All brides want to look good on their wedding days, and many equate this with looking thinner. However, sometimes people will go to extreme and harmful lengths to do this. While many brides attempt to lose weight before walking down the aisle, some do it in dangerous ways by harmfully restricting calories. This is not only unhealthy, but also counterproductive.
Bodies need food to live. The calories we consume turn into energy so that we are able to go to work, exercise, and sit on the couch binge watching reality shows (maybe that’s just me") It’s important to give your body the fuel it needs to go about your activities, and as anyone can tell you, wedding planning takes a ton of energy.
If that’s not reason enough to skip the crash diet, then you may also want to continue to eat healthily (and enough) so that your metabolism doesn’t think that you are actually starving. Because bodies really want to survive, when you severely restrict calories, your metabolism thinks that you are living in famine conditions and will slow down your metabolism to compensate. This slowing of the metabolism may continue- for a long time after your diet is over as well?sometimes even the rest of your life. When your metabolism is slow, your body clings to the weight it has and makes it almost impossible to lose weight. Even if you do notice some weight loss, it is only temporary; you will almost certainly gain this weight back?and possibly even more. Your brain wi...