SubscribeBrideorexia: Thin For a Day
The wedding and weight loss industry is a match made in heaven.
According to Newsweek the cost of the average American wedding is now approaching $30,000. It seems that part of that package is weight loss - no matter what the cost.
Sure, every bride wants to look beautiful on her wedding day - but is there is a serious case of denial going on here? Does a culture of bridezillas mean anything goes?
A recent study in Appetite found that 70% of engaged women were trying to lose more than 20 pounds for their wedding day. While most tried to eat right and get exercising, more than 20% of the women chose extreme methods: starvation and fasting, liquid diets, laxative abuse. Some of the women even took up smoking and tried vomiting after meals.
Some women would order a dress a few sizes to small - so that, somehow, this would inspire them it be the "right" size on the day.
The reality is - there is life after the wedding day - and what happens then?
Have you embarked on a rapid weight loss regime in order to "look good" on your wedding day? What about men? Does the bridegroom care about his weight on the big day?
No, while I did try to eat reasonably healthy and get a little exercise, actually, I did not strive for weight loss before my wedding day.
One, I wasn't having a large wedding... cost, under $700, LOL!
Two, I was getting married about a month after making a long cross-country move from CA to ND. There was a lot of stress and stuff going on and I knew I didn't have the time or the energy to concentrate on healthy weight loss effort. I sure as heck wasn't going to take an unhealthy route. That backfires.
As you say, life does goes on after the wedding!
My husband knew I was fat when he proposed... I think on the whole, he preferred his overweight, but relatively healthy bride to a bingeing, purging, laxative/toilet sitting smoker!
ReplyWell now - when my cousin got married, he married a tall, thin, Dutch girl - so you can imagine what she looked like. My cousin is a typical Kiwi bloke, short, stocky, muscular, and carrying a little bit of baby fat around his arms, belly and under his chin. He probably carries about 15 pounds more than he "should". HE went on Jenny Craig 2 months before his wedding - the bride did nothing. He lost the weight, looks "good" in the photos, and now he's right back at his normal weight, looking like my cousin again. Funny thing is, the tall, thin, angular Dutchwoman put on wieght after the wedding right along side her husband - personally I think it's a sign that she's happy.
So - uh - long story short (TOO LATE, TOO LATE!!) yes, men feel the pressure too.
Reply$30,000? Man. I am S-O glad I am not married.
/loves being single.
Replywell obviously you *don't* have to spend 30 grand to get married Keith... and I personally wouldn't want to marry someone who wanted to spend that much on a wedding (unless they're a billionaire LOL)... much more important things to spend that money on - like the new life together, the mortgage, etc
ReplyI did nothing to lose or maintain while preparing for my wedding, and we planned ours in a short time frame, like 3 months! It was also a very small wedding, and not the first for either of us. (The first time for me I was pregnant, so not exactly doing anything to lose weight.)
I think I looked great on our wedding day, and have no regrets. I did tan some, which I probably shouldn't have, but haven't been in a tanning bed since (and will never go again).
We maybe spent $5,000 on our wedding, including travel, a separate reception, and everything. We didn't keep track.
The funny thing is we got married 6 years ago, we've had two kids since then, and I probably weigh 10 pounds *less* than I did on our wedding day! Not that it matters at all to my husband, but I have much healthier habits now.
And my husband probably weighs exactly the same.
ReplyYes, I too have heard of a bride-to-be who bought her dress two sizes too small, 6 months prior to the wedding.
Us women put so much pressure on ourselves to look "perfect" our our wedding day, and rather than it being a wonderful experience, it's totally ruined by stress.
ReplyWell, I guess I got lucky in the sense that I got married really really young so I still had my youth figure and didnt need to go on any diets before getting married. Funny thing is.. my husband has gained about 100 lbs since our marriage but we are happy and going on our 13th year. Cheers to that..
ReplyYou're ok with his 100lb beer belly?
ReplyShe loves him, weight does not factor there. How shallow would that be? Anyhow, you can't make someone lose weight. They have to decide to for themselves.
I would like my husband to lose weight (~100 lb) for his health, and I encourage him, make healthy meals, and offer to help in any way. But it's his choice, and I can't control that. I'm not going to love him any less because of a little weight -- he's still intelligent, funny, kind, and wonderful.
Reply100lbs is just a "little overweight". My god woman, you're so delusional it's scary.
