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Welcome everyone, new and veterans of SI6 or other workout/diet programs. Michelle, Karen and Crystal are here to help you with motivation, to lend support and to answer your questions, we know there are many. If you really need support and motivation, this is the place to be.

Let's Do It!

Hi Crystal,
Found it!! We'll be alright as long as they don't start calling us the three stooges LOL.
Anyway this is Karen and I am a 46 year old, mother of 4 and grandmother of 4. I also own, am editor and publisher of The Fisher Reporter in Fisher, IL; a weekly small town newspaper. I started si6 on March 29th 2004 at 186.5 pounds and in a ladies size 16. Since then I have lost 26 pounds and 32 inches!!! I have gone from a size 16 to -- yes CJ I bought my first pair of size 8 jeans yesterday and THEY FIT!!!! Actually surprised me, I figured they would be too tight in the waist for a little while at least but no!! Shoot back in my younger days I wore a size 12 and only weighed around 140 so throw those scales away!!! With Debbie you can weigh 160 and wear a size 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KPP everybody it works!!!
Karen
P.S. I already told my hubby that he has to take some pics today because I haven't taken any since I finished my 6 wks and was in a size 12. So hopefully tomorrow I will post one on here.

Hi Karen, this thread is much shorter!! I PP this morning!!! First day, wow! what a workout. I am really excited though and felt good for doing the fasting as long as I did. Sat..4:15 am until Sun. 5:15pm. 37 hours. so I exercised first thing this am. before eating. Since I ate last night. Anyway,I feel sore, a little. I watched the other tapes and did see the times of those. I also saw your other post w/the times thanks, I don't think I'll be able to do them before work either. I'll probably wait and do them after work, but before dinner. I did do the Slim & Limber about 2hrs. after the SIU. I felt better, not as sore. If I read correctly I should do that tape on my day off and can also do it everyday? I don't think I can do the 6/pack abs. though, I think those muscles are lost,have been lost for a loooooong time. LOL! Congats!!! to you a size 8!! that is awesome!! I'm just hoping to fit into my jeans before it gets to cool. Nothing fits me. I gave all of it away when I lost my weight on WW. I said I'll never let myself get to that size again! YEAH!! Well i refuse to buy a pair of jeans. The picnic yesterday, I was the only female with shorts on! As the evening went on, the hostess brought me a blanket to wrap around my legs. She was so sweet, earlier she offered me a pair of sweats, I knew I couldn't fit into hers, and I wasn't going to wear her Hubby's pants!!

Crystal, Hi to you, I've read allot of your posts also. I also am a waitress. I posted on your web page last week. Actually your story and pics inspired me. Then I found the the thread with mostly Karen and you and saw the awesome friendship you've developed and jumped in there to. I haven't posted on Michele's, but have also read allot of her posts and saw the cry for help to her. I don't know you three can keep up with so many threads and still work on yourselves. I hope I can some day. But for know, I get overwhelmed, I am not a comp. wizard at all. I get lost very easy. This is the first time I've ever did anything like this. I've only had a comp. for 2 years. I've always had a phobia about them. Anyway, I'm done babbling for now. and if this thread is for just questions let me know please. I don't want to do anything wrong! I do have a question though. LOL Do either of you take any of the suppliments? While watching the RIU and BIU today, suppliments were mentioned. It said those that used them lost 30% more weight. Thats what I want!! When I ordered I did get the slimming formula tablets and I remember her asking me about the vitamins, I said I already take vitamins. Are BB's better? What about the preformance tablets? OMG I sound like I've been suckered in! Whta do you think about the suppliments?? Have a great day, Stay Strong, Barbara

Hey Everyone!! I finally made it!Yesterday was the day from H E double hocky sticks!! We had to move my hubbys grandparents. Some thing we thought would take a couple hours took all day. Long story short the house wasn't packed and it was the most unorganized move in the history of moves!! So much for having a rest day!!

Here's my story...I am 32 and a SAHM of an independent two year old named Megan. I 've been married to the love of my life, Richard, for 3 1/2 years! It's my first and last marriage (knock on wood). We met...he proposed...we got married...all in three months!!

I was never fat until I got pregnant. Weighed 180 at the end and gained 50 more pounds breastfeeding for one year. So, my big fat total was 235.

I worked out 4-6 days a week at a gym...two hours each time and only lost 35 pounds in one year. Since starting SI6 on April 19, 2004 I have lost 26 pounds and 32 inches (same as Karen)!! SI6 has changed my life. Now, that I am getting my figure back...I'm not depressed, I smile much more, my skin is clearer...I am finding the old me under all that fat!! I am currently at 170...my goal is 140, but I really want to be a 125, but one goal at a time!!

