Nikki

Almost 3 years on, Nikki is doing very well indeed. She has kept the weight off (and lost more). "Right now I waver between 163 and 165 pounds, I am super active and I no longer let the scale determine my happiness," she says. 

Nikki loved being part of X-Weighted. "It was a beautiful process and I'm so grateful that I had that opportunity. My life changed 389°, it was ridiculous how much my life changed from that experience," she says.

Nikki says that she feels that her best when she is active. "I am the captain of my own soccer team, so I play lots of soccer. I do lots of running and right now I am training to do a triathlon. I do my thing about four or five times a week for sure, and there's not one day that goes by where I'm not active in some way," she says.

You may remember that Nikki split with her fiance Erich while on the show, the two only met once after that so that she could get her stuff back. "It was just a brilliant end to something that was causing me so much grief," she says, "and I learned a lot about my own self-worth and what I wanted to put up with and what I wanted in a relationship."

Nikki is a happy single girl, who is having lots of fun. She has an active social life and is very busy setting up her own business. "It is called Authentic Image, and it works with women around the physiological, sociological and emotional components of their relationships with food," she explains.

Nikki says that being on the show taught her to eat right and the importance of exercise,  but says that for her, "the maintenance comes from really going in and doing the emotional work".

At the end of her journey, once the cameras stopped rolling, Nikki took all her bigger clothes to a consignment store and says that doing so gave her a sense of closure. "At the end of the 6 months I took what I learned, and I moved forward," she says.

"I am extremely happy," says Nikki, "people watching my episode can see the physical transformation, but for me it was the emotional transformation that had the biggest affect."

Nikki's relationship with her mom was something that was dealt with on the show, and happily Nikki says that her relationship with her mom only got better after filming finished. "I love my mom dearly. We just cut the BS, we really got real with each other. It was really good for her to see my episode actually, she realized it that what I needed from her when she watched it was not perfection but just her time and her interest in me," says Nikki.

October 2009