By not having lunch… just a snack really
I try to eat less the next time. I find that there is an optimal amount of food that prevents me from being hungry that doesn’t causes tiredness.
It’s also about what one eats. I find fatty food to be the worst. It takes so much energy to digest I literally fall asleep at the table.
I lay down on couch for 20 minutes.
When I work from home. In the office I can not manage to rest even on the couch.
When I worked in an office I’d head out to my car and lay the seat back for 15 minutes of shuteye.
Good idea.
I always took a late lunch so I only had two hours left of work when I was done lunch. I can deal with being sleepy for two hours.
Eat food that doesn’t make you sleepy?
Jep, low carb, no added sugars.
Select food that keeps the blood sugar from going nuts.
Good advice. Still remember the food coma I had when I had a heavy casserole for lunch, with lots and lots of cheese. Almost fell asleep at my desk, even though I had coffee afterwards. There’s a right time and place for lots of cheese, but it isn’t the office.
This is the best measure (preventative). Carb heavy lunches will wreck you. Save the carbs for after work, fall asleep on the couch watching TV, then wake up with a sore back.
Also a light lunch.
Eat too much and you’re ready for a nap.
I really wish napping on the floor model couch wasn’t frowned upon. A couch is only as good as its napability, how am I supposed to know a good nap couch unless I test it first? Same goes for recliners and mattresses.
You have truly lived.
Avoid carbs and drink more water.
Coke Zero hits the spot for me
Take a 5-10 minute walk. Research has shown it’ll reduce yor blood sugar after a meal by up to 50%.
Sounds interesting. Do you have a source for the mentioned research?
I may have misremembered the exact amount… It was shared on Lemmy not long ago, but I’m not finding it with search. 🫤
This is the closest I could find: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-022-01649-4
That’s a good one to hang up in my office.
I tend to pace when my brain is working on a problem. When I do some heavy analysis, I often look at data for 20-30 minutes and then pace for 15-20 minutes as I process.
Good thing my office is empty most of the time, so I don’t bother others.
Of course after 4-5 hours my brain is done so I often find and excuse to leave the office after lunch. Gotta go walk a field/visit a customer etc…
Goodness, that’s a surprise! Seems way too good to be true
A siesta, it’s healthy and natural.
Wish I lived somewhere I could do this. I start falling asleep at basically 2pm on the dot and have to get up and go for a walk
I start some easy task so I’m distracted from that im tired. Then it flows from there.
Primal scream therapy. Great for keeping you awake. Plus it keeps terrified coworkers from bothering you at all ever.
Do I wait until my coworkers try to talk to me to do the screams?
Proactive screaming is best screaming. Bonus points if it sounds like someone who isn’t you is being brutally murdered
Caffeine
I retired.
Physical or mental?
So you are re-tired? 🤣
Most people (that can get away with it) basically just check out after lunch. In a 9-5 job the majority of work happens in the window of 10-12.
Have a job where you don’t get to sit down, that did the trick for me