I've gotta go. Megan just woke from her nap!!

Michelle

Hi
My name is Karla and my husband and I just beginning week 5 of Sin6. I have been following Michelle's motivation thread and saw where you were starting a new thread. But tonight is the first time I have tried to post. My husband is having great success with the program. I am enjoying the work and can tell my fitness level is improving. I am just not seeing huge results so far. Decided it was time to contribute my 2 cents worth and say thanks for the great examples.

Hi Carla,
Are you going by what the scale says or by measuring. The scale really doesn't tell the story here, but that tape measurer may become your best friend!!! Drink lots of H20, eat right and PP.
Karen

HI, Im new to SI6. I just ordered this Sept.3rd, the day after my 38th birthday. I've been wanting to join LA Weight Loss or something but with winter coming here in upstate NY, I fear I wouldn't be able to get to all the meetings due to weather. I do need to lose about 75 lbs. I was at 221 Sept. 1st and been watching what I eat and walking 2 miles a day since the 1st and waiting for my stuff to come. I can't wait to start. I keep watching the email to see if its been shipped yet.
I do have a question. How do you find answers to my letters that I write? I need to keep track of where I wrote them? I would love to have you THREE MUSKETEERS to help coach me and be accountable to. My email is mypostol@earthlink.net if you need or want to reach me that way. Thanks for all your inspiration.
Lonnie

Lonnie...Each post you make should highlight the topic you clicked on. The ones you look at will be red while the others are black. If you can't find them on page one then click on page 2 or 3 or 4 and look on them. Hopefully, this thread will be on page one every day!! With three of us checking it daily...we should positively be one page one.

Anyway, congrats on the two miles a day and eating right!! That is soooo great! You are going to do a super job with SI6 once it finally gets to your door! Be patient...it will come!

I would say that you don't need to join any eating group like LA Weight Loss or Weight Watchers. SI6 will provide you with every thing you need. Look for Michi's Ladder in you package when you get it and make it your new best friend!!

The only other suggestions I have is drink 100oz of water a day...I know it sounds like a lot, but water is a major key in any weight loss journey!! And another big one is to not eat three hours before bed!! You want your body to be a fat burning machine at night. If you have food in your stomach then it will burn the carbs in your tummy instead of fat!! If you get hungry at night just try to push through the cravings and hunger pains and soon you will have retrained your body not to eat at night!! Another big one is not to eat less than 1200 calories a day!! Your body needs fuel so eat up on those fresh veggies and fruit!! Try to stick to grilled chicken or turkey.

Good luck to you and I am sure that Karen and Crystal will also have some great advice for you!! Let us know if you need help with any thing else!!

Michelle

Hello everyone!

I am anxious to start my Slim in Six program. It seemed like it took forever to get here. Actually, it was only 10 days. I received the package in the mail a short 2 hours before my husband and I were mandatorily evacuated from our beachside home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. I wanted to start the program as soon as I got it but hurricane Frances had other plans for me! I am now back home and I have power again and have reviewed the videos. I could use some advice on when I should start (I would like my free day to be on the weekend). Do you recommend doing the "fast start" or the fast. I don't have a clue. I have about 40 pounds to lose. The last time I weighed myself I was 174 pounds. I am 5'4". I think that I gained most of this extra weight due to a hysterectomy. That was about eight years ago, and I am now post menopausal. Forgot to mention that I celebrated my 50th birthday this past February. I hope to get to know you all better as I go through this. Sorry if this post seems a little scattered, I'm still trying to get back to a normal routine after this, our second hurricane in less than a month. I'm purposely not watching the reports about IVAN! Seems like I gain weight when I'm stressed, maybe I should have waited to start Slim in Six until after hurricane season! Just kidding, I really am ready to do this. Everything that I have seen and read about this seems so positive. I'm ready to enjoy the same success as everyone, and I'm ready to do the work to get there.

Darlene

CJ, Karen, and Michelle,
I think it is fantastic the way you motivate and help with the SI6 experience. I am already on other threads and don't like to overextend myself by trying to remember everyones names. I just finished SI6 and now working out a plan to maintain my results. No weight loss (which I didn't want to lose) but I lost 10 inches all over and my clothes are fitting a lot better. It has been a long 3 years for me dieting to get the weight off and then starting to exercise to tone and sculpt this old body.

Keep up the GOOD WORK GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!