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Protein?

I felt that way at first also, once I started to drink more water, eat more protein and fiber, make sure I get my other vitamins and find my healthy balance of meals and a regular(ish) excercise routine it began to get better. Still have the tired sluggish days, but it is way better. I have not cut out coffee and green tea though, so maybe this is a change you have made? Just play around with what you are doing and make sure to excercise, it does help to give you more energy. Good luck, hope it works out for you!!

Definatly make sure you're eating well rounded. Lots of protein like they said.
I take B-Complex and Vit. D and E....along with lots of water through the day I have enough energy to make it through.

However, they days with less sleep or no excerise are REALLY hard to get through.

Balance is key!
Good luck!

I looked at your food diary - your carbs are down 100g plus in some cases and so is your sugar. We get fast energy from carbs and sugar and now you're giving your body the right amount of carbs so it's going to be a little tired until it gets adjusted. Protein will help and so will a vitamin.

Hi there,
Try and get some fruit and veg into your diet and as others have previously said, drink plenty of water. It could be the transition, but a healthy diet leads to a healthy body. You may be feeling sluggish due to a number of things...if it continues then get yourself to the doctors for a quick check up.

Good Luck :flowerforyou:

edited to add: Maybe try to ween yourself off the caffeine too...the slumps following a caffeine rush may be causing your tiredness.

I tried doing the vegetarian thing and while it was not hard to do, I simply was not getting enough protein (no veggie flamers please). I was feeling wiped out, dizzy, and just plain exausted after my workouts. You got to have that protein, I don't care what anybody tells you, you simply cannot get enough protein from vegatables unless you are an elephant who eats five bales of hay a day!.

I felt that way too at first. Very tired and run down. Make sure you're not over-calculating certain foods and you are eating as many calories as it says you're suppossed to. Remember to stay hydrated and eat power foods: plenty of veggies & fruit, protein and so on....eat many small meals as oppossed to few large meals. What will happen is if you have several, several hours in between lunch & dinner for instance is your blood sugar is going to drop and you will feel mopey and lethargic. Also, the ideal snack is a complex carbohydrate w/ a protein. Example would be an apple & piece of string cheese. Your body is still making adjustments to eating differently so give it time to adjust, by the 2nd or 3rd week you'll feel better.

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after being raised on eating those foods and eating them for 27 years it is not easy to STOP eating them, but i have cut WAY down on them. if i was on here still eating the way i used to everyones jaws would drop at how horrible my food is.
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I LOVE Lucky Charms and Cap'n Crunch (but don't tell anybody)

Protein: It looks like you like cheese, so buy some large packages of lowfat string cheese to snack on. Milk and lowfat yogurt are good.Lean meat is good, like chicken or turkey or pork. Fish is the best, if you will eat it. Stay away from deli meat, and packaged meat - it's loaded with sodium. Nuts are protein, but high in calories and fat. Beans are protein.

Drop the sugar. Stop eating the white flour (the pizzas) and start eating whole wheat bread or oatmeal. Eat more veggies - even if it is tomato sauce or carrots or celery or potatos (not ideal choices in a perfect world, but you have to change your eating habits!)

You need to change what you can, as was said above. Start with dropping the Coke and Dr. Pepper. They are empty calories and do nothing but exhaust you. If you get headaches, substitute plain tea for the pop, you'll get the caffeine to make the transition easier.

Im sorry as well, but saying "i have an addiction to salty food and cafeine" is just an excuse u r giving urself to get away with living how youve bene living ur entire life (the reason thats got you to the point u r at now). You are here to loose weight, be healthy, etc. Its good that you are trying! Its good that you are here! But upping ur water intake to 7cups, or 2cups, is not enough. For your body weight (265), divide that by 15. That number that equals is the number of cups you r suppose to drink a day. That is 18cups a day. If you drink soda, have alot of salt, drink any cafeine drink (Caffeinated soda, cafeine tea, etc), you have to drink even more water. if you excercise you ahve to drink even more.

Start off with just getting up to 8-10cups, and then continually up it til u get to 15, then maybe 18.

My sodium level is something i struggle with as well, and there are def days I dont meet my 20cups of water a day, im def not saying im perfect or anything, but if you want to lose, you will not see results by eating nothing but junk food, or things loaded with salt/fat.

I hope I have not been to hard on you, truely just trying to help! Try to eat healthier (healthier doesnt mean no junk what so ever, just healthier in general, portion control). Ive lost 21lbs in 5weeks by diet alone and hardly any excercise, just by eating a lil healthier and smaller portions.

I love salty food and cafeine too, but salt helps u retain weight and dehydrates any water u do drink, and any cafeine drink dehydrates the water u r drinking as well.

Try eating foods you like with low sodium options to start out with. Dont add table salt to anything (use garlic powder, parsley, red pepper flakes, pepper, etc to season things). And find healthier versions of food you enjoy... if you enjoy french fries, try making homemade fries in the oven, using an olive oil spray instead of oil, and using the seasonings i mentioned. If you enjoy pizza, then have a thin crust wheat chicken garlic pizza with reduced fat mozarella, tons of veggies.. if you enjoy soda, try carbonated water--maybe with some fruit in it even, until you dont want soda at all anymore, and then u can stop drinking the carbonated water... If you enjoy fried chicken, dip it in egg white instead of whole egg, and use a fiber cereal as the coating, then fry in a light olive oil or smart balance veg oil, or something healthier than a deep fryer.... if ur fav breakfast is french toast, use wheat bread, egg whites instead of whole egg, and a sugar free syrup, like mrs. butterworths that only 20 cal a 1/4cup instead of 210cal for a 1/4cup like most full sysrups are.
Switch normal items u eat for reduced cal options (paying attention to sodium levels in foods u buy), try some sugar free chocolate pudding for chocolate cravings, or sugar free low cal fudgecicles.
Try chewing some gum or sucking on a hard sugar free candy when u get cravings for food u shouldnt be eating.