Do you feel sleepy after meals?

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First of all I MUST TELL YOU that i don't eat a lot just to let you know that i'm a skinny person and not a fat-ass.

Anyway... i do. As it happens with energy drinks. Food and enegy drinks were supposed to give you energy, but in me it goes vice versa. I feel weak and sleepy after eating.

What about you?

Levin · Accepted Answer

That should not happen, IMO. You're possibly depressed. Do you have a strong reason for being? Or do you feel a bit lost?

Lifestyle habits won't help that. Energy drinks won't help you. They give you a quick sugar buzz, followed by a huge slump. Same applies for any high glycaemic foods. White bread, chocolate, sugary drinks, sugary foods, beige food. Greasy food will also make you feel sleepy (cause your body has to somehow process that shit).

You need to eat things that keep your energy levels quite constant throughout the day. Eating numerous small meals, regularly. If you miss breakfast, for example, then have a huge lunch time meal, you're allowing your sugar levels to drop massively by not eating, and then putting a huge amount of sugar in your body during your next meal (which is usually large to compensate for not eating earlier). Your body releases insulin and the other hormone, i forgot what it's called, to compensate for the processing of any food that you intake, if you don't follow these basic guidelines, your body has to do a lot of work to process and account for these huge hormonal peaks and troughs.

Basic dietary principles apply. Try and eat low glycaemic food (brown rice, sweet potatos, brown bread etc, instead of their usual counterparts), eat little processed shit (make your own food, don't eat ready meals, any food you buy should only contain a few ingredients), eat as little synthetic shit as possible (all the strange ingredients they add to food to make bad food low calorie and low sugar), lots of grains, lots of vegetables, some lean meats, some legumes, some mixed nuts (again, unsalted, naturally), some fruit. Allow yourself some treats. The mainstay of any diet should be vegetables and grains. I'm not a big fan of dairy and eggs but I know this is contentious. For breakfast, I'll typically have a bowl of oat cereal, almond milk, with assorted nuts.

BertMacklinFBI · Accepted Answer

like food coma? it depends how much I eat. if I just have a gorge of food one day then I'll just wanna kick back put on some Netflix and sip on tea or something hahaa. I hate food coma, but what surprises me is that every Thanksgiving dinner that comes by and I eat a ton of turkey I never get sleepy:P because turkey has a chemical in it that makes you sleep hahaa.

Bounty86 · Accepted Answer

No, but I eat in a very healthy way - mostly vegetarian. It is actually a bad sign when you feel sleepy after meals. You should reconsider your diet

knotme · Accepted Answer

I get like that with coffee sometimes, but with food, not unless I gorge on it

René19 · Accepted Answer

Same here, there's a scientific explanation for that, google it

leeo_2142 · Answer

I feel sleepy after some meals, but then it could probably be because i'm a student and I have to attend lectures after meals.

Anonymous · Answer

No. I never eat to the point where I get in a food coma

yaddayaddayadda02 · Answer

You probably have too many carbs and are crashing.

soccerchick4eva · Answer

im always hungry tho so yeah hahaah

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