Beachbody thread 7 (LIIFT, T25, 21 day fix etc) plus a lovely Beachbody new arrival!

Ps purple did you get that run in the end yesterday? How did it go?

Great to see some chat in here recently. I missed that programme you all watched, was it worth a watch in catch up?

Hello plink, glad things are going relatively well for you. Those 8 weeks have gone so fast!!!

Ketosis isn’t the diet for me because of my IBS pain when I don’t eat enough but if it works then great. Yumy it sounds like you’re totally on it atm.

Plodding along here, I’ve had to give up step zoom class because it was irritating my knee and have been focusing more on cxworx and body balance than lots of cardio to try to build strength more and my back is still really playing up. I think a fair bit of it is due to being stuck on the sofa under a sleeping baby for a couple of hours a day (I can only get him to nap under me still) and my back always feels so painful afterwards. I’ve tried changing the way the cushions are, sticking a cushion on my lower back, using a footstool, always use a bfing cushion...I’m running out of ideas but I can feel it’s causing me lower back pain. Has anyone got any recommendations for back support cushions I can try?

Plink - I love food too - that's the problem 😂 the diet isn't very low carb thankfully as there is no way I can cope with never having cake again - I had some of the granola I make for dh with some Greek yog for breakfast today for a change. My daughters were much better sleepers than my son - it was like a bloody miracle when dd1 slept from 12 to 5:30 at only a few weeks old - waking up and it was daylight - I can still remember it now!

Purple dd2 and I finally did day 2 c25k - she is in charge of telling me when it's time to run using her iPod and keeps "accidentally" pressing pause and shaving off run seconds 🙈 I am planning to try and get her out again and also by myself will do some les mills weights type stuff this week.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend

Hey purple, hey yumyum 👋

Yeah, got into the swing of things. OH is already on nights and its not ended in chaos. Its amazing how different my babies have been. This one sleeps thank god so I'm not suffering too badly in the sleep department 😂

Keto never sounded right for me so I never attempted it. It seems to work well for some people though. 800 calories sounds painful though... i don't think I could do that. I love food way too much 😂😂

Hi plink - you sound well - and like you’re managing really well with 2 little ones. Hope you’re getting enough sleep.

Poppy - did you say you had lost 4lbs in 5 days (or maybe it was 5lbs in 4 days?) either way - that is brilliant. How is the exercise - are you able to get back into it?

Hi what I loved - welcome to the thread.

No exercise for me today and diet on pause for a few weeks. Am considering a run tomorrow will see how I feel

Hi plink so lovely to hear from you and that all is going well with your little ones!

Hello hello 👋

Thanks for the well wishes and hello's 😃😃😃😃

Hope you're all looking after yourselves and taking it easy in the extreme heat. Talk about melting. Jesus.

I have my 8 week check on Wednesday and I've already been set some exercises by physio which I won't attempt until I get the say so from GP. Only PFM and transverse abdominal exercises for now. Though trying to find the time to actively concentrate on the ab exercises is a bit tough.

Also gradually getting my food back on track. No rush. Just little bits here and there.

Gonna try and pop on here a bit more often now. Helps focus my mind. I've missed coming on but its been lovely focusing on the little ones. Baby is growing so fast 🙈 It feels like yesterday I gave birth 😂 why does it go so fast?

Whatiloved that is the weird thing - quite a few people have said 800 is easier to stock to than 1200 - I think the low cals forces better choices. Possibly it may also means ketosis which makes it easier than being low cal without ketosis. It isn't ketogenic though so the food is a bit more interesting. One thing that has changed since I did it before is an emphasis on getting approx 60g of protein a day - maybe this will help prevent weight regain. Thinking about it the original book said 2 weeks for people who didn't need to lose much. Everyone on the thread I am on is really focused on maintenance so I think it has been an issue for some people.

