The Boy on Top
Yeah, there are days I feel as though I'm wading through treacle, 'tis me brain, not the bod, I suspect. I need to utilise my time better, rather than spread it so thinly. In my working days, I worked a to-do list, I tackled one thing at a time, and didnt quit until everything was crossed off or, due to varied circumstance, carried through to the next day. I felt a sense of achievement. Nowadays, I begin endless things, am constantly interuppted, and rarely complete anything! It's exhausting. Like you, I sleep well, have a happy home life, no stress over money, don't over-indulge (too much), but I find myself constantly knackered. Sigh.
So how to get over it? Make time to chill out, do less? Hard stuff. TB
However much you enjoy your job, you work hard and you've been travelling a good deal - and I bet you don't have time to recover completely from that and work right through the jet lag.
How often do you do absolutely nothing? Not because you're too tired to move, but simply to let your mind and body completely relax and recover?
I'm older than you and I'm not tired. There are times when I have been TATT, but I don't think one should just accept it as one of the facts of middle age.
Sigh, very well said. I can't honestly remember the last time I sat and did not very much at all. Even when home I'm cooking or gardening or diying. Hard to stop really. TB
I'm 36. I'm currenlt stressed in my job, but over the last 12 months have not been stressed at all about work. Wifey and I are a little prickly due to the stress of her starting her own business and working long hours.
The baby has been sleeping through since February, but I too am tired. By 10:30 I'm wiped out although I rise at 6:30 every morning and tend the baby (wifey is not a morning person).
I just seems that I never stop from first thing in the morning until about 9pm. I too am feeling tired and only yesterday considered that just 2 years ago I seemed to have far more energy.
In terms of fitness I too could do with losing some weight (about 1 stone) but I eat healthily for the most part although I do drink, some times too much, but I run about 3 miles every other day and that really helps with my energy level. If I haven't been out for a fun I get grouchy and lethargic.
I honestly think that it's children as, apart from work, everthing else is 'me' time. With children and the growing demands of a family it just seems that you never stop.
Take up exercise I say, trot round the block or nip to the gym but with in two weeks it will give you more energy.
Hmm, children. Its the little blighters fault! TB
I am tired too...and I don't work at all...I eat well, exercise (walk) every day, sleep like a log.
Maybe it is slightly age related..but more than likely it's due to this period of transition - instability and uncertainty...and that is emotionally and mentally draining...I agree with Z actually...in your case...probably your job and all that global wandering.
Well, job, family and home. All things that give me pleasure and contentment, but leave no down time. Z was spot on there i think. TB
I was tired all last winter. My mind was weary, my body lethargic. I had trouble maintaining a train of thought, I avoided going out whenever possible (though in Ottawa at 25 below, this seems eminently sensible, it's not good for months on end) and my sex drive? Pfft.
Like you, I ticked off all the things I could think of that could cause such lethary/inertia, and could see no reason for it. In the summer, I came out of it. Energy surged, mood lifted, libido returned, I lost weight. I feel terrific, and I want to stay that way!
So this fall, I got one of those super-bright therapy lights, seeing if it's a seasonal thing.
I'll let you know how I feel come February...
Do. Even in summer i'm often office bound, so perhaps it makes sense. TB
Ahem. Mr. Worldwind trip around the, ahem, world. (China, Washington, and all those super secret places in between)!
Yeah, but I'm aaaalways tired, even before the worldwind travel! Honest! TB
Epstein Bar disease?
Thankfully I'm not THAT run down! TB
I've always had more energy than I knew what to do with, yet at 42, I find I actually sit down some days now.
It's just age, our body slow down so we don't crack our brittle bones or smash our forgetful brains into something.
Ha. Too true. TB
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