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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / August 2004Curves - Thoughts?
Hi everyone, I've been lurking here for a few days and checking out different diets. I've tried several over the years and had the most temporary success with Weight Watchers and South Beach although I'm right back where I started now. I believe that any diet is a good one if you don't feel like you're on a diet and can maintain a healthy lifestyle over time. Unfortunately for me... I NEED structure. Has anyone tried Curves, either the diet or the exercises or both? It seems worth trying cause I really need to get back in the habit of working out but wondered if anyone had experience to share with me? Thanks! - Amy please GOOGLE this group and use CURVES as your subject. i hope you have several hours! :)  Signaturejust another republican witch hunt! http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080104A.shtml : Hi everyone, : [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] : Thanks! : - Amy > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks! > - Amy Amy, Curves is highly appropriate for some people and highly inappropriate for others. Can you give us more information on where you stand now and what your goals are? What is your current diet and lifestyle like? You're right that the diet model doesn't work. You have to change your mind and then learn a different lifestyle. It's very possible, though, and what this group is best at helping you with. What your actual choice of foods consists of tends to be secondary, though we'll be quick to criticize nearly everything you put in your mouth. :-) Dally My goal is to feel healthy again by losing weight. I'm sickened by how much I have gained in the past few years and struggle with thinking it could take just as long to get the weight off. I am about 220 lbs right now and only 5'3". My heaviest ever (recorded, anyway) was 226 so I'm almost there again. Last year I got down to 193 but then went off of South Beach for my honeymoon and never got back on :( My current lifestyle is extrememly sedentary - fancy word for LAZY and my eating habits are good one day, bad the next. Today I'm doing very well though! My goal right now is to get back to 150 and then see what my possibilities are beyond that. The lowest I recall weighing in the recent past is 140 when I graduated college (1997). Immediate goal - I want my stretch jeans in size 20 to not have to stretch!!! - Amy > Amy, Curves is highly appropriate for some people and highly > inappropriate for others. Can you give us more information on where you [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Dally You can do this, Amy! I was in a hell of lot worse shape than you -- I would be thrilled if my high weight was 226! Why don't you give Curves a try -- it certainly couldn't hurt. If you find you want to "graduate" from there at some point, great -- but I think it's a great starting point for you. Go for it! Mary M 325-154-148 > My goal is to feel healthy again by losing weight. I'm sickened by > how much I have gained in the past few years and struggle with [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > - Amy Thanks for the positive note - I was beginning to think this site was a cruel joke to get fat people to open up then belittle them. Some of the other threads are really mean! Update - I decided to join after visiting last night. The staff member I met with was very encouraging and it's a small enough place that you can't really get lost in the shuffle. I have my first official workout tomorrow so they can walk me through all the equipment. I've also started using fitday.com - thanks for that tip from whoever sent it - it creates the structure I need without being stuck to a specific diet. Thanks again - I'll keep you posted on my progress! - Amy > You can do this, Amy! I was in a hell of lot worse shape than you -- I would be > thrilled if my high weight was 226! Why don't you give Curves a try -- it certainly [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Mary M > 325-154-148 > Thanks for the positive note - I was beginning to think this site was > a cruel joke to get fat people to open up then belittle them. Some of > the other threads are really mean! Nah, but you do need a thick skin in Usenet land. My motto (learned from Overeaters Anonymous many years ago) is "take what you like and leave the rest" -- and so I usually ignore flamey threads or try to see through people's bluntness to their real message or intent -- I think with the anonymity, people can tend to drop niceties or manners (even moreso than the anonymity afforded by being in a car -- i.e. people who are normally nice get caught up in road rage). Lots of people have come and gone from this newsboard and sometimes curt replies can apply to a pattern that's widely seen -- i.e. a newbie wants information without doing a lot of work for it and then complains about the responses, so it can get wearing on old-timers. Just my thoughts and I hope you stick around. > Update - I decided to join after visiting last night. The staff > member I met with was very encouraging and it's a small enough place [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > stuck to a specific diet. > Thanks again - I'll keep you posted on my progress! Big congratulations on joining Curves and signing up for Fitday -- those are both excellent moves. Just take things one step at a time, one day at a time -- too much change at once can be overwhelming so I like to build habits gradually until they become "no-brainers" before adding other major changes. The key is long-term commitment and endurance -- both very good habits to cultivate (which were completely foreign to me before, LOL). Good luck Amy! Mary 325-154-148 > - Amy > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Mary M > > 325-154-148 Start thinking of structure as an every day thing for the rest of your life. If you've been on programs before and stopped, Curves won't be any different. It's not a matter of dieting. It's a matter of exercising and eating right the rest of your life. > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks! > - Amy Amy, At my gym (LA Fitness) heavy set people rarely last - there's an intimidation factor. Curves seems like a better bet. > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks! > - Amy >Amy, > >At my gym (LA Fitness) heavy set people rarely last - there's an >intimidation factor. Curves seems like a better bet. I dunno. I've always been pretty comfortable in a regular gym -- and have gone from being a tentative (and heavy!) beginner at my gym to someone who's been asked to consider working there as a trainer. But I know some women are more comfortable in a women-only environment. (I'm a 56-year-old woman, by the way.) I have the impression that Curves' exercise program is most appropriate to someone who's an exercise beginner. It might be a good place to start out if that description fits you, Amy. But I'd recommend that you think about it kind of like exercise "training wheels" and be prepared to look for a "real gym" once the routine becomes easy. Chris 262/143/ (145-150) >>Amy, >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Chris > 262/143/ (145-150) Exactly what Chris said. I know three women who all started Curves when they changed their eating habits. Later they moved to the different group exercise classes at a local gym and eventually found free weights. They now do free weights and attend an abs class. All three of them say they won’t go back to Curves. They claimed it was, “too easy”. It did get them interested in weight training so Curves deserves credit for that. Rob 185/140 155/160 > Hi everyone, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks! > - Amy Curves is a great way to start a regular exercise program. I never tried their diet but I was a Curves member for a year. I recently switched to a regular gym as I felt I needed a larger variety of exercise and the gym I joined has spinning classes. Beverly |
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