Best Diet Type -- Losing Weight For Your Wedding Day
By Michael A. Smith, MD, Thu Dec 8th

Diet types for a wedding: safe and effective weight loss inpreparation for your wedding.

The best plan to follow is designed to produce 1-2 pounds ofweight loss per week. At this rate, weight loss is safe,healthy, and lasting. Plan accordingly and designate the propernumber of weeks for following the 1-2 pounds per weekrule.

For instance, if you want to lose 10 pounds before the big day,you'll need at least 5 weeks of to guarantee healthyweight loss (10 pound goal/2 pounds per week = 5 weeks ofdieting).

Diet Types for Your Wedding

Forget about all the different diets available and stick withthe only type proven to produce safe, healthy, and lastingweight loss. A gradual, moderate restriction of calories withexercise is the best diet type to follow and the only one provento work.

Interestingly, all diet types work by restricting calories. Forexample, the Negative Calorie Diet works because the recommendedfood to eat is significantly lower in calories than yourbaseline diet.

It's that simple. Supporters of the diet claim that negativecalorie foods burn more calories during digestion and this leadsto weight loss. In truth, the negative calorie foods are low incalories and you end up eating fewer calories than before andthat's why you lose weight.

The best diet type to follow in preparation for your wedding isa simple low calorie diet.

Restricting Calories

Restrict calories slowly and only moderately from your baselinecaloric intake.

Keeping within the range of 200-600 caloriesreduced, you'll experience safe, healthy, and lasting weightloss.

The following table shows you how many calories to startrestricting and the maximum amount to restrict based upon yourbaseline caloric intake. This is your guideline to healthyweight loss.

Baseline Intake/Start Restriction/Maximum Restriction

2000/200/400

2300/250/450

2600/300/500

2900/350/550

3000/400/600

What to Eat

Eat a balanced diet. Each day eat 35-45% lean protein, 25-35%complex carbohydrates, and 15-25% fat. Healthy fats, likeOmega-3 from fish, can substitute for a lean protein source.

Each meal eat 1 source of lean protein, 1 serving of complexcarbohydrate, and 2-3 servings of vegetables and fruit. Limitsimple carbohydrates (sugars) and unhealthy fats, like saturatedfats and trans-fatty-acids.

Wedding Exercises

Your diet type and weight loss plan is not complete withoutexercise. The most critical aspect of exercise is to tone muscle.

The good news? There's a simple and effective way to tonemuscle and lose weight. Not only that, with toned muscle, you'lllook tight and buff, surprising all of your guests.

You can find instructions to toning muscleat...www.weight-loss-professional.com/wedding-exercises.html

To Healthy Weddings!

Michael A. Smith, MD

Chief Medical Consultant

Diet Basics Website

About the author:Dr. Smith is the Chief Medical Consultant for Diet Basics, acontent based website dedicated to all dieters.

Visit his site at www.weight-loss-professional.com.