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Insanity is all cardio and all body weight exercises---perfect for weight loss, but don't expect to be gaining much muscle like they advertise. You have a better chance at muscle with P90X but Insanity is probably even better than P90X when it comes to calories burned per workout.

You can eat a whole POUND of strawberries for 145 calories. Top that off with another pound of baby carrots (140 cal) and you're still under 300. Other low cal snacks I like are grape tomatoes (which are also ridiculously low in calories) and pretzels (though these are empty calories). Of course you don't need to eat a…

Most of the time weight loss goals are a little over ambitious and the last 5 lbs are just so tough because your body mass is getting pretty low and your body needs fewer calories to operate efficiently. It seems though that you have that figured out and that you are tracking your calories/day pretty well. The main reason…

The training schedules that have rest days in them are designed that way because either they are designed to work certain muscle groups without overexhausting them, or because they are very high in intensity. If you are just doing cardio every day you should be fine. If you feel overly sore or tight (like it hurts to move)…

If you have five weeks your best bet is to just keep exercising and dieting. Fat loss is the most important part here, not building abdominal muscles through crunches or what have you. These will give you definition, but if you aren't actively shedding some fat then your increased abs will build up underneath the fat…

This is not only wrong (as another poster already mentioned) but it is completely in the opposite direction. It seems like a good intuition, but the most recent real research on this topic has shown that actually eating a light snack just BEFORE you work out will help you burn more calories in the long run. It not only…