Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Wedding weight loss: How brides go to extremes

"A month before my wedding I panicked and bought diet pills as a quick fix," admits Ellen, 30, from Manhattan.

"They were full of caffeine, and with all the stress of wedding planning, left me feeling so jittery and nauseous that after a week I decided to try will power instead. I tried to cut everything out of my diet except 800 calories' worth of vegetables, meat and fruit per day. I felt so tired and hungry that as soon as someone bought doughnuts at work, I crumbled. By the time my wedding day arrived, I hadn't actually lost any weight at all," she laments.

"Fasting can make brides irritable and less able to deal with stress because they're not getting a good supply of vitamins and minerals and blood sugar," explains dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner.

"Almost all diet pills work by teasing your metabolism through unnatural means.

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