I Am So Freaking Dizzy!

Do you drink a lot of water before you workout? While working out? Do you eat before you work out? Do you eat a certain amount of calories per day, maybe you are starving yourself?


If you do all the above (minus the starvation mode) you may want to see a doctor,

But without knowing your habits, its hard to know why this is happening

Go to a Dr and get checked out - you might need an EKG and/or a stress test.

I don't know what's going on. At the beginning of the year I started exercising regularly for 2-3 hours a day and felt great! Then a few months in I noticed that I started getting dizzy on the elliptical. No big deal, I thought. I just stopped using the elliptical. And I was fine for a few months still exercising for 1.5-2 hours a day, no problem. Now in the past couple of months every time I exercise I just get dizzier and dizzier. It's getting so bad that I'm even getting dizzy/a very high heart rate just using the stationary bike and walking on a treadmill. Any clue what may be going on/ what I'm doing wrong/ what I should do. I really love to work out and haven't been able to enjoy doing so in months now.

How many calories are you eating per day? Dizziness can be a symptom of not eating enough and if you are getting it persistantly and exercising THAT much my first assumption is that you are eating far to little.

If you exercise 2-3 hours a day I hope you are eating at least 2000 calories.

I just checked out your food log diary. Not sure if you've actually been using that as a reference, but I can see that it's given you a daily calorie goal of 1,230. That's entirely too low if you've honestly been working out at a fair intensity for 1.5-2hrs on a regular basis. You'll want to up that for starters. But I would also go to see a doctor because you don't want to play around with things like dizziness.

Yeah, I used to try for that but I haven't in about 3 months because of the scariness that's been happening at the gym.

Yeah 1200 calories per day + 2-3 hours of exercise it is no wonder you were dizzy. You need to eat a lot more than that OP and it sounds like you are beginning to realize that. I'd honestly suggest in addition to going to the doctor you talk to your doctor about your approach to dieting and try to get some advice there as well.

Personally I'd say you should back off the amount you are exercising for a bit and greatly increase your caloric intake. You are probably very low blood sugar.

My guess would be that you're over-exercising and underfeeding your body. You don't have to exercise multiple hours per day...in fact, the only time I do that is when I'm actually training for something...and when I do, you better believe I'm eating big too.

You need to understand that exercise is not required for losing weight...exercise should be done for fitness...which means you should have fitness oriented goals that will help you train/exercise appropriately to achieve those goals...this would also include proper resting periods and a reasonable training schedule.

MFP is set up with your deficit included...that's why you're supposed to log and eat back exercise calories...that would be a good place to start...using the tool appropriately is always a pretty good idea. That said, at this point I would cease exercise and go see a doctor...then I'd get the whole calorie thing sorted out and then figure out a sustainable level of effort in RE to exercise and then I'd spend a bit of time researching on how to properly fuel my body for that effort.