How to beat the "Afternoon Crash" ?

Rroff said:
My nephews school they wanted them called something like dinner attendants (probably like flight ones) or something (I can't remember what it actually was) then someone complained it had slave related connotations. The whole thing is just ridiculous.
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I don't see any slave undertones in 'dinner attendants' but that seems the most sensible title to me, like flight attendants like you already said.
 
Drink plenty of water.

Don't eat crap food, especially high sugar or high GI foods that lead to a crash shortly afterwards.

Get up and stretch your legs if you're mostly desk based? Walk outside and get some fresh air?
 
For the passed month my wife and I have done a daily lunchtime 5km+ hike through Epping Forest as it's now nearly on our doorstep. Sometimes has to be a bit of a speed march so we can get back in time for work calls but we've both been feeling great for the rest of the day.

I will definitely miss it when/if we get back to working in offices.
 
willhub said:
You know, that thing that happens around 2pm, kills productivity and makes you wish a lovely comfy bed just appears in the office for you to flop on.

It's bloody annoying and I can't quite figure out what to do to avoid it.

Any change to meals, or certain things to eat to avoid this?
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A good question would be why do people feel they need be productive? This is something that comes up with American friends, they can't stand it if they aren't doing something productive.

In a work environment I've always valued companies that are happy for you to go and sit and chill on the sofa, stare out of the window, go for a walk etc.. At the end of the day it benefits them too.

Those where staff have to be 'seen to be working' aren't getting any more output from their staff.
 
Weirdly I was also just thinking about this....then started to browse OCUK and boom found this thread. :p

I have learn to accept it. I prefer to start before 9am and it gives me more urgency to get things sorted. Anything past 2pm I really struggle with.
 
I used to be really bad for eating massive lunches and they would pretty much always make me feel comatose for the rest of the afternoon.

Now I just make sure I go for an hour long walk at lunch to get some fresh air down me. Usually helps.

Failing that - more coffee (whether it actually works I don't know but any excuse for an extra cup is good enough for me)
 
JohnG7 said:
Go to bed earlier instead of sitting up fapping all into the early hours.
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fez said:
Bit odd but each to their own.
Personally I like breakfast, lunch and dinner but then again i'm not some northern savage.
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You and I both fez, I remember one Saturday when I was around 11 or 12, a school friend was at my house, we were playing with my train set.
My father came home at maybe midday, and said, “You boys want some ice cream?”
My friend said, “No thank you Mr. Genou, I’ll be having my dinner in a minute.”
My dad looked quizzically at my mother, and she shrugged, and mouthed, ‘He’s English.”
My family were all ‘blue collar’, breakfast was only if you were hungry, lunch could be cheese and biscuits, a ham salad, including hard boiled eggs, or maybe soup, but dinner was never anytime other than between 6.30 p.m. and 8.00 p.m., still is.
 
JohnG7 said:
Go to bed earlier instead of sitting up fapping all into the early hours.
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Going to bed early doesn't mean you'll sleep though. Trying to sleep around a 9-5 existence is a losing battle for me. I can sort of settle into an earlier or later pattern but if I'd spent the last nearly 20 years trying to conform to a 9-5 existence for work, etc. I'd be dead or in an asylum by now - not just something I say flippantly - it just doesn't work and the health impacts are horrendous.
 
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