oh forgot, good find on the COP shakey machine!! You get the medal today
The "new" shakey machine, I've watched on tv, its about balance, and tha core thing.. you can get good results from trying to stand on that half ball thing, then try doing squats on that half ball, and then put your hands on it and do push ups!!
I joined a gym in the 80's and they had those machines (my GRANDMOTHER had one, no way does that sucker work, and I'm no sucker, I just

but darned if they didnt make me use that!!

) So I didnt get stapled, but I think people I know did!!!
Now DD informed me I can loose 50#'s in 3 months because girls on The BIggest Loser lost that much!!

So I explained about the 6 - 8 hours in a gym WITH a personal trainer,

so she says "oh, so it will take you only 6 months, you're going to Disney in January without me"
Now if any of you tv watchers have seen the infomercial for Michael Thurmond's 6 Week Body Makeover... ok, that would be me, and yes, I bought it... hey, he was on ABC's Extreme Makeover!!! First his diet is revolutionary... not... no salt, no sugar, no white flour, white rice, white anything... no bread... no red meat... but you half to eat every 2 - 3 hours... and high proteins, like fish, and tuna (no condiments!!) and brown rice and oatmeal are good carbs, but you can only have like 1/2 cup twice a day I believe...
2nd. You have to eat before you workout, and he has pages to tell you why. Then, the thing I want to believe, you exercise less... you must workout in your target heart rate zone... so at first (but it is for the 40 min) the walking is slow... but apparently the more fit, the more you move... but the toning exercises are fabulous... I've shared the chin one (put your head back, open your jaw, close your mouth, move your head forward... hold for a count of 5, do a few reps a few times.) His other one is our breathing... so you are to do lots of deep breathing exercises... just take a deep breath, hold it, let it out slowly... (I forget what this is supposed to help, but I think its to help when you exercise, it will increase lung capacity???)
So, if you follow the diet alone, you will loose weight... but I cant stay on that deprevation diet for long... but I do like the exercise less, line!!

(where's that teethy grin guy? I swear these smilies do move on me!!)