Questions about Insanity Weight Loss

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  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    I stumbled across an article the other day by Chalene Johnson which talks about why people gain weight when they start a new workout program! When you start working out a lot and your muscles get sore they retain liquid which can make you gain a few pounds for a couple of weeks! It can happen again when you start the next phase, so when you start the second month you may notice a little weight gain, but don't worry, you aren't actually gaining anything! Here is the article!

    http://www.sparkpeople.com/blog/blog.asp?post=why_the_scale_goes_up_when_you_start_a_new_workout_plan
    Thank you for your response! I watch this on one of Shaun T's blogs about gaining water around the muscles too and I believe this to be true too. Thank you for this link and I will be checking out too! You have a great night! :happy:
  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    I just started the 2nd month of Insanity...It took me 45 days to get here because I only do 5 workouts a week. Still, I am down several inches, 9 lbs & almost 2 dress sizes. I had to increase my calories because I wasn't losing weight much in the beginning (toning up, yes!) & I realized that I wasn't fueling my body enough. I'm now consistently losing 1.5 lbs per week...eating 1700-1800 calories per day. Definitely use the nutrition guide to help calculate the correct number of calories to consume. It seemed strange to me & I even questioned it with my Beachbody coach, but you can burn between 500-1000 calories in ONE workout, so you need to make sure you aren't under eating.

    Also, my calf muscles were killing me in the beginning. I started to focus more on using the strength of my quads & abs more instead of relying on my feet/ankles/calves & it's made all the difference. I have no pain now & almost no soreness anywhere post workouts. Make sure you're drinking plenty of water...dehydration will not help your situation. There is a lot of leg work in these videos, but I think there's also plenty of upper body/ab work as well....hello?!...suicide drills, ski abs, in & outs, push-up jacks, 16 minutes of Cardio Abs...this will all seem easy once you see what's coming in Month 2... :D I've heard, from numerous people, that you will see better results in month 2 & I believe it!!

    Don't give up! Pay attention to inches lost, rather than what the scale says. Even if you don't lose 25 lbs, you will still be in better shape than when you started. :)
    Wow! I didn't take my calorie intake into consideration. I am eating around 1300 to 1400 calories a day. And I know that I do need to drink more water and I am going to start tomorrow and add to more 8 ounces of water. Thank you for your post it really gave my a eye opener and helped me to see others areas that i am lacking in. And also going to focus more on using the strength of my quads and abs more to see if this helps with my legs burning. Thank you soo much!
  • ja9smakinachange
    ja9smakinachange Posts: 144 Member
    I didn't read all the replies, but I did insanity jan-mar and didn't see any weight loss the first 4 weeks. I did however lose inches, tons of them and I got stronger and faster.

    Don't let the scale measure your success.
  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    I didn't read all the replies, but I did insanity jan-mar and didn't see any weight loss the first 4 weeks. I did however lose inches, tons of them and I got stronger and faster.

    Don't let the scale measure your success.
    Thank you for your response! I do believe what you are telling along with all the others! Thank you for encouraging me!
  • cmcoyle776
    cmcoyle776 Posts: 20 Member
    When my coach put it this way, it made sense: Your body needs, at a minimum, 1200 calories per day to function without hurting yourself. If you are eating 1300 calories a day & you burn 300 or 500 or 1000 calories in a workout (not to mention what you burn doing housework, running errands, taking care of your family) you are in a calorie deficit. Sure, you'll lose some weight, but it will come to a screeching halt fast because you can't function long-term on that few calories without doing some damage to your body.

