water to maintain your energy. When you start to get dehydrated, your body starts to suffer and sends you big obvious signals, like low energy levels, drowsiness, headaches, and overtime, physical pain from your thirsty kidneys.
The first step to hydrating properly is to take a look at your urine. If it’s a dark yellow color, you need more water and lots of it. If it’s clear or light yellow, you’re ok. If you’re generally hydrated, but notice slumps in energy after your workout, focus on drinking plenty of water before, during, and after your workout so that you can replenish the H20 you may lose through your sweat.
4. You’re Eating or Drinking Too Much Sugar and Caffeine
Sugar and caffeine can give you an immediate boost in energy, but that boost comes at a cost. After an hour or sometimes even less, your spiked energy levels can come plummeting down, leaving you feeling more tired than you were to start. The fix here isn’t to go cold turkey and cut out all caffeine and sugar in one day.
If you do, you’ll more than likely go through some withdrawal, and you’ll hate everyone and everything. Instead, we recommend slowly reducing your consumption of sugar and caffeine. A safe amount of caffeine is 1-3 cups of coffee per day. So if you are well above this daily amount, start to cut back one cup at a time.
For sugar, you’ll also want to wane yourself off slowly by using healthier sources of energy like fiber-rich carbs to sustain your energy throughout the day. Fiber, just like protein, helps to slow down your body’s absorption of sugar, so you have a