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ABS DIET SUCCESS STORY # 4

	We even find that we can't eat as much on our cheat meal because of our shrinking bellies."

Ray and Kim Welborn
Ray's Age: 44
Height: 5'8"
Starting Weight: 188
After 6 Weeks: 169

A Former Kickboxer Kicks It into Gear

When he was in his twenties, Ray Welborn weighed in at about 130 pounds— it was his fighting weight as a professional kickboxer. But after he stopped, he started putting on the pounds.

One day recently, he and his wife, Kim, were in the bookstore and saw The Abs Diet. They immediately took to it— Ray for what he thought it could do for his body, and Kim because it reminded her of the way her parents brought her up to eat healthy.

Both Ray and Kim have lost the weight from their bellies, and Ray is seeing muscles he hasn't seen in years, including ones right around his rib cage.

"She really feels it when she cuddles up to me," he says. More importantly, Ray feels healthier. "I feel lighter. My knees don't hurt as much anymore. With the excess weight off, it doesn't hurt to go downstairs like it used to," he says. "And I can tell you, I can bend over and tie my shoes and breathe at the same time, seriously."

Ray, who's lost nearly 20 pounds, and Kim, who's lost 7, follow the weekly meal planner in the original Abs Diet. "That's our bible," Ray says. "And we stick to it.

With the meals, they adjusted recipes just a bit— so that Kim would eat 4/5 of a portion. That's when she started seeing a change. "I like it because of the healthy food," Kim says. "I used to do Weight Watchers, and they all concentrated just on points— it didn't matter whether it had high-fructose corn syrup in it or not. With Weight Watchers, I was always hungry. With this, I'm never hungry."