Beachbody Thread 6 (Insanity, T25, 21 Day Fix, 80 Day Obsession etc)

[Theromanempire]

Thought I would start a new thread as we have literally run out of room on the last one

Hi all,

You fell off my I’m on list

Sorry some of you are not quite feeling the workout vibe. It’s a tough time of year with all the busyness of Christmas and dark rubbish weather and bugs about. No excuses come January though!

I went on Shaun ts fb Page yesterday to see how his babies are looking and all the most recent posts are him and his husband on holiday but no babies! There’s one of them naked (you see husbands bum but Shaun t is sitting down), one of them together topless, they look like they’re having a lovely relaxing loved up time together but I just kept thinking where are the babies?! Didn’t realise he had new stuff coming out and excited it has a step as I have a step. I shall look forward to that in the long distant future.

Had 12 week scan and everything looking good so all feels a bit more real now. Scary but real. Still feeling dire and on all the drugs and still not able to leave the house (the scan was a big thing to get to). Having to constantly eat and have put on now a stone and a half at least, but I think I’m still less than starting pg weight with dd 1 so trying to focus on that positive. Feeling huge and not up to doing any exercise yet, I can’t even manage yoga but I’m hoping come new year when I’ll be 15 weeks I might at least manage tiny walks every day to get my legs moving more and build up. I’d love to just be able to walk myself through a BA class just for the fun but I can’t manage that yet. Hopefully in a couple of months though....

Reastie so good to hear from you. So happy that the scan was good but that you are still feeling rotten. Hopefully it will improve soon and you can start to feel human again. I saw the photos of Shaun T's holiday and was very - me and DH haven't had a break away for 12 years so I am always jealous of anyone who gets time away from the kids

Managed Upper Fix and half of ABC extreme on Friday night (actually worked out that half of the ABC workout is quite a good short leg and abs workout and only takes 10-15 minutes so fab to add on to other workouts). Then did T25 Ript Up on Saturday which was a bad idea as my arms were tired from Friday's workout but DH had hurt his leg so only wanted to do an arm workout!

Did a BMI calculator this morning just out of interest to see what difference my weight loss has made - started at a BMI of 33 (obese) and am now 27 (overweight) so that is progress I need to lose another stone to be within the healthy weight - as another stone is my target weight, it seems odd that that will only just be 'healthy'

Thermo that’s brilliant progress! You’re nearer to healthy weight BMI than overweight with 27, and remember it’s not a great tool of health if you have muscles as it measures you as higher than you should be because of muscle mass.

Thermo I used to like comparing myself from where I was to where I am on the global fat scale (it was on bbc website, I assume it’s still there). You compare the average weight of people your gender and age from other countries and it shows where you come up. I moved right the way from the bottom (ie most averagely ‘fat’ country) to near the top (although I’m probably nearer the bottom. Just showing progression up the line of country names I’d gone through made me feel good.

Hi reastie. Congrats on the scan. I hope that gives you a bit of peace of mind. Sorry you’re still feeling shit but that’s a lot of weeks gone now so hang in there. I looked up the bbc fat monitor thing you mentioned. It does it by age group and uk region. Apparently 57pc of uk women in my age group are overweight which is quite shocking really. I live in east of England and we’re the 3rd least overweight area with 54pc overweight. OMG.

Poppy I hear you re kid free trips. I’ve left my youngest twice for 2 nights and he is 4. Although I can’t imagine a child free holiday. Holidays are the best time with kids surely. It’s the relentless school run/tea etc that I’d happily delegate!

Anyway. Rubbish weekend. No work outs as was feeling crap. Had to turn round and come home from my run on Friday. Back on it today. Did accelerator from p90x3 which I rarely do. Xmas tree baubles took a beating from plank circles and plank walks - i just kept knocking them off whichever way I turned. Poor tree

Good work on the double roman. Hardcore

Purple that sounds different to the one I did which is here

Me again!

I actually tried yoga today. First vaguely exercise related thing in 2 months! I did the bb first trimester yoga on the secret site (worked fine). I wanted just a gentle stretch yoga really to ease me in and see if I could do it and compared to a few months ago it was a super easy and wouldn’t even count as a workout but today I struggled! Turned out it wasn’t overly relaxing stretches there were a lot of squats and flow moves. I’m so heavy and inflexible, even just holding downward dog which used to be a rest pose was hard work and I couldn’t get my legs straight. I took it really easy as I didn’t want to overdo it but I did it! Hoping to try (nausea permitting) yoga a few times a week until I can get back on my exercise bike and then alternate. I’m struggling a lot mentally so I’m hoping once I can get exercise back in the routine once I’m up to it (which realistically might not be for another couple of months, but at least I’m trying) mentally it’ll help me.

