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Help -- sooo tired & kinda frustrated
Pretty much ever since I started Induction, I have found that I am exhausted every day by about 6pm. The problem is that I don't have a 9-5 job!
Most days, I can leave by 7pm, and I just go home and crash for an hour. Once a week I have to work the late shift (until 10pm), and the only way I've been able to do that is sleeping in until 10am. Yesterday I had to work 8am - 9pm due to an event. I was a zombie all evening.
Here's a typical day for me:
8am -- 2 eggs, bacon or turkey sausage
11am -- 2 hb eggs or celery & cream cheese
1:30pm -- salad with meat (the last couple of days I've tried getting 1/2 cup of veggies to up my afternoon carb intake -- so I only do 1/2 cup veggies at night)
4pm -- 2hb eggs or 2 string cheese sticks
SLEEP from 7pm to 8 or 9pm
8 or 9pm -- veggies & meat, sometimes with cheese
My meats are mostly, ground beef or chicken, some cold cuts.
I'm drinking more than 64 oz of water a day, and one diet soda around 10am -- no coffee or tea
Crashing at 7 every night is really messing me up. It's harder to actually get to sleep at a decent hour, and my nighttime sleep often feels restless. But I am so physically exhausted when I get home that I can't even fix dinner without sleeping first.
I work in retail, so I'm on my feet a lot (less now that I have an orthopedic boot on for 6 weeks), but I'm a manager, so I do have a desk and probably spend almost 1/2 my day sitting. I've been doing this for 5 years, and it never exhausted me before.
Also, frustratingly, I have lost 0.2 lbs this week. This is day 20 of Induction for me (decided to extend), and I've lost a grand total of 4lbs. I had put on about 6lbs in the few months before I started after staying pretty steady for a few years, so I'm shocked at how little I've been able to lose.
What can I do???
Most days, I can leave by 7pm, and I just go home and crash for an hour. Once a week I have to work the late shift (until 10pm), and the only way I've been able to do that is sleeping in until 10am. Yesterday I had to work 8am - 9pm due to an event. I was a zombie all evening.
Here's a typical day for me:
8am -- 2 eggs, bacon or turkey sausage
11am -- 2 hb eggs or celery & cream cheese
1:30pm -- salad with meat (the last couple of days I've tried getting 1/2 cup of veggies to up my afternoon carb intake -- so I only do 1/2 cup veggies at night)
4pm -- 2hb eggs or 2 string cheese sticks
SLEEP from 7pm to 8 or 9pm
8 or 9pm -- veggies & meat, sometimes with cheese
My meats are mostly, ground beef or chicken, some cold cuts.
I'm drinking more than 64 oz of water a day, and one diet soda around 10am -- no coffee or tea
Crashing at 7 every night is really messing me up. It's harder to actually get to sleep at a decent hour, and my nighttime sleep often feels restless. But I am so physically exhausted when I get home that I can't even fix dinner without sleeping first.
I work in retail, so I'm on my feet a lot (less now that I have an orthopedic boot on for 6 weeks), but I'm a manager, so I do have a desk and probably spend almost 1/2 my day sitting. I've been doing this for 5 years, and it never exhausted me before.
Also, frustratingly, I have lost 0.2 lbs this week. This is day 20 of Induction for me (decided to extend), and I've lost a grand total of 4lbs. I had put on about 6lbs in the few months before I started after staying pretty steady for a few years, so I'm shocked at how little I've been able to lose.
What can I do???
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