RE: CURVES ---free

June 26, 2006

I picked up a box of sugar free Klondike " SLIM-A-BEAR and with it you get a

coupon right on the box for 2 free weeks to try out; " CURVES " , it is good til

Dec, 2006.

SO I am going to give it a shot, the catch is they will give you 2 weeks

free or a large deduction off a year's membership??

I'll take the free weeks to see if it is what I want first.

" TLC Joyce

June 26, 2006

Joyce,

do you know what sweetner the Klondike slim a bear uses? And most

especially, what happens at curves? I hear a lot about it but I don't know

what exactly they do so I don't know if I can participate since I am still

in my wheel chair a good part of the day....

I do have a 'scholarship' to the local Y for swimming and the gym, but

curves might be nicer if I can do it???

JUDITH

> I picked up a box of sugar free Klondike " SLIM-A-BEAR and with it you get

a

> coupon right on the box for 2 free weeks to try out; " CURVES " , it is good

til

> Dec, 2006.

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June 26, 2006

I have a coupon (from Avon) for a two week trial membership for a guest and

a buddy that expires 7/31/06 if anyone wants it. If you send me your address

I'll gladly put it in the mail to you.

Lalon

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Joyce,

do you know what sweetner the Klondike slim a bear uses? And most

especially, what happens at curves? I hear a lot about it but I don't know

what exactly they do so I don't know if I can participate since I am still

in my wheel chair a good part of the day....

I do have a 'scholarship' to the local Y for swimming and the gym, but

curves might be nicer if I can do it???

JUDITH

> I picked up a box of sugar free Klondike " SLIM-A-BEAR and with it you get

a

> coupon right on the box for 2 free weeks to try out; " CURVES " , it is good

til

> Dec, 2006.

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June 26, 2006

Judith, have no idea about CURVES, but I hear good things, what they have to

offer, I do not know YET?/ I think they give or monitor what you eat, if you

give them a chart, but for diabetics, I just don't know. They use aspartame

to sweeten the bars!!

" TLC " Joyce

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do you know what sweetner the Klondike slim a bear uses? And most

especially, what happens at curves? I hear a lot about it but I don't know

what exactly they do so I don't know if I can participate since I am still

in my wheel chair a good part of the day....

I do have a 'scholarship' to the local Y for swimming and the gym, but

curves might be nicer if I can do it???

JUDITH

> I picked up a box of sugar free Klondike " SLIM-A-BEAR and with it you get

a

> coupon right on the box for 2 free weeks to try out; " CURVES " , it is good

til

> Dec, 2006.

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June 26, 2006

I called Curves to find out and it is like a nice lady's gym sort of place.

Can't do the aspertane :-( oh well. will find something else.

I'm in a dangerous 'place'.... very hungry and starting to eat more and

more. I'm eating the 'right' foods, but too much is not going to lose me

any more weight and it is going to put it back on. darn..... I was doing

so good.

JUDITH

> Judith, have no idea about CURVES, but I hear good things, what they >

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June 26, 2006

I have a membership to Curves, but I dont go as often as I should. I really like

it - its for women only, and there women there from 80 down to 10, all shapes

and sizes. There is a circuit of machines that you do twice, at your own pace,

and stations in between where you do running on the spot. Its an easy workout,

or you can push yourself as hard as you want.

You can also get dietary information, not specifically for diabetics though.

Re: RE: CURVES ---free

I called Curves to find out and it is like a nice lady's gym sort of place.

Can't do the aspertane :-( oh well. will find something else.

I'm in a dangerous 'place'.... very hungry and starting to eat more and

more. I'm eating the 'right' foods, but too much is not going to lose me

any more weight and it is going to put it back on. darn..... I was doing

so good.

JUDITH

> Judith, have no idea about CURVES, but I hear good things, what they >

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June 26, 2006

That would be so awesome! If someone hasn't already asked for it, I

would like to take advantage of your generosity. Address to follow:

Anne Mahoney, 5 Palo Lane, Newark DE 19702. Thanks in advance!

June 26, 2006

Anne,

I'm in No Wilmington. Newark isn't far. since it is for 2 maybe we could go

together somewhere near you?

> That would be so awesome! If someone hasn't already asked for it, I

> would like to take advantage of your generosity. Address to follow:

> Anne Mahoney, 5 Palo Lane, Newark DE 19702. Thanks in advance!

>

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June 26, 2006

Judith, you will get back on track, after my big spurge all of yesterday, I

ate all day long, no kidding about it, and I couldn't sleep, so I ate all

night long as well, nothing bad, but enough of anything is wrong, and today

my BG was only 88, my first out of the 100's, GO FIGURE?? Still puzzled by

it all?? Sorry about the Klindike bars they are a treat for ice lovers, like

you and I.

You are my " inspiration " on this site, your honesty in telling it as it is??

