The 90X program is a very good program, with a couple of caveats.
1. Depending on your own level of fitness, do not expect similar results anytime soon. These guys are fitness fanatics who have been exercising intensely all their lives. They are capable of getting good results with almost anything they do, because they are so used to the level of intensity.
2. Your weight loss will depend on how much you cut back in calories combined with your physical activity. What most qualified experts in the fitness field recommend is losing one pound a week. Do not believe anybody who says that you can lose 5 pounds a week. It may be possible to do that, but for most people, the amount of calories would have to cut out combines with the amount of exercise you’d have to do would be simply punishment. On shows like the Biggest Loser, they use experts that can watch and measure everything. The average person doesn’t, so if you’re losing a pound a week, you’re doing well.
Keep in mind, you are trying to create a lifestyle, not just simply lose weight or become fitter. If you do not learn how to create that lifestyle, you will probably eventually quit this. If you do create a healthy lifestyle for yourself, you will attain and maintain your goals.
Thank you for your response. Do you have P90x2? Or do you just have the original P90x program?
Losing my 30 pounds last year ny running about 30 miles per week anf several half marathons, I have been eating like an animal. I am not convinced eating matters all that much in the larger puzzle.
You wrote:
” Do not believe anybody who says that you can lose 5 pounds a week.”
I lost 25-30 pounds in six weeks. I did no deliberate exercising. All I did was move to Italy, walk everywhere, and ate plenty (drank wine every day too). I also had to walk up 147 steps to get to my apartment while there.