Tired at work...

I find black tea (no sugar) helps a lot :P also keeping a good level of water intake. I sometimes find during the winter I need vitamin supplements too to keep energy levels up through the afternoon otherwise get that "carb coma" type crash.
 
I flag so badly at work, all the time, usually from 11am-1pm. Literally eyes closing at the computer at times.

I know what it is though, 2-3am bed times and 6am starts every day do not help.

Nor does my awful diet. Need words with myself.
 
Interested in this also as I am almost falling asleep right now! 15 min left thank god!

I always have a sandwich at work...would I be better eating a pasta dish or something?
 
GinG said:
Interested in this also as I am almost falling asleep right now! 15 min left thank god!

I always have a sandwich at work...would I be better eating a pasta dish or something?
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I've found cutting out carbs entirely helps if I'm desk jockeying all day. If I hit the gym, carbs are good and the exercise really helps. :)
 
Plenty of sleep to start with.

Have carbs in the morning which burn slow to sustain you.

Plenty of water is a must especially as the weather is getting warm.

Try and eat clean as well.
 
As said you should really get a good breakfast inside you. The reason you feel tired is due to your consumption of basic carbs at lunch. Your blood sugar, and insulin will spike after this, especially since you won't of eaten anything prior. Then, these crash and you're left nodding off at your desk.

Porridge is a good start for breakfast, then its probably a better idea to try and consume less carbs for lunch if you are just going to sit down for the rest of the day. Try something a little more slow to digest like brown pasta or rice.
 
I'm usually tired at work. Have been for the past 7 years, and I regularly play sport, do martial arts, and cycle. I eat well and drink between 1.5-2.5 litres of water a day.

It's mostly because it's completely unnatural to sit there for 8 eight hours a day. You need to be able to seek out distractions at the times when your concentration is drifting.

The whole 9-5:30 thing is daft idea and ought to be abolished.

People have peaks and troughs throughout the day, and should be completely free to arrange their work around these.

This is why working from home can be as much as 20% more efficient.
 
Make doctors appointment for 'under-active thyroid' they will take a blood test and get back to you.

I suffer from it and so does my dad, you feel extremely drained/tired, yawning often, lack of energy and difficult to 'get going'? Even when you had decent sleep and good diet. It's a lack of thyroxine hormone being produced from your thyroid gland in your neck but is also controlled by the brain.

My last job as a web designer was doing 12 hour days, getting up at 6am to commute and not home until gone 9pm sometimes. At the time my daughter had just been born so sleep was very little. Always nodding off and micro sleeping, sometimes standing up waiting for train.

Anyways just get tested to be sure, can get really bad if not dealt with.
 
This used to happen to me all the time until I changed my diet, I started eating breakfast and I stopped eating bread for lunch.

MW
 
Pick a Doris to "Interview" as a Challenge, Nothing keeps you awake more than *****.
 
Bananas! Seriously, one mid morning, one mid afternoon.

That and a proper breakfast will sort you out, though i always fail on the proper breakfast part as i have a habit of getting up for work 10 minutes before i have to leave.
 
Mr-White said:
This used to happen to me all the time until I changed my diet, I started eating breakfast and I stopped eating bread for lunch.

MW
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Most likely diet op, read books I recommended, I used to have depression till I changed my diet as well. Those books helped A LOT. Also 150 healthiest foods another good read.
 
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englishpremier said:
The whole 9-5:30 thing is daft idea and ought to be abolished.

People have peaks and troughs throughout the day, and should be completely free to arrange their work around these.

This is why working from home can be as much as 20% more efficient.
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That would be great but unfortunatly completely impractical for many business. Personally my natural sleeping pattern seems to be 3am to 11am no matter how much I try to change it - so working a 9-5 job just leaves me almost zombie like. Hence I'm now working a fairly dead end job but one that gives me the flexibility for the most part to work around my sleeping pattern.
 
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