" TLC " Joyce

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I called Curves to find out and it is like a nice lady's gym sort of place.

Can't do the aspertane :-( oh well. will find something else.

I'm in a dangerous 'place'.... very hungry and starting to eat more and

more. I'm eating the 'right' foods, but too much is not going to lose me

any more weight and it is going to put it back on. darn..... I was doing

so good.

JUDITH

June 26, 2006

Hi Judith,

Curves is great! From their web site: " Dedicated to women's fitness,

Curves offers a proven 30-minute workout that combines strength

training and sustained cardiovascular activity through safe and

effective hydraulic resistance. Curves also offers a commonsense

weight management program that ends the need for perpetual dieting. "

They have a series of resistance machines set up in a large circle,

and you move from machine to machine for very short sessions on each

machine. If my memory serves me, you go around the circle 2X (maybe

3X?). Because you don't work very long on any one machine, you don't

ever get sore muscles. It's also nice because it's all women, and

they don't show up in cute little thong outfits.

I would visit the Curves location that you plan to go to, to discuss

whether or not you can use the machines if you're in a wheelchair, &

whether any accommodation can be made to help you.

Kate

>

And most

> especially, what happens at curves? I hear a lot about it but I

don't know

> what exactly they do so I don't know if I can participate since I am

still

> in my wheel chair a good part of the day....

>

> I do have a 'scholarship' to the local Y for swimming and the gym, but

> curves might be nicer if I can do it???

>

> JUDITH

June 27, 2006

,

I got a scholarship because I am both disabled and was able to honestly say

I couldn't afford the membership. If you can do that (I would be sorry for

you because it ain't fun) go for it. They are nice people at the Y!

JUDITH

> How did you get your scholarship to the Y? >

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June 27, 2006

Kate,

thanks for the info. next I'll look to see the closest and how much it

costs. I was hauling myself out of the wheel chair and actually cleaning 2

stalls (horses bedded in straw!) for the past 3 or 4 wks which helped me

loose weight and gain strength but killed me on pain issues so I've just

stopped. Now I have to find something else to get my metabolism up again

because I've hit another plateau on the loose weight scene! :-(

JUDITH

> Curves is great! From their web site: " Dedicated to women's fitness,

> Curves offers a proven 30-minute workout that combines strength

> training and sustained cardiovascular activity through safe and

> effective hydraulic resistance. Curves also offers a commonsense

> weight management program that ends the need for perpetual dieting. "

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June 27, 2006

Thanks, Judith. I may give it a try. I am on SSDI, so I'll probably meet their

criteria.

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June 27, 2006

Klondike sugar free uses aspartame or nutrasweet for sweetener.

re: Curves. From hearing a lot of good about it, I went in, already sold. I

signed a contract waiving their offer of a " free week " . I was a bit surprised

at how tight the contract was - even if you are ill, you can get the month's fee

waiived but only by calling in each month that you are ill and providing a

doctor's note also. Otherwise, you are charged for that month whether you use

the facility or not. The contract I signed which obtained the best price was

for three years. If you do waiive a month or two from your contract, those

waiived months are added to the end, so that all contracts are three years of

payment. You can get out of the contract by paying off, I think half of it or

something like that. It was a bit tighter than I am comfortable with.

After I signed, I went on to the workout. For me, it was one of the more UNFUN

workouts I've ever done. Boring. Hard to rush from machine to machine, get in,

get adjusted and do any more than a few reps on each machine.

Most of the machines were lower body oriented - well who needs that - one can

exercise the same muscles on a cyclometer in the comfort of home.

NONE of the machines were adjustable for height, length of legs etc and so,

injury or improperly working the muscles is a rather strong possibility.

And the machines are set so that the slower you do them, the easier they are -

the faster you do them, the more resistance - but using more resistance should

not require faster.

Inbetween each machine, you march on the little pads. So about half the workout

is marching on those little pads... marching in place could be done in the

comfort of home - why does one need CURVES for that?

There is one thing I'll say for the workout... it's definitely aerobic - gets

the heartrate up (even mine) but then, in 30 minutes one does not get that much

aerobic benefit. The other positive for me, was a nice cool down stretch (I

showed THEM a few they were not familiar with but basically they do teach people

good stretching techniques).

I think for some folks, CURVES would work well - i.e. for people who hate

exercise and do nothing at all, CURVES might help tone them and certainly would

give them some cardio.

But for anyone more serious about exercise, CURVES was not the look at all.

Disappointed, I asked for out of my contract and thus had the shortest CURVES

membership in history probably. We parted friends. I told them it just wasn't

for me and that I had somehow gotten an erroneous idea of what the workout and

layout really was. They invited me to come in and see them when I'm in the

neighborhood.

Seems the main cardio of the workout is the marching in place. One is not on

the machines long enough to injure one's self in most cases... it's a rush to

get in more than 5 or 6 reps. And the stretch is good.

