650 Calories and Insanity

TavistockToad

So if OP was doing 5:2 (i know she isn't but just go with me here) what would be the answer then? Insanity on the days your not fasting?? Obviously it would go against the insanity food plan but what would peoples reactions be then?

when you do 5:2 you eat at maintenance on the 'feast' days and 500 cals on the fast days, so yes, you could do insanity on the feast days, though i always found that i was hungry the day after insanity... so i wouldnt fancy trying to only eat 500 cals the day after pure cardio!

shortt123

Oh & I don't count calories anymore. Eating sensibly is better, For me anywAy.
Of course, however, I do have a rough idea how many calories I've had at the end of the day

sijomial

So if OP was doing 5:2 (i know she isn't but just go with me here) what would be the answer then? Insanity on the days your not fasting?? Obviously it would go against the insanity food plan but what would peoples reactions be then?

If she were following 5:2 with the "typical" women's TDEE of 2000 cals then the numbers are quite stark....

5:2 = 11,000 cals per week (average 1,571 daily)
OP's 650 x 7 = 4,550

Personally I don't find fasted training a problem but it did take a while to get used to.

OP - please eat more before you harm yourself.

GillianMcK

So you want you to do more on less fuel, think of your body as a machine, if you want a machine to do more/go further you're going to have to put more fuel in for this to happen.

So you've only been doing this a week because you want to lose weight, unless you are planning to become anorexic and all the issues that go along with that then this diet is not sustainable.

Eat calories at a rate to maintain a sensible weight loss of 1lb a week, this is a sustainable lifestyle and teaches you how to eat when you're maintaining weight, yeah you'll probably see huge losses in the first few weeks eating at 650 calories but this will be water and glycogen stores that you're losing (how you will complete insantity workouts with severely depleted glycogen stores I don't know), but as soon as you go back to eating a normal number of calories you're glycogen stores will build up and you'll put weight back on (for my weight loss I'm aiming for 5lbs below where I want to be to allow for this happening when I switching to maintaining.

At 650 calories a day you are in effect promoting an anorexic lifestyle which is not allow on these forums.

Grumpellina

People aren't trying to be mean to you/are not being mean to you. People are concerned and there is a difference. You posted this in a public forum that can be accessed without anyone even having an account to this site, so you must expect that people are going to read your thread fully and voice their opinions about what you are doing and attempt to give you advice. That is as far as they can go, though. We can only hope that you pay mind to what we are trying to tell you because you will end up hurting yourself if you are not careful. To put it kindly for you, you need to eat more food and actually workout, or you will damage your body in the long run. You will end up binging and ultimately gain a lot of the weight back, if not more, and this is in no way healthy to you because you will then become even more frustrated to try to lose it again. If you don't want to do weights, fine. Become a cardiobunny and cardio it out, and eat more. If you are looking to get definition and muscle mass, that is also not the way to go. In order for your body to actually gain muscle mass you will need to eat more, so that your muscles have food and can grow. You can't expect a plant to grow in concrete, don't expect your body to do the same without fuel. Re-comping is more difficult than cardio and takes a lot more time, specially when you are at a deficit because you are only tiring your muscles out and not actually gaining any mass; losing is more like it. Please contact a dietician if you don't believe it. We are only trying to help you, not criticize you.

squiguk

I've done Insanity and if done properly, it literally is insane! I'd be genuinely concerned for you to try it on only 650 calories a day, I'm sure it would make you dizzy/sick and it definitely wouldn't give you muscle definition (if you did complete the programme).

In my opinion, wanting to lose weight for a specific reason and wanting to be fit, healthy and toned are 2 different things - I've done plenty of 'quick fix' plans that do work short-term but the weight always gopes back on. So its always better to consider fitness as a long-term goal, eat healthy food (and enough of it!), do regular exercise and your body will thank you for it...

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