Yup, exactly... Walking remains *the* best way to exercise... Most other
exercises *try* to be friendly to your body and not hurt it. On the other
hand, your body was *built* around the process of walking during the eons of
evolution...

Reddaway, if you're really serious about losing weight, you have to
understand that *everything* you need to do it is available for free right
inside yourself. You have legs to walk, and that's all the aerobic exercise
you need for now. Besides, walking is fun, it actually takes you from place
to place, lets you visit people and all. Isn't that more interresting that
sweating on a machine in the basement? You have body weight to push around
and lift, and legs and arms, and that's all you need to build muscles. You
have a brain that is able to monitor your fat stores, your caloric intake
and your current needs more reliably than any scale or abacus... Real slim
people do not buy expensive machines to stay slim, they just put energy into
whatever they do and eat less...

You seem to want external solutions to your own problem. You want to lose
weight, but you need an expensive machine to do that (and when you have it,
it won't be good enough, and you will need to wait for another one to being
to lose weight). You don't need anything to get out of the couch and
exercise, except actually doing it... You also want a plan to tell you how
and what to eat (weight watcher is a very monitored process), as if you are
not confident you can simply reduce the total amount of what you eat. And
no, it's not the place to get motivation, motivation can only come from
within. However, this is a place to get advice, hints, what-not-to-do,
explanations...
If you really feel you need "motivation", maybe what you actually need a
coach or something like this. Again, that's not something you can find on
the Internet, you do need a face to face relationship for this kind of think
to work. However, you can find opinions on what kind of coach worked for
various people. For me, it was a no-diet nutritionist with a heavy
psychological training (cognitive and behavioural mainly). I tend to think
any psycho-sth who is familliar with obesity and eating disorder should be
able to help (on the other hand, I would avoid like hell those who do not
understand obesity related problems, they're just clueless). I would also
avoid gym trainers, who weirdly enough, are often clueless about what
obesity really is. But I guess people here have other opinions on this ;)

Sorry if I did sound harsher than I wanted... But total dependance on the
external world to accomplish something like a diet is a path best not
taken...

I can't beleive that all u in usa are still fighting over weight without
knowing the cheapest & easyer mean ....
all that are doing a low calories diet ....
if u r following a 1000 or 1500 Kcal a day u'll stop loosing weight when ur
body will keep the same amount of calories regime .... & then ????
so keep supplement that let u eat low calories but hig nutrient value
.....is the solution to not let ur body stop methabolism .....