Suggestion needed for Wedding dress after weight loss

Personally, and speaking from experience, I wouldn't go too much smaller than you are now- a wedding dress can always be altered DOWN several sizes if needed by a good seamstress, but you can't ADD size to a too small dress!

I bought my dress (which I still absolutely adore!) on a whim, having been REALLY ill with a stomach bug and having lost a stone.... needless to say, that stone has gone back on (and some, oops!!) and now I am in a position where I absolutely HAVE to loose weight before our wedding in order to get into my dress again.

Sadly I am one of those people who find it REALLY hard to loose weight when I have to.... if I kind of think I might like to, but with no real reason, I don't struggle, but going on a diet because I HAVE to just sends me heading for the chocolate sauce to go on the lettuce!

I'm just starting to worry that I've spent a significant amount of money on a dress that I adore that I won't actually be able to slim down enough to wear..... but that hasn't stopped me eating cake and drinking wine tonight! Double Ooops!

I guess what I'm saying in a nutshell is to be really realistic about how much weight you can actually loose (which may be different from how much you'd like to loose!) and err on the side of caution, remembering a dress can be taken in LOADS but not let out by much!

Good luck with the weight loss! If you find a 'magic diet' that really works, do let me know! ?

I bought a dress six months before my wedding and just after I finished Chemo (lowest weight ever!). Keeping to that weight for six months was the hardest thing ever and I did put some weight back on and ended up with a very tight dress. I agree that I would buy the size you are now and pay for alterations because it's better than feeling under pressure and cheaper than the cost of a new dress. Weddings are stressful enough.

Maybe you can ask the bridal shop, they must really know about it