P90x and total calories you eat??

I just upped my calories on my menu plan to 1500 from 1300 based upon the advice of my coach because I'm not losing weight at all on P90X so far. I've been at it for a month. I am basically eating the same, but upped my portion sizes a little to get the extra calories in. IE 4oz meat instead of 3oz.

I lost the MOST amount of weight doing the portion plan listed in the nutrition guide. If you check it out, you don't even count calories but trust that the calories listed in the lists of portions are correct.

That being said...and I don't wanna step on avid X'ers toes, but probably will, I decided one day to actually count the calories in the portions that I was eating...

And it wasn't anywhere near the suggested 1800 calories. In fact, it was actually only about 1400. :blushing:

I believe that you will lose a lot of weight and inches following the P90X diet to the letter, but after looking at the above, I determined that I personally did best keeping my calories around 1400-1600 per day.

I am starting P90X again today, and I made out eating plans for the whole week. I average between 1300 and 1400 daily on my workout days eating 5 meals a day. And my portions are substantial, like today's meal for dinner will have 8 ounces of fish with some black beans and a large (2 cups) Greek salad.

I will keep my calories like this for about 2 weeks and closely monitor my body...like checking my weight frequently, checking my hydration levels, keeping tabs on how I feel throughout the day (am I too tired? etc) and I will make a decision after 2 weeks to either stay at this level or bump my calories up.

But as I said before, on the portion plan in the P90X nutrition guide, I was eating about the same amount of calories as I will be this week. I think the generalizations on their lists account for the differences, especially since quite a few of the brands of foods I choose are lower calorie.

I hope other X'ers don't start hatin' on me now, lol. I'm a P90X grad 5 times over and starting over again today to lose the rest of my body fat. I started a thread in the motivation and support forum if you want to join me. There's a pretty good group over there if you need motivation! :bigsmile:

I use P90X, I wouldn't suggest going under 1800 calories. A lot of it depends on your height, weight, activity level. The beachbody website has an awesome calculator to determine an accurate calorie need.

do you have to be a member to get to the calculator you are referring to?

Hmm Ijust looked and you do, but the free membership will get you access to it. It has a lot of great tools on the website besides that also.