Hey Richelle,
Thanks for visiting Honestly Fitness! I was planning on doing a review post at the end of the 12 weeks. You are referring to Kayla Itsine’s bikini body guide, right?
Honestly Fitness xxx

Hi Janice!
Thanks for visiting the blog 🙂 I love the training so far – it’s very challenging and I’m seeing the most progress in my legs which is great. I’m 7 week in so I’m excited for the remaining 5.
I did purchase the nutrition guide but I found it a bit simplistic, so I’m following my own personalised eating plan 🙂
Hope this helps you!
Honestly Fitness xxx

Hi Tina!

Thanks for visiting Honestly Fitness 🙂 You can do all of the workouts at home provided you have the following equipment: a jump rope, two benches (or boxes, or steps) a set of handweights (6-12 kgs), a medicine ball (6-12 kgs), and a bosu ball. The workout amount changes every 4 weeks but on average you do 3 strength workouts and some cardio. You should be able to dedicate 5-6 days for this program, so do not start it if you are reeeally busy!

I personally did not find the nutrition guide that helpful but that is just me personally. I have quite a lot of nutrition knowledge and I like to plan my own meals and be super flexible and not stick to a guide. If you need a plan with meals to choose from, i would recommend her nutrition guide 🙂

Let me know if you have any more questions and I hope I helped you!!

Honestly Fitness xxx

Hi Paige!

Thanks so much for stopping by Honestly Fitness 🙂 I will try and help you as much as I can.
Kayla’s current meal plan features quinoa, but as a carbohydrate option and not a protein option. I would honestly suggest that you wait for her vegetarian plan, because it will be much more comprehensive in terms of protein options for vegetarians. I think you would be a little disappointed if you got her current HELP plan to be honest, as it won’t have the answers you are looking for.
So my advice would be to be patient and wait 🙂 If you want to start her workout plan now, then by all means do so! But I totally get why you would want to start it with her vegetarian nutrition guide.

Hope I helped, and I wish you lots of luck in your health and fitness goals!

Alice xxx

Hi Shay!

Do not fear! I know how much it can suck to start working out hard and then to see you have gained weight. This could be a number of reasons – you may have gained some muscle, and since it is only the first week, you may not have lost fat yet. Another thought, have you been eating more? When people start working out, they tend to eat more for various reasons (I need more calories, I deserve it bla bla). Really reflect on how your food intake has been and ask yourself whether you have eaten significantly more. Eating a little bit more is fine since you will be using more energy, but do not go crazy. It could also have just been a result of when you weighed yourself – maybe you were a bit more bloated than usual that day or had just eaten or drank some water.

Just remember that a few pounds fluctuation is completely normal. Do not feel discouraged and NEVER beat yourself up over it!! Just trust the process and be consistent. If over the next month you find you are still gaining weight DESPITE eating enough calories and nutrients for your body and doing the guide, then leave me another comment 🙂 It is also best to focus on how you look more than how you weigh. You may gain muscle but lose fat which will result in a tighter and more toned body even though you may not have necessarily lost any weight.

Hope this helps you!
Alice xxx

Hi Brijette!

Thank you so much, I am so happy you like Honestly Fitness 🙂 Haha, let me help you as much as I can – There are 4 exercises in each circuit. You need to do the specified amount of reps for each exercise and then if you have completed all of the exercises in the circuit and your timer still has not gone off, just repeat the circuit again. You basically go through all of the exercises in a circuit for the specified amount of reps until your timer goes off.
Once you have completed circuit 1, you do the same thing for circuit 2. And then just repeat the process – so for example you do circuit 1, circuit 2, circuit 1, circuit 2. And you should only rest for 60-90 seconds between each circuit.

Does this make sense now? I hope it does, but if it doesn’t please leave me another comment explaining what you don’t understand and I will keep trying to help you until you do 🙂

Thanks again for stopping by, Brijette xxx

You can arrange the workouts for whatever days work for you 🙂 But yes, you essentially only do the circuit workouts three days a week, and the LISS workouts for however long and how much Kayla tells you to do. It is essentially a fast walk, all the information you need should be in pages 1-20.

And remember, quality over quantity! It may not seem like a lot but the circuit workouts are INTENSE and the LISS is to encourage fat burning. Running burns your sugar stores.

Hope this helps, and remember you can always head to http://www.kaylaitsines.com.au if you need more help 🙂

Alice xxx

Hi Dina,
Yeah, see this is why I personally am not the biggest fan of the nutrition guide. It is a blanket guide, meaning it is not personalized and is just an example of a healthy way to eat.
The guide is approximately 1,500 calories and I believe the reason for the higher serving of carbohydrates is because you are doing very high intensity workouts which tend to also burn a lot of sugar. So you need a lot of energy, and carbohydrates are a fantastic source of easy energy. In terms of quest bars, maybe you could email sales@kaylaitsines.com.au. and see what they say? I am not too much help on that part, I am sorry. It seems like Kayla wants you to follow the guide quite strictly along with the workouts. And like i said, I do not like that it is so general. I just continued to eat healthily 🙂
Alice xxx

Hey Sara,
Congrats for starting the BBG! I eat protein bars rarely and when I did, I had the same problem you did; I had no idea what serving they classified as! I would assume that it would count as a protein serving but it might be best to email Kayla’s team directly to ask. I know her stance is to try and get nutrition in from whole foods as opposed to supplements (unless you’re making your own protein bars?).
Hope this helps and good luck,
Alice x

Hey Souz,
That’s awesome and well done!! I think Kayla has some suggestions on her website – you can use a dumbbell instead of a medicine ball. A foam roller is not necessary, and unfortunately there is no substitute for a bosu ball 🙁
I usually have a protein Shake pre-workout because I go to the gym as soon as I wake up at 6am 🙂
Hope that helps!
Alice x