Need to lose 5" off my waist in 8 weeks...help

I lost 2 stone in 3 months by eating pineapple before each meal (although if I'm honest I did skip a lot of them) and swam 50 lengths a day / 4 days a week.

Perhaps not the best advice to give now that I think about it.....

sorry to say but its going to be incredibly hard to lose that in 9 weeks. can you get your dress altered??

I know ? I don't think there is enough material in the seams to let it out enough. I'm going to have to get married in jeans aren't I?

oh dear, might be worth speaking to a dress maker.

Oh dear. Maybe I shouldn't say this but I needed to lose one inch and it's taken ages, and tbh although I have lost 12 pounds, the weight hasn't really gone from my middle but from my boobs (sigh) and bum areas. This is bad advice but without being able to exercise the only way I could lose weight is to not eat properly.

Can your dress be adjusted?

Have you got a pic of you dress?

Would it be worth buying a back up bigger dress just in case?

Aw no, what a nightmare. i agree, you`ll really struggle to lose all those inches (sorry). You can`t live off nothing, you need to be healthy so can`t they alter your dress? You`ll make yourself even more ill worrying about having to lose all that weight. (I`d love to be 10 and a half stone BTW-sorry that doesnt help you much tho)

This is my dress

It's all overlayed with lace so it's not like they can even put panels in.

I can't afford to buy another dress and my mum will kill me if I don't wear this one it cost her a fortune.

lovely dress,

i really would contact a dress maker mate, you wont lose that amount of inches, so i would start trying to sort it now, rather than waiting and hoping

hope you get it sorted xxx

Hi don't know if this helps but my mum lost 3 stone in 8 weeks on the cambridge diet- i know some people don't like it but if your looking for a quick fix and to kick start yourself back to where you were then should be ok look on their website for your nearest rep.

HTH

XX

Beautiful dress. Surely a dress maker could alter it, even with the lace overlay? Agree with claires, get looking asap

Have you thought about a decent corset/waist cincher? May not give you all 5 inches but may help. Of course you wont be able to breathe or eat all day?

Aw KT I am sorry to hear about your dress, one idea tho, Is is a lace up or zip up back?

If it is a zip up back maybe put in a lace up back and add in a modesty panel. If its a lace up back already would it look odd with a modesty panel in it?

the cambride diet is for people with 3 stones or more to lose, they wont allow her to join

Sorry to hear about this KT ?

As Claires days, contact the dress maker and see what she can suggest.

I'm sure a dress maker could manage something - even to add a full panel a the back?

I'm also sure your mum wouldn't want you making yourself ill to squash into the dress. If you're anything like me the run up to the wedding will be knackering as it is never mind on an empty stomach!

Drink lots and lotd of water. Have you considered a couple of body wraps in the run up?

Breathing and eating are overrated anyway aren't they? Think I'm going to have to start looking for a dressmaker then who has magical powers to get my dress to fit. Buggerations.

I don't really want to do a crash diet as I don't want to make myself any more ill but thanks for the idea HP.

You really need to make sure you don't do too much & eat good foods as well remember. I know exercise is meant to be good for ME in the long term but you must listen to your body. You don't want to be completely knackered and ill on your wedding day. You prob know all this anyway....

Could you do exercise in really small bouts rather than one session at the gym for example? i.e. a 5-10 min walk at your own pace whenever you could? They all add up and you might find it easier doing 3 x 10min walks than a 30min one for example?

I know you say you are eating the right foods but do you track what you eat at all? I find that if I don't add up the kcals/points/fat etc then I tell myself that eating nuts etcis healthy (and they are) but then I scoff an entire bag which prob doesn't do my weight much help.... The Daily Plate is an online diary & it's free although a little bit clunky to use.

Also you could get some bridget pants or a waist cincher/corset which would help suck you in a bit.

Importantly don't worry. At the end of the day, your health is the most important thing.

*hugs*

Thankyou everyone ?

Ok, enough whinging from me, time for a plan.

From now on I drink 2 litres of water a day and actually track what I'm eating and aim for 1200 calories a day (I know 1500 is recommended but I lead a really sedentary lifestyle so I think that's too many)

Try to get out to do little bits of exercise when I can

Have a couple of Universal Contour Wraps in the run up to the wedding

Get super-duper undies and corset to suck everything in

Have dress converted from zip-up to lace-up back and let out as much as possible.

If you are planning on a corset I would recommend to buy it as soon as really and to invest in a fully steel boned one. Look for the new spiral steel boned ones tho as they have the reduction but they are more flexible so you can sit more comfortably, then you can start to train yourself into wearing it. After a few weeks you should be able to get the full 4 inch reduction without hurting yourself and not ruining the corset.

HTH

Sounds like a plan!!! Good idea about the lace up abck, thatll give you extra inches

My friend did the cambridge diet, you have to be incredibly strict with yourself...even stopping your social life for a bit. But it does work!

