Getting Sleepy After Eating Posted: 10-29-03 13:58pm
This happens to me almost daily.
After I have ate lunch within 45-60
minutes I get very sleepy and tired.
Yesterday for lunch I had a small salad
with cottage cheese and tuna.
Today , it was a small salad and two
slices of cheese pizza. Both days I get
extremely sleepy. So I have to get up and
do some type of work and then I am ok
until the ride home, about 1/2 into the
ride I doze off. Fortunately, I car pool
and my buddy drives home.
I would love any suggestions at all.
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the_riddler
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 1
Sleepy After Lunch Posted: 08-12-04 11:10am
I don't know what sort of diet you are on,
but I find that if I reduce the number of
calories that I take in, the less likely I
am to be tired after lunch. From the
looks of it, 2 slices of pizza ( 2 x 370
cal ) and a small salad ( 250 cal possible
underestimate) is about half of total
number of calories for a 2000 calorie per
day side-of-the-cereal-box diet. Also,
fatty foods (such as the cheese on the
pizza and the oil in the salad dressing)
tend to make me tired. I try to keep the
number of calories at lunch to be under
700 cal (about 1/3 of the daily total or
less) and I am fine. (if still hungry
after the reduced-cal lunch, then a can of
sugar-free club soda & I find that I
am no longer hungry.) if I eat more than
this and I get tired, there is always a
possibility for a small mid-afternoon cup
of coffee.
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phil dennison
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 71 Location: illinois
Im Hungry But Dont Want to Be Tired. Posted: 08-18-04 23:44pm
When you eat, the food realaxes your body.
Thats why you are tired.So take a
nap.Zzzzzzzz.
