The November Shred Thread: all Jillian Michaels devotees welcome!

Gods, I hate cardio, but I did it, followed by a bit of yoga.

Back to the Shred tomorrow night.

Ah. See, I'm on appalling sleeper number two. At least I was hardened to sleep deprivation while I still only had one to worry about! Don't be too hard on yourself - it takes a long time for your tolerance to five non-continuous hours a night (if that) and immune system to build up.

30DS L1 D4 done, a little later in the evening than I would have liked because DS1 was rather insistent on 45 minutes of stories. Guess that means it's cardio tomorrow. Ugh. And ugh again, just for good measure.

Rockinghorse I think people usually find a bigger leap between L1 and L2 than L2 and L3, so yes it is quite a bit more difficult.

Fullsteam Have you had to send off your poor old dog yet? Making the decision is almost the worst part. You do wish they'd just go quietly in their sleep one night

Showme Are you on your first sleep-sucking DC, or have you foolishly like me dropped yourself in it again? Take it easy - you don't want to risk injuring yourself.

That should be L1 and L2

Can I join please? Just started 30 DS found LG ok so think I will do a few days and move up. Is LG a big step up difficulty wise?

Ri30 L4. With lots of pauses (once to watch a squirrel ... now I understand why I get oak seedlings growing in my planters!)

30DS L1D7 done. Again a bit sluggish but I picked up at the end.

Fullsteam - hope you're ok?

I did a reluctant 30DS L1D6 today. I was really sluggish and it felt like my endurance had taken a few steps backwards. I don't know why! Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it. Oh and AF turned up a few hours afterwards. Could have been that.

Hopefully I'll feel more like it tomorrow.

30DS L1D3 done. I piked last night out of sheer can't-be-arsedness but got back on the wagon tonight. It always surprises me how much better you feel in such a short space of time after getting back to exercise after a long, long, long break. I'm blitzing those jacks now and did the dumbbell rows with a couple of 5kg weights tonight. (I do the rest with 2kg.)

Weekends are my rest days from JM, but I did quite a lot of gardening this afternoon - crouching/kneeling/sitting in odd positions. I used to get a weird problem in one of my hips when I tried to get up after sitting on the ground, but it doesn't seem to happen now - and getting back up off the floor is nae problemo nowadays! My DH was struggling a bit the other day after turning on the fire, he's always taken his leg strength for granted but having demonstrated 'surrenders' to him he's now asked me to show him some lower body moves.

30DS L3D24 done. I don't seem to be sticking to my plan very well, I have done precisely no exercise for the last two days...but plenty of wine, crisps and peanut butter have been consumed

30DS L1D5 done today.

I took a rest day on Thursday due to a mad rush to get DS to childminder before work followed by a late shift. I think the rest day did my knees some good, as they've been a bit twingey.

Yep, definitely prefer morning workout. Just so it's not looming over me all day!

Oh, and another modification - I couldn't maintain the 'ab hold' because it was too much wrist strain, so I did that using some hex dumbells as 'handles' to straighten the wrists, that worked well.

for your dog. Though he'd probably prefer a (that's some sort of marrowbone thing, obv).

Ri30 L3 D 4 done - will go onto L4 next week. I decided that one of the things that was disagreeing with my back was rather un-obvious - the duck walk and squat jacks where you're supposed to have your hands up to your ears. Something about that position - partly bent over with arms up - just doesn't feel right. So yesterday and today I subbed the duckwalk with surrenders and did the squat jacks with the usual arm movement - that seemed to be much better. And also modified some of the leg-raising abs moves a bit (pike crunch no way).

30DS L1 D5 done :)

Got a busy weekend ahead so not sure if I'll manage to fit in a workout.

What I noticed is how much better I feel mentally after working out. I've had a very tough week, my dog is extremely poorly and we might have to put him to sleep so I've been feeling quite depressed but the workouts have really helped with my mood :)

I cannot believe I put an apostrophe in 'Saturdays' in my previous post I think it was actually autocorrect, but still. It does my pedant crown no good

Didn't do anything tonight on account of a cracking head and a clingy, teething toddler. Got my babywearing exercise class tomorrow so I probably won't Shred again until Saturday IF I can find the energy. I hope I can because, while Saturday's are a whirlwind of exhausting family activities, none of them are particularly calorie-burning and cake or chips or both usually feature at some point. Give me a kick up the bum on Saturday everyone!

@irony I've just been eating better and doing the shred . I have cheated a bit though I only do level one I aren't brave enough to go to two lol . I just do level one 4 times a week 5 if I'm really good

Level 2 is quite a jump from Level 1, but you certainly feel like you've had a good work out afterwards :)

Congrats on the weight loss Heleng - was that just through the shred? Hope things are looking up a bit for you now.

30DS L3D23 done today :) I did no shredding yesterday, went for a two hour walk instead as there was a rare bit of sunshine. Received my Ripped in 30 today as well, quite looking forward to starting that afte the Shred.

Just done 30DS level 2 for the first time owww! Mind you did the warm up twice as DD switched it off at that point, must hide remote better!

I am aiming to do 5-6 days a week with Tuesdays off as I do a fit step class then and there is no way my arms would take both! Have also started my fitness pal again

Elphaba BF is great isn't it but totally understand the carb craving, DH just didn't get that I needed to inhale whole bars of chocolate just to survive!