Sept 2014 - 30 Day Shred thread - because Christmas is coming

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Join us as we bounce, hoik, stumble and otherwise get ourselves through one or other of Jillian Michaels' DVD programs. Some of us love it most of the time, others of us just do it and then learn to love it as we start to feel stronger, leaner and generally fitter. You can be as negative as you need to be, just show up and get it done. You know you want to.

I think I liked Ri30 more the 2nd and 3rd times through than my first attempt - some of the moves in any of these may be hard at first, but coordination and ability to stand on one leg while waving dumbells around does improve!

Well I have started week 3 again as punishment yesterday as I took 6 days off. So today is week 3, workout 4 first time done. It will serve me right that I have to do that rotten cardio even more times.

Showme, I wish I had an atom of your motivation. The weight is creeping on drastically. DH has had a big work disappointment so there has been much wine and comfort food. I feel so much better doing this the last couple of days.

I can't fit into any of my trousers (lovely camel toe effect going on) and my winter work dresses are a squeeze.

Incidentally, yadah does she really threaten to shank someone in the car park in workout 4?

Oh, Lambzig. for your DH. Don't beat yourself up about the wine and comfort food: sometimes it's what's needed. If it's any consolation I had a rotten week at work, culminating with sending an email yesterday afternoon that I hadn't thought about properly and getting a correction from my boss. Email went to an important external contact so I look a complete muppet. I drank more than was good for me last night and am now feeling a bit sorry for myself, and have guests coming to lunch in an hour.

Thanks guys. DH is devastated as it means he has to job hunt if he wants to progress and it's all political, not based on him.

Body Rev week 3, first cardio done.

I have decided that I shouldn't beat myself up if I can't manage 5/6 times a week. If it's 3/4, it's still progress and still ongoing. I think I am giving up when I can't complete a 'Jillian week' in 7 days.

Hey Lambzig she bloody does threaten the shanking. Made me laugh.
As to focusing on all the workouts one does manage every week rather than the number one does not manage, I think that is definitely the way to think about it. With so much else going on in our lives, it is okay to just do a few and keep it up over time rather than stop completely in some perfectionist pique and get super unfit in the process. The idea of having to build up to my current level of fitness (I can finally do rock star jumps ffs!) again is not something I want to contemplate. That is what I am telling myself currently anyway. It is about the long game and that cannot be played without some ups and downs.

Well, tomorrow my plan is to try and get it done pre drop off, but if that is not an option, I will do it immediately when I get back. I am really bad at changing my preferred routines to compromised ones tho so I am not feeling super charged by that idea. However, I think I just have to bite the bullet and do the best thing for me which is clearly to workout rather than let it slide altogether. Will crowbar myself into a PE bra first thing as some kind of penitential motivator.

Imogen I am sure you are smarting but try not to beat yourself up about it too much. I bet you will put this behind you without too much effort very soon. I hope your boss is supportive over it all. If not, fuckem.

Killer Abs L2 D1 done. Half-arsed as always when I'm learning a new set of moves, but it's not quite as terrifying as I thought when I previewed. And as yadah once said, half-arsed is better than no arse.

Lambzig, I've been there and it sucks. (I did move, and it worked out fine in the end, but it was utterly grim at the time - for your DH.)

I think 3/4 times a week is plenty, especially as the nights draw in and we have Christmas to plan for on top of everything else. I'm stubbornly intending to keep going with Shred and Killer Abs till I've finished both, but after that I think I might allow myself a short break from exercise and get a bit more sleep in the mornings.

Body Rev phase 2 week 7 (again) workout 7 (sucks). Did it with kids being fractious in the background and me trying vainly to huff suggestions and pacifications at them in the middle of a crow push up/plank walk/plank up/squat thrust circuit. It didn't end well.

But I did it, half arsed with the best of them! Right shower, clothing, drop off.

I tried to get up at 5 this morning instead of 5.30 to do the shred, but I failed. Just couldn't make myself, so will have to get to it properly tomorrow.

Hello all. lambzig - supporting an OH through work woes can be very tough. Wise words from yadah!

I've just done L1 of Extreme shed and shred - liked some parts, but some of the martial arts-based things are a bit fiddly for my taste. I think some of them may not be as complicated as they look so I'll stick with it and see if I can get my head round it.

