The last pounds...
bikinisuited
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I am on a 30 day challenge of bikram yoga and hoping to extend it to 60 days to lose my last 7 lbs. Anyone here trying to lose the last 5-10 lbs? Would love to compare results with yoga and other combo exercise and of course diet alone!
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i have 10 pounds to lose. i practice iyengar yoga, and run about 12-15 miles a week.0
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I do Jazzercise 5 times a week (hour) and have been doing yoga 4 times a week (hour and half). Started last week. Hoping to get some weight off before my vacation 5/5/13. Bought a yoga studio groupon for a month. If I lose weight doing both I may have to look into joining a yoga studio.0
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I love Yoga but I am a newbie. I've been going to a local studio 4-5 times a week. There is nothing at this point that will stop me from going to Yoga but I too would like to know if everyone who has a daily or regular practice has lost weight from Yoga alone. Yoga has done so much for me mentally and I would love to get physical results from it as well, however, if I need to incorporate something else I would like to know sooner then later.
Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated
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I have a 6x a week practice. I also do some sort of cardio everyday, so I can't really answer if you can do yoga alone. I would think so as long as your diet was good.0
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It does appear that most people who practice Yoga are active as well. I guess there is no way to find out but to do it. Yes, I do try to eat clean 99.9% of the time. I do see results just the scale isn't moving. We shall see.
Thanks for the input, I need to make time to incorporate both more often.0 -
I have 5 pounds to go and it is a slow process. But I am older than most of you here...by much LOL. I don't believe that the physical acts of yoga practice are going to make you lose weight. The mindfulness and the strength you gain may send you on to those last pounds coming off. I am at 150+ days of an everyday yoga commitment and have lost 17 0r18 pounds, but I have to credit MFP and low calorie eating, better choices and other things besides yoga. Don't misunderstand - this practice is the best thing I could do for me, but we all are on our own journey.0
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I reached my target weight (approx 2 stone loss) calories counting and doing core strength yoga, which I logged fairly high and ate back exercise calories. I did about 45 min core strength vinyasa yoga (Sadie Nardini) 5 times a week, plus walking, a bit for pleasure and bit to get to places (perhaps 2 hours a week). The last few pounds took the longest and decorating my house before Xmas helped! But I did do it with JUST yoga, and normal moving around. I've now added in weights and have put some weight back, but am the same size on the whole. So it is do-able with an active yoga style, and I saw my body change massively and experienced strength and flexibility gains. Don't be despondant - when you are near your target weight I think weight loss often plateaus for a bit - I got stuck at one point for 4 weeks, then suddenly 3 pounds disappeared overnight. If what you are doing has worked, I think its likely to carry on working.0
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I reached my target weight (approx 2 stone loss) calories counting and doing core strength yoga, which I logged fairly high and ate back exercise calories. I did about 45 min core strength vinyasa yoga (Sadie Nardini) 5 times....
Congratulations! That's also more or less how I plan to lose weight. How long did it take for you to lose the 2 stones? So I'd have reasonable expectations. Thanks 0 -
Thank you! I started off in May, trying to eat healthily and doing 17 minutes a day using Sadie's Daily Om course (its the same 15 min but you get a daily pep talk, the video is on You Tube). I upped my practice slowly, and the first stone went quite quickly, I think by late July. Then I joined MFP and started counting - the rest came off between July and Oct / Nov. The loss was fast, then steady, then slow with little whooshes.... I do a bit less yoga now and I've kept it off. Good luck!0
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I think most people find it is not so much that Yoga in itself is not enough to help lose weight or get fit or whatever, but that a regular practise of Yoga gives you so much additional energy that it spills out into more activity.
For myself, I practise yoga x7 a week, including 2 classes and home practise. I also practise bodyweight strength training (You Are Your Own Gym) and do x2 kettlebell routines of about 20 minutes per week. On top of that I cycle to work if it is within reasonable distance to commute on that particular day and go for a swim twice a week.
It is not so much that yoga is not enough so I need to do the above. It is more that yoga gives me the energy to be more active. Whatever I do, I find that Yoga is working quietly away in the central core of my being. Without it, I'm sure I would not have the energy to pull the other activities together without dropping some.
14pounds more to lose, losing steadily at about 0.5 -> 1lb per week now.0 -
I always enjoy your take, C4RL, and I think there is truth to it - though I didn't do any extra deliberate exercise, I certainly had energy to walk the hills, dance with my kids and run for the bus. And after the weight had gone, I found I wanted more strength gains - I know, its taken me while to actually do this, having picked your brains in the past! - and I love the fact that beyond the first uncomfy week following lifting, I can still get on my mat most days, work on my flexibility, ground myself. I'm loving the hit from getting to the gym and challenging myself in new ways, then taking those gains to my yoga practice. I think lifting is helping my balance as well as the obvious muscular results.
Your activity levels are awwwwsome :-)0
