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"I told you about the new trend of fitness boot camps for brides, which, to me, sounds like a pretty extreme method. But, this news takes extreme to a whole new level. Sadly, a woman in England died while dieting before her wedding. This news makes me wonder: Is there just too much pressure to look &amp;quot;perfect&amp;quot; on your wedding day? The Daily Mail reports that a 34-year-old British woman, Samantha Clowe, collapsed recently at her home from heart failure after following a strict 530-calorie-per-day pre-wedding diet. She allegedly didn&amp;#x27;t want to be &amp;quot;a fat bride.&amp;quot; So very sad! This story is a reminder of two things, I think: 1.) Extreme dieting is not something to mess around with. Our bodies are not meant to survive on 530 calories a day, let alone the 11 weeks that Clowe endured. 2.) Healthy eating and shaping up is one thing, but please, please, please don&amp;#x27;t fall into the thinking that you need to change yourself for your wedding! Engaged? Do you feel pressure to be thin for your wedding? If you&amp;#x27;re married, did you go through a big pre-wedding fitness craze? Was it healthy? More reading: How about a yoga-themed wedding! And, check out Sunny&amp;#x27;s healthy pre-wedding fitness journey. More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter! Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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