NOT the answer to your exercise prayers

Advantages: Good for use in aerobics classes
Disadvantages: uncomfortable, expensive, counter productive to your training!

...Gold Gym adjustable ankle/wrist weights Ok, welcome to The most pointless piece of exercise equipment I have ever used. This product is wrong on a number of levels. They are expensive, uncomfortable and also physiologically have more of a negative impact on training than a positive one. Let me explain. Here are the claims of Golds Gym with regards to their product. *Unique soft insert system allows for weight adjustment *(Changes in increments of 0.5 kg for a total weight of 2.5 kg each *Durable, dirt and water resistant nylon construction *Metal loop/velcro closure is secure and adjustable *Adding weights to your cardiovascular workout increases its intensity. COMFORT Ok so where to begin. well firstly the weights are extremely uncomfortable. No matter how hard you tighten the weights around your wrist...

Logan33 18.02.2009 · Read review
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Not just dust on the menu at Weight Watchers

Advantages: A weight loss programme that is tried and tested
Disadvantages: Can be expensive

... WEIGHTWATCHERS An update to my original review Hello my name is Sue and I'm a Weight Watcher!!!!!! I first made a hesitant step into a Weight Watcher meeting about 35 years ago. In those days the plan was completely different you had to eat certain foods at certain times. I stuck to the plan rigidly, I filled in my tracker every week and was the star pupil week after week. In less than a year I had lost 8 stone, in fact I struggled not to loose too much when I was on maintenance. I kept the weight off for several moinths and then I started working full time, in those days there was only one Weight Watcher meeting in our town and the evening meeting corresponded with the night that I was 'Brown Owl' - consequently the weight slowly began to creep on. Ironically just a month after starting work I was...

oldchem 30.05.2009 (24.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Weight Watchers

LOSE WEIGHT, LOOK GREAT

Advantages: Losing weight is easy and you don't have to give up your favourite foods, great support offered, lots of local meetings during the day and eveing
Disadvantages: Weekly fee can make it an expensive way to lose weight

...At the beginning of the year I was prescribed Xenical to help me lose weight, it did work but was very slow and the side effects were very nasty so I wasn?t disappointed when my GP temporarily took me off them when I went down with a nasty illness in the Summer. However, whilst the side effects had gone there was still a downside ? having stopped the tablets all the weight I had lost, and more, suddenly started to pile back on. Initially I ignored it but when all the new clothes I had bought got to the point of being too tight I decided I had to do something positive but something that didn?t involve going back on the Xenical. I had often thought of joining Weight Watchers and it had been highly recommended to me by several people, however, as I?m not a fruit, salad or veg person I didn?t believe that any kind of ?NORMAL? diet...

junkboxjules 18.12.2003 · Read review
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My weight loss journey

Advantages: I will be thinner!
Disadvantages: It will be hard work - but worth it!

...get in. Along the way I?ll be adding other ?reviews? on to here of products I have used and even recipes I have found to be good. Hopefully combined they will be useful to anyone needing to loose weight! I?m obviously not a doctor or a dietician so this is just what I am doing and my advice. If you have a lot of weight to loose or your BMI is over 30 then you should see a doctor before dieting. Okay, the first step of any plan is, well, planning! Here?s what I intend to do before my diet starts: 1) Set a start date. This lets you work up to the diet and start a fresh. I am choosing Monday 1st June 2009. Psychologically a Monday is a good day as the start of a new week, the perfect time for a new start. Don?t make the mistake of binging everyday until your start date, you?ll just have to work harder, instead start cutting back...

donnabroom 24.05.2009 (16.06.2009) · Read review
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Review of Members Advice on Weight Loss

Weight Watchers

Advantages: fun, easy, no banned foods
Disadvantages: none in my opinion

...After having my son it was hard to imagine how difficult it would be getting back into shape. Constantly tired from being up all night, excercise was the last thing on my mind. I barely had enough time to eat never mind evaluate what i was eating. As you can imagine this resulted in me eating the wrong things and gaining an exceptional amount of weight. One year on from my sons birth I held my breathe and stepped onto the scales. Mortified, I glanced down at the 14st 2lb. At 5ft 3" this classed me as obese. I was shocked into action. The next day as i was chatting to my mum about my new findings she recommended weight watchers to me. Registration was free at this time so i thought there was no harm in going along. Before i stepped into the meeting room i felt my heart pounding. I expected everyone to judge me by how much i had...

vikki-adam 05.04.2008 · Read review
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A great set of rollers!

