Always Tired Lately.
I am now 40 and lately I have noticed that my energy levels are bloody awful.
I find it hard to get up in the morning. In the evening after work, I feel sluggish and lazy and have to really push myself to do anything. At the weekends if I have been out in the day, even just on a short outing with the kids I am spent that evening.
I considered myself to be fairly active, I like walking, swimming, biking or uni cycling. I'll even put on a pair of skates if its called for (kids). My job is semi sit down, I work in computing and have a mix of standup and sit down work.
What's going on is it my age? Is it my Vegan diet? and I unfit. I used to be packed full of energy and had loads of stamina.
I find it hard to get up in the morning. In the evening after work, I feel sluggish and lazy and have to really push myself to do anything. At the weekends if I have been out in the day, even just on a short outing with the kids I am spent that evening.
I considered myself to be fairly active, I like walking, swimming, biking or uni cycling. I'll even put on a pair of skates if its called for (kids). My job is semi sit down, I work in computing and have a mix of standup and sit down work.
What's going on is it my age? Is it my Vegan diet? and I unfit. I used to be packed full of energy and had loads of stamina.
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When you feel "tired" at your work and don't have the strength to work but at the same time you would gladly go for playing soccer, meeting with friends or dancing then it's not fatigue, it's boredom.
You may try to alter small parts of your life so every day isn't the same. Travel to work with another route. Don't return home immediately after work, have some walk instead. Listen to music that you haven't listen to for ages etc.
But if you are genuinely tired all the time then maybe just go earlier to sleep or actually visit a doctor.
Actually I'm struggling with similat stuff myself and it's not easy thing. I've read somewhere that middle age is actually the worst time in most people life where you feel most unhappy. So have a hope, it's going to be better :)
I am not saying you or anyone else should be worried about heart problems, just to be aware that potentially dangerous situations sometimes start out small !
Nowadays I find it harder to motivate myself on my days off until the last day off before a work day.
I look at my sisters teenage kids and wonder where all that carefree energy disappears to as you get older.
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My energy levels seem fine, i can still run (a bit slower that i used to) but i do get tired quicker, it's probably my age (i'm 42).
ive also noticed at work i struggle more to carry 25 litre drums of chemicals lol
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You know I think that may be the nub of the problem. I never have had a well defined bed time since before and in my early years at uni when I used to work as a security guard at all hours of the day and night on various shifts.
After this I just got comfortable with being up the night though, so could easily work on a thorny programming problem will 2-3am and sometimes still do.
My working day typically starts at 9:00 to 9:30 by my night ends anywhere between 12:30 till 3am. If I go go bed at 11:30 it feels like luxury.
Sometimes the reason for late nights is work load, other times when the work is done it's play time. I just do not have the habit or discipline to get myself to bed at 11:30.
It could be Scotties vegan diet. What's you BMI? Not feeling depressed or anything?
I use a Sir Stanley Matthews technique occasionally to boost energy..that is zero food one day in seven. I wouldn't do it all the time though. It really works. I dunno why.
Though on the subject of depression, that does raise its head often. I always thought the depression was a symptom of being tired. I guess both could be brought on by my erratic sleep schedule.
Well, people can be depressed without knowing it. Half the world gets depressed from time to time. Symptoms can be oversleeping or not being able to sleep. I'm not sure it works the other way around..maybe it does. See the doc anyways.
You should definitely go see a doctor, be very honest about what you eat and how often and be prepared to be told it isn't good enough.
It could be the diet I suppose, but if only that I'm lacking say something like B12 which is plausible but can be supplemented without animal products. I'm going off to take a supplement now to see. I get lazy and forget to take them. Maybe I'll get some Maccasons for the Iron intake. ;)
garage, doctors.blood test will tell them whats up with various levels.
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Yeah, I went for blood tests and the failed to diagnose me with anything, 6 months later/worse I eventually get to see another doctor after looking up what my symptoms were, and asked him to test me for Diabetes, ohh what a surprise, I have Diabetes - then the doc lectures me on how 1 in 30 people have it but a lot of people don't know... well I wonder why that might be. Hate to say it, but doctors are getting worse, lazier, and less capable of helping people who are actually sick.
Consider what your other symptoms are. I mean, are you tired enough to sleep all the time, or does doing general tasks leave you out of breath. Are you thirsty all the time, peeing more often, have you lost or gained weight. If the doctors come back with nothing, go see another doctor, don't take no for an answer and do your own research into your symptoms, if only to demand to be tested for whatever might be wrong, including Diabetes of course.
You taking Vitamin B12 supplements? B12 only usually comes from eating meat/fish etc..you need to make sure you're getting enough as B12 is for healthy red blood cells...which would explain tiredness if you were not getting enough.
(The were just talking about vegans and lack of B12 on NPR this morning on my drive in to work...they mentioned just taking a daily supplement or eating cereal that is fortified with b12).
I've been vegan for a couple of months now (having been "nearly" vegan for 15 years), and if I am tired at the moment it's because I'm being woken up at four o'clock every bloody morning by the cat forgetting to use the catflap and meowing to get in the house.
What I would say is not all vegans eat the same - we cook most of our meals from scratch (including bread) and eat a lot of fresh fruit and veg, whereas when I first met Mrs Spoons we lived off cheap processed stuff like Linda McCartney sausages and Ragu pasta sauce. I'm 41 now and feel fitter than I have done for years, but I don't know if that's down to being vegan or just because my kids are older and slightly less exhausting than they used to be.
My kids have Marmite on toast most days (which contains B12) and we put it in pasta sauces and chilli. So if it is lack of B12, get all your UK friends to post you some Marmite...
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