, he said, contain protein derived from meat, eggs, milk and other sources. They also contain microcrystalline cellulose - a plant fiber that acts as a bulking agent, emulsifier and thickener - and are sweetened with sugar."

Will you be trying The Cookie Diet?

The Mad Men Wedding Diet

OWD — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:42:48 -0400

Christina Hendricks is engaged, just like her character, saucy secretary 'Joan' is on Mad Men. And like many brides-to-be, she's dieting in preparation for her big day. But her co-star January Jones (aka "Betty Draper") hopes she doesn't go too far. She tells People, "I think she looks beautiful. Her body is amazing. My only advice is to not go too far, because if she loses her curves it will be a very sad day."

We totally agree! And considering the tribute video to Joan's curves above, it seems a lot of people agree!

And it seems a lot of love is in the air at Mad Men. Another of Christina & January's co-stars is also engaged: Elisabeth Moss ("Peggy") will soon marry Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen!

Congratulation to them all!

The Cookie Diet, and Other Nonsense

OWD — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:16:53 -0400

For many of us, part of the wedding planning process is dieting. Although eating healthier and exercising is always a good idea, the wedding diet ritual sadly tends to be more of the fanatical, stressed out, unhealthy, punishing variety of diet. It's bad news all around: It's no fun and it often doesn't work.

So as a reminder to trust your, uh, gut when you hear about some loony fad that promises to make weight loss effortless, check out Elle's fun guide to the worst weight loss plans ever.

That's right, The Cookie Diet sounds wrong for a reason: It's stupid. So laugh at the insanity of these thankfully forgotten fads, and remember to live well if you want to look well on your big day!