Feeling Tired and Drained

Maybe consider upping your calories. 1200 can be really draining long-term. Do you know your BMR/TDEE?

First two responses both sound reasonable to me.

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 believe it's simply not enough calories/food. If I don't eat enough I get a
hangry.

I agree with time change- I have been dragging *kitten*- I didn't work out for a week thinking I needed a break and NOW I am struggling with getting back into it today was the 1st day I worked out.

When you say "plenty of protein", how much protein are we talking about? Because the MFP settings probably have you at around 65 g, and that is not really enough to nourish growing muscles. You need at least 100 to feel really energized on a daily basis if you're working out and an average sized lady.

Take a week off from exercising and just rest your body. Maybe it's trying to tell you something.

Yeah, it could be "overtraining". Or it could be some mineral deficiency--magnesium is the most likely one that exercisers get (85% of all people have magnesium deficiencies because of our dietary habits). It is a tough one to supplement because magnesium supplements give a lot of people diarrhea. I would have my doc check my macro-minerals--calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron and maybe zinc. I would eat a lot of cooked vegetables for a while to build my mineral levels back up. You don't have to butter them all the time. Cooked spinach (one of the richest sources of minerals) is great with just a bit of salt and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Blood chemistry makes me feel this way, eat some salty foods or take some electrolytes. It works for me.

You arent eating enough for the amount of exercise you have been doing... feed that body girl.. if you cant put 500 more calories in your daily meal plan, add some higher calorie stuff like nuts, cheeses, avacados.. etc.. hope you are back to feeling yourself soon

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.

You may be right. I just heard some researcher say that he measured cortisol levels (a marker for physical or mental stress) and that the people he tested had higher cortisol levels from the time change than other test subjects had to crossing time zones while traveling. Go figure? :ohwell:

If ti is just the last few days, it may be as simple as...The time change.

I had a HARD time sleeping for the first three nights and just that SIMPLE HOUR has borked me up. If in 2 more days you are back to normal, it was probably that.

^^^this perfectly describes my last three days! Tonight I'm feeling more like myself. If it is new this week, you might want to wait a few days. Otherwise, I would follow the advice you have been getting- eat more & drop your intensity for a week.

It could be the time change but its never affected me before but I've also never been exercising and eating healthy during a time change either.
I'm not exactly sure on the protein cause I do usually just pay attention to what MFP shows but I have a Protein shake every morning with 2 scoops to make sure I get enough daily
I've been doing P90X for the last 4 weeks and really haven't taken a day off from working out in 66 days.
And I haven't noticed any signs of a cold or flu coming on
I do work about 50hrs a week, come home to my daughter in a mad rush for dinner, cleanup, bath, storytime, workout and bed. Weekends consist of cleaning, cooking, working out and errands so I just feel like I never get a break from anything

I think you have put your finger on the problem---you need a bit of rest. I would concentrate on the veggies--really, they never fail to energize. Do you have one of those two-part vegetable steamers as part of your cookware? I keep mine washed out and sitting on the back of my stove all the time so it is there telling me, "It isn't that much trouble to steam some veggies! Now...come on---there's already water in the pot under me. Go to the freezer...." I always buy frozen vegetables when they are on sale so that I have no excuse. (Just watch the ones from China. Ninety per cent of their rivers and streams are mega-polluted from their rapid industrialization without any pollution regulations whatsoever. They irrigate their crops with that HEAVILY polluted water---industrial runoff--heavy metals, PCBs, toxic chemicals etc.).

It could be the time change but its never affected me before but I've also never been exercising and eating healthy during a time change either.
I'm not exactly sure on the protein cause I do usually just pay attention to what MFP shows but I have a Protein shake every morning with 2 scoops to make sure I get enough daily
I've been doing P90X for the last 4 weeks and really haven't taken a day off from working out in 66 days.
And I haven't noticed any signs of a cold or flu coming on
I do work about 50hrs a week, come home to my daughter in a mad rush for dinner, cleanup, bath, storytime, workout and bed. Weekends consist of cleaning, cooking, working out and errands so I just feel like I never get a break from anything

Girl, I'm tired just reading this! Your body is telling you it wants rest. Rest days let your muscles rebuild.

Also this-- you need rest days.

After reading all that you do on a daily basis and the amount you are working out, I'm sure your body is simply exhausted. It may sound strange, but losing weight is very taxing on your body and your health, although the long term benefits vastly outweigh (no pun) feeling like crap for a while. Everyone has different calorie needs and their activity level is much different, but calculate cooking dinner, playing with your kids, going shopping, and cleaning the house, as calorie burning activities. Sometimes you burn WAY more calories than you think you do because you aren't just hanging out at the gym and watching the clock as you stairmaster your buns off.

When you think about it, you're starving yourself and putting excess strain on your body to lose weight fast and see results fast. It takes years to become overweight and the sudden shift in gears takes its toll.

As much as our biological clocks love schedule and routine, I've found that weight loss does not. Vary your calorie intake from day to day; take a day off from strenuous exercise and don't do anything physical that isn't required; allow your body to rest and heal and regain some of the energy it's using to melt away all that fat.

Listen to your body. It's trying to tell you what it needs.