Always tired? Gaining weight?

[Northpark]

Man I am right there with you. 33 years old and I eat healthy and work out every day. I ran 5 miles before work today then did a back and bicep workout at lunch and then moved about 3 yards of gravel in a wheelbarrow after work. That’s not an unusual day either. I struggle to lose weight or gain muscle. A coworker had the same at 30 years old turned out to be low testosterone. I’m going to the doc for my next step.

 

[Kleos]

I shall preface this. My doctorate is in Google and researching stuff online. When I applied for doctors positions apparently they do not recognize my degree. Neither does my personal doctor. So take this with a grain of salt.

If your not exercising your body may be stressed or depressed? I know you dont have time or the energy and I get that but it sounds counter intuitive but I know weeks where Im not working out I am also more tired. Where as weeks I work out I have more energy. Now your not going into the gym and destroying muscle groups but finding that sweet medium of cardio and strength building.

Again you could be depressed? Or stressed? Or overwhelmed? You have a lot going on and people who think everything's going great can still be depressed.

What's your water intake? How many carbs do you eat? how much processed sugar? What types of foods are you eating? Have you done any allergy tests? It is possible you have developed allergies as youve aged. Have you tried different diets? Paleo? No carbs? One meal a day? Fasting?

What's your caffeine intake? Are you spacing at least 10 hours between your last caffeinated beverage and sleep? Everyone argues this one which shows how truly we are addicted to our caffeinated beverages. But the studies are there that most people's sleep is effected with caffeine consumed too close to bed. The people arguing it also have not tried no caffeine that close to bed for a significant amount of time to truly understand what effects it may have.

Testosterone levels? Cholesterol? Are you on new medications? Are you on medications that could no longer be working? Undiagnosed mental health issue? Are you balancing time between family, work, and personal passions? How much time do you spend behind a screen? This can have a huge effect on your dopamine levels.

Are you happy with your job? Are you happy with your wife? Are you happy with your kid? Are you unhappy with something? If you are can you make a change to that?

What are your vitamin levels? Do you consume lots of diet beverages? Diet sodas can contribute to depleted vitamin b 12 and b 6. Or they could just be depleted try taking a multi vitamin.

Is your wife happy? Does she cook for you? Is she poisoning you? (sorry had to).

In the end there is a huge list of things it could be. Hopefully everyone's post gives you some ideas of what it may be. Ultimately its going to take self reflection, self inspection, time, trial, and error.

**EDIT**

One other thing I wanted to mention and this is just a thought I have had in the past. I am not sure that it is feasible with how we live our lives in 2022. If you think back to our hunter gather days, we took lots of naps, worked with the weather, hunted at times super hard and spent lots of time sitting around. Now we go go go go go and think its weird when were tired all the time.

 

[PredatorSlayer]

You just have to prioritize taking care of yourself. Simplify your life, focus on the things that are the most important. You cannot be truly great at multiple things. The time and energy required to be truly great means that there will be sacrifices in other aspects of your life. If you want to be a great CEO, your wife and kids and your health will likely suffer. I realized this after I saw Kobe say this in an interview with Ahmad Rashad. Doesn’t mean you can’t be good at several things, just takes too much energy, time and focus to be great. This helped me reprioritize and realize that I am going to focus on being great at being a dad and a husband and realize that means I may just be good at my profession. Food for thought…

 

[gbflyer]

Take a nap and get a divorce.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Go see family Dr. and have complete physical. Blood work, x-rays, maybe even a treadmill.

 

[TheHammer]

Get your micros and macros figured out, blood sugar tested to see what your daily intakes should be. You might be deficient in a vitamin or mineral. Testosterone would be a good start and probably the base cause. Mental health!! Gotta get right in the head. Lastly gut health is about as important as mental health. I’ve been through a few roller coasters with all that. Be careful with the test, it’s nothing to mess around with, once you get on it, you need to stay on it for life. Or the rollers will get extreme. Look up Ryan lampers and his wife hill, they have a lot of great information to self educate with along with a few quality products as does mountain ops. Good luck to everyone struggling. It’s not an easy fight trying to be your best friend while being your worst enemy. There’s help out there.

 

[Okhotnik]

Should have asked if you had covid and maybe have long haul symptoms?

Im not vexed but had covid twice. The covid wasn't bad but had some major fatigue, brain fog, sleep and energy issues a month after covid. I took a 4 day course of ivermectin, doubled my Vit D, C and zinc doses and took quercetin and allergy pills. It disappeared in a few days. It popped up again at six months and repeated regime. Of course anecdotal, but very safe and worth a try if your Doc rules everything else out of course

 

[def90]

Stress and depression..

 

[Okhotnik]

At your age id do everything I could if testosterone is low before going on TRT regime .

and testosterone levels can vary greatly. Some guys have luck just taking an estrogen blocker like anastrozole (Arimidex). again best of luck.

