Lose 100 Pounds
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Continued from How to Lose 100 Pounds. Think you can⿿t lose 100 pounds? That is what Courtney Nourse probably thought when she has past 200 pounds mark.
She couldn⿿t even fit in an amusement park ride, which was hardly amusing.
But this former couch potato has found a way to get her, well, you know ⿿ her stuff ⿿ together. Here is how she lost 100 pounds without
diet pills,
liposuction surgery or fancy meal delivery services.
Turning Point: As a teen, Courtney Nourse spent her after-school hours downing six-packs of Pepsi and snacking on nachos in front of the TV, ⿿just getting bigger every year,⿿ she says; by 2003 ⿿ at 235 lbs.⿿ she could no longer fit on her favorite roller-coaster ride at the local amusement park. ⿿I thought, ⿿This isn⿿t any way to live,⿿⿿ she recalls.
How She Lost 100 Pounds: After using fitness Web sites to determine her optimal caloric intake, the 5⿲4⿳ Nourse created a 1,500-calorie-a-day
diet.
A typical breakfast was a small bagel and a cup of yogurt, followed by a Lean Cuisine meal and half a cup of Fiber One with sugar-free Jell-O pudding for lunch and baked fish and a box of frozen vegetables for dinner.
She also hit the treadmill for 30 minutes six days a week and
lifted weights.
Her 100-LB. Moment Although Nourse, 27, usually weighs herself every day, she held off as she approached the 100-lb. mark in December, wanting to wait until Christmas. ⿿I knew it would be the best present if I hit my goal,⿿ she says. And was it? ⿿I was jumping up and down!⿿ she says.
The Recap: She was 235 lbs., created a simple diet and exercise program on her own, lost over 100 pounds (105 pounds to be exact) ⿿ and now at 130 lbs. she says, ⿿I want to bungee jump and surf ⿿ things I would⿿ve been too scared of before.⿿ [
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