I don’t have enough time in which to eat at work. That said food doesn’t make me sleepy.
If work doesn’t give you time to eat, unionize or quit
Mate, I am in a union, and the Teachers Federation even got us our pay rise, which should start this month. We are all looking forward to it. But school is over fast, I find I forget to eat at the gaps, better to eat before and after school.
Eat less and drink more water
Can’t speak for others but I notice I only feel sleepy if I have a huge meal. A normal sized meal followed by a fruit usually keeps me going till home time.
Yeah I think the problem is overindulgence, not necessarily what you’re eating or that you’d need special tricks. Just ease back a bit. You don’t need to stuff yourself over lunch unless you live in a society where lunch is your largest meal of the day and you get a siesta afterwards.
Caffeine
Avoid carbs and drink more water.
Half hour nap. Plus caffeine afterwards.
I really cannot function without that half hour nap. But unfortunately I can’t do it at work 😞
Same here when I can get it. Otherwise just coffee and movement. Getting my brain into another task helps too.
Caffeine just before imo (and after if you must). It takes like 15-45 mins to kick in
I’ll try it although I think that part of the “wake me up” effect is from drinking it signalling to my body “nap is over, move”. So I guess that I’ll end drinking it twice.
I always took a late lunch so I only had two hours left of work when I was done lunch. I can deal with being sleepy for two hours.
I lay down on couch for 20 minutes.
When I work from home. In the office I can not manage to rest even on the couch.
When I worked in an office I’d head out to my car and lay the seat back for 15 minutes of shuteye.
Good idea.
I try to eat less the next time. I find that there is an optimal amount of food that prevents me from being hungry that doesn’t causes tiredness.
It’s also about what one eats. I find fatty food to be the worst. It takes so much energy to digest I literally fall asleep at the table.
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The spiders and ants when they see a portable cave to enter and live in:
Coke Zero hits the spot for me
Take a 5-10 minute walk. Research has shown it’ll reduce yor blood sugar after a meal by up to 50%.
Goodness, that’s a surprise! Seems way too good to be true
Sounds interesting. Do you have a source for the mentioned research?
I may have misremembered the exact amount… It was shared on Lemmy not long ago, but I’m not finding it with search. 🫤
This is the closest I could find: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-022-01649-4
That’s a good one to hang up in my office.
I tend to pace when my brain is working on a problem. When I do some heavy analysis, I often look at data for 20-30 minutes and then pace for 15-20 minutes as I process.
Good thing my office is empty most of the time, so I don’t bother others.
Of course after 4-5 hours my brain is done so I often find and excuse to leave the office after lunch. Gotta go walk a field/visit a customer etc…
Not well
I usually eat lunch in about 10-15 minutes during a meeting so I don’t have a choice to slow down and get sleepy. That kicks in later on the drive home.
I realised it was from eating sugar and carbs (especially a 600ml coke and white rice) and so stopped eating as much carbs.
