I dropped 14 pounds, 2 inches off my waist, and 53 points off my cholesterol over 40 days while doing yoga.
I was stuck at 165 lbs for a couple years. I wasn’t really trying to lose weight, but I wanted to lose a couple inches off my waist. My local yoga studio offered an instructor-led version of the 40-day program in Baron Baptiste’s book. They charged $200, which was slightly more than the normal price for 47 days of unlimited yoga classes by their staff of great teachers, most of whom were trained by the author, but for about $15, you could get similar results at home. Baron breaks it down into about 6 weeks. Each week focuses on a specific dietary change, meditation, and breaks down the yoga poses for each week’s practice. The practice starts at 15 minutes a day and works up to 90 minutes a day.
You get out what you put in. I may have gone a little overboard by doing all the practices at the studio, which were 75 minutes each. By the end, I was doing up to three practices in a day. Strength, stamina, a calm mind, a new way of eating, and a much healthier body are the main things I received from it.