Thought this might be interesting to do. I can't remember if it had been done in the past. The Member MIA Thread gave me this idea. Even though we have a lot of new members, we have a lot of members that have been here for a couple of years. I figured everybody could post up the very first post they had here, just as a reminder of where we've come from. Here's mine from January of 2004.



"Here is a little background on myself. A little over a year ago I was 5'10 and weighed 240lbs. I got fed up with being overweight so I started exercising A LOT. I never bothered to figure out the proper way to lose the weight, so I simply cut my calories. At the time I was probably consuming around 1250-1500cal. a day. At this point in time, I am 5'11 173lbs. Now that I have lost this weight, I see where I screwed up. I feel that I have lost a lot of muscle and still have some flab. I play an hours worth of full court basketball everyday, as well as about 1.5 hrs or more of tennis. I am trying to tone my muscle and get my abs to appear, but I would like to do it the right way. My question is, WHAT SHOULD I EAT? How many calories should I be bringing in, and with what types of food?"