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Our culture frames our relationship with our body as a struggle against weakness. This encouraged me to spend years trying to hack a solution that would allow m
by supersrdjan 6y ago
Our culture frames our relationship with our body as a struggle against weakness. This encouraged me to spend years trying to hack a solution that would allow me to eradicate the mid-day slump. I tried sleeping more, exercising, eating this or that way. But always there would be an inevitable dip in alertness at some point.
The many articles on SM Guru taught me that trying to coerce your biology into submission is futile. One should learn to work with the circadian rhythm, not against it. Ride the waves, don't try to plow through them.
Organizing your life that way is hard if you live by a 9-5 schedule. Especially because organizations tend to perpetuate the disrespect of our own biologies.
But maybe now with so many switching to remote work, a brighter future awaits!
- wallwart 6y agoAnecdotal - the only thing that worked for me was eating once per day, around 6PM. I was very alert the whole day, but not in an unpleasant way. The hunger pangs come and go, but are manageable. Tried this for a week, I don't drink coffee at all but this felt like I've had a couple of cups. A nutritionist friend however dissuaded me to go this route, as apparently it is very hard for our bodies to process that amount of food and one will end up with various nutrient deficiencies in the long run. I'm curious to know if someone got intermittent fasting to work long term though.
- rajlego 6y agoI think there are lots of studies on intermittent fasting/single meal per day eating schedules (though I haven't looked much at them). From what I can tell, caloric periodic restriction tends to be a net good. I've personally been doing it for ~1 year and it's definitely more convenient since I just eat twice a day but I think I may also have not been eating enough (alongside doing a fair bit of exercising).