Insanity / Weight loss question

mariacolumbus · May 2013

I have finished my 6th week of Insanity (week 1 of month 2). When I started, I had reached my goal weight. Since doing Insanity, I have lost another 5 lbs - which I really didn't need to lose.

I am slowly increasing my calories (adding 100-150 per day each week) but am still losing...so I guess I need to keep increasing.

My question is....Since I will want to keep this weight off after Insanity (I will continue on with another BB program after this) I'm afraid that eating this much will become a habit that another program won't keep off...Insanity is the most intense program I do (P90X, Combat, Turbo Fire, Asylum). What would be suggestions. Just let the lbs level off? and don't keep increasing cals?

At the risk of offending someone, I would really like to hear from people that are knowledgable about this and not just opinions.
thank you

JenMc14 · May 2013

If you know how many calories you burn while doing Insanity, you can use that to determine what to do with another program. So, let's make up some numbers. We'll pretend that you maintain, with no exercise at 1800 calories. Then we'll say that Insanity burns 500 calories. So, in order to maintain, you would eat 2300 calories, on average. So, once Insanity is over, you pick workout X. Workout X burns 350 calories. That's a 150 difference from Insanity, so drop your calories by 150 and see what happens. You could also keep them where they are and see if you gain, if not, awesome, you get to eat more. It's really all just a grand science experiment. If you switch to a lower intensity program, just lower your cals a bit. I can't imagine that the burn would be that big that you'd have a hard time decreasing if you needed to.

mariacolumbus · May 2013

Science experiment is correct! thanks for your input.

Insanity / Weight loss question

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