Walk away the pounds did!

[baronessekat]

Today was weigh in. I had set myself to accept a gain. I blew all my flex points plus 8 over that.

The Wendie plan may work from some people, I found I ate more than I ever did, AND that the numbers didn't add up right. for the 22 point range, it didn't add up correctly when I did the tally. So I stopped myself half way through it and went back to normal Flex system and counted the points.

But knowing I had gone way over, I started the workout I bought last week. I got "Walk away the pounds" dvd set and have been doing the one or two mile almost every day (didn't do it thursday last week as I was flat on my back sick). I had just been praying that I'd maintain or only have a very slight gain.

Went to the meeting today and before even getting on the scale I told my leader how bad I did this week but was hoping the exercise helped to cancel some of it out.

And whoa! 2.4 pound loss.

I still have a chance of making my personal goal of 30 pounds gone by next week (that's when the pedicure and manicure are booked for). I'm going ot keep up with the workout and see if I can drop it.

But here's the ticker:

Comments

[dragondare.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm curious about this "walk away the pounds" business. Do you like, walk in place? Seriously, I don't want this comment to come off rude, I'm just trying to conceptualize walking and DVD at the same time. I have spinning DVDs and there's the whole stationary thing going on there, so I'm assuming it's in the same vein?

[baronessekat.livejournal.com]

actually yeah. lot of walking in place. It's punctuated with knee lifts (kinda like intense marching), side steps and alternate foot front kicks. The main change ups are speed of the steps, foot placement and depth of knee bends to work various muscle groups. There is arm work as well that is free hand as well as done with light weights. I won't pay the money for the official weight balls so have been using the one pound weights I picked up at the dollar store a couple weeks ago, and I can feel the difference when I do and don't use them.

I know there are a lot of different versions out there. But I own the 2pk which has the one mile, the two mile and three mile. I've done the one and two mile ones. the one mile takes about 20 minutes to do from warm up to after cool down stretch. the two mile takes 29 minutes.

So far I've found that all I need is a clear patch of floor about 3-4 feet wide by the same deep, though the instructor says that you can stay in place if you don't have the room.

I like it because it does help me work on my coordination (which I am seriously lacking), posture (which can always be helped) and keeps me off the floor (not big on ab crunches and stuff like that)

When I first started the program I didn't think it was really doing anything as the one mile is rather low intensity and I didn't feel my heart rate go up, my breathing remained pretty much the same and I didn't break a sweat. How could something work that doesn't give me anything. But the next day I felt it in my legs and shoulders.

When I moved up to the two mile I did feel it while doing the program, especially in my calves and upper back. (this was prevelant during the side steps where you squat down almost like a baseball short-stop and move side to side)

So far I'm liking it. I haven't gotten the nerve yet to try the three mile, but the one and two are good for me. Maybe this weekend I'll try the really high intensity one.