A couple of weeks ago my husband and I joined a health club. Both of us need to lose weight - I'm a good 50 lbs over what is generally considered "healthy" for my height. Knowing that I cannot be trusted to work out on my own at the intensity needed to lose weight, I joined what is basically their weight loss boot camp class. 3x/week of high intensity cardio, with some core and light upper body thrown in. I have a bad left ACL (thankfully NOT my landing side) and told the guy from day 1 "no running", so I do an incline walk instead, which is NOT easy either. The guy is kicking our collective butts, but I need that right now.
Fast forward to now. I'm probably down about 5 to 5 1/2 in the two weeks (will know for sure when we weigh in tonight). Not a "huge" weight loss, but at my last lesson my coach commented that I was looking much more stable when I needed to be over a particular side (ie skating side on the backspin). I'm not flopping around as much as I used to, and I can check things like the Prelim alternating 3's much better. I can also feel my stamina is a little better on the ice (also good as I'm testing Prelim moves in about a month). Jumps are sometimes higher, but I'm fighting with some bad technique right now that I've picked up from trying to launch so much extra weight into the air, so they're not all that consistent right now.
For what it's worth I can't really tell by how my pants fit yet, but I'm carrying SO much of my extra weight in my tush and tummy that it's probably going to take a little while longer for me to feel that. Hubby did notice as I was getting out of the hot tub yesterday after working out (my reward for surviving) that it's noticeable in my upper back and upper arms. Not where I *wanted* it to be noticeable right off the bat, but I'll take anything I can right now.