Insanity newbie

Set a custom goal. Use the link below to figure out your caloric needs. Then set your macro's at 40% carbs, 40% protein and 20% protein and the biggest thing, if it suggest 2000 calories, do NOT try to under cut it and think you will lose more. It's scary to see how many calories you will need for programs like this. The people I see fail using the BB products are the ones that don't follow the nutrition guides.


http://www.teambeachbody.com/eat-smart/nutrition-tools/caloric-needs

I started Insanity today. I use a heart rate monitor and log it that way. If you could I would invest in one..

Hiya thanks for that - :-) I want to loose as much as possible probably 2lb a week if possible. I know I will need to increase my cals I always do when doing intense exercise. But I mainly want to know what exercise to log it as or roughly how many cals I will burn!?
Thanks

Any more advices would be much appreciated thanks x

Trust me when i suggest do not have mfp set your calories. I see tons of threads about bb programs and people failing for under eating. If you follow the program, you will see the results. I know this because i did 90 days of p90x with no loss because i aimed too high. I then went to clx and ate 2600 per the nutrition guide and had a lot of success. Use the link, do a custom set up and you will see the results.

Hello. Today was day 1 for me. I use my HRM synced to Endomondo and MFP. My macros have been set to 40c,40p,20f since August.

You will LOVE it! It is so addictive!! A couple of things I wish I had known before I started two weeks ago (feels like ages as I'd been trying to do it for weeks):

1) Depending on your fitness level, it WON'T necessarily burn loads of calories as some claim. I was pretty fit before I started and I only burn 400-450 per workout. This is why it is important to get a HRM so you can get as accurate a reading as you're going to get, I can imagine it would be very easy to overeat with Insanity although as said above you have to make sure you don't under eat as you won't have any energy for the workouts. The first week all I wanted to do afterwards was go lie down in a dark room/eat a three course meal. Not necessarily in that order.

2) If you get any water retention, bloating, general feelings of this kind in the first two weeks or thereabouts don't worry. I looked pregnant with twins (or more) for the last thirteen days but that has just gone completely now. I think it is par for the course for some of us doing these programmes.

Good luck, just go at your own pace and take as many breaks as short or as long as you need.