5d ago
The 3pm thing is doing my head in. Every single day, without fail, somewhere between half two and four I just... go. Brain fog, can't string a sentence together, desperately want something sweet or a massive bag of crisps. I used to think it was just tiredness or a bad night but it's too consistent now. Like clockwork. I started wondering if it was what I was eating at breakfast. For years I've done toast, maybe a banana, off to work. Fine when I was younger. Now I honestly think it's setting me up to crash by mid-afternoon. I've been trying eggs or Greek yoghurt in the morning this past few weeks and I think... maybe? The crashes feel slightly less dramatic? I'm not ready to say it's a fix because I don't want to jinx it, and I know there's a hundred other variables. The other thing I want to start tracking properly is weight. Mine has crept up noticeably over the past 18 months and I've got a GP appointment in November. I want to go in with actual dates and a rough pattern rather than just saying "it's been going up". I feel like I'll be taken more seriously with something concrete. Does that sound daft? Maybe it does. But being fobbed off is not something I'm willing to do again at my age. Anyway. If anyone's cracked the afternoon crash thing, I'm all ears. What did you actually change? x