I’m tired. So today is a blog about feeling tired at Christmas time .. or any other time for that matter.
How are you feeling right now as you read this? Full of beans? A bit nappy? (That’s a technical term I just invented for ‘I could do with a nap’, rather than a baby bum covering). Or perhaps you have run out of steam altogether and just want to sleep until January?
Sometimes we don’t really notice how we feel, in all the Christmas bustle, until we stop for a moment and really tune in and listen to our bodies.
Anyway, I’m tired.
What’s making me tired? Well partly it’s fun stuff – too many Christmas events in the last week with too much boozing & late nights. And, being over forty, I also notice how drinking alcohol (as lovely as it is) then generally leads to a pretty crummy sleep too. Anyone else find that? Annoying isn’t it?
Then of course there’s my pretty par-for-the-course standard peri-menopause symptoms of disrupted sleep & low iron, as previously discussed in the ’12 days of peri-menopause’ series last Christmas. Oh and eating a lot more unhealthy food / sugar etc and hence crowding out my usual healthy food that would energise me & feed my body what it actually needs.
Add it all up and no wonder I’m feeling tired.
What to do? Well luckily I have a break in Christmas events this week with not much going on and I do believe we need to use these little mini breaks during December as an opportunity to recharge. For me that means:
* to be conscious of going to bed on time,
* and that also means no late night Amazon shopping trips,
* having a few nights off of alcohol,
* laying off the mince pies, chocolate orange
* healthy meals etc.
We can treat these gaps in the party-calendar as a holiday for our bodies. A recharge.
With the festive season in full swing it can be easy to slip into poorer eating habits, staying up later or drinking more alcohol on an almost daily basis. But actually it’s when our bodies can most do with time to rest & recuperate.
So enjoy those parties, festive drinks etc but also try and look after yourself along the way. That way you’ll be less likely to be one of the many people who end up ill or exhausted by Christmas Day. Please like / comment / share. Sue x