What are your best tips for increasing energy?

tomatoey
tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Other than caffeine?
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  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    Exercising.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,738 Member
    Sleep
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    I am also trying to stop caffeine. It seems exercise even just a 20 min walk as boosted my energy.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    edited April 2015
    D. all of the above.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,738 Member
    More water ... a glass of water in the afternoon seems to boost my energy as much as a cup of coffee.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    Thanks, guys. I'm getting over mild bronchitis and really need to push myself to get going/moving.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    Thanks :)
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    and MORE exercise.
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    For me, eating more veggies and fruits and taking a multivitamin (specifically with B vitamins), exercise, and good quality sleep! :)
  • barryplumber
    barryplumber Posts: 401 Member
    I regenerate with fruit, bananas are great but not at night. After my run and weight training I'll make a big fruit smoothie with 2 scoops of protein
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    Eat properly.
  • Mentiri
    Mentiri Posts: 1,356 Member
    Yoga!
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    tomatoey wrote: »
    Other than caffeine?

    Weight lifting and running do it every time. :)
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    tomatoey wrote: »
    Thanks, guys. I'm getting over mild bronchitis and really need to push myself to get going/moving.

    You have to let your body heal, first. Bronchitis can "take the stuffing right out of you," as Grandma used to say.
  • slucki01
    slucki01 Posts: 284 Member
    sleep, exercise and meditation
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    SLLRunner wrote: »
    tomatoey wrote: »
    Thanks, guys. I'm getting over mild bronchitis and really need to push myself to get going/moving.

    You have to let your body heal, first. Bronchitis can "take the stuffing right out of you," as Grandma used to say.

    Oh, yeah. I am like this ( but not blonde)

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  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    or plastic
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    thank you :)
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    It's going to sound cliché but, live an active lifestyle. The more I sit around, the more tired I feel. When I'm regularly active my energy level is great. Plus preworkout.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    Getting enough sleep/rest, eating right (it helps me to not have too much sugar during the day and avoid the crash), stay hydrated, exercise.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Ease back in to activity recovering from bronchitis. If you have been using caffeine to get energized you will be sleepier until you have more. I get some caffeine from chocolate and tea, but besides that I'm pretty caffeine free. I wake up perky, unlike most of my colleagues.

    And exercise. Well fuelled exercise really got my jets going. I skip down the hallway at work, perky, chirpy and annoying. I behave as if there were no economic downturn. I am pretty sure the Smoking Club hates me (as they huddle, shivering, in the back parking lot).
  • corsayre8
    corsayre8 Posts: 551 Member
    I know it is a controversial word, but "clean" up your diet.

    Can't tell you how much my energy, (and sleep for that matter), improved when I started focusing on whole, nutrient dense foods and got rid of all the processed fillers.
  • rrowdiness
    rrowdiness Posts: 119 Member
    Methamphetamine Exercise, hydration, good rest.
  • corsayre8
    corsayre8 Posts: 551 Member
    Just saw the bronchitis comment. I actually completely changed my diet after spending New Years Eve at the doctor with a sinus infection and bronchitis. I'd been sick for a month and couldn't shake it. Ended up on steroids, antibiotics and an inhaler. It was my wake up call.

    I started clearing out my cabinets and replacing all the food in my house with better options. Just that I dropped about 12 pounds in the first month. Then I started exercising lightly and gradually increasing length and intensity. Just started tracking food a few weeks back. But I'm down about 30 pounds and feeling better than I have since I can remember - mentally, physically and emotionally.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    rrowdiness wrote: »
    Methamphetamine Exercise, hydration, good rest.

    LOL!!!!

  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,042 Member
    Adequate rest, mental prep, and some carbs before hittin' it!

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    newmeadow wrote: »
    tomatoey wrote: »
    Other than caffeine?

    Stopping caffeine altogether and forever. You'd be amazed. I mean, after you spend a week in bed with headaches that don't go away. Most people are caffeine dependent and don't know it

    I'm not a big coffe drinker. But I found now if I have one cappuccino or flat white I have a head ache for a few days. Just a light head ache, not a crawl up in bed one.

    I found it wierd that one coffee can do that especially since I never really drank much coffee. I think at most one a day at the peak, I can't imagine the headache of someone who has like 4 cups a day, everyday.

    But in topic I dont understand what your asking OP. When I am lacking energy it's cause I am sleepy. I can't think of a time I was well rested and lacked energy.

  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Excercise

    and Emergen-C sachets

    and sleep

    and water
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    newmeadow wrote: »
    Merkavar wrote: »
    newmeadow wrote: »
    tomatoey wrote: »
    Other than caffeine?

    Stopping caffeine altogether and forever. You'd be amazed. I mean, after you spend a week in bed with headaches that don't go away. Most people are caffeine dependent and don't know it

    I'm not a big coffe drinker. But I found now if I have one cappuccino or flat white I have a head ache for a few days. Just a light head ache, not a crawl up in bed one.

    I found it wierd that one coffee can do that especially since I never really drank much coffee. I think at most one a day at the peak, I can't imagine the headache of someone who has like 4 cups a day, everyday.

    I meant most people, when quitting caffeine cold turkey, get tremendous headaches that Tylenol doesn't cure. And they take to bed for about a week.

    If you get a headache from drinking coffee, consider yourself lucky that you have an incentive to stay away from that habit forming poison.

    Most people are the opposite and get headaches when they quit coffee.

    I guess that's one way to look at it, that I get a head ache from drinking coffee.

    I was thinking its more withdrawals from not drinking coffee. Like I become dependant instantly :smiley: if I drink coffee every day I don't get headaches.

    Coffee everyday then stop=headache
    Coffee once then stop=headache

  • Bghere1
    Bghere1 Posts: 78 Member
    A packet of emergence and cool water. Preceed that with a B12 injection?!
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