Originally Posted by masteredog

Hi guys, my problem is that I keep getting burnt out and don't seem to be making any progress. I cycle 9 miles a day to and from work, it's not particularly strenuous. Then twice a week I cycle 11 miles after work, its a reasonably tough route with plenty of hills , takes me about 45 minutes on my racing bike. On top of that I go to the gym twice a week (do push ups and weights as a circuit but not low reps of heavy weights) then I go rock climbing once a week. I usually do no cycling on the weekend.

My diet is as follows

2 eggs on 1 piece of wholemeal toast for breakfast
200g of light cottage cheese at 11
lunch - chicken breast, roast veg. some sweet potato and some chick peas
3 oclock 200g of light cottage cheese
If I go for a ride/rock climbing/gym then I'll have a large banana before sometimes some nuts as well
then for dinner I'll have something along the lines of gammon steak with egg, salad and a small amount of rice.

I can sustain doing this for a few weeks then it seems to creep up on me and hit me in the face and I'll start feeling very tired,confused, grumpy, need to eat some more, I have to rest then for a week (aside from cycling to work) before I feel normal again. So it seems like I am over trained, thing is I feel like I have an active week but I don't feel I am doing that much exercise to be feeling this bad. Also I weight 13 stone and am 5' 10 so I feel I could lose some weight, I am carrying some fat on my stomach so I don't really want to start eating too much more.

Anyone else had similar experiences or got any advice?