Too much walking, lack of strength training

Any suggestions about what to do?

i dunno, maybe join a gym and start strength training?



and what you've described in this post doesn't seem to raise to the level of "too much walking"

That's a "huge amount" of walking? I'd say it's significant, but not too much by any stretch. If you can't get to the gym and you don't have equipment, research some body weight strength exercises - probably tons of info online...:flowerforyou:

For myself, I lose more weight by weight lifting. I have an amazing trainer and I learned and do a lot by using YouTube videos. Popsugar has an app that has a lot of great workout videos. Before my trainer I also used to rent workout dvds. I don't think you can have too much walking. You just need to not do the same old same old. Comunity centers have free fitness classes.

I walk more than that just taking my daughter to school.... You are walking a little more than the average couch bound American. But that isn't much.

I think you should look elsewhere for sources of exhaustion. Like nutrition. (And get your vit stores checked, especially vit b.)

Humans are adapted to walk a lot each day. That is not your problem.

I don't see that that is a " huge " amount of walking......
If you feel you need strength training, start doing some, but not at the cost of walking, because it's really not all that much you are doing.
Example: I am over 65 and walk around 45-60 minutes for exercise. In addition I walk twice a day 30 minutes with the dog. I walk 20 minutes to the closest bus ( and of course 20 minutes back ) and 30 minutes to the subway. Also 25 minutes either way to the store or market. On days when I work at the office I walk a total of 220minutes minimum and think that it's a good chunk of time, but not huge.
And btw: I live on a 4th floor without an elevator and walk a minimum of 512 steps a day, except on Sunday.
if I would eat a 600 to 800 calorie diet of white rice and boiled cabbage with an occasional jack-in-the-box thrown in for variety, with all due respect, I would feel exhausted also. You need to eat more nutritious food, heck, even just more calories of anything will make you feel better. You are well on your way to malnourishment which manifests among other things as general weakness of all body systems .

If you do not want to do weights you could try Pilates as that does an amazing job of strengthening you core and your whole body and can be done anywhere for the rest of your life.

Pfft no, cycling here isn't dangerous (once you get used to the traffic flow). It's my lack of energy and lack of fiance to buy the nutritious food I need (fruit and veg here are 'expensive' - and the company I work for require me to eat at school which only provide the above X amount of food without an option of seconds). Maybe I should have titled this 'Help, I'm exhausted all the time'. :laugh:

I'll be heading to Shanghai (permanently - for the rest of my stay in China) next week, so if it's nutrition you all suggest, then please throw some general idea's in my direction. Particularly things that will boost me up for a few days.

Shanghai food - been twice and stayed with expats living locally (my parents and then friends) - I understand it is difficult to get fruits and vegetables in prepared dishes but the street markets are often fine - Fangbang Lu was great (keep to the unpeeled or peeled in front of you fruit). I are soooo many bananas....

Also, consider that you are going through exhaustion not only due to nutrtion but through "language assault" - it's exhausting to teach or to be submerged in another language and it takes quite a while to rebuild that into something that isn't constantly tiring. Taking moments to "drop out" into English might help but also extends the adaptation period.