Well, I went to Curves tonight and joined. I think it's gonna be a good thing. You can go as often as you want...as if it was a gym. There's 8 hydrolic machines that form a big rectangular shape. In between each machine is a bouncy-ish, cushioned board. There's a tape that plays, probably on a loop, and every 35 seconds, it tells you to switch stations. So you go from machine to board to machine...and so on. You can do whatever you want on that board, jog in place, march, whatever you can think of to do in place. Each machine targets something different. You go around 3 times, They stop you every now and then to check your heart rate...this is all on the tape. When you're done, you go over to another area to do about 5 minutes of stretching. They measure you when you first join, and they take your measurements every month, to check your progress. They take a profile of you also, asking you all sorts of questions, to figure out where you are physically now, and how ready you are for the program, etc. They ask you what your short term goals are, and if there's a particular area that you're most concerned about. I don't think the people that run the place have any particular qualifications. I asked the skinny little thing that signed me up how she got into this and she said her dad bought it and asked if she wanted to work there! That kind of disappointed me, but she was really nice, seemed genuine about what she was saying...and I'm pretty good at picking out fakers. She did my profile, but she'll do my measurements tomorrow night when I go for my first session. I'll let you all know if I end up liking it. I will say that there were all sorts of women there, an older woman, about 70, that went slow, but did it...and she's recovering from a shattered elbow. There was a really big lady there, I mean, really big, she wasn't doing it while I was there, but her friend was signing up. The girl told me that she started a couple weeks ago, and she was having trouble getting on and off the machines at first, but now she does OK. It was very motivating, just to watch these women doing it, even though they were heavy, not skinny minnies!! I mean, a couple were thin, but some of them were talking like they were friends that got together to exercise, some just did their thing.
RR- I have TCOYF, bought it quite awhile ago! Have read it a couple of times!!
I learn something new everytime I go through it! That's one of the ways I've learned soo much!! I just started temping...or trying to remember to temp...this cycle. Everytime I tell DH I'm gonna start temping, he says, why, you don't like your job?! He's soo retarted some times!! 
I bought the Kashi shakes, don't know if I mentioned that or not. I tried one for breakfast yesterday and it was horrible!! I mixed it with water in my shaker cup, like the directions said. I threw it out it was soo bad! So tonight I mixed it in the blender with milk and a couple icecubes and it was better. I don't love the taste, it's kinda funky, but not too bad...something I can deal with. They're 6 pts. made with 8 oz. skim milk. They get really thick, but airy in the blender.
Anyway, have a great night...
~ That was interesting about the workout info.
You guys are going to be skinny minnies. ~ Have a fun weekend!
I'll have to try some changes next week.
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