ReplyFitness Fanatic, Of course it would be nice if he could lose some of his weight but there are more good qualities about him that keep me attracted to him. Sometimes I do feel worried that something bad might happen to his health, but like the other Heather said, I didnt only marry him for his looks. We married to death to us part and I intend on keeping that promise. Good people come in all shapes and sizes.
ReplySo you don't view gaining 100lbs as a betrayal of marriage vows?
ReplyHeathers, I think you might have to number yourselves. I got very confused reading that.
Fitness Fanatic, I don't know what wedding vows you're thinking of, but "For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, but I get to leave if you get fat" didn't come up in mine.
ReplyI'd view 100lb weight gain as an outright betrayal.
ReplyThat just says that looks (and probably also health but mostly looks) are very important to you. They're not, however, as important to many other people. What you'd view as a betrayal, they may view as a simple fact of life. And there are perhaps things they'd view as a betrayal that you'd see as just a benign change in a person.
People in marriages change in myriad ways. If you can't accept that from the get-go, it's best not to get hitched.
ReplyI'm slightly paranoid about what would happen if I gained a huge amount of weight, but my husband does insist that he would love me whether I weighed 110 lbs or 310 lbs. Since we got married, he's put on about 20 lbs or so and he's gotten a little balder. I tell him that I would like him to lose a bit of weight and start strength training for his health, but I'd never leave him over something like gaining a bit of weight. To me, that's an incredibly shallow thing to build a lifelong relationship on.
ReplyOh, see you just missed that Fat is an exception. In sickness and in health until death or fat do you part... In fact, don't the courts give you everything if you can just turn to your spouse and say, come'n look at that excess weight?
Marriage isn't permanent, right?
Reply*rolls eyes*
Also, I've never actually witnessed a marriage rite with vows that said anything about not gaining any weight or remaining physically the same over the years, so I'm curious to know what culture or faith you come from.
I'm not trying to snark -- I'm just genuinely curious. Most of the vows I'm familiar with account for the fact that the bride and groom (or whatever you're into) will change over time...mentally, emotionally, AND physically.
ReplyYep. I think that's exactly the intent of wedding vows - to point out that people's health, wealth, and lives in general will change over time, and that you're supposed to be in it for the long haul.
My husband and I have both gained some weight at times in the past 19 years. I lost most of it, he hasn't. We've also got more money than we did then. He still has all his hair. His is grey, mine isn't, thanks to hair color. I've had more health issues than him. It's all pretty superficial stuff though and has nothing to do with why I married him or why we stay married. Change happens, so marriage isn't for the weak of heart - or the superficial. All the superficial folks I know were divorced long ago.
ReplyYou don't have to spend 30K on a wedding. Ours was relatively small, we had the nicest restaurant in our city cater, and it was less than 15K.
I did try to lose weight before my wedding - but the stress took its toll and I ended up maintaining. After the wedding, weight came off almost effortlessly. Perhaps from the reduction in stress, cortisol, all that? I still think I look great in my pictures but I wish I'd enjoyed the time leading up to it more instead of worrying that I needed to be the perfect weight.
ReplyGeez, 30 grand on a wedding? That's pretty insane. I think we spent a total of maybe 6000 on ours. I definitely didn't order my dress a size smaller, but I did do a lot more strength training the few months before my wedding (I was only engaged about 7 months, so I didn't exactly have a lot of time to lose weight even if I'd wanted to). I wanted to be sure my back looked good in pictures because my dress emphasized that area a lot, so I did hit the gym more. I think I maybe lost a grand total of 5 lbs before my wedding, but I also had Spanx and a corset under my dress, which made it fit a LOT looser actually.
I did have a coworker who got engaged the same time I did and she bought a $5000 dress in a size that was 3 sizes smaller than her current size. She couldn't even try the thing ON! She figured that would be some pretty good motivation, but I think I would be so afraid of not fitting into it on the big day. I look at it this way: My husband proposed to me with the body I had then, so he must think it's fine or he wouldn't have asked me to marry him.
I think what made me feel the most beautiful on my wedding day wasn't even my dress anyway; it was my gorgeous hair. My stylist did my hair SO perfectly and it stayed gorgeous all day and I just felt so glam. The dress was kind of a secondary thing, lol.
