“If your lunch is lacking in protein and fiber or too high in refined carbs, you are more likely to experience that energy dip mid-afternoon,” Lauren Harris-Pincus, M.S., R.D.N., owner of Nutrition Starring You, tells SELF. And, thankfully, they usually involve a tasty, nutritious snack.īefore you attempt to resolve your slump with some grub, try to figure out what’s causing it. While it may seem like you need to hook yourself up to a coffee IV to make it through the rest of your day, there are better ways to deal with that energy loss. But now you’re just a weak, exhausted puddle of your former self, and all you want to do is curl up and take a nap under your desk like George Constanza (clearly I’m speaking from personal experience).įear not: This is a super common feeling. Maybe you spent your morning banging out work like lightening and blowing through tasks like a tornado in Kansas. Sometime after lunch, and usually around 3 P.M., that boom crash kind of feeling begins to set in.

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