Can you go for one of those body wrap things that draw out the toxins...someone will know more.

Your plan sounds good. i think by eating healthily and trying to exercise as you can (as someone else suggested) you'll lose at least a bit of what you want plus all the other mesures and you'll be flying ! let us know how it goes, you seem to be a sorted ype of person so I am sure it'll work!

(ps. i am also dreaming of being a size 12 and 10 and half stone for my wedding- youwon't look bad to anyone else!)

i think the "plan" sounds good. I am also an advocate of colonic irrigation. I know it sounds drastic but it really isnt - talk to a professional about. not only can you loose some weight (i would imagine minimal at your size) but can speec up your metabolism as your body is having to cope with the "crap" inside. The first time i had it was for irritable bowel syndrome which was totally cleared but it also gave a much flatter stomach and i lost 5ibs. It really isnt as bad as you think and if the very worst happens and you dont lose any weight you will have great skin!!!

Secondly there is a gillian Mckeith detox pack that you can get - think its about £20. its a 24 hour detox and it made me drop a few pounds - it needs to be done when you dont have much on as it is very draining but it helped me.

Dont know how it would be with the ME though so maybe get some professional advice - i sound like an advert!!!!

or the other thing that worked was having my wisdom teeth out. I ate only yoghurt for 5 days and lost half a stone!!! - face swelled up like a pig though so probably not advisable!! x

would agree with the coloinic recommendation

You know you can have up to 20 pounds of "crap" just sat in your intestine, which can be flushed out with colonic hydrotherapy - that should help reduce your waist!

also, i have to say i did do the atkins diet for a few months a few years ago.. and my god that works!

you can't have any flour, bread, dough, biscuits, sugar, pasta or rice.. but those are the things that bloat a stomach, so atkins diet really just reduces your waist.. it really worked for me.. as i'm a bit of an apple shaped person

but i missed pizza.. so never continued with it...

i rekon you can do it if you cut out carbs atkins style ;-)

My sister got the shakes off fleabay and did the cambridge diet herself, she lost a stone v quickly!!

What a nightmare KT, I agree with what willownat said though -make it lace up (if its not already) with a panel. Any decent dress maker should be able to do SOMETHING?

Let us know x

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I did have a colonic once a couple of months ago to try and help with a candida problem in my gut but tbh I found it quite disappointing and the therapist said that they didn't think I'd actually gain much from it. I managed to gain weight though during the process!!

I'm intolerant to yeast so I have to avoid any products with yeast in anyway which pretty much rules out breads, cakes, pizza, biscuits etc. I have to eat wholewheat pasta and wholegrain brown rice and really can't manage without these forms of carbs, oh and we weigh it out so we know the portion size is correct (I'm not a control freak, honest)

I lost about 7lbs in 8 weeks at weight watchers.... you stick to saying to yourself I am going to loose 2lbs aweek and it is acheiveable - no snacks no treats, get a picture of wedding dresses and put them on all the cupboards fridges etc...... and make a note of everything you are eating and drinking - swap coke for diet or even water drink more water than you do already i did not think this worked but it does.

Drink two pints of water before every meal, that will fill you up, you will be going to the loo alot but its worth a shot, your skin will be fantastic, I have 6 weeks to go and as of monday i am being very good, no alchol (well maybe on a friday) no crap and no sugar

WATER, FRUIT, VEGTABLES, CHICKEN (NO SKIN) RED MEAT IN MODERATION, CARBS IN MODERATION... you will be fine... and if not it is amazing what a seamstress can do.... is it a corset, as they may be able to put a modest panel in, you need to go and try the dress on and check the fit

I agree, I'm on a very low calorie diet (VLCD) with 'w8 matters', similar to the Cambridge diet and I've lost a stone and a half in 3 weeks.

Good luck.

God, these types of diets can`t be good for you surely?? I read that the cambridge and all those quick fix ones were designed for people who need to lose vast amounts of weight before major surgery?!

In the 8 weeks after Christmas, when I got determined to lose the weight for my own wedding (now only 7 weeks to go!), I lost:

• 1.25 inches from below the knee
• 1 inch from above the knee
• 1.75 inches from the thigh
• 3.75 inches from the hips
• 3.5 inches from the stomach
• 2.75 inches from the waist
• 1 inch from below the bust
• 1.75 inches from above the bust
• 2.75 inches from the bust
• 0.825 of an inch from my upper arms
• 0.25 of an inch from my neck

You probably won't manage the full 5 inches in just 8 weeks (took me 12 weeks to get to that point), but you could lose a significant amount and make it much easier for the dressmaker to get you into the dress. I've gone from an 18 to a 10/12 in 22 weeks, losing 3 stones 3lbs. Only 8lbs to go to target!

I do Slimming World.