Fighting Fatigue Guide

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The 3 proven fatigue-fighting strategies. Some of these strategies offer an instant energy boost - just in time to shine for the 4 o’clock meeting. They require a bit more patience, but they’ll pay off big-time in the long run. Once you’ve mastered these energy-boosting strategies, any one of them can make you feel like you’ve just had a tune-up.

Energy Boost #1: Reach for energy food
You may be thinking “candy bar!” but a sugar boost will just leave you lagging again in an hour. For a nearly instant energy boost that lasts, eat a healthy snack containing protein and a complex carbohydrate.

Energy Boost #2: Get moving
For an instant energy boost, drop out of your busy life for 10 minutes and hit the road - or the hallways of your office. Walking is an energizer. Even a 10-minute walk can help you overcome feelings of fatigue.

Energy Boost #3: Take 5 and Meditate
Numerous studies have demonstrated the fatigue-fighting effects of meditation, but there’s no need to light candles, sit cross-legged, or learn a mantra. Mini-meditation can work wonders. A three-minute meditation is a way to calm you down and stop rushing.

It’s obvious that fatigue is caused by lack of rest, but too much sleep also induces it. It is important to take note that a person’s average sleep contains eight hours, anything less and in excess by more than one hour is bound to cause trouble. Over sleeping causes the body to feel more tired as opposed to well rested just like under sleeping. To avoid both, try to stick to a normal sleeping pattern, messing up with our biological clocks is bound to cause resting troubles. Naps are okay so long as it is timed to a maximum of 15 minutes and is used to re-energize instead of making up for lost sleep. The use of sleeping pills is also highly discouraged as it also tampers with our natural sleeping pattern.

Here are more tips to help you get a goodnight�s sleep.

Sleep only at night. Try to avoid taking daytime naps as they only keep you awake in the evening. If naps cannot be avoided during the day, limit them to ten to twenty minute power naps. This one is very true for me. An hour of afternoon nap keeps me awake for two to three hours at night.

If you work night shifts, and therefore requires you to sleep during the day, then you might have more trouble sleeping.

The trick is to make your bedroom soundproof from daytime noise. Avoid radio and TV noises as much as possible. If there are other sounds that cannot be controlled such as street noise, wear earplugs or make use of heavy curtains.

Keep your room cool (or warm) so that you don�t have to wake-up because it�s too hot (or too cold).

Make sure that the room is Install blinds to your windows to keep your room dark. Sunlight actually interferes with the body�s internal clock so blocking the sunlight from your room can help you have uninterrupted sleep.

So you think alcohol can help you catch some z�s? Not really, even if alcohol acts as a sedative. It does depress the central nervous system but that is also why instead feeling refreshed after waking up from a night of drinking, you get hell. Try a glass of warm milk instead. Milk contains tryptophan which is an amino acid that the body converts to melatonin and serotonin which in turn induce sleep, without a hangover the next day! What more is that milk can easily give you a burst of energy when you wake-up. If I were you, I�d trade that whiskey bottle to the real deal � milk.

Source: Medicine Plus

Yep. That�s right. To avoid fatigue, limit your caffeine intake. Sure, coffee gets you going through the long working days. But seriously, have you ever thought that perhaps you�re drinking more than you should? Remember that caffeine is not solely present coffee. It can also be found in tea and other beverages (Mountain Dew is more-ore-less liquefied caffeine). Perhaps that is why you complain of getting tired easily and that you have very few hours of sleep. Perhaps it�s the caffeine in your system that keeps you from getting those much needed Z�s. Ahh� now you�re seeing the light. Lighten the caffeine and stay on top of everything.