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For the OP: Make sure you get plenty of good quality sleep and a balanced diet with enough calories to fuel your workout. Insanity can be used for weight loss but is primarily intended as a cardio conditioning program. To that end the best results are had during a caloric surplus or a conservative deficit. Don't go low…

Jane, no offense but you seem to go into a lot of Insanity threads and discourage people from doing the program. Is this something personal you have against Insanity? By your own admission you have never done the routines, but you seem to have made it a mission to disparage them. I've seen in more than one thread you…

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Recalculate TDEE for your current stats, take two weeks of NO training and eat AT or slightly above TDEE. After the break reduce to about TDEE-20% and resume training, and I think you'll find you get results again.

The OP of this thread has put together an excellent primer on the basics. That includes calculating what you burn throughout the day (TDEE). I prefer to start with BMR and add all exercise manually to get TDEE. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12/ As to your point of us…

By that I mean taking a break from all training to let your body rest and recuperate, and eating at or slightly above TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) for a short period of time. The refeed should get a lot of it's extra calories from carbs (calories from fat do not have the same effect). When in a caloric deficit the…

This is where a 10-14 day training break and above-TDEE refeed can be useful.

NSV = Non Scale Victory ie, victory of sorts not measured on the scale, as in there is more than one way to see your changes. Looser fitting clothes, thinner looking face, muscles or veins making an appearance, fitness milestones, compliments from others, etc are all NSVs.

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A side effect of caloric deficit is loss of lean mass. Therefore preserving muscle should be strongly considered. That means keeping an eye on macros, especially protein. When you lose weight it can be muscle or fat....obviously we want the fat outta here, so muscle is our friend. If you treat all calories equally it's…

100% Know your limits and know the difference between the SORENESS of pushing your muscles and the PAIN doing damage. Insanity is a huge challenge. Recovery is important. Once I got my shirt I gave up the 6 days a week training in favor of training every other day because I think recovery is important and avoiding injury…

Not until you can quote the entire workout and comments from memory: "don't have your legs too wide...JOSH". Insanity is a conditioning program, rather than a weight loss routine, and certainly not a muscle building program. Your biggest gains are in cardio and mental toughness. I love to hate it. Earning the insanity…

A big red warning flag here is the 1200 cals a day. That sounds too low to me, especially with exercise. Don't ever pick an arbitrary number, and don't fall prey to the more exercise/less food is better idea. Spend some time to calculate your TDEE and settle on a modest deficit allow you to lose between 1 and 2 lbs a week.…

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In the past I used Aerobics High Intensity but I recently got a Polar FT80 which is a terrific HRM. It calculates a very similar number to my old method. The FT80 is a chest worn sensor, but you wear them below the "boobage" so I don't think it's a problem (+1 if you clicked on the profile; ya I know I'm a jerk). The chest…

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