Why am I always so tired?

Question

I feel like I am always tired. I sleep about 10 hours each night and often am still pretty tired during the day. I eat a well-balanced diet with plenty of veggie's and I drink a lot of water. Any ideas?

Thanks for all the answers. I'm 24. When I sleep 7 or 8 hours it's worse. It's also worse when I sleep 12 or 14 hours (which I have done many times).

Answer 1

It could be depression.

Answer 2

i'd say that you may be lacking the essential diet things, eat more carbs, and do more physical activities. Running (or walking if you have to start slow because you havent run in forever) is a great way to train your body. It helps your body adapt to more strenuous activities, making your everyday things seem easier. Your body is like a machine, if it does the same easy things over and over again, pretty soon thats all it thinks it needs to do, and it shuts down the sections taht do more harder work, making easy things, sometimes even standing for a long while become your new hard things ... Thats my advice, and its been proven time and time again, just do really tiring physical stuff (pick up game of basketbalol, walk or run, swim, tennis, pretty much anything that buuilds a sweat), and then your everyday stuff doesnt seem very tiring at all. O and the more carbs you have, the more energy upto a certain point..
I hope i may have helped.

Answer 3

You might be oversleeping. The body has a normal sleep cycle of about 8 hours. There a 4 phases of different types of sleep. You go into progressivly deeper stages of sleep fir the first 4 hours and then go into lighter stages of sleep for the final 4. If you do not get up after the cycle has run its course, a second cycle begins. This means you might be waking up somewhere in the middle of your sleep cycle and waking up from a deeper stage of sleep. Try sleeping 8 or 9 hours instead of 10 and see what happens.

Answer 4

I had the same problem in my late teens and early 20's.
I was severely anemic.
I slept a good 10 to 12 hours and could never seem to make through the day with out having to take a nap.
The doctor advised me to take a B complex and an iron suppliment. Ferrous sulfate is and inexpensive iron supppliment and it works very well.
In fact the results were almost immeadiate. It took about 2 days and I was energized like I never was before.
I still have to take them. When I run out and don't take them I notice the lethargy.
Some woman are just prone to anemia.
Consult your OBGYN too. They may be able to write you a script and advise on the best suppliments to take.
Good Luck!

Answer 5

2 reasons are possible if we exclude a problem with your adrenal glands and a few other aggravations.

The metabolism is the rate at which the food burning machine (the body) burns through calories to produce energy.

Energy comes from when calories are burned in muscle (including fat!)


1) Perhaps you consume a diet with sugars and processed foods...these cause your blood sugar to rise and the body has to produce insulin to draw it down..it draws too much down and makes you tired...

2) You don't eat enough or often enough or appropriately to supply energy. Energy comes from when the body burns claories...if you don't put in enough calories or you put in the wrong ones...the body slows the burning (metabolism) down and thus you have low energy.

Veggies are very low in calories and though rich in nutrients they are also high in fiber...consumed alone, they release their energy very slowly.

A Supportive meal consists of:
A lean protein plus
A starch Carb plus
A fibrous carb

Ideally consumed every 3 to 3-1/2 hours to keep the energy and metabolism cranked up! Ideally from whole food sources, not processed.

No hydrogenated fats
Avoid saturated fats
Avoid sugars

If you are a sugarholic..it will take 3 days to pass the tiny cravings eating this way.

There is a synergy achieved by combining 3 basic components in your life!

Supportive nutrition (this means eating not starving)
A moderate amount of exercise (too much is not ideal)
Challenging muscle (stimulate the energy producing sight on the body)

I wish you all the best in your journey to release the energy inside you!

Answer 6

If you are sleeping 10 hours a day and still tired it sounds like you are not getting good sleep. You might have sleep apena which you would need to consult your doctor and go to a sleep clinic to determine this. This condition is one in which you could be sleeping lots but not getting a quality sleep. Sleep apena is when you stop breathing when you are sleeping and thus you are not getting the amount of sleep you think you are getting. Get tested.

Answer 7

It sounds like you are sleeping too much. Try sleeping 7 or 8 hours instead of the ten.

Answer 8

Too much sleep makes me feel tired.... try 8 hours of sleep and make sure you drink plenty of coffee.

Answer 9

Take a one a day vitamin. That has helped me. And 2 times a week I take a B complex vitamin. That has gave me more energy.

Answer 10

Maybe you don't have enough calories in your diet or something... I didn't eat all of yesterday and today I am tired as hell.

Try talking to someone about something random, it'll get you off of your bum.

Answer 11

Sometimes sleeping too much can only make you sleepier. Try excercising everyday. It definately helps.