Any Ladies who started at or are around 230 lbs.?

I do 40 minutes of Gazelle every day Monday thru Friday. Saturday and Sunday I skip the workout in favor of just being active. I do yard work, play tennis, or go to our local waterpark or theme park. Just starting out, but it's working so far.

Height: 5'4"
SW: 260lbs
CW: 193.6lbs
GW: 135lbs

I'm probably a little unusual in the fact that I don't go to a gym and actually use fitness games for working out.

When I first started to lose weight @ 260lbs and 6 weeks after a c-section:

- Walks 3-4 times a week. I started by walking 1 mile (half a mile down the trail and half back) and slowly increasing the length of the walk each time.

- Wii workouts 6 days a week included: EA Sports Active 2.0 (20-30 mins), Just Dance, Wii Fit, Golds Gym Cardio (cardio boxing), your shape, Zumba

***My wii died last year and I stopped working out for several months***

At 225lbs, I started doing the following :

- Walks 2 times a week. I can now walk 3 miles with ease and I am still slowly increasing the length of my walks.

- Xbox Kinect 6 days a week includes: EA Sports Active 2.0 (20-30 mins), Dance Central, Your Shape FE: 2012

- 30 Day Shred (dvd): I have yet to actually complete this dvd. I try it randomly, but I think my main issue is I get bored with it so easily.

And I am going to add (as soon as I get over this dang cold):

- Stronglifts 5x5 (we just bought a barbell, bench and weights)

**edit: I should probably add, that I don't workout for hours on end. Like using the Kinect (or even when I used the wii), I would pick one or two of the games listed and workout for anywhere from 20 - 90 mins. Also I don't necessarily do it all at once. Sometimes I do a 20 min workout before my son gets up in the morning and then a 20 min workout while he is napping.

I started at 241 and I'm currently at 226, so I'm right there. I'm 5'3, if that makes any difference. I have been walking up to three miles with my mom, intermixed with Leslie Sansone dvds. I ride my bike, working to build some endurance there. I have free weights, that I use for an old "Firm" dvd. It's called "highdef sculpt, if that makes any difference. I also do yoga, intermixed with some pilates. Yoga, I have several DVDs and pilates mostly do from memory, from a kick butt instructor, I was lucky enough to attend her class a few years ago.

I started at 220. I used to go to the gym 5 times a week and just vary the machines I used - stepper, treadmill, cross trainer, summit trainer etc - and I also had 2 personal training sessions a week involving lots of weight lifting and strength training.

Then I started introducing classes and now do Zumba, spinning, aerobics, step, LBT, boxercise..... I probably do 7 workout sessions a week as some days I do 2 classes.

I weigh 157 now.

I started at 232lbs - the first month I just focused on my food, then I started doing Zumba 3x a week (DVD's), now I'm doing the 30 day shred and I walk a few times a week.

I started here at 235. The gym bored me back then so I did fitness video games at home and I loved them! Zumba on Wii, Wii Fit, I had the board thing, it was great for getting me started. Then I moved on to DVDs by Denise Austin, dabbled in some by Jillian Michaels, and LOVED tae bo and kickboxing. Once that got boring (although I do some DVDs still) I joined the gym, had two free sessions with a trainer and I've been doing cardio (30-45 mins) about 4 times a week now, and weights 2-3x/wk. Initially though, I started out doing just cardio because weights intimidated me. Once I saw how weight lifting changes my body, I was on board and learned what I could so I wouldn't feel silly.

It was just a thing of challenging myself more as I got used to each form of exercise. Plus, I get bored easily

I go to deep water work out and aquasize, and occasionally will get on the tread mill for 20 minutes with a little weight lifting. I also try to walk 20 or so minutes on my lunch break. I stared the beginning of March and I am 29 lbs lighter and have lost 4 inches on my waist and 3 on my hips and feel fantastic. I never used to drink water and find now I am hungry if I don't drink enough, This sight has also made me think about making me make healthier fruit and veg. choices along with portion size and cut the cheese way down. Good luck hopefully one of these will help. I have done the wii work outs and the biggest loser but right now I am hooked on the deep water workout.

What is Gazelle?

I started around 240, I think (5'11"). Initially I walked on the treadmill only for about 30-40 min, but I started to have some feet problems. I switched to the elliptical and the bike. I could only do the elliptical for 10 minutes at first, but I started adding 5 minutes a week to it and was up to 30 minutes in no time. I did a combo of the bike, elliptical, treadmill (running and walking) for a really long time and just recently I added in weight training and I LOVE it. My only regret is I didn't start sooner.

ETA: My starting weight was actually 281, but I didn't start regular exercise until I was about 240. Now I'm about 212.

I did I started at 234. I began eating at a 20% deficit from my TDEE then I started walking. I ran for a short time, until I discovered lifting and that is what I have been doing ever since.

I started lifting October 1 2012 and still lifting now. My results would have been better but I took 2 months off for medical reasons.

I lift 4x a week upper/lower split and try to incorporate cardio on days I don't lift, I hate cardio so that is an area I need to work on.

sw: 280
cw: 264
cw: 138

i go to the gym 5-6 days a week and do about 40-120 min of cardio(eliptical), i also do class like zumba, kickboxing. i also do videos at home like jillian michaels shred it with weights.

i started at 224, size 22 last january. i'm currently 215

i did pretty well last year until August (started a new job after being unemployed for almost a year) and lost about 30 pounds and got down to a size 14. Since then I've fell off the bandwagon because work is cray (i work 12-16 hours a day), i have all this extra cash which makes it easier to eat crap, and i'm not as active as i was since i do a lot of sitting.

i'm starting to get back on it since i have gained scale weight (not actually that big of a deal for me) but i also gained a pant size :sad:

i worked really hard at weight lifting over the last 20+ years so i have a lot of lean body mass that i'd like to keep since a)i like being strong and b) it means i can eat like 300-500 calories MORE a day for maintenance than someone else similar age and weight :drinker: . so my plan is all about saving as much LBM as possible (which means that i'm less about chasing a number on a scale since i will always weight more than i look) and burning fat.

exercise wise that means that i lift weights 2 days a week, doing compound movements like deadlifts, squats, cleans, OHP, bench press and BB row and each workout i increase my weight by 2.5 or 5 pounds. i also am doing a 5k program 3 days a week where i end up walk/running 18-20K total. 1 day a week i do more cardio style weighted workouts like complexes and finish off with weighted squats to failure, push ups and pull up prep. on my day off i stretch, do yoga, goof off in the pool and sauna.

at some point i'll start back doing capoeira and kickboxing but that will more than likely be after i have good enough stamina to run a 10K

diet wise, i'm sticking to 1600-2100 calories a day. that should lead to around a 55 pound loss after 12 months which should put me in a size 4 or 6.

ETA i'm 5'5

I started at 232 in December 2012.

In February, I started logging all my food. I calculated my TDEE and eat at a 20-25% deficit.

In March, I started walking in the evening, about 1 mile.

By April, I was walking 2 miles a night, and starting walking in the mornings also.

In May, I started strength training 2-3 times a week and continued walking. I currently walk 2x/day, 2-2.5 miles each at a 3.8+mph pace.

And I have lost 23 lbs as a result.

I started a little more than that just yesterday!!!

I started at 220. I Do jumping jacks and crunches and pushups (girlie ones) twice a day (once if i go walking) i try to walk 3 miles 6 days a week