p90x..weight gain?

Sorry, but you aren't going to put on 3lbs of muscle in two weeks.
The weight you are seeing is a result of water weight. When we start working out or increase intensity, the muscles retain water while healing, which can be seen on the scale. It is completely normal and will come off.

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Last January I joined the track team at my community college because I wanted to start working out after not renewing my gym membership.

I ate 1200-1500 calories a day, but practice would run from 2:30 pm-5:30 pm (granted, I wasn't moving like crazy the whole time, but the warm-up, actual practice (throwing 8.8 lb balls lol), about 45 min of weights and a 15 min cool down jog amounted to a lot of calorie burning).
I really wanted to lose weight, but I stayed the same and felt tired all the time. One day (when I actually starting really liking what I was doing and wanting to get better) I asked the coach how much calories I should be eating and he said "at least 3000-3500 per day"

I was so shocked because the idea of "eating back calories" was so foreign to me and upped my intake (to about 2700-3200) and felt WAY more energized. I lost about 2-3 lbs but noticed that I looked leaner and was actually able to improve a lot with my lifting.

Now I'm not on the team anymore, but that experience convinced me that eating enough is probably the most important thing you can do to reach your goals.

the muscle weighs more than fat thing is a complete myth think about it if you have one lb of fat and one lb of muscle how could one weigh more than the other? yes there is more mass to it but one lb is one lb 5 lbs is 5 lbs and so on...but any way I agree with the lady ( sorry I scrolled back down and your name wasnt there lol) that said its water weight it actually with most people takes any where from 2-4 weeks to actually start losing because of water weight

I've done two rounds of P90X, one round of Insanity, and am presently doing a P90X/Insanity Hybrid and I am here to tell you that temporary weight gain is normal. As posted previously, the body retains water during muscle repair. Keep your fluid intake up, eat back your exercise calories to maintain your energy, and most of all KEEP PUSHING PLAY and BRING IT! Trust in the system...it works...the scale does NOT tell the tale of what you are doing to change your body.

Good luck!

P.S. Most of the weight loss occurs in the third phase when your body is changing and your metabolism is sky high. It works!

I lost 35lbs with the 90 workout but I didn't use the P90X diet. The diet for the first month asks you to consume 2400 - 2200 calories a day but that's mainly for building muscle. I kept my daily calorie intake between 1200 - 1800 depending on how many calories I burned that day with exercise, which you can input into MFP. Use a heart rate monitor for all workouts not just cardio, the strength training works are fast paced so that you keep our heart-rate up during the workout and burn more calories. Don't get discouraged as long as you monitor your diet closely with MFP and do ALL the workouts you will see results, I promise. Just make sure you are meeting all your dietary needs which you can track with MFP. And of course having 5 small meals spread out evenly throughout the day. You don't want to go more than 2-3 hours without consuming something or your metabolism will slow.

It's not that one weighs more than the other, it's that one is smaller than the other....Imagine a baseball and a softball, the softball is the size as a pound of fat and the baseball is the size of a pound of muscle


I understand that...thats why i said yes it has more mass...but at the same time just because its bigger doesnt mean it weighs more ...and thats what I was trying to say a lb is still a lb no matter how much bigger it is...so it may be bigger but that doesnt mean because your building muscle it will weigh more