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“ More than 70 percent of brides-to-be want to lose weight before their wedding day … .To reach the perfect wedding-day weight, more than one-third of them use extreme dieting tactics such as diet pills and fasting ” - Bridezillas on a Diet - New York Times Blog Stats are based on a Cornell study, published online from a forthcoming issue of the journal Appetite, that  surveyed 272 engaged women. There’s more.  91 percent of the women were worried about their weight, reporting that they wanted to lose weight or were actively trying to prevent weight gain. By comparison, national data show that about 62 percent of similarly aged women have the same concerns. Among the 70 percent of women who were trying to lose weight, the average desired loss was about 21 pounds, not counting three women in the group who were trying to lose more than 100 pounds each.