30-day Shred - class of June 2014

ddas, I bought the DVD. I also have Ripped in 30 waiting for me when I finish the Shred, heaven help me. But if you can set up a laptop somewhere you've got space to exercise (and it doesn't take a lot of space - room to lie on the floor for abdominal exercises, and to do lunges and jump up and down), it would be worth trying it on YouTube first.

Ri30L2D5, someone please tell me level 3 is more fun...I mean I know it's not going to be, but just tell me it is anyway, lol

ddas - I did the first level on youtube and then ordered the DVD, so I knew I could do it and wasn't wasting my money.

Do you use the DVD or video? I have 2 dc under 4 so think this is more achievable and cheaper than trying to get to a gym!

Too late to join? Want to try and get more toned especially in the stomach area before our summer holidays.

30DS L3D4. Groan. I seem to be getting worse at this as I go along - had to follow Anita for the travelling push-ups today. This level is really hard on the shoulders.

Well done Meg - I hope that'll be me next week.

I have completed the 30DS :) moved straight on to ri30 L1 this morning, have to say I prefer the strength circuits with three moves (have never felt a minute take so long as in 30DS level 3).

Ri30L2D4...a bit half heartedly, but done.

I don't know if it's me or this level, but I'm finding this level hard going - I feel like I've been doing it for weeks and I know I haven't, lol

Thank you yadah, I will look for the link

RI30 L4D4 done. Not easier yet.

I had a good close up look at my naked self in the mirror this morning. 30 day shred and RI30 really has changed my body. The only bit that doesn't look ok is my CS pouch, I do have lines down my tummy either side, it's just the wobbly front bit. Everything else is actually ok (not lovely, but ok for a short legged, fat kneed, 47 year old, so it has worked a bit.

30DS L3D3 done (with DS trying to climb on me while I was doing the travelling push-ups, so not my most successful session ever!). Sweating like a pig - much more than I normally do. It's very muggy here this morning.

If I keep trying maybe I'll see a difference eventually. I do feel stronger, which is something.

Errol - he'll not eat it, the vets have broken him, he's interested in food, but he'll only eat it if it's chicken I'm humouring him because he was so very ill, lol.

I definitely see a difference, I mean beyond just weight loss (because I'm dieting and losing weight anyway) I went down a clothes size faster than I should have by weight loss and I've got like, tiny, but definitely real muscles...with blancmangey bits too to be fair, especially most of my middle, but arms and legs are different and my bum a bit as well.

Its not fair! Got four days left on 30DS then going to start RI30

Well done TT!

More toned would be nice...no sign of it here yet though. But I do have 8 days of L3 to go, and then I'm planning to do RI30 more or less straight away. Maybe by the end of July I'll see a difference.

If you look at the Leangains website they recommend 14:10 for women and 16:8 for men.

Yes my fat was weeping in controllably this morning, positively hysterical.

I do like that strong feeling. Even driving the car today I could feel my body working. When I lived in HK, I used to go to the gym for 90 mins before work, swim for 45 mins in the Olympic size swimming pool next to my office and then go for a run for a couple of hours in the evening. Most flipping days. Weekends were obviously a longer session in the gym and out at the rowing club. I must have been so fit and yet still hated my body, what a waste.

Woohoo 30dsL3D10 done! that's it I have actually finished the Shred.

Anya and Imogen, I don't really look shredded either, but have lost a couple of pounds since doing L3. I think I look vaguely more toned, but still have wobbly stomach and thighs. Thats probably because I eat too many carbs though.

Away on holiday now for two weeks, will start again when I get back or maybe try another one. Going to have a look at the RI30 on youtube to see what it looks like.

Tabulah, glad your dog is better.

Hurray for the dog! Excellent news.

Anya, I think you and I are at almost exactly the same stage, and if it makes you feel better, I'm not looking shredded either. I look exactly the same as I did at the start, but I'm a couple of pounds heavier . Mercifully it doesn't seem to have affected the fit of my clothes.

Yay, good news about your dog

The only difference is that I still can't do my button on my jeans

I haven't managed to fit it in today...but I have a dog again.

Anya - neither am I, I see a difference and I definitely feel one, but, no, not shredded.

30dsl3d6 done, made the fat cry again.

I'm not looking anywhere near shredded

30DSL1D5 done and dusted! I enjoyed it again and I was more Natalie than Anita today too. Managed to dig out my proper weights so the tins of soup have been resigned back to the cupboard.

I've done 5:2 before and was considering starting again. How does 16:8 work?

yadah and Errol I'm also having a go at 16:8 but yesterday didn't go so well as I had about 1000 calories in the afternoon while visiting a friend, I wasn't even hungry