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Drink water! Lots of water. It might make you feel more bloated for a day but it will help flush anything out of your system. Also if you are retaining fluid due to stress this will help keep your skin clear. HYDRATE!!!

Avoid salt & sodium- especially diet soft drinks. You might just be retaining water.

Don’t eat like a rabbit or there’s a good chance your wedding memories will be marred by diet related bitchiness, headaches and dizzyness.

First of all, I would try on the dress! The two outcomes of that are - you are either stressing yourself out for nothing because it still fits, or you have five days to fix it (you or the dress, either way). Then do everything everybody above says.

Also (and sorry for the TMI) I sometimes feel bloated because of gas when I’m stressed, not water and then I burp for a whole day - so you could try an over the counter gas relief like Gas-X or something. It really couldn’t hurt.

eat a good amount of watermelon over an hour or two (go to the market and get a plastic tub of the pre-cut pieces) and drink lots of water. Don’t eat anything else while you’re doing it. It works as a natural diuretic so it might give you a jumpstart. After that stay away from the salt and the alcohol.

You could also buy some acidpohilus or something - if it feels like more than just water retention. Culturelle is widely available at drugstores.

Also, I find that if I drink even one alcoholic drink, I wake up a little bloated (you can tell instantly in my ankles) the next day. If I skip the drink it really makes a difference.

Good luck!

I totally agree w/ watermelon, as e says above. It makes me pee so much!

***limit CARBS!!

best advice i can give you is go to the SAUNA and sweat it out. you will feel loads better.

Drink plenty of water and the best solution try to steam chicken with ginger. Just use ginger on all your meat that your cooking with. It helps a lot! I lost about 5 - 10 pounds after when my daughter was first born. I was even lighter than my original weight when I wasn’t pregnant. Hope this helps!

cut out salt, dairy, starches and sugar… you’ll feel tremendously better, your skin will look good, and you will lose the bloat in 3 days. Good luck!

it’s probably from stress & excitement. and if it is, then RELAX! i felt the same way you did. it was very weird for me because i actually lost a lot of weight during the 6 months planning and just a week or two beforehand i felt like i was gaining the weight back. now i’m not sure if i was or not, but i wasn’t doing anything different in terms of diet or exercise. so i figured it was stress and excitement. i decided to get a facial the week of my wedding. a very basic one [to avoid any possible skin irritations] and it was a great idea. my facialist gives an awesome massage and i felt a lot better afterwards.

do something to help you relax. yes, the nerves may or may not be completely calmed. but doing something that will make you feel good about yourself will help lighten you up. no pun intendeded. ;P

1. Keep drinking water! As a pp said, drinking more water helps you retain less.

2. Eating fiber rich foods can help your digestive health.

3. Avoid sodas (even diet) and cut out juices (sugar) if you drink them.

4. Eat light dairy because dairy can cause bloating.

5. Don’t lift weights! Weightlifting causes your muscles to retain water as they rebuild and repair themselves, which can lead to an overall feeling of being heavier by up to several pounds (more when you work out larger muscle groups). The only thing that helps this is time and lots of water! If you want to exercise, stick to cardio (and lots of water) which will be more slimming.