Insanity Program Detailed Results – Third Week (Day 21)

Today is my official “off day,” rounding out week 3 of Insanity.

Day 21

Weight: 182.4

BMI: 26.17 (Overweight)

Thoughts: I started counting my calories this week using the MyFitnessPal app, hoping to get rid of some actual weight this week. It worked, but not to a hugely satisfying degree – while I got rid of the extra weight that I gained at first, I’m pretty much back to the weight I was at the very beginning. I am still crossing my fingers and hoping that my body fat percentage will have gone down some by the middle of the program when I measure it.

In any case, I feel fitter, even if I don’t look it. My energy and endurance have continued to improve in daily life. This is actually a relief, because I took the workout a little easier than I should have a couple days this week and I was worried about losing some of the cardiovascular gains I have made so far. That said, I am not sure it would ever be accurate to say you can take an Insanity workout “easy,” even if you feel sluggish like I did – I was still pouring sweat at the end.

I believe I was feeling sluggish a couple days this week, and maybe not pushing as hard as I should have been, for two main reasons. One, as I mentioned before, is that I started counting calories. Without the option of constantly eating whenever I feel tired or snack-y, I have lost the constant stream of energy that I was used to having. This perfectly illustrates why, in the past, my diet and exercise attempts have very rarely occurred at the same time – I usually do one without the other because I tend to do both ineffectively if I try them both at the same time. I am a little concerned about that happening again this time, but I will keep trying for now.

I started by setting my calorie limit at 1500 calories on MyFitnessPal. I am hesitant to change that yet because I did lose a little bit of weight (probably water that I had been retaining, though) in the past week. I am planning on giving it another week of 1500 calories before I re-evaluate it. For now, I will just plod onward and try to do a better job working out this week than I did last week.

My second excuse is that my boyfriend has started a new job schedule of 11pm to 7am shifts. Consequently, I am staying up later and then sleeping in later in the morning because he is also asleep, and I don’t want to set my usual alarm for fear of waking him up again after a hard night of work. I personally find that when I sleep in later, regardless of the time I went to bed (unless I am really sleep-deprived) I feel horrible the next day. I get nauseous, headachey, grumpy, and my energy is nonexistent. I think I am just going to have to start setting my alarm so I wake up at a reasonable time again and hoping that he will be okay with it and just roll over and go back to sleep.

For the other installments in my Insanity week by week results series, see:
Insanity Product Review with link to purchase
Insanity Day 1
First Week Insanity Results
Second Week Insanity Results
Fourth Week Insanity Results
Fifth Week Insanity Results
Sixth Week Insanity Results
Taking A Break From Insanity
Seventh Week Insanity Results
Final Insanity Results For Weeks 8 And 9

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