Win a Fabulous Tropical Getaway

Enter the WeddingShape Bridal Challenge for a Chance to Win a Caribbean Vacation at Sandals Resorts

Sandals Resorts is the ultimate romantic hideaway created exclusively for two people in love. Relax in paradise, lounge on the finest white sand beaches, dip into the most impressive pools, slumber in mahogany four-poster beds, choose from endless land and water sports, work out in our state-of-the-art fitness centers, savor the world's most exceptional cuisines, and enjoy unlimited premium-brand wine and spirits.

One winner will enjoy a romantic getaway for two at the Sandals Resorts of their choice including:

* 4-day, 3-night accommodations at one of 12 magnificent Sandals Resorts in Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia or the Bahamas

* All meals, including gourmet specialty dining and unlimited cocktails

* All land and water sports, including snorkeling and scuba diving (for certified divers)

* Daily and nightly entertainment

* And more

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What is the Challenge?

The Wedding Shape Bridal Challenge is a 12-week healthy living contest based on the proven principles in the Wedding Shape book. Participants are encouraged to record their progress with before and after photos. You are also asked to record your inner transformation in a short essay. In addition, you are judged on the quality of your outer and inner transformation.

How Do You Get Started?

Approach your body-sculpting program just as you would the wedding-planning process. Now is the time to start eating right, making exercise a part of your week, sleeping soundly every night, and managing the inevitable stresses of juggling your to-do lists. All you have to do is follow the simple plan outlined in Wedding Shape, and you’ll be on your way to a lifetime of health and happiness.

Who is Eligible to Enter the Challenge?

Brides-to-be, bridesmaids, mothers-of-the-bride… anyone who wants to sculpt the body you’ve always dreamed of, and win a fabulous tropical vacation, may enter the Challenge.

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Click here to enter the Wedding Shape Bridal Challenge.

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Wedding Shape Diet and Fitness Guide for Brides offers easy-to-follow exercises that tighten your stubborn trouble zones, a realistic nutrition plan so you drop pounds and inches, plus savvy recovery strategies to de-frazzle your nerves and encourage a good night’s sleep.

You’ll get custom-tailored workouts to help your shoulders, arms, and back look stunning in your dress. Do the special core and balance exercises to glide down the aisle with perfect posture. There’s even an entire chapter dedicated to choosing a gown that highlights your best parts (and conceals your flaws).

Best of all, follow the WeddingShape lifestyle to feel great and maintain your beautiful body right through your 50th wedding anniversary!

WeddingShape shows you how to:

* Choose a figure-flattering dress to compliment your body type and unique shape

* Crush wedding-day jitters with proven anti-stress secrets

* Get body-sculpting strategies you’d have to pay a team of nutritionists and personal trainers thousands for

* Avoid sneaky foods that increase cellulite (and why you should never crash diet again)

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Click here to get in Wedding Shape right now! There's no better time than your wedding day to sculpt the body you've always wanted... and build good habits for a lifetime of health and happiness.

Best of luck,

Joe

WeddingShape Success Story #219:
Melissa T.

Melissa continues to sculpt gorgeous arms, shoulders, and abs with WeddingShape.

It’s been over three years since Melissa tied the knot… and she looks and feels more fabulous today than ever before. This former athlete stays buff with the easy-to-follow, fun workout plan that can be performed just about anywhere. Here’s what Melissa had to say when we asked her about WeddingShape Diet and Fitness Guide for Brides:

WeddingShape workouts totally helped me get ready to put on that dress and wear it for 12 hours or more. Mine was very form-fitting, slim, a sheath gown. And it showed a lot of my arms, shoulders, and my back, and I knew I could wear that dress, but I was missing something. I found the WeddingShape workouts—that was my ticket.

Having been an athlete my whole life, I thought I could do it myself… and in reality I realized that I needed the assistance of the WeddingShape workouts. They’re simple to follow and they did it—I achieved my goal on my wedding day. And not only on the wedding day. I realized it was something I could do for the rest of my life. It’s a lifestyle change for me.