I watched that program and wondered how many actually keep the weight off once the month is over. I imagine it's ok if you have a plan for afterwards. I'd hate to think that the participants were just left at the end of the plan without guidance. It's not something I'd ever do. If I need to lose I go down to 1200 and I find that really hard to stick to every single day. However I'm a healthy weight and am more interested in toning up and developing a bit more muscle. Don't get me wrong would still like to lose a couple of kilos. I think if I spent days on 800 cals I'd eventually lose it and pig out - but maybe the theory is that if you only pig out one day you are still in a cal deficit over all. James Smith was tipping it apart on Twitter, think I'm more with him. I did however find the bit about mushrooms and bit d interesting and served up mushrooms to all the kids (I'm a childminder and have particular interest in child nutrition). None out of 4 appreciated it. Weird how loads of kids in this country hate mushrooms, my own included... my husband is Italian and not the case over there .

Actually purple you might be too slim to do that diet as it is only recommended for overweight people. Plus there is the risk of gaining back more than you lose like I did. I am only doing it again out of desperation! It always seems you nip gain in the bud quickly which I am really jealous of.

If you wanted to shake things up though an option might be 5 days of 800 cals as a fast and then follow the woe at higher calories or 5:2. Fasting mimicking diets which are 5 days of 800 calories are considered safe a couple of times a year for people at healthy weight so this diet which is much higher in protein should definitely be ok for a 5 day stint followed by higher cals. Apparently calorie cycling can be better for retaining muscle than regular slow and steady calorie deficit.

I am going to take vitamins this time as think I had extra hair loss last time I did it maybe I did the low cal stage for too long.

If you can get a copy of fast800 recipe book it is really good and worth buying for low cal and lowish carb recipes any way.

We have had 2 days away at the coast and a night at premier inn with unlimited breakfast and although I didn't stick to the plan at all I didn't go mad and have lost a lb which makes 5lbs in 4 days - pretty happy about that but I am very very overweight almost in the second obesity level.

I’m clinging on to your comment about heat and water retention poppy. Was down 0.5kg today so overall now down 1kg in 10 days. I guess that is ok, but was hoping for a bit more tbh. I’m still bigger than my normal but all my trousers are feeling comfortable again so I’ll take that as a win!

I watched that 21 days programme too. It made me want to give that diet a try as the food looked pretty good and whilst wfh it’s a lot more manageable to control your intake that closely. 21 days feels like a manageable length of time, although getting to Ketosis sounded a bit horrible

Just watching lose a stone in 21 days and apparently yoga has been shown to be really good for fighting inflammation, preventing dementia, arthritis etc but also good for boosting immune system so extra good to do right now! Shame I am rubbish at it!

No 2nd run yet but ds had a birthday and she wanted to be fully focused on present opening and chocolate birthday cereal eating 😂

I agree totally weight loss is so depressing - some people on another thread are suggesting heat is causing water retention so you might get a whoosh

Argh mfp - I hate it. Bloody weight loss. Why why why did I lose 1.5kg last week, then have 1 night when I had pudding/wine and put 0.75kg back on and now despite 3x days of 1200 Cals I’ve still not lost any of it??? I find it so frustrating. I know I need to be patient, but I’m struggling to be! At this rate I’ll have been dieting for 2 weeks eating no more than 1200 Cals, with one off day of say 2000 Cals and I’ll have only lost 1kg.

Did your 9yo go out for the second run poppy?

Whatiloved that is def a good plan getting up early. I haven't exercised but walked around 2:00 in the sun and it was blazing!

Purple I have just seen there are a few of us on mfp right now - lockdown has a lot to answer for! One of the dcs birthdays today so I had 20 g Colin the caterpillar cake - almost 100 calories

Careful of the knees reastie!

Yes I don't see why you can't do 3 in a row. Lift4 which I'm really enjoying is 4 times a week. I go for a short run at weekend though.

I'm having to wake up super early as cant work out in the heat!

Ha ha purple def no radical dressing from me - I am a total frump!

Reastie did you enjoy cxworks? Interesting about benefits of single leg exercises wrt form - makes sense really.

