My Insanity weight loss progress through May 15, 2010
As you may know from previous posts, my main goal in doing Insanity was to lose weight. I personally believe that people who have their weight under control experience fewer health problems than overweight people. I don't say this to deride people who struggle with their weight. I am one of those people. Weight control has always been a problem for me and because of news given to me by my doctor, I had a choice to make. That choice was to start taking medication regularly to help manage my blood pressure as well as potentially dealing with diabetes or get healthy enough so that my body would naturally do that for me. Seemed to me that losing weight was the easiest way to handle this issue naturally.
When I started insanity on March 15, 2010, I weight 289.5 pounds. I had been fluctuating in weight between 289 and 295, and as recently as July of last year had weighed in at 307 pounds. Looking at the exercises in the Insanity program I thought it was reasonable to expect a significant weight loss over the course of nine weeks, so I set a weight loss goal of 40 pounds. That meant that as of the end of my ninth week I wanted to weigh 250 pounds.
Today I am happy to say that I have hit that goal. I weighed in this morning at 249.5 pounds and I am beyond excited at the prospects this presents. I have so much more energy now than I did nine weeks ago. I have a zeal for living life again. I feel like I have earned my life back and that my health, fitness and weight is now something that is totally within my control as opposed to me being controlled by it.
I have not felt this accomplished in a long time. I have not felt this driven, this motivated, this inspired or this hungry in a long time. I wish I could put into words how awesome a feeling it is to hit a goal like this in the time I did it in. But honestly I think the only way for you to get a real grasp of how it feels is to try it and do it for yourself. Short of that, all I can say is that I am on cloud nine right now and feeling unstoppable. I really wish I could share this feeling with you.
To get a feel of what 40 pounds of fat loss coupled with some pretty good muscle development looks likes, check out my before and after picture.
| Week | Date | Weight | Loss | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 03/15/2010 | 289.5 | - | - |
| 1 | 03/20/2010 | 289.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 03/27/2010 | 285.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| 3 | 04/03/2010 | 277.5 | 7.5 | 12.0 |
| 4 | 04/10/2010 | 271.0 | 6.5 | 18.5 |
| 5 | 04/17/2010 | 269.0 | 2.0 | 20.5 |
| 6 | 04/24/2010 | 266.0 | 3.0 | 23.5 |
| 7 | 05/01/2010 | 261.0 | 5.0 | 28.5 |
| 8 | 05/08/2010 | 255.5 | 5.5 | 34.0 |
| 9 | 05/15/2010 | 249.5 | 6.0 | 40.0 |
Insanity: Day 62 – Max Cardio Conditioning and Insane Abs
Good grief, what was I thinking?!?!?!
I decided to put as much into my workout today as I could and to do that I chose to substitute Insane Abs for Cardio Abs after doing Max Cardio Conditioning. I haven't done Insane Abs yet because of time constraints in the morning. But since I had no time constraints this morning, I went for it. And I think I am paying the price for that now.
Actually, it isn't that bad. Well, yes it is, but only because it piggy backed on top of another already intense work out program. I think Insane Abs could be a workout in and of itself. Coming out of Max Cardio Conditioning, Insane Abs is nearly impossible to complete in any capacity. The core work, the leg work... even the shoulder work are incredibly challenging. Combine that with the fact that the program is 33 minutes long and you can imagine that after killing yourself for 50 minutes or so with something like Max Cardio Conditioning, Insane Abs becomes quite the workout.
Max Cardio Conditioning was challenging this morning, but only because I was able to push harder through it than I have ever been able to do. I completed more circuits and more routines than I have ever completed on the program and was able to push harder through many of the jumping exercises. In fact, the first half of the program this morning I was able to keep up with almost all of the routines. The second half did destroy me, but I can understand that given how hard I worked in the first half.
I have one more day of Insanity left. And that day is tomorrow, when I do the Fit Test one last time for my first round of Insanity. I'm hoping to blast through that and put up the highest numbers I have so far. I will be sure to post them tomorrow when I finish.
Until then, I have a little celebrating to do. I weighed myself this morning and, all I can say right now is, I am really, really looking forward to writing my weight loss progress post. 
My Diet for May 14, 2010
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In preparation for my next round of Insanity I decided that I would begin testing out some stuff for my diet in the coming weeks. I am going to be changing my focus from low salt, low sugar, high fiber and high protein to high protein, good fat, good calories, low sugar and low salt. Since today was as good a day as any to start playing around with that, I chose to use today as a test bed for various protein bars to augment my protein intake. Because of that you will see a truck load of protein bar entries for today.
Breakfast was a couple of thin buns, toasted, with some no salt added peanut butter from Trader Joe's. To add a little protein and calories to my breakfast I stopped at the gas station and picked up a Met-Rx protein bar to start testing out how those tasted and how my body reacted to them. I'm happy to say that they are not that bad tasting and actually kept me full for several hours today.
Lunch was another experiment of sorts. I went to the store to pick up fixins for a simple chicken salad. While I was there I bought a Clif Bar as well as a packet of mixed veggies. I started snacking on the veggies as soon as I got in the car and by the time I got back to the office I wasn't really hungry for my salad anymore so I ate the Clif Bar and was pretty satisfied until dinner time.
Dinner time was a bit thrown out of whack again tonight since my daughters' play was on the second of three nights of performance. Rather than starving myself until 10:00 PM then stuffing my face with appetizers I decided to hit up Rite Aid and pick up a couple more protein bars to test. So for dinner I had three different types of protein bars that were all very tasty, one was very fiber rich and all of them kept me very full for the entire night.
Of course since I was pretty full all day I didn't eat as much as I normally would. Which meant that my calories were very low today. I am planning on increasing my calories in the upcoming weeks as well, shooting for about 2000 to 2100 a day. I think that is an adequate amount of intake for me and, if coupled with the right amounts of proteins and fats, should work to keep me full and nourished throughout the day.
My Diet
| Food | Calories | Fat (g) | Sodium (mg) | Sugar (g) | Fiber (g) | Protein (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast - Peanut Butter Toast, protein bar | ||||||
| Coffee w/2 Tbsp Half and Half | 40 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 Earth Grains Multigrain Thin buns | 200 | 3 | 300 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| 4 Tbsp Trader Joe's No Salt Crunchy Peanut Butter | 380 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 1 Met-Rx Chocolate Chocolate Chunk Protein Plus Bar | 310 | 9 | 200 | 1 | 2 | 32 |
| Lunch - Protein Bar and fresh mixed veggies | ||||||
| 1 Chocolate Chip Clif Bar | 240 | 5 | 140 | 22 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 Servings Mixed veggies | 50 | 0 | 50 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Dinner - Protein Bars | ||||||
| 1 Atkins S'mores Bar | 220 | 7 | 120 | 1 | 12 | 17 |
| 1 Titan Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Bar | 160 | 6 | 75 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| 1 Titan Cookies and Cream Protein Bar | 170 | 6 | 70 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| Totals | ||||||
| TOTALS | 1770 | 71 | 980 | 44 | 37 | 114 |
