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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Taking Stock
- Height, weight, and more: How to correctly take your
measurements, plus the charts you need for recording
them.
- Surreal vs. ideal weight
- How do you compare? Height-to-weight and Body Mass
Index charts
Chapter Two: Hide and Seek...
Your Best and Worst Features
- Physical features you can change through diet, exercise,
and/or styling...and those you can’t.
- A contract to make with yourself
- Getting support from family, friends, and elsewhere
- Excess weight isn’t everything
Chapter Three: Finding The Perfect
Wedding Dress for Your Figure
- Why you need to order your dress now--well before
you reach your goal weight--and how to deal with the
problems that can arise from this situation
- Your figure type: Finding a dress that
flatters it
- Sleeves, bodices, necklines, makeup, hairstyles,
and more that will maximize/minimize your best/worst
physical attributes
- Glossary of wedding dress style terms
- How shopping for a wedding dress differs from other
clothes shopping:
Six facts to know before you go to the bridal salon
Chapter Four: Calorie
Countdown
- King Calorie and Queen Nutrients--why both must rule your diet
- Where exercise fits in * Calculating your calorie
allowance
- Your daily duty: charting “calories in” and “energy
out”
- How to count, measure, or weigh what you eat today
- The Wedding Dress Diet Food and Fitness Log
- The size of “one serving”
- How to estimate how much you’re eating when you’re
away from your own kitchen
Chapter Five: Exercising for Results
- What’s a “workout”...and what’s not
- Calories used per minute
for different activities
- Calculating your Exercise Heart Rate
- Counting calories isn’t enough: How to shape, tone,
and defineyour features
- The truth about cellulite
- Why it’s great to have an exercise buddy
- Choosing a gym, personal trainer, and more
- Posture pointers: How to “lose” five pounds in one
minute
- Exercise myths and realities
- Calorie burners and toners you can do while you’re
doing other things
Chapter Six: Eating Between
Fittings
- Danger: Skipping meals
- Eating on the run or on the road: Best choices at
the fast-food restaurant, sit-down chain restaurant,
supermarket, convenience store, and more
Chapter Seven: Showered With
Calories
- Keeping your head--and your diet--at all of the functions thrown in
your honor: bridal showers, luncheons with co-workers,
nights out with the girls, the rehearsal dinner...and
even the wedding!
- Special tips for safely navigating a buffet line and
surviving
“samplings” at the caterer’s
Chapter Eight: Setting Up a
Slim Kitchen
- Slim-conscious cookware and gadgets
- Stocking the pantry
- Recommended cookbooks, calorie counters, magazines,
newsletters, websites, and more
Chapter Nine: Coping With Stress...
And Its Physical Souvenirs
- Seventeen tips for beating pre-wedding stress
- Stress-busting
vitamins, herbs, and beauty treatments
- Stress leaves its marks:
dealing with dark circles and puffy eyes, acne, cold
sores,
irritable bowel syndrome
- How to argue productively
Chapter Ten: Dining On Your Honeymoon...
And Happily Ever After
- How to indulge--but not “bloat it”--on your honeymoon
- Workouts for two (sex counts!)
- Maintaining your weight loss after the
honeymoon is over
- Recipe for real life: Shop wisely, prepare
creatively, portion judiciously...and get your new husband
on the bandwagon!
- Family gatherings don’t have to be diet disasters
- A host of subtle ways to cut fat and calories in your
everyday cooking
- Charting your weight on every anniversary
- Some final words of wisdom
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