    As soon as I upped my calories, I started to drop the weight. I've even had a couple bad-eating/no-exercise days & STILL continue to lose the weight consistently. Also, I feel SO much better eating more (I get headaches when I'm hungry). Seriously, who wouldn't want to eat more in order to LOSE weight? :)
  • Starterbeauty
    Starterbeauty Posts: 16
    I am in month 2 of insanity, and I felt exactly how you did when i first started. My calfs still burn sooooo much and even more so now because I started running everyday befofre insanity since week 3 started. After my first 2 weeks and i hadnt lost a pound, i was completely discouraged but i took my measurements and saw a huge improvement and that motivated me to keep going. Running a mile before insanity everyday for the last 2 &1/2 weeks has helped drastically with my number on the scale (lost 8lbs since i began running)but its hard and i wouldnt recommend it..just hide the scale and break out the measuring tape
  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    When my coach put it this way, it made sense: Your body needs, at a minimum, 1200 calories per day to function without hurting yourself. If you are eating 1300 calories a day & you burn 300 or 500 or 1000 calories in a workout (not to mention what you burn doing housework, running errands, taking care of your family) you are in a calorie deficit. Sure, you'll lose some weight, but it will come to a screeching halt fast because you can't function long-term on that few calories without doing some damage to your body.

    As soon as I upped my calories, I started to drop the weight. I've even had a couple bad-eating/no-exercise days & STILL continue to lose the weight consistently. Also, I feel SO much better eating more (I get headaches when I'm hungry). Seriously, who wouldn't want to eat more in order to LOSE weight? :)
    You have a great point there! I don't want to be hungry and then have to exercise! lol
  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    Thank you for all y'all's responses! I have learned a lot! :bigsmile:
  • harphy
    harphy Posts: 290 Member
    Throw scale away or at least lock it! :laugh: Use measure tape instead. I had was at my maximum weight after two weeks and soooo depressed, but clothes were becoming loose. Total minus in two months was 8 lbs, but went down one and a half size.
  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    I have a question? I have always had a great butt and legs and I really don't want them area's any smaller so my question is... While doing all the squats, lunges, and jumping exercise's with Insanity will I lose everything from the waist down or will those ares get pumped up more with muscles? Should I add leg weights to maintain my current size of will the exercise build enough muscle to keep my butt and legs where they are now? I am only on day 12, still a long way to go.
  • harphy
    harphy Posts: 290 Member
    Angela, insanity will both reduce and shape your body. Have no fear, if your lower body is already in good shape it will become fabulous. i don't see point in wearing leg weigts, just feep practicing till last second. insanity is enough by itself.
  • Kassidi21
    Kassidi21 Posts: 267 Member
    Oh man I can't even imagine wearing leg weights with all of the jumping and leg work we already do... I wouldn't worry about it at all! The only thing that's probably going to happen is if there's any fat it will go down and the muscle tone will be freaking awesome =)
  • BrownEyeAngel
    BrownEyeAngel Posts: 331 Member
    When should you start seeing weight lost? so far I have only seen a 3lbs loss. :(
  • 1fitnessplanner
    1fitnessplanner Posts: 63 Member
    i was browsing and thouyght i'd throw my experience in.
    i've just started month 2 of insanity on monday, i took 5 weeks to do month one (i repeated week 1 just so i was ready)
    so far i have lost 20lbs, 2inches on waist, 5 inches on hips even an inch on my neck

    i put my goal to lose 1lb a week but i have been losing faster but i had a starting weight of 233lbs so that will have impacted for the first month i ate 1650 calories and yesterday i changed my goal to 1.5lbs a week loss so now my calories goal is 1370 so we'll see how that works out

    please add me :)
  • sharpdagger
    sharpdagger Posts: 91 Member
    LOL at your leg weights question Insanity teammate. I doubt you are asking that anymore. LOL I think we'll have awesome legs when we are done with this.
  • whitneywinfield
    whitneywinfield Posts: 1
    I love insanity I have been doing it for only a week & a half and already feeling the results. I used to feel sluggish when just walking to work and back now I have lots more energy and walk a lot faster. I can almost do all the exercise and stretches now were as on the firsr day I could not do hardly any of them :) Keep it up it is worth it! :bigsmile:

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