Desperate to shift a few pounds before your wedding?
Try Zest’s simple eating plan, adapted from nutrition consultant Ian Marber’s new book, The Food Doctor Ultimate Diet. It will help you lose weight without getting hungry and, because it maximises your nutrient intake, you’ll get shiny hair and glowing skin too!
MONDAY
Breakfast - Chopped apple with plain yoghurt, a few nuts and seeds and a pinch of cinnamon.
Lunch - Vegetable soup with lentils or beans. Add baby spinach leaves and have with a wholemeal bread roll.
Dinner - Stir-fried mixed vegetables with chicken or prawns.
TUESDAY
Breakfast - Two scrambled or poached eggs with a slice of rye toast.
Lunch - Salad Niçoise (tuna, a boiled egg, black olives and green beans).
Dinner -Chickpea and tomato stew, grilled vegetables and pumpkin seeds.
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast - Porridge, served with 1tbsp lie yoghurt and a chopped pear.
Lunch - Small baked potato with oily fish or baked beans, plus a large mixed salad.
Dinner - Grilled chicken breast with mixed roast vegetables.
THURSDAY
Breakfast - Sugar-free muesli with nuts and seeds, 1tsp sultanas and 1tbsp live yoghurt.
Lunch - Brown rice salad with tuna or chicken, red peppers, watercress and tomatoes.
Dinner - Baked trout with mixed leaf salad and mashed chickpeas.
FRIDAY
Breakfast - Two boiled eggs with two oatcakes or rice crackers.
Lunch - Slice of wholemeal or rye bread, topped with fish or chicken, plus salad.
Dinner - Halloumi cheese and vegetable kebabs with tomato salsa and mixed salad.
SATURDAY
Breakfast - Fish (haddock or kippers) with grilled tomatoes and a piece of rye toast.
Lunch - Baked sweet potato with 75g feta cheese and a green salad.
Dinner - Spicy roast chicken (use garlic, coriander and cumin) with grilled vegetables.
SUNDAY
Breakfast - Herby scrambled eggs with a slice of wholemeal toast or rye bread.
Lunch - Spicy chicken portion (left over from last night’s dinner) with a flatbread and salad.
Dinner - Greek salad (feta, tomatoes, black olives and cucumber) with a large green salad.
HEALTHY SNACKS
Have one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon.
- Slice of rye or sourdough bread with 1tbsp cottage cheese and chopped spring onions.
- Five hazelnuts and an apple.
- 1tbsp dip with raw chopped vegetables.
- Guacamole or hummus on two oatcakes.
- Smear of peanut butter on two oatcakes.
- Low GI fruit, such as apples, plums, pears or fresh apricots, with some mixed seeds.
For more advice on how to lose weight and look fantastic, check out the June issue of Zest, on sale now, or try The Food Doctor Ultimate Diet by Ian Marber (Dorling Kindersley, £14.99).
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