Glad to hear you have a two story house Tina
Some (twenty years ago) I lost over 40 lbs rapidly (about 3 months) exercising a lot. The stairs in the house were my main exercise equipment. But when it there was not too much snow on the ground or not raining or snowing I would take a walk around the lake plus my other exercising. But the stairs took the most weight off of me. 3 times a day or more I would do like 20 push-ups, some deep knee bends, then run downstairs and do the same again then run back up and do a set of something different, then run back down and do another set etc. Sometimes I would just run up and down stairs about 5 or ten times then do some sets, lift some weights, jumping jacks, military ten count pushups, etc, run back up for another set.
I got in excellent physical shape in no time doing that. Plus though I did not limit WHAT I could eat, I only ate when hungry and only what I thought would make me not hungry after ten minutes or so. My stomach shrunk a lot I learned later on when I stopped with a friend while out and we ate Chinese food. I was full less than half way though the amount of what I used to eat before starting exercising and losing weight.
I am not doing so great this time around being as my exercising is very limited. My knees will not take it. But I often think of how fast and easy I could get it off if I could.
Good luck and enjoy those stairs.
J W
I'm thinking about going to a toasty warm mall tomorrow and power walking, as I'm not very close to my goal for Friday (112 - pre-Christmas weight). 
Hope you all thaw out soon!
