Does this happen to anybody else in the afternoon?

[WhinyWitch]

I can be productive until lunch and then I kind of collapse: tired, lazy, exhausted. I just want to watch bad tv and lie down and count the hours until bed :-( The reason I particularly notice it today is that I have two small children and my husband ends up taking on most of the load eg at bedtime. Today he's taken them out all afternoon because I'm so exhausted. And I feel guilty. Instead of spending time with the kids I just want to be on my own. Maybe I'm just really selfish? But I just feel like I don't have the energy to give

It happens to me at about 3:30 / 4pm. I've been a teacher all my adult life and I think it's a bit of a Pavlovian reaction - I'm kind of trained to switch off after school. I don't, of course. I stay in school and work until 5:30 when dh picks me up, but I feel the slump and it's hard to fight it. I'm not very efficient at that time of day. I'm a morning person!

You could be right, maybe it is a Pavlovian thing!

The 3pm slump is a well documented thing, a time of day where you want to curl up and eat all the carbs. It’s a real challenge for me if dieting, magnesium helps somewhat.