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Niki
235/206.0/139
LCing since 8/21/04; Restart 1/28/08

Hey Extreme Team!

Let's Get Started!

Every day, cut and paste this format into a new post and let me know how the previous day went. I'll tally the results and post every Monday.

Name: *
Stats for: *(date)
Calories: *
Carbs: *
# glasses water: *
Exercise: *
Weight (optional): *

For your first post, please introduce yourself with this info:

Name: *
Start Weight: *
Goal Weight: *
Goal Date: *
Why do you want to lose this weight?: *
Describe your perfect day, visualizing yourself at your goal weight: *

Feel free to add any additional info that you'd like!

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Niki
235/206.0/139
LCing since 8/21/04; Restart 1/28/08

Name: Niki (sizzlingseven)

Start Weight: 182

Goal Weight: 129

Goal Date: July 28, 2006

Why do you want to lose this weight?: My sister is getting married and I am her maiden of honour.

Describe your perfect day, visualizing yourself at your goal weight: It is November 6, 2006. Chris, Sydney and I have just arrived in Punta Cana yesterday for our first two-week vacation together as a family. Today is our first day to just sit on the beach and relax. I am wearing a super-cute turquoise bikini and I feel fabulous in it! I am so comfortable in my body that wearing something this small doesn't bother me one bit! I am at the shoreline, building sandcastles with Sydney. Chris is sitting on his lounger under our palapa, watching us girls play in the sand. He is so proud of me and what I have accomplished by staying true to my goals and staying focused on what I needed to do to get down to my goal weight. I have been an inspiration to him, and a positive role model for my daughter. I am so happy and grateful right now for where I am and I thank the Universe for co-creating my perfect day for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Niki
235/206.0/139
LCing since 8/21/04; Restart 1/28/08

I like the idea of the Challenge. Where do you post? In this spot? I'm game. I'm going to count weight lost rather than actual total weight though.

Name: *
Stats for: *(date)
Calories: *
Carbs: *
# glasses water: *
Exercise: *
Weight (optional): *

For your first post, please introduce yourself with this info:

Name: *
Start Weight: *
Goal Weight: *
Goal Date: *
Why do you want to lose this weight?: *
Describe your perfect day, visualizing yourself at your goal weight: *

Name: *
Stats for: *(date)
Calories: *
Carbs: *
# glasses water: *
Exercise: *
Weight (optional): *

For your first post, please introduce yourself with this info:

Name: *Athena
Start Weight: *
Goal Weight: *12 lbs. less
Goal Date: *5/26/06
Why do you want to lose this weight?: *Yo-yo ing for years. Eat to live attitude rather than live to eat. To enjoy cooking without splurging. Finally develop normal eating habits.
Describe your perfect day, visualizing yourself at your goal weight
Early morning awakening for a great run, followed by green tea and a healthy breakfast. Maybe a leisurely few hours shopping with my daughter, partaking in healthy habits like drinking water and eating a good salad for lunch and then stopping off at the beach for a few hours, wearing a great swim suit and playing with my daughter in the water.

I'll post daily here. Even if it's only a couple people, it will be worth it.

Hi Athena! Welcome! This will be fun! I'm going to add as many recipes or suggestions as possible. I've lost 10 pounds in two weeks just by eating this way (1000 cal, 40g carbs) and will post my meals and suggestions. I'm so glad that you joined! We'll get each other to that goal and I'll do anything I can to help you lose 12 pounds in the next 4 weeks! You can do it!

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Niki
235/206.0/139
LCing since 8/21/04; Restart 1/28/08

Well, I hate to be a wet blanket here, but depending on one's basal metabolic rate, eating 1000 or fewer calories can have a very counterproductive effect. It can trigger a response where the metabolism slows itself down to such a rate that when one tries to eat normally, weight gain is inevitable. It's called the starvation effect.

While everyone is free to eat any way they want in this world, this forum does not support crash dieting.

We support a journey to better health through learning new and better eating habits.

Nothing personal, but I'm closing this thread for that reason.

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