When to start losing weight for wedding
How one bride lost more than 60 pounds before her wedding
we now have that wedding weight-loss
journey a bride determined to get
healthy before her big day is sharing
how she dropped more than sixty pounds
without surgery Diane Macedo has her
story
it's one woman's remarkable
transformation from this to this 35 year
old Melissa mountain dropping more than
60 pounds in five months I just got
tired of looking at myself in the mirror
and seeing what I was seeing every day I
didn't want to be that quote-unquote fat
bride at my wedding
step 1 get in control of her diet drink
more water I was a huge soda addict
chicken the pork salmon usually a
vegetable side I think a lot of it was
controlling the portions her favorite
healthy hack ditch the salad dressing
for salsa dressings tend to have more
calories step to making Fitness a
priority Melissa brought the gym home by
adding an entire workout room and stayed
motivated by tracking her food and
workouts with the free app lose it by
setting small goals you know 20 pounds
30 pounds and you keep pushing your goal
out farther as you reach those goals
that's gonna motivate you even more her
other big incentive the dress I actually
had to end up exchanging my wedding
dress for a smaller size the fact that I
had to get a smaller wedding dress just
made me feel even that much better but
perhaps her biggest motivator was her
husband Kevin who lost more than 60
pounds himself it's nice to go in from
size 2x barely fitting down to a size
large I just wanted to help her out with
her weight loss it's hard to do it by
yourself
without having somebody there to
encourage you I had tried it a few times
in the past and I would lose 20 pounds
and something would come up and it was
one excuse after another I'll get back
on to it Monday or you know the 1st of
the month I'll start again and I think
having him
motivate me and being by my side doing
it that helped out tremendously life
just a lot easier now the more weight
you lose more energy you have the
healthier you feel it's just such a
better life now for Good Morning America
Diane Macedo ABC News New York
we are so glad that they're happy let's
bring in our nutritionist now
welcome I am a fire exercise motivation
one of the most motivational Melissa
well I love that melissa was motivated
by this desire for a lasting change I
mean that was fantastic you know I often
tell my patients when you go to your job
you're always prepared for presentations
however when it comes to food you don't
plan throughout the day right so I mean
to see impactful change it's important
to make mindful intentional choices
around what you're putting into your
body right right but there's so much out
there there's all these different diet
plans and things like that so how can
you help us in balancing what we're
eating okay so we know that there is no
such thing as one-size-fits-all right
right right
I love the plate method because you're
able to modify it according to the
individual person you start with half
your plate as non starchy vegetables one
quarter is protein followed by a quarter
as grains beans or starchy vegetables
and here in real life we've got broccoli
as well as green beans so it's a really
nice mix of vegetables right followed by
grilled chicken and then sweet potato
you know we also saw with Melissa it was
really clever hugged her how she swapped
out salad dressing with salsa yeah I
love that so instead of going for those
like sugary calorie rich you know
dressings I personally love a spice I
love a pickled jalapeño a lot of spice
girl oh my god there's so much spice
I'd love to put it on my NEETs I'd love
to put it on my veggies I'll put it
anywhere because you know sometimes you
look at that as being bland which we
shouldn't but you know you can spice it
up a little bit absent ability it was
key yes accountability is absolutely key
so she used to app that helped her track
what she was putting into her body in
terms of food as well as her physical
activity so for some people the app may
not work and they're gonna look to like
a social media platform with a
supportive community either way you need
to be accountable for what you're doing
that's right all right Maya thank you
very much well hey there GMA fans Robin
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