Losing and Gaining, expected?

Linkedkube
Linkedkube Posts: 53
edited November 10 in Fitness and Exercise
So I started Insanity last week. I was also jogging anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half after the work out. Every other night I do situps, crunches, push ups, military presses, curls, and a few other things. I've almost gained all the weight back that I lost. About 11 lbs.

The mistake I made was not actually measuring myself around the waist and chest in the begining. 95% of the time I'm eating below my caloric goal. Is there a good chance that I put on 10lbs of muscle in just a week considering I'm burning 1200~ calories a day?

I'm aiming to lose around 50lbs in just 2-3 months? Am I going about this the wrong way? I started at 281lbs. I'm Almost 6'5" and the scale is scaring me a bit.

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  • SSNok
    SSNok Posts: 12 Member
    how much are you eating?
  • Linkedkube
    Linkedkube Posts: 53
    1000 Calories at the minimum. High Protein and some fat. I usually try to fill MFP nutrient list to make sure I'm not missing anything. Taking a daily vitamin as well.
  • rjt1000
    rjt1000 Posts: 700 Member
    So I started Insanity last week. I was also jogging anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half after the work out. Every other night I do situps, crunches, push ups, military presses, curls, and a few other things. I've almost gained all the weight back that I lost. About 11 lbs.

    The mistake I made was not actually measuring myself around the waist and chest in the begining. 95% of the time I'm eating below my caloric goal. Is there a good chance that I put on 10lbs of muscle in just a week considering I'm burning 1200~ calories a day?

    I'm aiming to lose around 50lbs in just 2-3 months? Am I going about this the wrong way? I started at 281lbs. I'm Almost 6'5" and the scale is scaring me a bit.

    sorry but 10 pounds of muscle would be a massive amount of muscle tissue to add. Even body builders don't add anything close to that amount in that short a period of time. Now, there can be some water weight if you were poorly hydrated before you started working out and now you're hydrating properly. But that's still a lot of weight to be adding. Are you sure about your calorie counts and how much you''re burning? 1200 extra calories burned a day is pretty high. I've been doing 20 minutes of HIIT plus my normal workouts and I don't get anywhere near 1200 extra calories burned. Of course, you're much larger than I am to start with which would mean higher calorie burns for basically same workout as me. But I'd double check your calories in and your calories burned.
  • SSNok
    SSNok Posts: 12 Member
    How the heck can you do all that with only 1000 calories going in? I feel like your making the same mistake i did, eating too little trying to lose it all right now. i lost really fast and then hit a wall, look into what your body does if you eat too few calories, which for guys our size isnt 1200 calories like MFP reccomends, its probably around 2000. i bumped my calorie intake up to 1900 when i DONT workout and 2300-2500 when i do and have started to slowly loose again. Good luck!
  • Linkedkube
    Linkedkube Posts: 53
    Not sure how I get it done, but I just do.
    Thanks for the replies. I'll try increasing my caloric intake and see where it goes.
  • Linkedkube
    Linkedkube Posts: 53
    So I started Insanity last week. I was also jogging anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half after the work out. Every other night I do situps, crunches, push ups, military presses, curls, and a few other things. I've almost gained all the weight back that I lost. About 11 lbs.

    The mistake I made was not actually measuring myself around the waist and chest in the begining. 95% of the time I'm eating below my caloric goal. Is there a good chance that I put on 10lbs of muscle in just a week considering I'm burning 1200~ calories a day?

    I'm aiming to lose around 50lbs in just 2-3 months? Am I going about this the wrong way? I started at 281lbs. I'm Almost 6'5" and the scale is scaring me a bit.

    sorry but 10 pounds of muscle would be a massive amount of muscle tissue to add. Even body builders don't add anything close to that amount in that short a period of time. Now, there can be some water weight if you were poorly hydrated before you started working out and now you're hydrating properly. But that's still a lot of weight to be adding. Are you sure about your calorie counts and how much you''re burning? 1200 extra calories burned a day is pretty high. I've been doing 20 minutes of HIIT plus my normal workouts and I don't get anywhere near 1200 extra calories burned. Of course, you're much larger than I am to start with which would mean higher calorie burns for basically same workout as me. But I'd double check your calories in and your calories burned.

    My workouts consist of a lot of cardio. 40mins of insanity, Heart rate above 165 for 90% of the workout and a mild jog for an hour to an hour and a half, 5 mins breaks in between every 30 mins, I don't count the weight lifting because I"m not sure how to calculate that into weight loss. I know I'm burning a ton of calories. I did just remember that I did go over board on my last off day. Not even going to say what I ate but it was too much. I was thinking since I've been pushing myself so hard my off day just set me back. My body saw a lot of calories and said "yum gimme."
  • malk2651
    malk2651 Posts: 55 Member
    Eat more. Sounds like your eating half your bmr and not eating exercise cals back. At 6' 5" you need more fuel.
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