ReplyFor the people commenting on the 30K figure... it depends on where you live. I got married last fall on Long Island. Yes we used a catering hall and yes we splurged on fancy invitations, but we didn't invite 300 people, have ice sculptures or sushi, or even a videographer, and our bills came out to probably just under 30K. That's not even including the honeymoon!
Now back to the point... I wanted to lose 15 lbs for my wedding. I was engaged for close to two years, and I didn't lose an ounce. Luckily I was realistic and ordered a dress that fit at the time and would just have had it taken in if needed. People told me not to worry, "all brides lose weight" from the stress, which is a total lie! But I still looked great on my day so I don't mind that I wasn't successful at the weight loss.
ReplyThanks for your comment Sara. I'm getting married on Long Island this summer and my wedding is also going to come in right around $30k. I'm not planning anything outrageous, just the same wedding you'd go to elsewhere in the country. It costs twice as much because of the NYC prices.
ReplyHaving recently just spent 20k organising the perfect wedding, i really wanted to look good on the day, I bought a dress that was 2 sizes too small thinking that was going to lose some weight. One month before the wedding i started on a diet but couldnt lose enough, luckily i found a diet called the cabbage soup diet this is a diet that is not very healthy for you but is great if you want to lose weight fast.
ReplyEverything worked out and i had the perfect wedding.
I didn't... but then again, I spent less than $400 on my wedding (Jan 2008 - Atlanta)-- wedding, dress, shoes, meal, pictures. I couldn't see spending that much money on one day -- we had a life to get started! That could be used on a downpayment on a house! With the percentage of divorces where money problems play a role, the amount spent on weddings is sickening.
But if you pay cash for it (debt is stupid, period) then I guess that an expensive wedding is your choice and good for you.
ReplyI always tell my readers NOT to diet. Sure, it's a fine idea to hydrate and eat whole, healthy foods during the engagement period, but for the purpose of getting glowing clear skin, not to shed the pounds.
After all, when Mr. Right proposed, you were probably about the size you are now, give or take a few pounds. If he loved you and thought you were beautiful at that size, what exactly is the point of losing a bunch of weight before the wedding?
Buying a dress that's too small is just plain silly. What happens if you don't meet your weight loss goals?
Reply"Buying a dress that's too small is just plain silly. What happens if you don't meet your weight loss goals?"
eBay :-)
ReplyGood point, Dr. J. Same thing for broken engagements...you can sell that ring online too! The only problem is: good luck finding a new dress the week before your wedding when you realize your dream dress doesn't zip up in the back.
ReplyThis size acceptance stuff is making me nauseous. Do people have any pride in how they look anymore? Are globs of fat spilling everywhere a good thing now?
ReplyHave you been ill recently, Fanatic? You have make so little contribution to intelligent conversation these days, one can only assume that some health issue has clouded your mind.
ReplySpeaking of ill.. 'you have make'? Let's try that with a 'd' instead of a 'k'.
ReplyShe's right. You're usually endearingly cantankerous. Lately you've been just plain nasty.
ReplyI'm just getting a bit pissed off with all the fat acceptance b-s going around right now. It's just laziness, slothfulness, gluttony acceptance if you ask me. I was disgusted with my own violations of those sins, and I decided to do something about it. So I have no tolerance for those that flaunt their fat and tell me that I'm shallow for wanting to marry a fit woman.
ReplySo, because you feel you were a lazy, gluttonous sloth, anyone who has yet to be able to lose the weight and get themselves fit suffers the same problem? I understand that the ideas of the fat acceptance movement are at odds with your beliefs - but have you no empathy or compassion? The data clearly points out that losing weight and keeping it off is difficult - not impossible, but very difficult - for the majority of people.
Society doesn't need to accept that obese is a normal state, but without compassion and empathy toward those who are still obese, all that happens with disdain is them giving up rather than keep trying. Add to this, the very guidelines the obese are often given does little in the long-term to actually enable long-term weight loss - especially in those who are insulin resistant....better guidelines, based on hard-data would go a long way in making progress - but that's not happening any time soon.
