When did you start feeling the extra energy from exercise?

Just keep it up! You will catch on

alicia163425 wrote: »

This question pertains more to people who lost a lot of weight (like 100 pounds or so). I am curious when you felt like you had more energy from exercising? I felt it the first couple weeks and now feeling sluggish again. I’m going to examine my foods and try to make a better balance and up my water intake (although I drink quite a bit) to see if this helps. I read posts where people felt that they wanted to exercise on a regular basis. I still have to make myself do it.

I exercise on a regular basis because I enjoy cycling. It took awhile for me to find something I like and that I clicked with...once that happened, it was easy. If "exercise" meant droning away on some piece of cardio equipment or jumping around my living room to some DVD, it would never happen.

Regular exercise is also something that you need to ramp up to, not just jump into...if you're newish to exercise, the fatigue could be a result of doing too much too soon.

For me it started with a bike. Small rides. Then longer ones. All on a constant basis. Eventually, the success of extending the distance became a motivator. The success bred success. It took maybe three months before I felt better after exercise than before. Stick with your program. You WILL thank yourself.

Down 118 lbs here. I have never felt more energy from exercise. I feel tired and sore nearly every day. But I do notice that I am now able to squat 185 lbs when I used to struggle with bodyweight, and I am now able to run 6 miles while I used to get tired just standing to do chores.

If you are in the "need to lose 100 or more" club then exercise is about saving your life. Literally adding years and decades to your life. It's huge that you are doing this and in a year you won't even recognize yourself if you keep it up. But don't do it because you expect to magically feel energized because that may never happen. Instead, remember what Nike said and just do it. You don't have to love it, you don't have to feel it, you just have to do it.

I have always been in absolute terrible shape. Severe asthma has plagued me throughout my life and makes working out and sometimes even doing simple things like climbing stairs or even laughing too hard a PIA. It made me dread working out. This leg of my fitness journey I started to feel more energy about two weeks in to working out. I'm about 3 months in now, and I am finding I actually crave physical activity. Like, I get kind of restless sometimes and need to do something. I never really thought I would actually want to work out. I just knew it was something I needed to do if I wanted to make it to 50 in one piece. The fact that I am actually craving exercise now makes me motivated to keep going. I can't say I love exercise though, but I don't hate it as much anymore. I feel like the more you do, and the more milestones you hit, the more motivating it becomes. Like when you go from barely being able to touch your knees to touching your shins, then finally your toes. Or noticing that a brisk walk doesn't leave you out of breath. It's the little things like that that keep me going.

I think it might be a placebo effect for me. I immediately feel “better” when I start to work out regularly. I feel more energized and am just generally in a better mood.