Burned out from exercise?

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Hanley

Almost certainly.

You need to look at calories in versus calories out, the quality of your food and what training is actually productive versus what you're doing just for the sake of it.

You could be better dropping some exercise and tightening up your diet. Hard to say without more info.

What's a typical day of food look like? Any ideas on calorie intake? How many hours a night do you sleep? Do you've have a stressful job/life/kids??

All will effect your recovery to an extent!!

seamus

As Hanley says, it's most likely that you've overdone it a bit.

Only other thing to check, seeing as you're female, is that you're not pregnant. Sudden and unexplained lethargy is a classic symptom of early pregnancy.

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dinorebel

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I am no expert but looking at your diet compared to the amount of exercise you do you are eating far to little.

MonkieSocks

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Firstly Congratulations on losing the weight.

I would think you are doing TOO much exercise too soon or the intensity of the exercise is too much.

A lot of people fall into the trap of doing too much too soon and soon get tired and fed up with the regime they have adapted.

Try to make your exercise fun and enjoyable but don’t take a week off or you will find it much harder to kick-start it all over again.

If I were you I would just cut down and not cut-out.

Keep up the two runs, do these at a pace that is very comfortable.

Do two Power walks, do these at a pace that is very comfortable.

Trim your two Gym sessions to One hour.

Try to give yourself one or two days per week rest, this is too needed to let your body recover.

Don’t go for all the hype, enjoy your exercises and your energy and satisfaction levels will go up.

Let your week off be, One Run, One Power walk and one Gym session, then try kickstart again with the one's above

The very best of luck with whatever you decide to do Baby4

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cc87

Well done on the weight loss.

One thing it might be worth noting is that running can be very hard on the knees, no matter what speed you run at. Then the more weight you are carrying the worse it is on the knees. It might be worth looking at something like cycling or rowing or the crosstrainer, exercises with less impact for one of your runs each week.

Other than that, watching your exercise, recovery and diet and you will continue to improve

Oryx

Ease back for a week or two, get some good clean food into you and get lots of sleep. Once you feel on top of things again, you can increase your exercise a bit.

You could try doing your exercise in monthly phases. week one moderate, week two slightly harder, week three full effort, week four easy/recovery. It gives the body a chance to recover from high intensity effort. And dont keep doing the same things all the time in the gym, or out running. Run short and fast some days, slow and long others. Mix it up.

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dinorebel wrote: »

I am no expert but looking at your diet compared to the amount of exercise you do you are eating far to little.

Bold bit above! You're doing well with what you're eating, you just need to up your portions! Take your bodyweight in lbs x 11-13 = (calories with defecit) 1914 - 2262 calories daily (Lyle McDonald's formula), you should lose weight 1-2 lbs a week on this but have enough calories to fuel your daily activities. Put your food into a tracker like FITDAY.COM, Myfitnesspal.Swole.me etc & work it out from there. Add coconut oil,olive oil, nuts, seeds (and other sources of calorie dense good fats to your food intake) Also take a week off every few months! Possibly cut your power walks back to 3 days a week & see if that makes a difference!