Only happy when I exersize?

[happytapeworm]

I'm constantly sleepy all the time , and if I skip out on my routine I get depressed and irritable. If I do my workout even if im tired I feel soooo much better ...i feel like i cant be happy without exercising. Does anybody else get this?

[believe]

Every single day! I am to the point now I sneak home for lunch - luckily my work is literally 1/2 mile from my house - and workout. Then after work I work out too. So it only appears I work out once. I have done this so hard, my ankle is messed up a little and my arms are really sore. But I keep going cause if I don't I am one major WITCH. But I kinda have to workout more now cause I am eating. So now that I am eating --- I have to workout twice or else.... I am the ??? EDNOS. Got a little of all the worlds. I think my body is reacting now to NOT eating for so long it's starving. So.... you offset with exercise. I hate this.
I wish you the best of luck....
(oh and AFTER I work out you'd think I took one major drug!! I dont' do drugs -- just cardio! lol)

[Angelbitten]

I totally get this! I am highly addicted to exercise. If I do not get three or more hours of exercise per day, I will flip out hardcore. I've had my days where I go above six. It's probably partially compensation for not purging these days...but it became obsessive when I was eating very little, so who knows. No rest days. Can't handle it. It is my healthiest outlet, and despite having been injured from it before...I can't see myself slowing down. I don't know that I could handle that.

[Thoughtmirror]

I work out everyday if not twice a day because I'm addicted to it. There are times I want to go home right after work, but my brain screams "NO! You have to work out or else you will HATE yourself later." Even if I feel like passing out, I still go to the gym. People know me by my name now, it's truly sad.

[Bathory]

This has been me for 5+ years. I remember staying at my ex boyfriends house on alot of occasions for extended periods of time and wouldn't be able to exercise while I was there. It used to aggravate me SO much.

[kittycat]

Exercise always made me feel better, especially when I felt very mad & furious at someone. No one could stop me. All i felt like I need to run, run, run far away. And burn some calories off. I wish I could exercise right now and that's my goal right now. Gain, yes gain few extra lbs and then just try to stuck to healthy protein, low carb meals and exercise.

[Matthewww]

Fuck exercising. It's tiring and lonely. I used to feel great when I worked out, but after I felt like I didn't accomplish anything.
I felt exactly like you did, tired and exhausted. I was burnt out, yet I continued.

[88_keys]

Yes, yes, yes. I have to exercise every day or else I'm just awful. My work day consists of taking care of 4 infants (which is a work out in and of itself) and I usually end up heading to the gym at 5am to work out before and hitting it again on my way home. I am dead tired all the time, but can't stop.

Compulsive behaviors, be damned!

[elzie]

Exercise releases endorphines, some people need the endorphines to get through their day.