Feeling Tired and Drained

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  • krissy_krossy
    krissy_krossy Posts: 307 Member
    You're eating around 1200 calories a day, sometimes less. Of course you're tired.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    You should try upping your calories to actually fit your needs.

    Try using the calculators here to find what your needs are:
    http://fat2fitradio.com

    And read this:
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013

    Also try taking a week off of exercise.

    If these don't work, see a doctor.
  • Hezzietiger1
    Hezzietiger1 Posts: 1,256 Member
    Eat a lil more.. adding 100-200 calories at time with the deficit you're in now won't cause weight gain.. and you might need to increase your water intake. I get tired when I'm even a little dehydrated.
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    EAT.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    ...I just feel like I never get a break from anything.

    This might be a huge part of the problem. You need to find a way to take some personal time. :flowerforyou:
  • CongoClark81
    CongoClark81 Posts: 95 Member
    I know it looks like I don't eat but I do and what I eat fills me up and I hardly feel hungry
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    I know it looks like I don't eat but I do and what I eat fills me up and I hardly feel hungry

    yeah... but you feel tired and drained.

    it's any easy solution, maybe you should try it?

    food fuels your body.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    I know it looks like I don't eat but I do and what I eat fills me up and I hardly feel hungry
    Good for you. Apparently you like feeling tired and drained then, so keep on doing as you're doing and take no advice.
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    I know it looks like I don't eat but I do and what I eat fills me up and I hardly feel hungry
    Hardly feeling hungry on a deficit is normal eventually. Ask any long term anorexic how much food makes them feel bloatedly full.

    You just got a bunch of advice from a bunch of people who are fairly slim. I'd take their advice if I were you. I know when we have weight on we sometimes think things like 'oh they don't understand because they're smaller and don't need to lose weight'. But the chemistry and math of weight loss does not change just because you think it should. Don't learn it the hard way. How many over weight people have I seen hitting brick walls exercising their *kitten* off while saying 'if I ate like that I'd gain gazillion pounds'...and then they smarten up start eating sensibly and the weight drops off consistently.
  • CongoClark81
    CongoClark81 Posts: 95 Member
    I never said I wasn't going to take the advice. I appreciate it and that's why I posted this. I was just stating a fact that I do eat and have never felt like I don't eat enough. But apparently I don't so I will try to incorporate a little more into my daily caloric intake. every thing else but MFP shows I should be getting at least 1550 calories a day. It doesn't seem like much more but I guess I will start with that. I am still new to this and trying to learn how to do this the right and healthy way. So again, I appreciate the advice! And this may be a stupid question but again, I'm still trying to figure all this out. Is the 1550 what I should eat daily without exercise or total? Did I need to be eating the calories back that I burn as well?
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    I never said I wasn't going to take the advice. I appreciate it and that's why I posted this. I was just stating a fact that I do eat and have never felt like I don't eat enough. But apparently I don't so I will try to incorporate a little more into my daily caloric intake. every thing else but MFP shows I should be getting at least 1550 calories a day. It doesn't seem like much more but I guess I will start with that. I am still new to this and trying to learn how to do this the right and healthy way. So again, I appreciate the advice! And this may be a stupid question but again, I'm still trying to figure all this out. Is the 1550 what I should eat daily without exercise or total? Did I need to be eating the calories back that I burn as well?
    Sorry if I came off as harsh.

    The 1550 is your net total without exercise. Most likely you should still be eating your exercise calories back, or at least most of them.
  • momin0209
    momin0209 Posts: 3
    I noticed you like horses and that you lost 100 lbs. Please tell me your secret. I have been at 217 for 5 years now and I am always on the move so not sure what to do.
  • CongoClark81
    CongoClark81 Posts: 95 Member
    My BMR shows 1609 and my TDEE shows 2550 so how do I figure how many calories I truly need to be eating daily? I really do need all the help I can with this! I want to do this the right way!
    Thanks again for any advice
  • JoanB5
    JoanB5 Posts: 610 Member
    Did you recently participate in the time change? I just mentioned on my feed how awful time changes make me feel. It's just an hour, but it's rough.

    I was going to suggest the same. I'm still up and it's 12:37. Can't seem to get in sync with the hours, and spring sports for the kids are starting up, draining time. I love it, but again...out of sync! I drank some half caf tonight just to make it through the evening, now I'm having trouble winding down after a workout. Maybe we'll level out! I bought a B vitamin chewable to add to my regular to try to help it's been so notable.
  • DaniH826
    DaniH826 Posts: 1,335 Member
    I will definitely try to up my calories a bit. I figured that could also be why I haven't been lolsing weight for a while either even though I bust my butt working out everyday. And my job consists of constant walking all day

    Jeez, woman, I get dizzy just reading your post about your weekly ongoings! :laugh:

    Eat more, push yourself less, because honestly I think you're not only burning the candle on both ends but dowsing the thing in gasoline and watching it explode. And, I think it's finally catching up with you by way of good old-fashioned burnout.

    Maybe give yourself a break and take a vacation or something.

    At the very least go up to eating at BMR and then see how you feel. That much of a deficit over that long a period of time isn't healthy. Ideally, to lose weight you need to be eating someplace between your TDEE and BMR on a regular, long-term basis. Once you get to maintenance, eat at/around TDEE.

    TDEE -20% still puts you at 2040 kcals, so you can safely work your way towards upping things by about 800 kcals/daily and still end up losing weight to the tune of about a pound a week because you'll still be at a solid deficit. So if you aim for about 2000 kcals a day then you won't have to worry about eating exercise calories back and getting lost in too many details with all that logging and tracking.

    Edit: Never mind, somebody posted the Roadmap already. Solid advice there!
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    I noticed you like horses and that you lost 100 lbs. Please tell me your secret. I have been at 217 for 5 years now and I am always on the move so not sure what to do.

    not sure what the horses have to do with anything, but it caught my eye!
  • CongoClark81
    CongoClark81 Posts: 95 Member
    I noticed you like horses and that you lost 100 lbs. Please tell me your secret. I have been at 217 for 5 years now and I am always on the move so not sure what to do.

    not sure what the horses have to do with anything, but it caught my eye!
    LOL, I wondered the same thing but I noticed there is a lady on the 1st page of these comments who has a horse in her profile pic and her tracker shows she's lost 100lbs

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