When I was on a previous diet plan, I had lost 40 lb. in 3 mo, and my starting exercise was walking, and then I added weights. I lost inches so fast, that people had thought that I had lost more weight than I actually had, and they all wanted to know how I done it.... Increasing muscle helps so much... at one time I wanted to weigh 115 lb. and now it seems that I would just blow away in the wind if I was ever to that weight again!