Hi gmon. I was the same way with doing P90X, after my 90 days my immune system went crazy on me, I took a week off after completing the program, then what went from a week lead to 3 weeks bc I kept getting sick each time I tried working out again. I suppose my body was telling me I needed a longer break and to rest.
I jumped back into Round 2 of P90 on July 9th and haven't turned back yet.
I believe you will do great if you stick with P90X. I noticed a magor change in my body after completing the program. I haven't tried insanity yet, but agree that it does seem a lot harder than P90X.
For your weight and being active I'd stick with the lowest income calorie P90 suggest, 1800. I know that sounds like a lot but you need the right amount of nutrition in order to complete the intence workouts. I weight 132 right now and do my best to eat all the right foods P90 request, I take in at least 1700-1800 a day. You just need to sit down and figure out what foods you like, and can handle each day.
Good luck on your 90 days!! I believe you'll do GREAT!! Kim

Hi,

1800 does seem too high for me but on the other hand I don't wanna go too low where I'm not getting enough energy.
I think I'm just gonna eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full without a specific calorie goal for a few days and see what I naturally tend to eat. And will adjust later if necessary.
The one thing I'm having a hard time with is sticking to the macros. I find it real hard sticking to 50 protein 30 carbs. Especially because I'm mostly vegetarian who eats seafood on occassion. Im probably gonna have to up the seafood and maybe supplement with some protein powder.
How important is it to stick to the macros?

I can't do the 50 protein. I have mine set for 40 protein, 35 carb and 25 fat and I still never hit the protein.

snapped my red band today doing lawnmowers! Lucky I didn't take out an eye or something! Going to have to send it back, hopefully they won't give me any grief about replacement.

Day 1 check!!!!! Holy push-ups...had nothing much left for that last round of dive bombers. Thought 15lbs would be good to go for weights since I only did 10 lbs before ever, but I was able to do 23-25 reps of everything so I am thinking 18lbs for next week. I got some work to do on ab ripper to get to 25 reps of everything, but there were 6 of 12 where I could do it all in good form.

I was not impressed with my burn rate. Now in fairness I am a cardio person and this is my first foray into weights. When I normally workout for 50 minutes I expect 300-400 calories burned- 500-600 when I run. With these two workouts I did 71 minutes and only burned 402. It's okay, everyday I will do cardio too so my net burn for the whole day was up around 837 which is in my daily goal range. I guess I expected around 1000 a day when adding a challenging program like p90x to my dog walks and runs.

I will say though, I feel good! Invigorated!!!! Bring on that plyo tomorrow!!!

Good luck on the 4K Lisa! I am excited for Plyo, hopefully i'm not too sore after this round haha!

Hey Steph, on my first round, about 8 weeks in the program, I had lost 13 lbs. I had about 20 lbs to lose, so not a lot. But I noticed more results after 6 weeks. After that, the results sky rocketed. Your weight is going to fluctuate as you get through the program with fat lost and muscle gained. With the lean version, I dont think you will build as much muscle, but you will definitely shred fat quickly. It sounds like you're doing great, so just keep doing what you're doing, eat right and you'll see more weight loss.

Still haven't done plyo, my 10K training has to take precedence. So 2.5 mile run done, with running on the spot, jumping jacks and silly dancing to get my burn to 500.

Insanity is just plyo and cardio right?

Anyway - no exercise for me tonight as I'm off out to a lecture. I'm thinlking of walking the hour there to 1) get some exercise and 2) miss the Olympic traffic on the tube.