• Laiee

name:  fad
email: fatimah@
 
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I want to buy this thing, but does it really work??  I mean, in Malaysia it costs me about RM2388.00 or USD615..wuuu… 
  

When I first saw the iGallop in the Brookstone store last Christmas, it was selling for $599 US.  Somehow, I just liked the machine.   It looked like fun and an exercise equipment I would use regularly.  However, at $599, it was simply too expensive.

Brookstone has been putting it on sale for some time now for $199.  I got it in July and have been using it ever since.  It comes with an exercise demo DVD.  The first week I just did the basic program as I was learning to balance myself on the saddle.  By the third week, I was doing all three programs – the basic, intermediate, and advanced.  To do all the exercises only takes 40 minutes.  This is the first machine ever that I didn’t give up.  I now even feel guilty if I don’t do iGallop for a day.  I just weighed myself yesterday.  I lost 12 pounds since I started on 7/12/07.  My stomach looks much flatter and better defined.

In the beginning, I didn’t pay too much attention to my diet; however, I did follow Nancy’s, the instructor on the DVD, advice that eat small meals every three to four hours.  In September, I decided to change my diet as well.  I always love soups.  This is the perfect time of the year for soups as the weather begins to get cooler.  My diet looks something like this:

Breakfast:  cut 1/3 of the tofu cube in little chunks (The tofu you get from the grocery store that is soaked in the water.)  + spinach + carrots or corn + 5 to 7 slices of the shaved turkey or chicken deli meat.  Stir fry them in olive oil.  200 – 250 calories

Sometime between Breakfast / Lunch:  I love coffee.  I usually have two cups with fat free Hazelnut flavored creamer.  120 – 150 calories

Lunch:  Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup or Italian Wedding.  220 calories.

Sometime between Lunch / Dinner:  One South Beach Diet snack bar.  100 calories.

Dinner:  I make my own soup.  Normally, it consists of one can of chicken or vegetable broth, spinach, tofu, carrots or corn, either turkey or chicken.  If I don’t feel like having soup, I may have 1/2 can of tuna in olive oil with vegetables of my liking and tofu.  200 – 250 calories.  I gave the other 1/2 can to the dog and the cat.

Sometime between dinner / bedtime:  Fat free yogurt.  100 calories.

Basically, I cut rice, pasta, and bread out of my diet and replace them with tofu.  The total calories I consume per day are around 1200.

Does it work?  It does work for me and I really enjoy it.  I like the way I look now; especially, I lost almost all my belly fat.  The stomach is flatter and toned. 

We have another machine at home.  It is an elliptical trainer.  I hate that thing.  It cost more than the iGallop.  We used it once.  It is now standing there screaming at me to dust it.