Insanity question

Couple questions....

1 - are you weighing/measuring ALL of your food?
2 - ALL of your inches went up?

Gaining a few pounds or losing no pounds in the first month is really more then norm than losing. There are people that lose the first month but more often than not people gain.

I lost no pounds the first month, 5 the second month and 8 more the week following finishing. While I was "doing" the program I lost roughly 15 inches overall, 4 from my chest and 4 from my hips. I just assume the 8 pounds I lost in the week after finishing was water weight from the stress I was putting my body through.

I just finished insanity a few days ago. In eight weeks I was doing it I only lost 3 pounds. But felt my muscles grow I did go down 1 pant size. My cardio strength got stronger. Just stick with it it worth every min.

Have you been taking progress pictures? You might be able to see a difference that the numbers aren't indicating. I'm also on week 3, and I haven't lost any weight either. All of my measurements, except belly have remained constant, but I can see a definite difference in the muscle tone and definition. I wouldn't stress the weight issue. Under a program like Insanity, you're going to gain weight. When you exercise at this intensity, you generate microtears in your muscles as part of the normal musclebuilding routine. Your body treats this as an injury, and will retain water and glycogen at the location of the tears as part of the inflammation response. Water is quite dense, particularly compared to fat, and will often balance or even offset any losses from fat loss. Your scale number will go up, but it is not a real gain. Typically, it takes about 2-3 weeks to adjust and stop retaining water. With Insanity, since you constantly push harder, you might not see any losses until after you finish and your body adjusts. If your muscles are growing from building and swelling from retained water, this might offset the decrease in inches from fat burning, particularly if you weren't terribly active before starting the program. Did your numbers increase on the second fit test? If so, I would probably recommend sticking with it and maybe tweaking your food intake. It's possible that you are eating closer to maintenance if the burn counts are off. How are you tracking calorie burns? A heart rate monitor or the booklet estimator? I find that my burns can vary a lot from dvd to dvd (anywhere from 350 to 800, depending), so I have to adjust how much I eat accordingly.

I just started day 1 yesterday. I'll let you know my experience as well but it may be too late at that point.

My cardio improved drastically with Insanity. It felt amazing. But I did not shed a single pound in those 2 months.