I'm always fall-asleep-at-my-desk tired. My job can get boring from time to time, but I don't think I should be nodding off while I'm trying to work (or even browse the internet). I'm trying to pinpoint what's making me so tired. I don't smoke anymore so that's not it. I am a very healthy eater. I try to eat 3 meals and 2 snacks a day and I keep the portions small, so I don't think I'm malnourished or overfed. Everywhere I look, I read that I should exercise, but I work out 3 to 4 times a week including 40 minutes of cardio per session. I guess I could use more sleep. I go to bed at around 11 and wake up around 5:30...but plenty of people get less sleep and are fine.
So why is it I'm nodding off? Am I that bored? Is it a combination of things in my lifestyle? For example, do I need to be sleeping MORE because I exercise? Or smoke a couple of cigarettes to break up my routine?
I hate it...I feel like I'm doing everything I can do to lead a healthy lifestyle but I'm still suffering from lethargy. Anybody else have or had these troubles?
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Whenever I have to stay up late in order to work I switch from my comfy computer chair to a wooden bench, open the nearby window and take all my clothes off, put on an S&M outfit and open a webcam link to teh internets. Works like a charm every time, that!
Second, you need to eat less carbs. A low carb diet will slow you down for the first week or so as your body goes through keitosis. Shortly after you'll be twice as alert as before. Today I had a Fatburger Triple King burger without the bun (which is 1 1/2 lbs of beef), and I feel great! *grips chest* Damn sodium!
Third, new studies are showing coffee is actually good for you. I'm too lazy to look up the study, but coffee and vitamin B is your friend. Take some.
Fourth, 11pm to 5:30am is a sleep schedule for grandpas. Stay out and drink more. Have some cigarettes. Fuck whores. Do something fun instead of being a bore.
There you have it. That should fix what ails ya.
2. I do cardio AND weightlifting
3. How can I be depressed when I'm around all of you all of the time???
4. Blankfist, I don't know if less carbs is a good thing...maybe WHEN I eat carbs is a factor. And I don't have a problem staying awake when I'm out having a good time, just during the day...at work...
Come to think of it that's it. Crappy unfulfilling job and forcing my body awake before it's ready to wake up. I need to get an actual 9 to 5, not a 630 to 330
THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICES!!!!
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then as soon as sun goes down i am wide awake and feel like i slept all night, by 4am i am miserable and in pain.
i also exercise everyday.
i rarely have sex, but when i do it doesnt help anyway.
i mostly eat healthy and well.
cant sleep. only tired when the sun is up. phsyically hurt after about 4 am.
ive tried all kinds of things. no idea what else to do by now. its been like this for 3 years.
so what im saying is: youre doomed. welcome.
This is true, BTW: "Also, not masturbating enough makes you tired." In the Classical Era, whole tribes died out because they didn't masturbate enough and thus didn't have enough energy to farm or defend themselves in warfare.
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This is true, BTW: "Also, not masturbating enough makes you tired." In the Classical Era, whole tribes died out because they didn't masturbate enough and thus didn't have enough energy to farm or defend themselves in warfare.
You can have a tumor that's fucking with your adrenal gland. Just sayin'
IT'S NOT A TUMA!!!
Second, you need to eat less carbs. A low carb diet will slow you down for the first week or so as your body goes through keitosis.
I find it quite interesting that we have not only the same (correct
I digress...
rottenseed - take it from me, your friendly libertarian free-market economist nutritional scientist,
You are tired because you are
1. Not sleeping well
2. Not eating well
3. Overexerting yourself
4. Chemically/Biologically flawed
I'm going to take a guess and say 3 and 4 aren't the case, so heres my advice:
To improve sleep:
- Double check the sleep apnea (do you breath through your nose or mouth when sleeping?)
- Do you wake up throughout the night? Even if you are in bed for 8 hours, if you keep waking up you aren't getting good sleep. Try sleeping in a pitch black room - it will help you sleep soundly throughout the night.
To improve nutrition:
- I'm guessing you are on the typical American diet, 70/20/10 Carbs/Protein/Fat aka the fast track to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. While the long term side effect of this diet are quite fatal, the short term side effects aren't so great either: lethargy and lack of energy.
- Food is the most powerful drug known to man. The advice I'm about to give you will not only extent your life, it will increase your energy and happiness while you are alive. Heed this advice for even a single week and you will literally feel better than you ever have in your life:
1. Try not to buy anything with a nutritional label - so avoid flour, sugar, bread, rice, cereal, baked goods any thing which has a "Daily recommended value" listed on it.
2. Shop only on the outside walls of the supermarket. This means fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, beef, poultry, pork, and seafood.
3. Eat these foods 3-4 times a day in approximately the following ratios:
Meat: One serving the size and thickness of your palm
Vegetables/Fruits: One serving equal to what you can hold on both hands
Nuts/Fat: One serving equal to the size of your thumb
These are helpful guidelines, what you are aiming for is increase your dietary intake of protein to induce ketosis with sources such as fresh meat and poultry, increase your intake of monounsaturated fats with sources like olive oil, avocados, and nuts, and replace the glucose-spiking refined carbohydrates prevalent in an American diet with high-vitamin, low GI carbohydrates such as fresh fruits and vegetables.
Try this for even 3 days, and you'll see a massive difference.
Breakfast
Bacon
Fresh cantaloupe and watermelon
Smoked Almonds
Lunch
Black Forest Ham
Mixed fruit (blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, pineapple, grapes)
Avocado
Feta cheese
Dinner
16 oz grilled rib-eye steak
Asparagus
Green beans
Brazil nuts