ReplyI'm not getting married for at least a year and a half. I'm still 25 pounds overweight. My boyfriend doesn't care what I look like, but it would be nice to look good in dresses after those 25 pounds are gone that I wouldn't look good in now. I won't go to extremes, though, just normal diet and exercise. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't. Josh has already seen me naked so it's not like I have some sort of pressure to look extra good on my wedding night. ;P
ReplyYes, I lost weight for my wedding. I did it healthily though. I worked out and watched what I ate and lost 30 pounds. I started gaining it all back the next day. I ate like a mad woman on my honeymoon. I ended up gaining that 30 pounds plus 10 more back six months after my wedding. i stayed at that weight for year before I decided to lose weight again for the right reasons. Now I've lost that 40 pounds plus ten. And on another note, it turns out my husband was screwing another woman at the time of our wedding. So we are now in the process of divorce.
ReplyThat's really sad. I hope it's a little consolation that I bet you look really hot now :)
ReplyI hope you take the positive and keep the weight off. It'll be your best revenge to stay fit.
ReplyFitness Fanatic, the size acceptance movement bothers the hell out of me, too. People should look after their bodies and their appearance. If your spouse gains a lot of weight, you may lose respect for that person for letting themselves go. For that reason, it may be difficult to stay married to them.
ReplyExactly! Finally one person who doesn't think I'm insane for holding that belief! Gaining a huge amount of weight contrary to the wishes of your spouse is just as much a betrayal as adultery. I'm not even buying the thyroid issue, because if you nip it in the bud early(like 20lbs weight gain) there's no reason to gain 100lbs before you start to do something about it.
ReplyIn most situations where a change is needed, a person's significant other seems to be the best support system that one can find. At those times when the significant other resists the person's changing due to their issues, for example, fear of abandonment if their partner "looks too good," it can make change very difficult to accomplish.
ReplyI think the problem people are having is you think they should leave their spouse. A lot of us believe marriage is a forever thing.
ReplyI hope, as I mentioned above, my DH chooses to become more healthy. Honestly, I don't care too much about appearance but I want him to be healthy -- and I try to support him in that direction. But there is nothing one person can do to make another person change... and pressure, etc, tends to make the problem worse. You can let the person know that something bothers you, and offer help, but that's all you can do.
And there is so much to a person beyond their weight: intelligence, humor, etc. Not to mention you love that person.
What you want to find is fine. The idea that others should all have the same view-- and "accepting" the person you promised to love and cherish in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, for the rest of your LIFE-- that's where people take issue.
Life is too short to commit to a person that abandoned them self.
ReplyThe whole fat acceptance movement bothers me too. I mean, yeah, everyone should feel good about themselves, but if their body is not healthy, then they really DO need to do something about it and not just say "oh, I'm just fat and I guess I'm destined to stay that way". If your spouse IS overweight, I think it's important to try and support them as much as possible because it's NOT easy to overcome. I struggled with an eating disorder before I met my husband and he knows I struggle with it constantly...does that mean that he tells me "Oh, I'm gonna divorce you if you get too skinny" when I have weak moments? NO. He helps me through the tough times and he understands that it is NOT always easy for me to control my problem. It's the same with an overweight spouse...it's not like they're actively choosing to live that way; they're usually just making the wrong choices.
Oh, and I also fail to believe that most of the people that have "thyroid issues" really have them. It's not nearly as common as most people think it is.
ReplyI did gain 110lb in a year from a thyroid issue. And I went to doctors for 3 years before that weight gain, with clear thyroid symptoms - many different doctors, and they didn't treat my thyroid cause I was thin, so it couldn't possibly be the thyroid. Then I went to doctors cause I was disabled by then already - I couldn't remember where I kept the plates in my kitchen anymore, nevermind working, and then, of course it couldn't be the thyroid, I was depressed cause I was so fat! Only when I got to a near-coma state, showing neurological symptons, that a neurologist treated my thyroid.
Oh, and I was trying to "nip it in the bud" at that time - after the first 20lb, I was disabled, as I said, so I wasn't eating all day. My husband would come home from work and feed me a 300-calorie or so dinner. That was it. 300 calories a day, and gaining weight fast.
So please, do not talk about that which you do not understand. Am I still that overweight now? No. But people have issues, emotional ones and physical ones, that can lead to weight gain. If you ever have the chance to attend an Overeaters Anonymous meeting (I went with a cousin of mine who has the problem - and no, I am not an overeater), you'll hear tale after tale of horrible childhood abuse and rape and every other misery in the world. Being compassionate to them doesn't mean you are saying "yay being a fatass is awesome!", it just shows you have a heart.
