Eating well before a wedding without hating every meal

There is a particular kind of panic that arrives about eight weeks before a wedding, and it usually produces the worst eating decisions of the year.

The pattern that fails

Someone cuts to two meals of boiled food, holds it for nine or ten days, then eats normally at the first family function and decides the whole thing was pointless. The problem was never willpower. It was that the plan was never survivable.

The version that tends to hold

• A moderate deficit you barely notice, not a dramatic one
• Protein kept high so you lose fat rather than muscle
• Food you would eat anyway, so the plan survives contact with a real week
• One meal a day handled for you — usually lunch, the one most likely to go wrong

None of this is clever. It is just slower than what people want to hear eight weeks out.

Where we fit

Our Fat Loss plan is portioned to a controlled calorie range with the protein kept up, and it is cooked with spices and technique rather than boiled and apologised for. If you are eating one carefully built meal a day and eating sensibly around it, that is usually enough. Start with three days and see whether you would eat it again.