How I Lost Ten Pounds, Got Flat Abs, and Changed My Life with 80 Day Obsession – Soup Before Supper

Introduction

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about how I was trying to lose my “pastry weight,” i.e. weight I had gained from teaching myself how to bake pastries. I started off with trying out Obe Fitness, but was pretty unhappy with the platform, so I went looking for something new. I purchased a subscription to BeachBody On Demand ($99.00 for 12 months) and decided to give it a whirl. If you aren’t familiar with BeachBody On Demand, it’s a streaming platform dedicated to a wide variety of BeachBody fitness programs. I was familiar with the Insanity Program from ShaunT because Mishka LOVES it, but I hadn’t tried anything from other trainers. Subscribing turned out to be a good decision because there really is something for everyone on here. I chose the 80 Day Obsession program because it promised to deliver results, notably in the ab and butt areas.

The Program

80 Day Obsession is an 80-day fitness and nutritional program developed by fitness trainer Autumn Calabrese. It’s divided into four sections over the course of 80 days: Phase One, Phase Two, Phase Three, and Peak Week. Each phase consists of four weeks, with the exception of Peak Week, which is one week. There’s a set of workouts that focus on different body parts/fitness goals, but the workout moves will change with each Phase. The workouts are: AAA (which stands for Arms, Abs, and Ass), Legs, Booty, Total Body Core, Cardio Core, and Cardio Flow. For example, in Phase One, you may do deadlifts in the Booty workout, then single leg deadlifts in the Phase Two Booty workout, and then a kickstand deadlift in the Phase Three Booty workout. You will do the same amount of reps for each move in each workout, but they’re divided up differently each week. For example, in Week One of Phase One you’ll do 15 reps of each move all the way through, then loop back and do it again. The next week you do 10 reps of each move all the way through, then loop around twice. The order of the workouts change in each phase as well. In Phase One, you may do the AAA workout on a Monday, but in Phase Two it’s done on a Thursday, and so forth. The idea is to keep your body guessing, which will stave off plateaus. Still with me?

The moves aren’t terribly complex, but they will work your body. You’ll find some basic exercises and likely encounter some new moves. The biggest struggle I had was that, basically, every workout put some form of pressure on my wrists. The trainer, Autumn, does…