Not eating enough calories?

[crazman]

Hi everyone, I am a 32 year old male 5' 7" and 164lbs. I started a P90x/Insanity hybrid around 3 months ago and in the first two months I lost around 9lbs and 3 inches off my belly. However in the last month it seems I have hit a plateau and have not lost any more weight and all my measuremants havent changed. I have been eating around 1800 -1900 calories in phase I and have just started phase 2 eating the same amount of calores. I was wondering should I up the calories to around 2000 -2100. The P90x nutrition guide says I should be eating around 2400 which seems alot for me. Any advice would be appreciated.

[FitRunner]

This sounds like the P90X nutrition guide. If you look at the last step in the calorie calculation, they add back 600 calories to make sure you don't run a calorie deficit. That's because P90X was originally intended for people who were already very fit looking to become even fitter - i. e. people not interested in weight loss. So if the guide says you should eat 2400 calories, then 1800 is about your RMR plus a desk job. So what you're currently eating should be fine provided you don't burn a crazy amount of calories in each workout.

I did something very similar myself in terms of calorie deficits - I'm eating around 1800 a day, I'm 5'6" and 140 lbs now, started at 160 lbs. Shrunk two dress sizes both times I did P90X. Since there's no obvious problem, you have two basic choices:

1) Give it some time, knowing that weight loss isn't a straight arrow down
2) Up the calories and see what happens.

I think it's a judgement call. Bodies aren't straightforward.

Do you know how many calories you burn in a workout?

Teresa

[crazman]

Hi fitrunner, thanks for your reply. yep I have a heart rate monitor and on average Im burning around 400 calories in a workout.

[Barclay]

Hi everyone, I am a 32 year old male 5' 7" and 164lbs. I started a P90x/Insanity hybrid around 3 months ago and in the first two months I lost around 9lbs and 3 inches off my belly. However in the last month it seems I have hit a plateau and have not lost any more weight and all my measuremants havent changed. I have been eating around 1800 -1900 calories in phase I and have just started phase 2 eating the same amount of calores. I was wondering should I up the calories to around 2000 -2100. The P90x nutrition guide says I should be eating around 2400 which seems alot for me. Any advice would be appreciated.
Hi,,,
No doubt excessive calories for a normal person is not good for us so we avoid the calories...
We should use certain amount of calories to maintain our health...
You raise a good point...

[Alexander15]

Hi,,,
Share the meal plan with me so that I can guide you about the necessary changes.In addition to this have you gain the desire results from phase I that you are switching over to the Phase II?
You can also use a free calorie counter available on the internet...