Insanity - started today (7/16/12)

Week 9 Day 1 Max Interval Plyo

I can't believe I've made it to the final week of Insanity! I'm going to have to start filling out the paperwork to submit my results and get my tee shirt!!!

Week 9 Day 2 Max Cardio Conditioning and Cardio Abs

Morning Y'all! OMG I was so hungry this morning! I drank my protein shake post workout and then had a good breakfast of egg whites and 2% reduced fat cheddar slice on a whole wheat sandwich thin. An hour later I was starving so I ate a banana which thankfully seems to have quieted the rumblings in my tummy. Usually I can wait 3 or so hours before needing to eat again so this is weird.

5 more days left in Round 1!!!!!

Week 9 Day 4 Core Cardio & Balance

Woke up extra sore this morning. I think my body really needs a recovery WEEK or two before I start back in on round 2 of Insanity. I think I'm going to play this by ear and see how I feel after a week.

Week 9 Day 6

Taking today as my rest day. Will bang out the last workout in round 1 tomorrow...Max Cardio and Cardio Abs. Should be painful!

Week 9 Day 6 Max Cardio Conditioning & Cardio Abs

Ok so I needed to take 2 rest days this weekend before I was physically able to bang out the last workout in Round 1 but I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so proud of myself for accomplishing this goal. I didn't lose the amount of weight I thought I would (only 5.3 lbs total) but I definitely saw improvements in the tape measurer results.

Chest - 42.5/39.5 (- 3")
Waist - 39.5/36.5 (- 3")
Hips - 44.5/42.5 (- 2')

I'll consider round 1 to be the start of my transformation and so I'm looking forward to seeing what round 2 brings. I definitely think I'm going to do a hybrid of Insanity and ChaLEAN Extreme after round 2 because I love lifing weights and that's one of the best strength training programs on the market (IMO). I'm going to take the rest of this week for recovery...tomorrow I plan to do the final fit test and then I think I'll throw in Fast & Furious but then the rest of the week I'm going to do Core Cardio & Balance.

Not sure if there are any noticeable differences from day 1 to 63 but here are the before/after pics from round 1:

Day 1 Front


Day 63 Front


Day 1 Side


Day 63 Side

I think you're being kind! Thank you though!

I tried to stick to 1200 - 1300 net calories (probably about 1750 - 1850 calories w/o exercise) and concentrated on cleaning up my diet...lean protein, veggies, whole grain carbs, fruit, and good fats (mostly natural peanutbutter, avocado, and olive oil). I drank tons of water and ate 5 - 6 meals per day. For the 6th meal I tried to only eat fruit or a Quest natural bar (but only if I had extra calories) instead of a sweet or bread carbs (i.e. pretzels, vitatop, cookies, SF pudding, etc.). I tried to follow the Insanity nutrition guide to a tee but that lasted maybe 2 weeks and then I started just trying to follow the meal macros rather than the actual suggested meals which seemed to work better for me.

For round 2 I was thinking about ways to clean up my diet even further so I would see larger losses on the scale and tape measurer. I know you're not supposed to reduce calories when you're working this hard but I was reviewing my diary from a year ago (before I put on the 30 lbs) and I had great success eating at around 1600 calories while doing Turbo Fire 6x/week. I'm thinking about reducing to 1600 for month 1 to see if it has any effect.

Day 1 - 63 side by side pics

Side view

Week 10 Recovery

Core Cardio & Balance - love this workout! I was actually able to get my knees all the way up to my elbows on the oblique leg raises!

Week 10 Recovery

Decided my body needed a rest day, especially since I stayed up way later than usual to watch my Giants beat the Panthers. Will get back to Core Cardio & Balance tomorrow.