Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30

missmiller1 What are you finding to be the hardest part of the week 1 workout?

I struggle with the side lunges where you lift the weights in front of you. I think it's a balance issue with me and maybe I'm using too high of a weight. The lowest I have is 5lbs but for this exercise I just seem to struggle! (probably also has to do with the fact that my living room is TINY and I'm afraid of banging into the wall or sofa LOL)

I had the same problem, along with that laying on your back "praise to God" pose she says.

Oh lord did I struggle with that one yesterday too!!! I think I was just sore from the workout class I had done earlier but I just could not keep myself up! Glad to say I'm progressing a little bit with pushups though! My goals is to be able to do them not using my knees!

Hey latoyabooker!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to our thread!! I truly believe in the support system as well. It's one of the reasons I love this site so much and am completely addicted. It's amazing I get any work done during the day LOL.

Oh boy, you guys are certainly prepping me for Week 2...although I have at least 3 more days of week 1 to go before I'm there, but man it seems daunting lol.

As for calories, I've played around over the last couple months with my calories, going on different people's opinions and to be honest I feel like that's what is giving me the best idea of what works for my body. I'm highly impatient, I want results now but I'm having to learn to give myself time to see how my body reacts to changes so I can reevaluate and see what needs to be done. I started at 1200 calories (not eating back my exercise calories) and kept at that for a while. I gradually increased to 1500 calories and felt fine there...continued to lose weight. Then someone told me I should be eating around 1800-1900 calories to lose weight and build muscle. Tried that for about 3 weeks and didn't lose a pound. Also measured my body fat percentage and only went down .5% so I think I was eating a little too much at that point. I have since lowered it back down to 1500 calories. I don't really eat back my exercise calories so I'm probably netting anywhere from 1000-1200 but I also don't worry too much about going over on my calories a little bit and I don't restrict myself on my non workout days. I still try to eat 1500 even though I'm not working out.

Seems to be working! The scale is moving again, slowly, but where I'm at that's the way I need to go....this is a marathon not a sprint! Play around with your calorie intake. Make sure you feel fulfilled but try to eat healthy. Don't beat yourself up about the off treat, just make sure you enjoy your treats and they aren't all the time. I just came back this weekend from visiting my family in PA and it was a weekend of beer, wine, tailgating, thai food, panera bread bagels and chinese. Not much healthy in there...I came back thinking I'd probably put on a pound or two at least (probably from sodium) as I usually do when I eat bad...and I'd lost a pound. This has never happend before lol and i don't expect it to continue...but maybe my body thanked me for taking a break. Who knows...what it taught me though...I enjoyed my weekend with my family, and didn't have to feel guilty about it, because I came home and jumped right back on the workout and healthy eating bandwagon!

Wow this was long winded! I probably should have just left it at play around and see what works for you...but hey, this was my experience and maybe it will help someone by sharing :-)

Either way 1500 is working for me for now. I'll reevaluate in about 3-4 weeks. Oh and I am 5'10, 140-141 lbs. My goal is around 135 but I'm not as worried about the scale as lowering my body fat percentage and slimming down to a size 6 pants (I'm an 8-10 right now).

I just bought a copy of the ripped in 30. I tried jillian michael's at my friend's on her wii and with in the first 5 minutes I was sweating. I loved it so decided to buy a copy of the dvd and try it. What should i log this in for my exercise?

Hmmmm.....I've seen people logging a burn of anywhere from 200-400 calories with this workout. Tonight I was around 280 calories but I used my HRM to determine that. I don't think it really matters what you log it under as much as the calories you are burning if your using that to judge how much you eat etc. A HRM would help you be a little more accurate though. Other than that, I guess you could estimate using another workout but not sure how accurate that would be!