Wiped out by 3pm

2026-10-21 1988 views 3 posts

2026-10-21 05:57

Tuesday I sat down at 3:15 to fold laundry and woke up at 4 with a towel crease on my cheek. I'm 11 weeks in and the afternoon wall has been there for maybe three of them. I slept 7 hours, which is normal for me.

The only real changes are that I'm eating less overall and I cut my morning coffee to one cup because it started making me queasy. So I genuinely can't tell if this is the med, my calories dropping, or just less caffeine in my system.

I ate a hard-boiled egg and an apple around 2 and it took the edge off for maybe an hour.

A 10-minute walk around the block afterward helped more than the food did, weirdly. Anyone else hit a mid-afternoon slump that comes and goes like this?

2026-10-28 00:41

I’d push back a little—for me, the 3pm wall wasn’t from eating less overall, it was from eating nothing real until after school pickup. Coffee wasn

2026-10-28 23:13

Been there with the towel crease—very glamorous. There was a thread last winter about the “3pm ghost,” and the one thing that helped me was a dumb phone note at 3:10: energy 1–5, lunch, water, and whether I’d moved since noon.

After a week my pattern was obvious—mine tracked with long sitting stretches and fluids, not total calories. Not saying that’s yours. Did the crashes start around when you cut the coffee, or were they already there before?

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