trying to be healthy, cut down on fat/carbs exercising every other day, cut down on wine so why do i feel absolutely wasted?

[minxofmancunia]

Have been trying to get fitter and get my figure back (ds is 7 months) for several weeks now, run/exercise class/yoga every other day. Cut out sugar and lots of fat from diet and try to only have wine every other night so why do I feel so horrible?

This morning after my healthy eating, no wine, yoga day I feel as if I've got the worse hangover ever. This always happens to be when i try to do regular exercise (have always done yoga) I feel absolutely wasted.

I'm struggling to dredge up the motivation to do anything apart from sit on here, I'm exhausted, dizzy and my ankles are killing me (old woman emoticon). I'm 35, 5'8" and 9 stone give or take a few pounds. I don't want to lose weight but look about 5 months pg still because of my horrible horrible mum tum HATE IT!!!!

I just feel like going back to bed! What's the problem?

With a BMI of 19 you're actually borderline for underweight. So you can't afford to lose weight, you're right. If you feel 'horrible' I would say it's because you're not getting the right amount of energy and probably nutrition from your new-look diet. If you cut fat and sugar from your diet (two very energy-dense materials) you have to eat a lot of other things to make up the missing calories. If you're doing a lot of exercise it's even more important that you're getting adequate energy to function normally.

Have you totted up your calorie intake? Someone with your stats doing a lot of exercise is going to need 2200+ cals a day quite easily.

On the nutrition front, if your energy intake goes down and your food choices are not great then you are likely to start suffering with symptoms of mild malnutrition quite quickly. Low iron-stores are very common in young women, for example, and will result in fatigue, headaches, dizziness..... so are you getting plenty of red meat, green vegetables, wholegrain foods?.... and are you eating plenty of vitamin c-rich foods such as kiwifruit, citrus, berries?

If you want to lose the mummy tummy then a combination of a 'clean' diet.... balanced & full of energy but excluding processed foods... more fluids and exercises to strengthen the tummy muscles will be most effective.