Bulging Brides Episode 3

This episode was about a bride named Desiree. She only has 6 weeks until her wedding and her dress is too small! Desiree loves to eat food! She is Italian and her family loves to eat pastas, breads, rich sauces and drinks lots and lot of wine. Now all of these foods can be enjoyed in moderation but Desiree has taken these rules way past the limit. The first thing Desiree had to do was agree to a strict nutrition plan. Her meal plan is listed below:

Breakfast - 1/2-cup plain oatmeal with cinnamon, small nonfat yogurt, 1/2 cup cottage cheese - (400 calories)

Snack - Banana

Lunch - Seven vegetable soup, 1 table spoon cream cheese, 3 wheat crackers, and 2 veggie dogs. (350 calories)

Snack - Cheese stick, veggie dog

Dinner - Prawn Stir fry - 4oz. prawns with lots of veggies, 1/2-tablespoon olive oil

For Desiree’s meal plan she is only allowed to drink water.

As for her work out plan it is listed below:

3 hours of cardio/3 hours weights - every week

Chest presses

Running for cardio

Bicep curls

Overhead press

Squats

Push-ups

The good news is Desiree was diligent and kept to her meal plan and cardio routine. She was a beautiful bride by her wedding date and fit into her dress perfectly!

The Guest List

So we are about 4 months out from our big day and it is time to get the save the dates - in the mail! You know what that means - we have to finalize our guest list. Now this may sound easy but when you are on a budget it is not as easy as you would think! My fiancé and I were up until 1 am trying to finalize our guest list. The problem with my fiancé and I is we both come from large families and we both have a lot of friends!

Are goal is to stay under 200 people if we can help it. To make it easier on ourselves we are taking it one step at a time. The first step is we both came up with a solid list of people we wanted to invite. The next step is to type up the list and organize the guests into categories. The four categories we are putting our guests in are Brides Friends/Brides Family and Grooms Friends/Grooms Family. By dividing the guest list into categories we have a clear idea of how many people we are each inviting.

My fiancé and I want the guest list to be as even as possible as far as both getting to have our closest friends and family at the wedding. The next step is the hardest part - cutting the people that just don’t make the list. When you are looking at a certain cost per head sometimes you have to be pretty picky who makes the cut. I will let you ladies know how all of this goes - once we get that far!

Bulging Brides - Episode 2

This episode is about a girl named Jamie. She is 5′3 and started the show weighing 141lbs. She had 6 weeks to loose 10lbs and she was bound and determined. Her meal plan is listed below:

Breakfast - 1 serving coffee with milk, 1 serving plain oatmeal, 1 serving fat free cottage cheese, 1 poached egg, 5 pecans (321 calories)

Snack - String cheese, 2 whole-wheat crackers

Lunch - 4 oz extra lean ground beef, light sour cream, whole wheat pita, as many colored veggies as you want and 1 cup of salsa. (300 calories)

Snack - Carrots with light ranch dipping sauce (2 table)

Dinner - 4 oz of grilled fish, 1 red pepper, 1/2 corn on the cob, 2 cups salad with 2 table vinaigrette dressing, 1 table soy sauce.

Jaime was instructed to drink no alcohol and only water during this last 6 weeks.

For her work out routine Jamie had to do 3 hours a week of cardio and 3 hours a week of weight training.

Push-ups

Squats with medicine ball over head (10) then hold in squat for 10 seconds then pulse for 10 seconds. (3 times)

Boxing (using punching bag)

Using exercise ball - sit and do oblique exercises.

For cardio running and hiking were encouraged.

Jaime was very disciplined and stuck to her diet and exercise program. By her wedding she was down 10lbs and 2 dress sizes!

Until next time brides to be

Bulging Brides - Episode 1

This week bulging brides was about a girl named Yolanda. Yolanda loved to eat carbs..Something we are all guilty of. Anyway her wedding was 6 weeks a way and she was having problems fitting into her wedding dress! (Hence the name of the show) Anyways it was time to bring in the professionals so that 6 weeks later she would look stunning in her dress. They put together the meal plan and exercise routine listed below. Needless to say 6 weeks later she did fit into her wedding dress and looked amazing!

Breakfast: 2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 piece whole-wheat toast and 1 tablespoon of light jam. (289 calories)

Snack: Cut up cucumber with hummus for dipping.

Lunch: 4 oz. chicken breast, 4 cups salad, a fruit cup, 2 table spoons Balsamic Vinaigrette. (308 calories)

Snack: Low fat string cheese, 2 wheat crackers

Dinner: 4 oz. of steak, red roasted red pepper, asparagus, salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette and a half-cup of brown rice.

With this meal plan Yolanda was not allowed any alcohol and she was instructed to drink only water with meals.

For her exercise plan she was instructed to workout 4 days a week.

(3 hours of cardio, 3 hours of weights a week)

Some of her core exercises:

Running - for cardio (interval training)

Planks - for abs

Medicine ball - twists (for abs)

Regular weight routine rotating all muscle groups. (2 muscle groups a day)

Until the next episode! Good luck future brides to be:)