Wedding Info Blog

Not going on a crash diet before the wedding and understanding that maintaining a healthy weight is important for YOU, are two ways you can avoid gaining weight after you’re married. Here are a few more tips:

Don’t Eat Like He Does

Remember that women generally need less calories than men do. It’s fine to cook and sit together to eat, but serve yourself a smaller portion, and make sure there are healthy options for you to choose from.

Sooth Emotions with Indulgences Other Than Food

It’s very normal to feel a bit down after the wedding and the honeymoon are over. But your pick-me-up should never be food. Instead, go for walks, talk with friends, or pamper yourself with a manicure.

Don’t Go Wild On Your Honeymoon

Wild on food, we mean. If your honeymoon is just a few days long, it may not matter much, but if you’re looking at 10 days of overindulging in fatty foods and too much alcohol, there will be a price to pay, and once you’ve put on those pounds, it is going to be very difficult to go back to a healthy lifestyle.

It’s fine to indulge during your honeymoon, of course, but try not to lose control completely. A good compromise would be indulging in one daily meal and keeping the other meals small and healthy. Also, if you can find a way to incorporate fun exercise into your honeymoon (swimming, surfing), that would be a great help in keeping you in shape.

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The Daily Mail has recently reported that 20% of all British new brides put on a whopping 20 pounds in the first year after getting married.

There are many reasons for this weight gain. Some women just don’t care anymore – they don’t think they need to put the same amount of effort into looking good after tying the knot. Other women find it hard to stick with the strict diet they were likely on before the wedding. Instead of finding a middle road, they start overeating.

For some women, the anticlimax that comes after the wedding can only be dealt with via comfort food, and yet others overindulge during the honeymoon, and once the honeymoon is over, never quite find the strength to go back to a healthy diet.

Another factor in new bride weight gain is that many women start cooking for the first time, and join their husbands (who as men burn more calories) in eating heavy dinners. A woman who used to be satisfied with a 500-calorie dinner of yogurt and some pretzels could start consuming 1000-calorie meals every night.

So how do you avoid this weight gain, that seems almost inevitable for some new brides? Stay tuned for our next blog post, where we will feature tips for avoiding the notorious new bride weight gain.

Photo, by Daniel Sheehan, is for illustrative purposes only