There are tapes for cardio to be done seated... has one and then

there is " chair-aerobics " . Finally www.bliss.com has tapes for larger

people - some of the models are SSBBW's. (on the tapes).

Sue

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>>>>>>>> do you know what sweetner the Klondike slim a bear uses? And most

especially, what happens at curves? I hear a lot about it but I don't know what

exactly they do so I don't know if I can participate since I am still in my

wheel chair a good part of the day....

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June 27, 2006

I belonged to Curves for a year, before I was diagnosed with T2. It was fun

at first but not very taxing after a few months unless you were willing to

do high impact stuff, I was worried about my joints. Also, two of the

machines hurt my knees, so you need to be very careful, it is possible to

get injured. My knees recovered after I stopped using those machines, I was

lucky.

I was shy and never felt very comfortable, if you want to do this and stick

with it, I strongly recommend that you do it with a friend or make a great

effort to make friends with other people who go there when you do. I didn't

do this and I didn't last. I did lose weight while I was going there

(although I got it all back after I stopped), and it is definitely good

enough exercise to meet the " 30 minutes of moderate exercise " standard.

They usually have deals at this time of year.

Jan

Jan Hodges

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Re: CURVES ---free

> Hi Judith,

> Curves is great! From their web site: " Dedicated to women's fitness,

> Curves offers a proven 30-minute workout that combines strength

> training and sustained cardiovascular activity through safe and

> effective hydraulic resistance. Curves also offers a commonsense

> weight management program that ends the need for perpetual dieting. "

>

> They have a series of resistance machines set up in a large circle,

> and you move from machine to machine for very short sessions on each

> machine. If my memory serves me, you go around the circle 2X (maybe

> 3X?). Because you don't work very long on any one machine, you don't

> ever get sore muscles. It's also nice because it's all women, and

> they don't show up in cute little thong outfits.

>

> I would visit the Curves location that you plan to go to, to discuss

> whether or not you can use the machines if you're in a wheelchair, &

> whether any accommodation can be made to help you.

>

> Kate

>

>>

> And most

>> especially, what happens at curves? I hear a lot about it but I

> don't know

>> what exactly they do so I don't know if I can participate since I am

> still

>> in my wheel chair a good part of the day....

>>

>> I do have a 'scholarship' to the local Y for swimming and the gym, but

>> curves might be nicer if I can do it???

>>

>> JUDITH

>

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June 27, 2006

Thanks, Sue,

that's what I was worried about. When I called it was a hard sale even on

the phone.

I have a sit down aerobics tape I don't especially like but will start using

it again.

JUDITH

> re: Curves. From hearing a lot of good about it, I went in, already

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June 27, 2006

Judith,

have you tried the " sit & be fit " program on tv? it's usually on a PBS

station, but you

can check her web site for more information. It isn't an aerobics type thing

but flexibility,

mobility, and balance is what is emphasised.

beth

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>

> Thanks, Sue,

>

> that's what I was worried about. When I called it was a hard sale even on

> the phone.

>

> I have a sit down aerobics tape I don't especially like but will

> start using

> it again.

>

> JUDITH

>

June 28, 2006

I really like the walk away the pounds videos. I am pretty erratic about

it, but I keep coming back to them. I have two sets of them, and in the

end, when you can't get outdoors to do exercise, for me they are the thing I

can stand to keep doing.

I hate having to exercise.

Jan

Jan Hodges

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> Thanks, Sue,

>

> that's what I was worried about. When I called it was a hard sale even on

> the phone.

>

> I have a sit down aerobics tape I don't especially like but will start

> using

> it again.

>

> JUDITH

>

>> re: Curves. From hearing a lot of good about it, I went in, already

>

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June 30, 2006

Judith did you go in and talk to someone or write a letter to your

local Y?

~Marisa

diabetes-2/06

>

> I got a scholarship because I am both disabled and was able to

honestly say

> I couldn't afford the membership.

June 30, 2006

Marisa,

I actually called when another disabled person I met told me they gave

disabled people either discounts or full scholarships, but there was a time

frame to meet. I spoke to the person in charge of membership, I think, and

explained my situation which was unusual. We did everything on the phone

and then she mailed me an acceptance letter. I made out a form maybe, but

I don't remember. Couldn't answer all the questions asked (dh problems).

Then I went in and got my ID and stuff. Used the pool several times, and

got dxed with diabetes and got obsessed with it so didn't go to the Y.

Expect to start again next week. Aiming for 3x/wk or (sigh) 2x/wk to be in

the water.

JUDITH

> Judith did you go in and talk to someone or write a letter to your

> local Y?

>

> ~Marisa

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June 30, 2006

curves is a women only thing.....in case some guys do not know

this.

HELPERDOGS helperdogs2@...> wrote: Marisa,