TOO BIG TO FIT IN AN AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE, THIS FORMER COUCH POTATO GOT MOVING
2002
235 lbs.
NOW!
130 lbs.
"I want to bungee jump and surf—things I would've been too scared of before"
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 DID IT: 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. The Mount Morris, N.Y., radio ad scheduler 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.
Have you lost 100 lbs.—or more? Send your before and after photos and details on how you did it to: 100pounds@peoplemag.com.
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