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Look Your Best in Your Wedding Dress
10 Simple Exercise and Weight Loss Tips for Brides-to-be
Gentle stretching for 10 minutes each morning is a great way to combat wedding stress. Take a yoga class once or twice a week to learn the basics. Invite your maid-of-honor along, too! An exercise partner will help you stay on track.
4. Avoid Get-Thin-Quick Products
If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Fad diets and "fat burning" diet pills can be dangerous to your health. Electronic ab stimulators and other home exercise inventions that promise results without effort are just marketing gimmicks. Save your money for your honeymoon.
5. Practice Walking Down the Aisle
Choose to be active every day. As little as 20 minutes of walking will burn excess calories. What's more, that time is for you. Use it to relax, to meditate, to escape the stresses of the final days.
6. Hit the Weights, Not the Wall
Include at least two to three days per week of light weight training with dumbbells. Choose eight to 10 exercises and do at least eight to 12 repetitions per exercise. One set is enough, especially if time is precious. Best exercises include biceps curls, triceps extensions, lateral raises, rows, lunges, squats, crunches and hyperextensions.
7. Can the Soda and Save the Calories
Sugar-rich soda adds empty calories to your diet. Drinking water rather than soda can reduce your caloric intake by as much as 300 to 500 calories per day. That's a pound of fat weight per week you can lose effortlessly.
8. Eat Often to Stay Energized
