I have just finished the 6 week chanllange with my contours studio, I lost 5kg and 18.5 cm... so it does work with healthy eating and eating to loose weight... I was going 3-4 times per week over the challange and have so far kept it up.

As far as childminding goes, I have a friend who also goes and has kids, so we do a swap, I go and she looks after the kids then she goes and I look after them!!! As its only a 40 min round trip its great!