Six Brides, Six Diets (PEOPLE)

WEIGHT-LOSS CHALLENGE

CRYSTAL JONES
LOST 52 LBS.
THEN 231 LBS.

When the interior designer, 27, walked down the aisle on Oct. 23, “my dress was a little big!” says Jones. She dropped from a size 18 to a 12, thanks to three-day-a-week workouts created by trainer Roma Simkute and a 1,200-calorie daily diet monitored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital nutritionist Gretchen Swank. “I ate what I wanted, but less of it,” she says. “I feel I’ll be able to keep this up after the wedding.”

Published in PEOPLE magazine.