Advantages: shiny, full of volume curls!
Disadvantages: Still time consuming!

...I used these a few weeks ago at my friend's house and I was really impressed! When I go out to a wedding or a big occasion I like to spend some time getting ready and making my hair look nice. I have tried using curling tongs and GHDs to curl my hair but i'm always getting it uneven or burning myself or I get half way throguh and decide i'm fed up!! I went to my friend's house and used her roller set and I was really impressed with them! They heated up very quickly and were really easy to use. The box contains 20 rollers which are ceramic. They are in 3 different sizes which is dfferent to what I've used before as they only had two sizes. There are large, medium and small so you can get the right type of curl for the right part of your hair! They secure into place with the grips really easily which again is a bonus, it can be...

lorriellah 20.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of John Lewis 3060JU Roller Set

Expensive But Very Effective In Weight Loss.

Advantages: It really works providing you have the detemination
Disadvantages: the prices they charge to jump an a scale.

..., if I want a sausage sandwich I can have one, but I need to eat point free foods if I reach my point target as long as I can still have something to eat I don't mind. The core plan is where you eat certain foods listed in the book, this is fine if you like every type of food. You can eat as much as you like from the list and still lose at the end of the week. I can't personally stick to this diet as the majority of the foods I can't stand, but I have seen it work well for others. If you are a new started you can use the kick starter diet, this is only available on the first two weeks or you diets and can lose you up to 5 pounds in weight, This is a very strict diet and you have to follow the diet weight watchers set out for you. I didn't do this at the start as I thought it was too intense to start with, so I stuck with the points...

mythdata 03.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Weight Watchers

Do You Watch Your Weight ?

Advantages: Lots of local meetings, supportive leaders who have lost weight themselves through weight watchers..
Disadvantages: Got to have credit or debit card to access monthly pass.

...very brave and must be determined to come so close to Christmas, then she asked me to take a seat while she continued weighing the few other people who had come along, she also pointed out the little shop which was set up on the table. I went over to the shop and it turned out that choosing to come at the end of the year was a good idea, because many of the products were reduced ready for the New Year stock. I purchased a journal with pen; this is to keep a log on my points or core foods for 3 months and a record of my measurements and weights so I could easily see my progress. I also purchased the shopping guide, which listed hundreds if not thousands of brand name products along with information about their suitability for each plan. Finally, I bought an eating out guide, which lists some favourites on the menu from various restaurants...

kalliemaile 13.07.2008 · Read review
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Yogalates for Weight Loss

Advantages: Split into 3 sections, good for all levels, great price
Disadvantages: None come to mind

...weight loss. I did not buy this DVD as I need to lose weight, but love Yoga and thought I might do a little extra at home rather than paying an fortune to go to an extra class. After a month of doing the DVD... if i'm honest only once a week, I have not lost any weight. I have felt some increased toning though in ceratin parts of my body. I am not suggesting that you cannot lose weight by doing these workouts, but I am the kind of person that thinks oh i've done a bit of excerise now i'm going to eat chocolate. I personally find Yoga very relaxing and gives me a bit of 'me time'. I found that this DVD has actually helped me to relax even further than when I attend one Yoga session a week. I did not however find that it gave me any me time. Realistically what it achieved was for my other half to take photos of me without me knowing...

Lisab3410 06.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Yogalates For Weight Loss (DVD)

Watching the weight disappear.

Advantages: Weight loss, food ideas, food products.
Disadvantages: None

...If like me you have a lot to lose, joining a slimming club is the best route. I have tried to diet at home to save the weekly class cost ,but it is just not as effective. That is why I think Weightwatchers is great. They offer two diet plans, The Points plan and The core plan. The Points plan is exactly as it sounds, you count your daily points. The points you are allowed depends on your weight, height, age and activity level. Your joining pack shows you how to calculate your personal daily points. For example a lady of 30 years old weighing 14 stone, who does not do any activity would probably have a points limit of 22 per day. From this amount they could eat a weighed jacket potato, with a large salad and beans, totalling an average of 5 points, or they could eat a sandwich made with 2 slices wholemeal bread lighly buttered...

deviloxo 02.03.2008 · Read review
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