I took my 9 year old for a "run" this morning - we downloaded c25k. At first she was sprinting ahead but quickly struggled - we completed it, but I am not holding my breath for this being an ongoing activity - fingers crossed she surprises me

Purple the work sounds so impossible!! I agree with their logic on focusing just on single leg exercises though, my physio was always saying that to me. She hated all the dynamic exercises where you do arms and core alongside legs whilst squatting or lunging etc. She said it was much easier to get injuries as harder to focus on good form for everything, and I kmow she’s a physio so she would say that, but she was a sports physio who always tried to get me to work out as much as I could.

This morning I did cx worx and my core feels bruised now! Sadly I broke my ancient bb band so need to order a new one now. I should probably do something like that more rather than focus on cardio. I don’t know why but even if it’s hard at the time I never feel like I’ve done a workout if it’s a core one compared to if I do cardio.

This heat is hard for workouts reastie - I’m definitely struggling!

I think all bbod workouts can be done 3days in a row as long as you do them in the order they say (so you don’t have 2x leg workouts back to back). All of the programs are 5 or 6 dpw and i usually do 3 or 4 as I run as well (not now though ) so I just do the workouts in the order they suggest, on whatever days I can fit it in and accept a 6wk program will take me 8 or 9 weeks.

in The Work they make a big deal of doing leg workouts with single leg exercises (eg lunges/ balances ) as apparently that is better for preventing injuries as it stops imbalances. So, might be worth a try for you? You could try it, or 6 weeks of Prep which is the program to prepare for The Work?

Glute work not going great. Been lacking motivation and gained the 3lbs I’ve been gaining and losing for months on end. My resolve with food is missing and he really feeling I need a kick. This heat isn’t helping. Yesterday I did a run and my knees hurt (increasingly common since I restarted step zoom classes) and my back killed (another common issue, both are potentially down to glutes) so today I skipped step and did bodybalance (trying to be sensible...) then ever since I’ve been getting agonising twitches in one of my knees. Not a good sign. Think I may do core and glutes tomorrow, possibly a workout of my own imagination, just to do something despite aches and pains. I think step isn’t agreeing with me. Feeling miserable I used to work out 6 times a week and now I’m lucky for half that.

Maybe I should try bbod, I like the idea of progression (as well as progressive attire 🤣). Can anyone think of a program that could be done 3 days a week (in a row) without too much pressure from having no rest days between but still hit the main areas? Suitable for questionable knee and back?

Purple did you have a place on London marathon at all? Sounds like they’ve changed it this year but only just told people, must be so annoying to all those busy training.

Progressive attire sounds like some radical fash pack dressing poppy!

Sorry to hear you’ve got the exercise fear. The first one is the worst and it’s never as bad as you think it’s going to be so hopefully you can mind game your way back into it.

I had been putting off trying to lose some lockdown lbs as I couldn’t face it but went hard core last week and was back on mfp at 1200 cals per day all week. It wasn’t as bad as I had thought. Got derailed slightly as had guests on Friday so ended up drinking but back on it on sat. I want to lose 4lbs which isn’t much but is a lot for me as I’m pretty short

I need to do another week and hopefully that’s enough to get me there. Am doing a second round of the work. Nearly died doing the one with 50 burpees last week.

Sorry for all the typos - was on my phone

Progressive attire wtf 😂 that should be progressive nature

Hi whatiloved how is it going with your bbod sub? Agree with due about progressive. Attire on bb. I have lmod and like it but do feel better there's something missing. What I really miss though is getting the bbod packs with dvd, planner and diet book - it kind of generated some excitement. On dena d is much better value though.

How's it going with glutes Reastie?

Hope your injury is getting better purple

Hi to plink and Roman too!

I got logged out of my account and some sort of glitch would t allow me to reset, but in all honesty I haven't been working out. I need to crack in with a diet and lose weight desperately as I am scared I will be too obese and get made to lock down

@WhatILoved - I like the progressive nature of the BBOD programs which I didn't find on Les Mills. I enjoyed Les Mills for topping up what I was doing at the gym but not as a stand-alone product so much. Glad you're enjoying BBOD.