Are you guys planning a Christmas Eve joint workout again this year? I’ll bow out but will be happy to chivvy you all to do it!

reastie the yoga sounds like the perfect workout for you at the moment. If you do fancy some gentle walking (but within the confines of your house so you can stop easily if you feel like it), there are some walking exercise videos on youtube (search for Leslie Sansone) - bit cheesy but various lengths and various intensities I think and really good if you want to do something and are stuck at home?

So I did Dirty 30 followed by Clubbercise on Monday and then Total Body Cardio on Tuesday - haven't done either of the 21df workouts for months and by yesterday, I was hurting in my sides, my bum and my quads!! Actually hurt to go upstairs and I totally blame the weighted surrenders in TBC for that Had a rest day yesterday to try and recover a bit.

I am going to struggle to do a Christmas Eve workout due to other commitments - hopefully we will go for a walk with the DC if we can drag them out in the morning which is the only spare time we have and it is a bit of a family tradition. Think Sunday will be my last workout until 27th December.

Well done on the yoga reastie. That is great. You must feel a bit encouraged even though it felt hard? are you signed off work too as presume that must be part of the mental health impact - i know this from when my dh was off - he found it very hard and he didn’t have the additional impact of being poorly too. I hope you feel a bit better in time for Xmas though as I know how much you like it!

I’m really down in the dumps at the moment as I’m ill again! I worked out on Monday then immediately got ill again and have felt properly awful ever since. I’m hoping I’ll be ok for my traditional Xmas eve workout but I’m not sure

Oh purple how rubbish, not again. Hope you feel better soon and maybe just a gentle workout for Christmas Eve if you’re up to it?

I haven’t managed to do yoga again as have felt too sick but crossing fingers. I have dh and dd now home from school and work every day, and whilst it’s so nice not to be stuck on my own at home all the time I’m also finding it quite overwhelming and anything that stimulates me makes me worse so I’m having to take myself off to lie in bed a lot :( purple yes I’ve been signed off since mid October. I haven’t even managed out of the house apart from medical appointments (and had to have a private scan as I couldn’t make it to nhs one as it was too far away), not even for doing the school run so couldn’t manage work at all. It’s looking likely I’ll be signed off in January too :( tbh I was expecting it as last time I never really managed to work at all during pg but gave myself a lot of anxiety about it but this time I’m focusing on staying sane and getting through however I can ( both physically and mentally) as my priorities, I’m trying not to have guilt over work.

Definitely no need to have guilt over work reastie. If you’re too poorly to get out of the house you’re too poorly to work! There was an article recently about doctors not taking pregnancy sickness seriously enough and I think it’s true of the general population. I can’t think of any other situation where you could be so incapacitated and vomiting all the time and people say stupid stuff like ‘have a ginger biscuit’ I’m even remembering the stuff people said to me and my sickness was nowhere near as bad as yours.

So, no Xmas eve work out for me . I’m still ill but thankfully on the mend. It’s a shame as for me the Xmas build up is nicer than Xmas itself, and I’ve been ill for all of it. Bah. At least I’ll be able to eat, drink and be merry tomorrow I suppose.

Have a great Xmas everyone!

Hope you are all having a great Christmas

No exercise here since Saturday (other than a long walk yesterday) and I am eating my bodyweight in food and chocolate!

Totally relaxing my diet till 2nd, am not weighing myself either. Expecting to put on about half a stone

But Team RH are launching an app on 1st Jan so will restart with renewed enthusiasm and start my 3rd round of Liift4 so I think I can shift it easily enough and then make a start into reaching my target weight of 11.5 stone by my summer holiday in July!

Purple are you feeling any better yet?

Thermo sounds like you’ve got a good plan for next year. I think it’s good to have some time off now and again.

Well, good news and bad news. Bad news is embarrassingly at 14 weeks I’ve put on 2 stone. This is nearly how much I should put on in 9 months! Feeling very down about it and looking very obviously more flabby in the arms and legs etc. Trying to reduce what I’m eating but it’s pretty impossible as I jut feel so so sick if I don’t constantly eat. I’m not even enjoying food! So I will have to shed a huge amount of weight that I didn’t even want to eat in the first place. Good news is I managed 45 minutes very very gentle pg yoga yesterday and 15 minutes very gentle cycling on my bike today (even if I had to lie down for half an hour after going on my bike!). I’m really hoping this is the start of incorporating some kind of activity back and it won’t make things worse by exhausting me. I’ve decided my aim is for in a couple of months do yoga one day, bike the next then a toning type workout with my Swiss ball the following then repeat and have onerest day a week. At least hopefully even if I get fat I’ll be in a physically stronger place than last time post birth. If anyone spots any ball pg workouts online or knows of sites I can try please let me know.

