30 Day Shred - Disheartened

If you do it for 60 days straight, you will get great results. Truthfully, thirty days is good, but you need to stick with any program for more than four weeks to get amazing results. You could lose 20 lbs in 30 days, but real results come from repeating it. Trust me. I've done it sixty days and lost forty lbs. Retrain your mind to focus on getting healthy, steong and build muscle instead of lose weight, and your whole perspective will change. Don't take pics every day either. Do it once a week.

If exercising is brand new for you or you've never done something of this intensity, you're likely retaining water to repair your muscles, which will mask fat loss. Keep going and you should see that water drop off soon.

30 day shred is a good all round exercise routine but it doesn't burn that many calories per session. I did it on alternate days and went running or walking on my days off. Also did at least 10k steps walking every day too. I have never had a 6 pack stomach but I did see a general improvement in my fitness and overall toned look.

chandraminick wrote: »

Another thing....when I first started the Shred, I discovered information on women's fitness was mostly a bunch of crap. I started researching health and fitness in men's muscle and fitness magazines. I started eating the protein and hitting the heavy weights. This will preoccupy your mind the first month, and help you get fitter with out all the misleading diet propaganda. Figure out how to pick a good protein powder, and then use it with foods that are not processed.

a lot of the stuff in those magazines are full of woo too.I used to read those magazines you stated and yep, a lot of it is old "bro" science.

I remember getting discouraged during the first three weeks of doing the program. I did see little improvements, but I was impatient which was the downer. I think one of the things that kept me going is that I did a lot of research on nutrition and exercise. I tried to focus on the little improvements instead of the weight loss because I knew it would eventually happen. I was always looking at my bodt in the mirror and taking progress photos. That helped keep me motivated because I could see the improvements that way. About the fourth week, I saw a lot of improvement and every seven days afterwards were a big change. I was working hard on doing the floor exercises for the abs correctly, and about the eighth week I was about 162 lbs, and I could start to see the definition in my abs and on the muscles in the side of my hips. If you can just hang in there for a couple months instead of just the 30 days, I really believe you can get a grip on sticking with intense exercise, and overcome something in your brain that holds us all back from accepting that the discipline is what really keeps driving for the results that we want instead of looking for external motivation to hang on. I once read that discipline is what works because it comes from the inside of ones self, and motivation doesnt work because it is from external influrnces. The one thing I learned from doing the program so long was that I had what it took to get fit. I just had to be patient. It has a lot to do with mental toughness.