I'm married now for three and a half years and I’m still using the WeddingShape workouts.

The benefits of the WeddingShape workouts for me, have to be, I have more energy, my arms and shoulders are more sculpted, and my abs are more tight and toned than they probably have ever been.

I have found that the WeddingShape workouts helped me to achieve the shape of my shoulders, arms, and abs. And that, in addition, would be the energy. I’m more energized, I have more energy and I’m 35. I have more energy now than I did when I was 25.

I can only imagine that it will get better as I get older.

Are you ready to feel like a million bucks when you walk down the aisle? If so, check out the hottest workout plan guaranteed to tighten your trouble spots and help you shine on your big day. Tune in next time to see more WeddingShape Success Stories.

Plan a Stress-Free Wedding

Congratulations on this exciting time before your big day. I was reading through a popular bridal blog and noticed a common theme as everyone is trying to juggle busy to-do lists.

As a fitness expert and author of the newly released book, WeddingShape Diet and Fitness Guide for Brides, I thought I’d share some anti-stress secrets to help you stay calm and enjoy this exciting time of wedding planning.

So here it is…

Chapter 8:
Stress Management Strategies You Must Use Right Now

Will you become a bridezilla?

You’re dealing with budgets, styles, colors, and time crunches. Perhaps the challenge of juggling family dynamics and de­mands is wearing you thin. Eloping is looking like a better op­tion every day. But before you let stress rain on your wedding-day dreams, learn how to manage it—and even keep it at bay.

The harmful consequences of stress affect both mind and body. Physically, it raises your level of adrenalin, thereby increasing your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. This makes your organs work harder which, over the long term, can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke. Emotionally, long-term stress becomes chronic stress, leading to feelings of anxiety and depression. Short-term stress can cause headaches, digestive problems, insomnia, and boost your risk of catching colds. And watch out waistlines—the release of the stress hormone cortisol can cause pounds to pile on right around your middle.

Learning good coping mechanisms—and avoiding bad ones like smoking, drinking, overeating, or self-pity—not only reduce your stress but will improve your health, too. De-frazzle your nerves with the following tension-tamers and make them a part of your life. You’ll reap the benefits… not only as you plan for your big walk down the aisle, but also long after you say, “I do.”

Take a breather

Whether you count to ten, stand and stretch, or take a short walk… breathing deeply while unwinding will add oxygen to your system, instantly helping you to relax. Plus, taking a timeout will help you to step back from the troubling situation and allow you to compose yourself.

Stress experts recommend “progressive muscle relaxation” to de-frazzle your nerves. “Choose a comfortable chair, close your eyes and, starting with your feet, tighten the muscles in each part of your body for about eight seconds, then release quickly,” says Catherine M. Stoney, Ph.D., researcher at the National Institute of Health’s Na­tional Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. This technique is easy to learn, safe, and portable.

Get physical

Yes, exercise strikes again. Scientific evidence suggests that physically active people have lower rates of stress, anxiety, and depression than sedentary people. Exercise enhances the body’s ability to respond to pressure. “Biologically speaking, exercise seems to give the body a chance to practice dealing with stress. It forces the body’s physiological systems, all of which are involved in the stress response, to communi­cate much more closely with each other,” says Mark Sothmann, Ph.D., professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Indiana University’s School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Experts agree that any physical activity helps, but moder­ate- to high-intensity exercise works best. You’ll find all the answers to choosing the best workout plan for your ability level and wedding-day deadline in Chapter 13...

If you’re ready to find out the exact, step-by-step plan you’ll need to wow your guests when you walk down the aisle, pick up a copy of WeddingShape Diet and Fitness Guide for Brides right now.

Talk to you soon.

Best,

Joe

P.S. I’d love to hear your strategies for managing pre-wedding stress. Simply reply to this post.