Still feeling rubbish much of the time and am on medication and don’t have the energy or feel up to going out at all (even for short walks) but really hoping I can start building my stamina slowly back now I’m finding it more variable than constant nausea.

Have mw apt in 2 weeks so need to start building strength to be able to make it to the hospital.

Hi everyone - Happy Christmas!

Reastie I am so happy to hear about your exercise, fingers crossed this is the start of you beginning to build up a little strength. Don't worry about weight - congratulations on managing to get to this point despite feeling so awful, you are amazing.

Purple I am the same and love the build up to christmas most, usually not a massive fan of christmas day, but hopefully you are feeling better and can make up for lost time.

Roman I am quite tempted to try the RH app it sounds interesting.

Sorry I have been awol again - actually sort of have valid excuses - had a big birthday and we went on a little mini family holiday to celebrate, we got back late christmas eve and I had hoped to workout but was too shattered, was enough to just try and fit in the christmas eve rituals! since then had christmas day at my mums, then preparing for a very short notice and small wedding for me and dp, I literally pulled together my outfit together the day before and was cleaning on the actual day - cut things super fine and was doing my own hair and makeup about an hour before we had to leave. Spent very little money, and in theory it was just for practical reasons but actually it was really nice and my family who were there quite liked it. I was really happy that I managed to find a suitable weddingy not wedding dress v cheap and with little to choose from and felt quite liberating not to have lost weight in advance, BUT now looking at the photos and because venue and outfit were nicer than expected I am disappointed that this wedding didn't happen last year when I was a couple of sizes smaller - front on photos look fine, but the side on ones look rubbish,I looked much bigger than I thought. Any way I have nothing special coming up so I will try and just give RH a try or do something a bit long term to lose a little or at least stop gaining.

Hope plink is having a good christmas?

Hopefully I will be back on to report a workout but if not Happy New Year!!!!

Just to clarify my dear husband did feature in this wedding the main reason it was so nice was because when the registrar was reading out the words it really felt like we were marrying for all the reasons she was saying, and dp/dh felt the same so was emotional despite him playing down the whole thing since we booked it.

Poppy- congratulations!!!!!! how lovely. I’m glad it was what you wanted. It sounds lovely. Presume you’ve been together a long time already so you’ve already ‘lived’ your wedding vows which must make them feel really meaningful. I’m really pleased for you - what a memorable Xmas

Reastie - glad things are (slowly) improving. No point in worrying about weight gain. I was the same with ds - MASSIVE at 4mths but didn’t gain anymore weight (in fact I think I must have lost some) over the next 5mths so it all evened out. Hang in there - you’re doing well to be exercising at all given how you’ve been feeling.

Roman - I’m going to join you on liift. Should we be lift buddies? Im hopefully starting on nyd. I say hopefully as I’m still ill . Managed a Xmas day short run, then have felt awful ever since. Now have a cough so loud I can clear a room. It has been 2weeks now - waaaaaaaah
Surely I’ll be better by 1 jan?

Yummy massive congratulations, that’s wonderful news and I’m glad you enjoyed it. I bet you’re just seeing yourself badly in the pictures. I remember getting my wedding photos and actually cried as I hated how I looked (I think I was the only bride to gain weight before their wedding as I had a mc 3 months before and my hormones were all over the place and made me ravenous and I ate constantly) but everyone was really shocked by my reaction as they genuinely thought the photos were good, it’s just how you see yourself, and once you’ve been slimmer it’s hard to see pictures as I think you imagine (or hope) you look as you did at your slimmest. I bet you looked fabulous.

Purple that’s rubbish you’re still feeling bad, don’t rush to exercise if you’re not up to it, you have a whole year (and more) ahead to do do workouts.

Well, I felt terrible again yesterday evening. This morning I went for a gentle run, as in literally snails pace and I barely got 100 yards before I felt really exhausted and sick. This sucks. I managed just under 15 minutes very slow walking and that was all my activity for the day. Still, better than nothing and hoping to gradually build up.

Gentle run this morning, who am I kidding, in my dreams! I mean a gentle and very slow WALK! I can but dream of a run!

Thanks both - purple that is exactly it about having already lived the vows! Yes been together nearly 16 years - has gone so fast. Your cough sounds awful you might need a GP appointment to check for infection? Those coughs that drag on for weeks are such a pain, can't take to your bed for weeks, but no energy and have to keep going, hope you can rest and get better soon Did you get BBOD for your birthday? Happy belated birthday wishes.

