Energy Crisis in the over 40s

haha!! I don't have an "excuse" for napping P1key! "I'm Tired"! That's excuse enough for me!! But Yes, I do have a time each day that I feel my energy crisis. It use to be about 10:00 in the morning but now days it has changed and I get past 10:00 just fine but it comes around 15:00 now days I start feeling it. Isn't it strange how it changes? I have had that all my life. I will go for a few months at one specific time and then all of a sudden it changes, I feel fine Then and my energy crisis starts happening at a New time! But regardless What time it is, I always have one each day!

My afternoon energy sap starts first thing in the morning lately. I don't need an excuse for napping. If I can, I do...

Napping is not always a bad thing, I used to love to have a nap afer work and then get up and go out for the evening. Most people feel drowsy after a heavy lunch, not really work-related (could be the three pints of guinness you were having for lunch...) I feel you are painting a negative feeling around napping - embrace your drowy self and forgive yourself

Even though I worked full time, I've always liked an afternoon nap on days off. The older I got the more necessary it seemed. I also like to stay up late, so an afternoon nap seems a good idea. The fact is, I have always seemed to really need it and function better when I have one. These days, I'm up early and late to bed and sometimes I have 2 naps a day. I've been having to give myself permission so as not to feel that horrid guilt. There are plenty of things I could be doing but I really do not have the energy and I really do sleep very deeply when I have these naps...it's like they are vital to me. Sometimes I wonder if it's something I'm eating or not eating. They say drinking water eradicates tiredness but I've tried drinking small amounts to litres of it but I still get tired. Many people I speak to feel this way and some are several years younger than me.

LOL, happens to everyone. You get over it when you hit 55 though...........ROFL

I am young , so my excuse for napping is either because i stayd up last night , because im tired or most often , because i just feel like it :) But i think you might be feeling tired simply because you do nothing all day :) The saying "Im tired of resting DOES have some serious weight :) I myself have felt VERY tired , even tho all i did was sleep all day , and sleeping does make you tired :(

It's nice to know I'm not alone in my energy drain! Around 3pm every day I get sleepy and have to fight to stay awake. If I nap, I can't sleep at night. Maybe it's just when we get older our bodies are telling us to slow down.

hi pikefish oh my I am according to my doctor supposed to elevate mylegs several times a day but I am here mylotting and forget to'folow doctors orders, besides if I lay down my motormouth roommate is just'going to really talk and talk.seems shes not really talking to me at aleast not always just remarking on things, she loves to clip thing out of the paper, why I dont know as she never uses any of them, but to each his own. the only way I could get a nap is to put in my ear plugs.I should do that ocassionally but never seem to get around to it. stuck here, mylotting is addictive. he he he he I get a let down right after our four oclock dinner,thats really do stupid, who wants to eat their evening meal at four oclock in the afternoon?

Hmmmm i only seem to take a nap when im on vacation. I swear though i need more rest when i get home from vacation because i go places and do things and just am never home or have time to rest on vacation!

Hey p1key! I don't have an excuse! I stay up really late and sleep really late! I have the most screwed up schedule ever! If I have to get up for an appointment I can't and end up getting in trouble because I can't wake up! I am up half the night so how can I have a normal schedule? I sleep until the afternoon so when would I possibly be able to nap?

Hundreds of millions of Mediterraneos and Latinos can't be wrong! Vive la siesta! I used to sneak into the loo at work in my early twenties and have a 20 min power nap while seated on the lav. My excuse was apnoea lol. Now I'm a senior citizen I figure I no longer need an excuse. Lash

If napping gives you extra energy it's not bad. I think it's not wastage of time. Humans are not machine. They need rest. So I don't find any wrong in your napping.

I think most of us are biologically wired to take a rest in the afternoon. Most ignore the urge, but I find that a mid-day rest makes the 2nd half of the day much better. I feel more recharged and am ready for anything...well, almost anything. For some reason, perhaps because the rest is shorter, I find that dreams during a nap are much more vivid in the afternoon than at night. I wonder how many horror or sci-fi writers take naps and get ideas from them?

Hello p1kef1sh.... I wanted to share with you something that a doctor had told me once. First I want to say that I know what you are going thru. I am in my early 40's. A doctor told me that we hit our 40s that our enegy level starts to dimish. He said that we need more food with protein to help keep us from getting that sleepy feeling. The food that has protein the better we feel. I have tried this and it does seem to work. Great discussion..

i think doing nothing also causes stress and that for sure does drecrease the energy levels.exercise or doing hobby which interests us and engages us and that is qujte a stress buster.

hi p1ke. i know i can't afford to take a nap in the office during office hours. even if it is lunch time, i still can't. i don't know what happened to this body. i want some more sleeps, but my mind always keeps me mylotting, so what can i do?

In hot weather I do tend to have a bit of an involuntary catnap in mid-afternoon. I'm okay in winter, though. Must be an age thing - I don't remember it happening when I was in the full flush of youth! Another thing - I'm starting to REALLY look forward to bedtime every day - probably not a good sign!

Don't be too worried about yourself. It is a natural phenomena. A lot of guys over 40s have to face it. If you could arrange your life schedule better, it will change.

I am all for the afternoon nap if i didnt have so much to do. Think maybe starting a quick 15 minute scheduled rest time might be a good idea. This isnt something that started when i reached middle age its been happening since i was a teenager that i get tired in the afternoon. Not sure why

Ofcourse all will have enery crisis daily who are working hours together.But we shouldnt nap in our working hours.So try to sleep early in the nights.So u can get enought energy to do work in the morning.So you will not have any energy crisis in the afternoon.So no need to fight yourself to stay awake in the afternoons.So in my view get enought sleep in the night itself.So you will not nap in the afernoon and you will not feel that i have wasted part of your day.