No energy to workout

Have you checked your iron levels?

Besides eating more food try Amino Energy. I buy it at a nutrition store but you can find it online Its phenomenal and really gives me energy to work out! Im a nursing studeny so I know the struggle.

Eat more. Have you put your numbers into MFP for maintenance and see what it recommends? Then log your exercise and eat that too?

You can't add muscle without the tools your body needs to do it.

Be sure you take your multi vitamin and I have found drinking Emergen c helps!

You'll get the max benefit from your exercise when NOT in a deficit but eating at maintenance. Actually, body with lifting would like a surplus, but that's down the road.

If you've reached healthy weight but still skinny fat, just means you did the loss wrong and likely had little or lost some muscle mass.

So increase calories to maintenance level and as suggested, eat back those exercise calories.
As you truthfully indicated, Lightly Active takes in to account your student life - but not exercise.

Eating 150 extra calories daily (plus exercise calories), would only cause a 1 lb gain in weight if you were really eating over maintenance - in 23 days.

So just be mentally prepared that if you gain fast water weight - you were NOT eating at maintenance.

And ya, workouts suffer, especially if, I'm guessing here, you are grossly undereating, which I'll bet you are since no comment about eating more on exercise days.

And indeed, if you ended up in this state because of doing the program wrong, warn others not to repeat your mistake. Wouldn't you have loved to have heard that awhile back?

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I guess the biggest thing that stops me from eating more is the fact that my workouts are not that intense. Body weight exercises are too difficult for me and my strength training background is very weak; I've tried to slowly build my strength but my athleticism always seems to fail me. Knowing this, I tend not to eat back my exercise calories because I suspect i haven't burned enough

When you eat in a diet, your body does not recover as well as it could otherwise.

When your body doesn't recover, it can't push as hard because it's usually tired, as well as not getting stronger.

That would be one big reason why.

But what are you doing exactly that you think isn't that intense compared to the MFP entry for calorie burn.

Anything walking and jogging, if you really go that speed, is going to be very accurate. Strength training may appear low, but it is actually. And that's for you lifting your weight, not compared to what others can lift.

You say you can't eat more when in fact you can eat more.
Eat when you are hungry. Listen to your body.

Eat more. But take a healthy diet.

You're 18 according to your profile. Eat more. Eat more even if you don't exercise at all.

It seems the consensus is to eat more, but with little strength training, is that definitely the best idea?

Yes you need to eat a fair bit more actually.

I would eat more but also look into getting healthy fats too. Avocados,eggs, and olive oil are good sources of healthy fats. I would look into thyroid issues after you start eating more. Any GP doctor can get order the tests and if you go to the college dr they should be able to send you to a lab to get the tests done.