ReplyAnd I'd like to add that my "thyroid issue" is obviously imaginary, as Spectra said. Nevermind that a scan of my thyroid shows that it has disintegrated itself into a bunch of tiny pieces spread as far as my salivary glands - I probably got it to do that by overeating, of course. I just wanted an excuse to be a fatass, which is why I spent 3 years while weighing 120lb going to doctors complaining of thyroid symptoms.
ReplyI think I'd like to add also, I don't really appreciate the insinuation that thyroidal problems are by-and-large made up. My mother has to take thyroid medication every day or at least as often as she remembers or we remind her, or it could kill her. I don't think that knowing someone on the internet doesn't 'believe' in thyroid issues is going to cure her. It's also not comforting to know that I have a very good chance of developing these issues myself. But, naturally, I'm just making that up.
ReplyYes Linds, your mother better watch out, cause in 6 weeks without the thyroid medication, she'd go into a made-up coma and die a made-up death.
/irony
I don't know if it is any consolation, but in my family at least, the autoimmune illnesses skipped a generation. My mom doesn't have any, my grandma had almost exactly the same autoimmune disorders I have.
ReplyAs for how common thyroid disease is, aside from factors like exposure to perchlorate and radiation, which are more common in modern society, excess consumption of soy, and the fact that physical damage to the thyroid which can render it useless is a common in cases of whiplash injuries in car accidents (also something that wasn't exactly happening in the 1800s), thyroid hormones are tied up to female hormones in the body (also a reason why a lot more females have them), and the world is more estrogenic than ever, with the pill (which even if you don't take, you are ingesting cause the women who take it are peeing it into the water supply... thanks for that estrogenic lettuce, women who use hormonal birth control!), and the pseudoestrogens which can be caused among other things by heating up plastic containers (like tupperware etc.). A relative excess of estrogen in the body compared to lower progesterone, as is common in the early stages of menopause, can often mimic/cause hypothyroidism, cause it can render the thyroid hormone you are producing useless.
There is also the vicious cycle that as more people take thyroid hormone replacement, more of that is also peed into the water supply, which is hypothesized to be able to render healthy thyroids "lazy" in producing their own hormones. Or you can use the genetic hypothesis that by treating autoimmune disorders, we have allowed people like me to live and reproduce and pass on our autoimmune genes to the next generations.
So, yes, it is very common. It is not very common to have people gain massive amounts of weight like I did and nearly die without treatment (I am not an usual case as I have other hormonal problems that rendered the most common diagnostic test for me useless, and in the age of labs, very few doctors can still diagnose using a clinical examination rather than lab results), but the typical patient will gain 20-30lb before the treatment, and will have an extremely hard time losing that weight afterwards.
ReplyI wasn't insinuating that thyroid issues are made up or imaginary; I was simply saying that there are an awful lot of people out there that are overweight (and have been for several years) that say "Oh, maybe I just have a thyroid issue" without actually being tested for it or anything. One of my coworkers swore she had a thyroid issue that was keeping her from losing weight, despite the fact that her doctor checked all her hormone levels (all normal) and the gland itself (normal). She simply refused to believe her being fat was the result of her lifestyle and not her thyroid.
So I'm not trying to say that thyroid issues aren't there, I'm just saying a lot of people blame their weight on it without any real proof or anything.
ReplySorry I jumped on you, but it is a particular sore spot for me after spending 4 years hearing it from *doctors*. They treat it as a rare disorder, when the fact that Synthroid is one of the best-selling medications should in itself tell them that it is not a rare condition you'd see only on an episode of "House M.D.".
At the time when I was more active in thyroid disease forums and groups, I saw a few people who desperately wanted a diagnosis that wasn't there, but the cases weren't motivated by weight gain, but by strange aches (fibromyalgia). I'm not sure if the people in these forums are representative of the average person who thinks they have a "glandular problem" though, just like I think the people on dietblog tend to be a bit more informed than your average dieter.
I still commend your coworker for getting tested, although it wasn't her problem. I see the opposite a lot more often - people with clear thyroid symptoms going on restrictive diets, whining that they are not losing a single pound, and refusing to get tested cause they don't want to know they have a chronic disorder. Or even worse: people who were *already* diagnosed with it, and refuse to understand that just taking the initial dosage the doctor gave you 6 years ago without getting tested isn't gonna cut it. They don't even have the benefit of denial that the first ones have, cause they already know they have the disorder.
