Up my calories or just something to get used to?

How is your water intake?

If you cut down on your sugar or caffeine intake, you could be going through withdrawals. That usually happens when people cut desserts, coffee, or soda.

You are burning more than that with that much walking.

I eat every 2-3 hours and I'm never hungry.

It takes a few days to get used to eating less, and elminating a lot of junk food. Stick it out for a little longer and see how you feel....

Go to: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html and figure out your TDEE. Then subtract 15%. That's what you should eat every day.

you need to be eating more, in my opinion. maybe up to 2000-2200 calories, and see how you feel. however, if you are used to having a lot of caffeine regularly, you could be going through caffeine withdrawal. did you stop cold turkey or ease off? same for the chocolate. if you switched to dark chocolate (in moderation of course) you might help with headaches as well.

You're getting quite a lot of calories. So that's not likely your problem. Could you be depressed? That will make you terribly tired and sap all you energy. Or, you could have a bug of some sort or there could be other things going on. Perhaps a trip to the doctor is in order. But, it's not likely it's the diet as you're getting a good lot of calories. Much more than many on here, including myself.

Ensure your daily food intake is balanced with proteins and healthy snacks. I am 210lbs and eating 1880 calories a day and it took a few days to adjust to it but once you spread out the meals (350 cal per portion) its really doable. Hang in there, it gets easier. Don't underestimate the value of water!

If you cut down on your sugar or caffeine intake, you could be going through withdrawals. That usually happens when people cut desserts, coffee, or soda.

I have this when I reduce sugar even if my calories stay the same or are more.

if after a week you still feel bad I would try upping.

I see you have a baby, and it is normal to be tired when you have young children:yawn: Since this is your first child (I assume), you are used to having your energy and did not realize you would be so tired with a baby! Relax.

I don't think your food diary was open to look at it. But I would suggest you increase your calories so that your nursing is supplied (if you are)...I think by 400 calories? Also make sure you eat enough protein at your meals...say 20 grams per meal and snack, so that you are getting 100grams or more/day.

Maybe set the timer when baby takes a nap and rest also about 30 min. For exercise, it is really great that you walk!
You could also add in some basic calisthenics (sorry, spelling?) like 20 sit-ups/pushups and some yoga/stretching. Ironically, the more you challenge yourself with exercise, the more energy you have! Do you have an exercise DVD? Try to do some of it.

Drink your water! Place a cup on the counter with a piece of paper and pencil. make a tally mark for each cup you drink...at least 10 cups...more if you can. Log it at the end of your day.
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Also, im not sure how the eating what you burn thing means. Do i need to eat at least 1200cals AFTER what ive burnt exercising? So if i ate 1500 and burnt 400, i wouldnt have had enough?

The suggestion is based on the way MFP works. Stick at your nice higher level that was suggested, very wise.

Normally, you would take all your daily activity, everything, see what it burns, and then take off a deficit to determine what you eat.
So say 2000 burned minus 500 is eating 1500. That means about 1lb week fat hopefully burned off, because you didn't replenish it.

MFP works a tad different, to encourage you to do the exercise, or to confuse everyone, they leave exercise out of the equation until you do it and log it.
And then you get credit to eat it back again, so the deficit is still there.
So say 1700 minus 500 is eating 1200 plus exercise 300 is eating 1500 total.

Math comes out the same, when it happens changes. Those figures were just examples, have no idea on your suggestions.

Oh, for better estimate of that calorie burn on walking, which can be very accurate estimate, you can correct MFP suggestion with your own. Try this calculator, ask for the Net figure.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs.html

Now, what else you can do, is change your Activity level up to the level that includes on your feet a decent part of the day - Lightly Active or Active - and then don't worry about logging the normal walks which are great workouts, but they'll be included in the math already.

Yes i have changed what i eat for breakfast, it used to be a bar of chocolate or some other ridiculous thing. Now ive been having 2 slices of brown toast with jam and 2 cups of water. I have 2 at a time normally because we only have gigantic cups! I think i used to run on sugar all day long before.

Thanks heybales for clearing that up, it all makes sense now. I think i might go and have a banana now thanks to that! :bigsmile:
My activity level is lightly active right now i think. I put it as that because thats how i am in the house. The walks are just extras that vary in length every day. I walked very nearly 2 miles today and just couldnt walk the 1.5 miles back home! I was just so burnt out i had to get on the bus! Normally that walk isnt a problem.

So you can leave your activity level, and just use that calculator for the walks. Might suggest, weigh stroller/daughter, and count half that weight in the calc - because you are moving it along with yourself.

Also, to what someone else said regarding carbs. If you have sensitive insulin response spiking badly, bread hits your bloodstream faster than table sugar in fact, faster than a candy bar.
You may have had no effect with chocolate before, but could now.
That over response for many also means a bad drop to blood sugar levels - there goes the feeling of energy as body recovers that correctly.

Might test, pick up a couple Zone or Balance bars, and just have 1 of those for breakfast with water, see how it goes.
If much better, that was the problem. Don't have to keep eating those that was just test, but try to get protein/fat into each meal, and eat that before the carbs if possible, never carbs first.
If you have that bad of a response, you are also staying in the resulting fat-storing mode longer than normal.