Reastie - well done on your walk. Building in that intention of a purposeful session for exercise is what counts and you will be able to continue it after baby comes along which is the main thing. I think your right about photos - most people would just look at them in comparison to how I look now and think they were fine but I just think why didn't I keep the weight off and feel cross with myself now instead of focussing on positives.

Sorry to hear that you miscarried so close to your wedding, that must have been such mixed emotions when you got married and can totally understand why the photos would have made you cry

yum wow congratulations it sounds like a lovely wedding (I am not into big flashy weddings at all!) and winter weddings are always more special IMO. And don't worry about the photos - as Reastie said, you won't look as big as you think you do to other people and in a few years, nobody will ever look at them again (or maybe that is just in my case ) I have been married for 21 years and have absolutely no idea where my wedding photo album is!!

Reastie well done on the walk - little steps like that will get progressively easier over time and even if you don't get very far whilst pregnant, you are over a third of the way there now so not long. Sorry about your miscarriage - that must have been a difficult time for you with lots of mixed emotions

Purple yes, be my Liift buddy I hope you love it as much as I do!! I think I am going to start today but as you only do it 4 times a week, as long as we both get to Sunday evening having done the 4 workouts, we should stay on track with each other? That is assuming you feel up to it as your cough sounds nasty

So, I was going to postpone my diet restart until Wednesday but I reached saturation with food, chocolates and wine yesterday so I have decided to start today (yes, I know it is strange starting on NYE!) So I weighed myself this morning and it is 7lbs up but I am hoping that some of that is water and will drop off quite quickly this week! Have planned my food for the day and managed to include a nice tea of steak and dauphinoise potatos followed by Halo Top ice cream (I hate NYE so will be staying in with DH and the DC watching a film and other crap on telly). DH grumbled about me not drinking tonight so I have just bought a can of ready mixed vodka, lime and soda to drink at midnight - only 100 calories so I can fit it in and DH will stop moaning!

Hope you all have a good NYE whatever you are up to and roll on Team Beachbody 2019

Happy new year everyone!
I’m delighted to report the first thread workout of 2019!! I felt better this am so did my first lift workout. Woo hoo. I felt like I had been ill forever so I feel so relieved I’m finally feeling better. Had to do workout 3 (shoulders) as only had 30mins. I’ve lost a lot of strength but I guess it will come back quickly.

Reastie - well done on the walk. I’m glad you corrected yourself as I was going to post that perhaps a run was pushing a bit too hard!

Well done on the diet restart roman. I need to do that although I’ve not been eating that much as have felt so rough. But to make up for the low food volume I’ve been eating mostly crap so I feel sure tomorrow’s weigh in won’t be pretty. I am craving salad and less rich food so that’s a good sign!

Have a good day all

Thermo it’s always good to be ahead of the crowd, starting on NYE sounds like the kind of thing I’d do!

Purple yay to feeling better, bet that feels a relief! Give it a couple of weeks and you’ll be back on full force.

This morning I did my own strength workout I invented. A mixture of a leg move followed by an arm move, all quite gentle and only one round of ten reps but felt so good to be doing something. I figure if I start it here I can build to 12 then 15 reps then add in round 2 and hopefully round 3 over time. I’m determined not to get as big and unfit as I was before (which is easy to say in the mornings when I feel as good as I get but not so easy in afternoons and evenings when I feel so rubbish all I can do is eat to try and help things). I’m putting my health above all else this time (and the baby obv) so I’m not pressuring myself about feeling better for work yet (mo way could I do it yet as I get exhausted by walking ten minutes and feel all sick but hopefully it’ll improve) I’m purely focusing on being as healthy and strong as I can be and not ruining my physical and mental self. I hope that doesn’t sound selfish but it’s the only way I can survive this and not lose myself.

purple so glad you managed a workout and are feeling better - hopefully that is the end of your illness. What did you think of Liift? We are doing workout 2 tonight - cannot wait!

reastie you sound so much more positive which is great. And no, you definitely need to look after yourself and not feel guilty about work at all - I hope you aren't getting any pressure from your work about not being there

That’s excellent re the DIY workout reastie. It’s good to have a plan.

Roman - I did lift workout 2 tonight. OMG my poor biceps. I’m worried about being able to move at all tomorrow and I ended up using my lighter weights as I couldn’t manage with my heavier ones. I will admit to missing the HIIT bit of the workout though - I like a combination of the weights and HIIT. Might have to do legs tomorrow to give my poor arms a rest.