Less -not more- energy due to weight loss?

You've been eating at too big of a caloric deficit for too long? If so, take a diet break, eat at maintenance for 4-6 weeks and see how you feel.

You're anemic and not getting enough iron? Check with your doctor, maybe you need an iron supplement.

Did the doc check iron, vitamin D, anything else?

I agree with checking the others. How long did it take you to lose the 50 pounds? How large is your deficit? Try eating at maintenance for a little bit and see what happens. Did you cut carbs?
I take iron because i was anemic, it has helped a little with energy

To reinforce everyone's good advice:

• Check vitamin/mineral levels: Iron/ferritin, vitamin D and Bs.
• Complete thyroid panel, not just TSH. If yur Free T3 is low, you may need additional supplementation (Cytomel).
• Too few calories for too long. Consider eating at maintenance and be sure to evaluate what maintenance should be for you. Take a diet break and don't fear eating more. Maintenance does not mean gaining weight.
• If the fatigue comes with shortness of breath when not exercising, accelerated heart beat, and/or any pain above the waist ask your doctor for an immediate referral to a cardiologist.

Hope you're on the mend soon!

Are you depressed?

foodhasfeelingstoo wrote: »

Or perhaps working out five days a week is too much?! Depends on how exactly your workout makes you feel. If it's exhausting I wouldn't be surprised that you're tired all the time. Happened to me recently. Got a bit too excited over running every day.

This.
I was pushing it too hard because I wanted results, and over did it to the point of seemingly endless fatigue.

Now I only really work out 3 days a week, plus incidental hikes and stuff, and feel a TON better, am able to eat better because I'm not trying to battle through fatigue using food, and am actually getting better results.

Also, if you've been training hard for a long time, maybe you just need a deload and a rest week. Most people do from time to time. Listen to your body, give it the breaks you need, and it'll pay you back.

I'm sorry you may have a similar problem to one many of us have with our doctors. they think they can tell from tsh what is going on with our endocrine systems and those above who say test both forms of t3, t4 and even thyroid antibodies are right. Its complicated because the most important, active thyroid hormone is the t3 and there can be issues of not having enough, conversion or other glands not requesting enough be made.

If you have high levels of thyroid antibodies this too will diminish your activity levels. In the early stages of Hashimoto's it presents with so called "normal" thyroid levels, this is documented. Many doctors do not see any reason to test for these because they are of the opinion there is nothing to be done to help. But there is, you may have read of people going dairy free, gluten free and the like, the reason is, food molecules get mistaken for our own tissue and then our immune system tries to rid us of those and our own cells.

Please go back to your doctor again and again if necessary, though finding another possibly from a list compiled by thyroid support sites, from patient recommendations, might be more helpful because these medics are more inclined to test to see what is going on rather than go by the tsh being under 2 which is now being seen as old hat, under 1 being what some take as adequate.

Trying to over exercise is not always helpful either because if one of the other glands, which one escapes me at the moment, if its is low functioning its counterproductive and only makes one more tired.

So please read what you can, list your additional symptoms, to the ones when you were first diagnosed and use your food diary from here. this additional information could make a difference otherwise, please find another doctor.

All the best, please keep pushing this one.

Honestly, could you be depressed? It manifests in many different ways, but over-sleeping and lethargy are definitely a flag. Something to consider if you've been feeling more stressed out lately. You could be overtraining - exercise is stress after all.

all kinds of possibilities but my 2 cents is: auto-immune disorders often come with a side of overwhelming exhaustion.

i got diagnosed a whole 15 years ago and it still frustrates me how little attention this particular symptom seems to get. doctors tend to dismiss it as low iron and/or psychosomatic [nothing like being patronized for not 'adapting' when you're too exhausted to even explain where they can get off]. but for most of the actual rheumatoid-arthritis people i know personally, it's among the two or three most debilitating aspects of having r.a.

I have the same problem. I feel worse now (most days) than I did +40lbs ago. I know it's because I'm not eating enough combined with narcolepsy.