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brydo86
brydo86 Posts: 47 Member
edited January 17 in Introduce Yourself
Hi guys

Been doing a lot of forum trawling as I have completed my first week of the insanity workout. I determined my caloric needs with the booklet provided. On my trawling I saw this website continuously appear so thought I would give it a go! Although on doing so its threw in a curve ball as my caloric needs are a fair bit different on here as oppose to the insanity booklet. Can anyone help a newbie out?

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  • brydo86
    brydo86 Posts: 47 Member
    Bump
  • jdad1
    jdad1 Posts: 1,899 Member
    i know nothing of this booklet but MFP works bro.
  • brydo86
    brydo86 Posts: 47 Member
    Thanks man, basically on working out my caloric needs through insanity, it states that I should be eating 3200 calories a day which is a massive struggle. According to MFP I have to eat 1900 calories a day to lose 2 lbs a week, but I have also calculated on here that my body needs 2000 calories a day to survive. So if i went on with MFP then surely my body would go into starvation especially when conquering insanity everyday?

    Any help for a dedicated and determined newbie to get his head round the science would be very much appreciated!!!

    Brydo
  • blisser99
    blisser99 Posts: 122 Member
    The 1900 a day is without exercise. Once you input the number of calories burned doing insanity, your daily intake will go up for that day. So for instance, if I were to never exercise and still wanted to lose weight. I simply eat my daily calorie goal MFP gives me. If I want to eat more then I have to exercise. I just simply eat back my exercise calories. Hope this helps.
  • bananapancakebella
    bananapancakebella Posts: 178
    Have you calculated your TDEE? TDEE minus 20% is a very effective method. Use this website:

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/


    MFP recommends I eat 1200 calories, but my RMR is 1400, and my TDEE is 2200, so to lose weight without starving I need 1700 calories a day.
  • brydo86
    brydo86 Posts: 47 Member
    The 1900 a day is without exercise. Once you input the number of calories burned doing insanity, your daily intake will go up for that day. So for instance, if I were to never exercise and still wanted to lose weight. I simply eat my daily calorie goal MFP gives me. If I want to eat more then I have to exercise. I just simply eat back my exercise calories. Hope this helps.

    Yeah I understand it now, I think too much into things!! Thank your for that. Does anyone know how to input insanity into the excercise diary as its various high intensity workout excercises?
  • brydo86
    brydo86 Posts: 47 Member
    Have you calculated your TDEE? TDEE minus 20% is a very effective method. Use this website:

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/


    MFP recommends I eat 1200 calories, but my RMR is 1400, and my TDEE is 2200, so to lose weight without starving I need 1700 calories a day.

    Thanks man. Works out the same as insanity, I guess I just need to man up and start getting used to eating even when I aint necessarily hungry!
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