I have 2 cases, one of them in the family. My mother-in-law has hypothyroidism and aside from becoming fat, for a woman who was fit and trim into her early 60s (she was a beauty pageant winner in her youth - enough said. genetics are on her side), I've seen her go practically bald. Her skin is so dry it cracks painfully, but she refuses to go to the endocrinologist to get tested to see if her dosage needs to be upped. The other is a close friend, who although always stocky and chubby, had a steady weight all her life. She was diagnosed with hypothyroidism 4 years ago, put on a low starting dosage, and that was it. In the past year, I've seen her gain 80lb. Now, she definitely needed a lifestyle change, unlike my MIL who walks everyday and eats well - her diet was lacking in fruit and veg and high on starch and fat like most people's, and she was sedentary. Now she is on an 800-calorie diet a day for 2 months and lost around 2lb. Meanwhile, she has every thyroid symptom there is - hair like a brillo pad, balding in the eyebrows, puffy eyelids... but when I congratulated her on her diet but mentioned that she should get her yearly thyroid tests, she got extremely offended, as if I'd suggested she had an STD or something. Starvation isn't gonna make her lose weight, it will kill whatever little metabolism she has left, she will give up because who wants to starve like that and remain obese, she will resume her normal eating, and gain even more weight. It is a frustrating cycle to watch.
ReplyI, unfortunately exhibited extreme eating disorder behaviors prior to my wedding. I exercised excessively, waking up at 6am to got the gym before work and then going again after work. I ate only low-fat protein like cottage cheese and chicken breasts, and I took laxatives and sleeping pills and clenbuterol. I lost about 10 pounds. Not a lot of weight for all that ridiculous behavor. Then again, I didn't really have to lose weight. My bmi was on the high side of normal. But I felt I wanted to be skinny. My wedding dress wound up being too big for me on my wedding day. And I gained all the weight back plus about 10 pounds by 6 weeks after my wedding. It really sucked. Now I'm a little overweight. I am trying to be healthy to get it off this time around.
ReplyThe cottage cheese and chicken were good ideas. However, I'd recommend higher fat cottage cheese.
ReplyIf people wants to accept themselves the way they ARE why in the heck would that bother you? Crazy. Why not just focus on yourself. And if I'm correct the FA movement is about respect, equally rights, and truth be told for them to me left alone and be who they are without folks all up in THEIR business. Now, I've dropped 55 pounds and have a weight loss goal I'm working towards, however I can totally respect and understand their position.
ReplyTaking another look at this, I'm wondering, have we missed the boat on what this is really about?
Look at the whole huge bridal industry thing. It is a multi million dollar industry that encourages people (women mostly, men don't seem to fall for it) to think about their wedding, one day. I find they spend so much time thinking about "the day" for that 12 months prior or whatever that they tend to forget to plan a marriage. (Or we spend so much time dealing with our out-of control mothers who are all about "the day" that we don't have time to plan a marriage!- but maybe that was just me:)
Because so much of the focus is inappropriately on the wedding day, so is the focus of weight loss. It's all about looking good for ONE day. How silly is that? And then comes the honeymoon, pretty much guaranteed to surround you with food and drink and of course you starved yourself for your wedding so you NEED to reward yourself...
It would be so much better if brides-to-be said, I need to plan to be in good shape and at a healthy weight for my MARRIAGE, not my wedding. I bet if that was the focus, the commitment to good health would last much longer.
There's even a tv show I've seen that focuses on getting brides into shape for their wedding day. A month or so later, and they can magically cram themselves into that too-small gown. ta da! What do you bet happens when the camera and the trainer and the dietician go away, and the party is over?
ReplyMaybe PROACTOL
ReplyIf you believe that you are worth putting the effort into, you will succeed. Believe it or not, many women sabotage their own weight loss because they believe they are not important. Brides will use many excuses such as they are too busy, too tired, or their fiancé doesn’t like “rabbit” food. In reality, you are the most important person in your life. If you do not take care of yourself and put yourself first in terms of your health, you will suffer greatly for it as you age. The weight loss goal should not be simply to fit into the wedding dress or look good for the photographer. The goal should be to start your marriage off on a healthy foot, so that you and your new spouse can look forward to celebrating your 50th wedding anniversary without high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes or other preventable health problems.
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