I totally love Pilates and enjoy working out. I have been taking lessons with Pilates equipment because it feels so good. Because of wishful thinking, I bought this video because I'm a little overweight. And because I heard the woman featured teaches traditional Pilates. From my experience, no type of exercise can help you lose weight, because you must be eating a healthy diet---regularly. But, as I said, wishful thinking led me to buy this video.Well, I was disappointed because this seems to be yet another video that capitalizes upon our desire to loose weight. The Pilates method is great, there is no doubt about it. But this video cannot help you achieve the implied message of weight loss.