12
Sep
2009
Lose 20 pounds .. and have fun!!
My husband was up around 270 pounds and I was about 150 when we decided to lose weight. We tried a lot of things and then I hit on a winning combination of hypnosis, exercise and protein shakes. We both lost 20 pounds! Hurray! I'm right at my goal weight and I'm staying here.
My best protein shake
I started with my Protein Ultimate shake, which I dearly love, and used it as a meal replacement. At night I mixed it with milk … and Ohhhhh it is so good!!!! Just like a chocolate shake. A great thing to have when you are dieting!!!
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Protein Ultimate is my favorite shake…mixes easily, tastes great, and can be used as a meal replacement
Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry … my favorite is the chocolate and my husband likes the vanilla, it has a caramel taste .. |
Hypnosis to lose weight
I saw an Oprah where she invited people from the audience to try out different diet plans for only one month. She had small groups of people try the different diet plans, Atkins and South Beach were the two I knew about. And also she had a hypnotist named Tom Nicole who hypnotized one group.
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After a month they all came back and Tom Nicole's group lost the greatest amount of weight.
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It wasn't long until I was listening to his CD's. I can't attribute all my weight loss to them, because I was doing other things too. But I found them to be truly relaxing….so I listened to one of them just before I went to bed and they really helped me to get to sleep and stay asleep.
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They turned off the stress of the the day and allowed me to sleep without sleeping pills. That alone was worth the cost of the tape.
Exercise to lose weight
My daughter kept saying we needed to exercise.
- We tried to walk, made it around one block and came back home.
- We bought a gym membership, went 3 times, but paid for another 6 months before we canceled it.
- Then we bought some home gym equipment.
The Gazelle
I really like the Gazelle…. I can glide on it for 30-45 minutes while watching TV because it is so quiet. My legs feel like rubber and sometimes I shake. Which I learned means I had a good workout. But I really didn't like that part!
- Now I know that a protein shake with L-Glutamine and Branched-Chained Amino Acids will stop the shaking… and extra calcium will help prevent soreness!
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It has both L-Glutamine and Branched-chained Amino Acids for the shakes along with calcium for soreness |
 Gazelle Best Price $84.46 |
 Gazelle Best Price $150.00 |
Wii Fit Plus
I truly love it…. since we had been sedentary for a number of years, this worked well for us.
- It started out slow and easy and built up into more reps and harder exercises.
- You should have seen my husband trying to do the hola hoop for the first time … he was only able to get it to go around 6 times before it died. He got up to 756 turns … which means he not only learned to do it, but to do it at a very fast pace! He burned off a ton of calories, turns out that this is one of the top calorie burners.
- I fell in love with the bicycle. I rode it all around the island, looking for caves etc. One day I got carried away and spent over an hour just bicycling around, until I noticed the time and realized my legs were numb.
- It even tells you how many calories you burn!
All the pieces to make this work can be confusing … you need the Wii console + Balance board + Wii fit plus .. and these all come in a variety of combinations, depending on what you already have!
One problem seems to be low supply and high demand, so these may go up before they go back down!
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The Wii console comes with everything you need for one-player fun. You'll get one Wii remote controller, one nunchuk, and one addictive copy of Wii Sports. |
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If you already have Wii Fit and a Balance Board you can just upgrade to Wii Fit Plus. This is the best price on the net .. And believe me it's more than worth it!! |
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If you need both the balance board and Wii Fit Plus then you can get the combination for less than buying them separately.
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EA Sports Active for the Wii
Next we tried EA Sports Active and WOW! I got a real workout at home! Glad I worked up to it slowly with the Wii Fit.
- I typed in my age and low fitness level.
- It took care of the rest on the six weeks challenge and started me off easier and slowly got harder
- It also has things to do like squash, skiing, boxing etc that are a part of your workout. Not something you have extra … but is included in your daily workout!!
- It also tells me how many calories I burn!
I have to say I really enjoy this!!
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This is the original EA Sports Active It comes with the leg strap and resistance bands.
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This is what you need to update your original EA Sports to the new one. This has a 6 week challenge, and seems to be much kinder to us sedentary types. For example the original has us running for a "Cool Down"!
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To summarize, we feel better, sleep better and have fun while each of us looses weight… amazing!
We tried so many things and nothing worked until we found this combination.