 

[yfarm]

Hypothyroid first three dx, very unusual to have weight gain with Graves

 

[Mojave]

I am not a doctor, but I am a on and off fat guy who has spent his entire life fighting weight. Including 20 years in the military.

1. get a sleep study, maybe your have sleep apnea and need a CPAP.

2. completely give up all fruit, juice, pop/soda/booze, starchy veg, and other carbohydrates.

3. eat a high fat, high protein meat based diet. goal is zero carbs.

4. do not use any cooking oils excepting those that came from an animal lard, bacon grease, olive oil, coconut oil, or avacado oil.

5. eat tons of red meat, and fatty fish.

High protein, high fat, no carb.

Trust me you will still be able to poop, sleep and get a boner. And you'll lose weight.

 

[Johnboy]

I am not a doctor, but I am a on and off fat guy who has spent his entire life fighting weight. Including 20 years in the military.

1. get a sleep study, maybe your have sleep apnea and need a CPAP.

2. completely give up all fruit, juice, pop/soda/booze, starchy veg, and other carbohydrates.

3. eat a high fat, high protein meat based diet. goal is zero carbs.

4. do not use any cooking oils excepting those that came from an animal lard, bacon grease, olive oil, coconut oil, or avacado oil.

5. eat tons of red meat, and fatty fish.

High protein, high fat, no carb.

Trust me you will still be able to poop, sleep and get a boner. And you'll lose weight.

Absolutely do this. At least for a month. Strictly. I think a lot of our health issues these days are linked to nutrition. The suggestion above will reset your gut, to which almost every other balance in your body is linked.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I’m not a doctor but that sounds like a thyroid thing to me. Could also be testosterone. It’s embarrassing to admit but I’ve been slowly starting to see that in myself (get that fat layer around the middle even though I work out 6 days a week, and don’t seem to put on a lot of muscle like I used to) I’m 42 though.

How is your diet? A guy I work with always talks about how he’s gaining weight even though he has a clean diet but I watched him eat 3 pastries back to back at a meeting the other day and he seems to show in to work daily with some sort of coffee drink that clearly has chocolate syrup and whip cream in it.

While there’s no need to go vegan or something stupid like that, lots of people honestly have no idea what a semi-healthy diet really looks like.

 

[CodeMonkey]

You sound like me eight years ago. I ballooned to nearly 250 and couldn't get into the office without 3-4 cups of coffee. Doc ran every possible test and everything would come back normal.

I finally took ownership of my mental health (or lack thereof) and started exercising regularly. Telling my boss "no" and setting healthy boundaries helped a ton too.

 

[MattB]

I have been thinking that stress is most likely causing a lot of these problems.. I just don’t know how to “limit” stress. My wife calls me a worry wart all the time.


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[*zap*]

You eat healthy. Exactly what does that mean?
50# in three years is an issue no matter what your height is. Start walking an hour each morning while fasted and try an intermittent fasting program for meals...strength train regularly all the compound movements. Bench, squat, leg press, dips, pull ups, bent over rows, rdl, deadlift and etc...check back in three months and tell us if things improved.

 

[*zap*]

How is your diet? A guy I work with always talks about how he’s gaining weight even though he has a clean diet but I watched him eat 3 pastries back to back at a meeting the other day and he seems to show in to work daily with some sort of coffee drink that clearly has chocolate syrup and whip cream in it.

 

[CodeMonkey]

You just have to prioritize taking care of yourself. Simplify your life, focus on the things that are the most important. You cannot be truly great at multiple things. The time and energy required to be truly great means that there will be sacrifices in other aspects of your life. If you want to be a great CEO, your wife and kids and your health will likely suffer. I realized this after I saw Kobe say this in an interview with Ahmad Rashad. Doesn’t mean you can’t be good at several things, just takes too much energy, time and focus to be great. This helped me reprioritize and realize that I am going to focus on being great at being a dad and a husband and realize that means I may just be good at my profession. Food for thought…

Lots of wisdom in this post. I found myself no longer envying people with more "status" or a nice job title when I started realizing what their home life looked like.

I've turned down serious money (multiples of my current salary) because of what it would mean for my family. Driving a Range Rover means nothing to me if it comes at the expense of missing my kids growing up.

 

[Aluminum Rain]

Thyroid, testosterone and cortisol. I have issues with the first 2 and had your symptoms. Still do sometimes.

 

[Thess87]

Well I’m 35 and there’s people here that are more qualified to answer the tired problems but I’m a hair over 6’8” and I weigh 275. Don’t get me wrong I’m not ripped but I’m far from over weight. I go to the gym 5 days a week. But I don’t know how you survived at 235 if I weighed that I would seriously look sick. IMHO at that height with alittle muscle your healthier at 260ish.