6 Jun
The 3 o'clock thing. Is it just me or is it basically a wall? I hit it every single day without fail. Not tired exactly, more like someone pulled a plug somewhere. I've had a perfectly fine morning and then suddenly I'm staring at my screen and nothing is going in. I used to assume it was just normal tiredness but it's got so much worse in the last year and I've started wondering if it's what I'm eating at lunch, or not eating, or the gap between breakfast and lunch, or honestly who even knows. What I've changed so far: I stopped having just coffee and a cereal bar for breakfast and started making sure there was actually some protein in there. Scrambled eggs, leftover chicken, whatever's going. It does seem to push the crash back a bit, or maybe make it less severe. Hard to know if I'm imagining it. I want to mention the energy thing to my GP but I'm aware it sounds vague. I'm trying to track when it happens and whether it links to what I ate, but I'm not very consistent. Would be really interested to know if anyone else has cracked this, or even just found something that takes the edge off it. High protein dinners seem to come up a lot when I read around, does that actually make a difference the next day for anyone?