30DS L2 D1 done. Not done brilliantly: I've just started the 5:2 diet in the hope that losing five pounds or so will help with my revolting stomach, and I realised half way through the workout that the reason I was finding it such a struggle was that I hadn't really eaten anything much since Sunday evening. Duh. I need to buy some bananas to scoff before my workout after a fast day.

Lambzig, no way could I get up at 5.00 to Shred. I get up at 6.15 on weekday mornings, to get my exercise in before DS gets up at 7, and that's my absolute limit: I couldn't possibly get up any earlier.

Morning! Body Rev phase 2 workout 8 done, with just a normal amount of excruciating effort and pain. A good day.

Imogen well done on the 5:2. It really kick started my post natal weightloss and I now use it as a steadier whenever I feel I need that extra food discipline or just to remember how little I can eat in a day and be ok with. Good luck.

I'm back! 30DSL1D1

Last posted on the August thread I think. Have had about 6 weeks off due to laziness. The good news is that I've kept off the stone I lost on the first shred (in Jul/Aug) which isn't bad as I haven't been especially healthy but still 8lbs to go to healthy BMI so I started again today with a view to being back to fighting weight when I go back to work (after 10mo mat leave) on 1st Dec.

Marking place to jump back on the wagon for oct so hope everyone's doing welll, I see lots of people doing more than the shred. It's about all I can manage so sticking to the classic!

I have to leave home just after 6 on Mondays and Wednesdays and not back until late so it's 5am or nothing (so it looks like nothing then).

Body Rev, week 3, workout 3, second time all done except for the last second half of the last circuit. I ran out of time in between the school run and DS's music class. As I ran with the buggy back home and jumped straight into the workout, I am counting that ten minute run too.

I need to diet too, but am thinking of doing that one where you don't eat for 12 hours. Cannot remember what it's called.

Imogen - I've been doing 5:2 for over a year now, it seems to suit me very well - I'm fairly lax on NFDs but still the scales have gone from edging inexorably up to gradually going down. One odd thing that quite a lot of people (me included) find that after doing it for a while, they feel surprisingly unhungry the morning after an FD - I quite often don't want breakfast (just a few mugs of tea), but still able to shred or whatever and sometimes go for a decent dogwalk too. Apparently 'fasted training' can be beneficial (you might like to find the 5:2 exercise thread). But if you're new to it then yes, you probably should have something before you exercise.

Lambzig - not eating for 12 hours is I guess another variant on 'intermittent fasting' - 12:12 should be reasonably easy if you do it overnight, I think 16:8 is what some people go for ie only eat during an 8 hour window during the day. So it might be brunch at 11, maybe something small mid-afternoon and then dinner before 7 and no snacking afterwards.

Thanks errol, I think I meant 16:8, not eating before 12. I often do that on workdays as I can't face an early breakfast so don't eat until lunch. Getting organised to cook supper before 8 might take a little practice.

I don't suppose you have to be totally prescriptive about it - essentially just make sure that you 'close the kitchen' not too late and then go till lunchtime next day.

ShowMe, the crucial difference is that I'm not breastfeeding! I was ravenous too when DS was under 6 months and feeding all the time (at least it felt like all the time). And I'm not a breakfast person: I don't normally eat till lunchtime, which is why it didn't dawn on me till part-way through the DVD that the fasting and the poor performance might be linked.

Thanks for the encouragement, yadah and Errol. We'll see how it goes. I may not have the discipline to stick to the fast days if I'm having a really bad day at work.

Lambzig, someone on a previous thread said 14:10 often worked better for women than 16:8 (which might deal with your supper timing).

Yes that's right. I switch between 16:8 and 14:10 depending on hormones nowadays. The biggest success has been not eating after 8pm. That seems to have sunk in through my snack driven consciousness and made a difference I think. Lambzig you can adjust the timings of that 8-hour eating window to suit your own schedule so if you tend to have supper post 8pm just fast for longer in the morning. imogen like Errol, I found the 5:2 was really great at just whittling my frame down over a six-week period during which I was not doing exercise at all. I suspect with exercise, it will just fall off you.

I could probably do with some more of it now actually, ho hum.

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