"Why Am I Always Tired?" - Free Resource For Ending Tiredness

Every felt like day-after-day you would start to lose steam as you entered the afternoon?  Maybe you didn’t even make it that far and wished you could get back to bed as soon as you has taken your morning shower.  While for most people these “I am always tired!” feelings of fatigue and weariness are a normal, everyday occurrence… and that sucks.

 
            My name is Angela Daniels and a while back I decided to put my foot down and start working actively to get tiredness out of my life.  While there was effort involved, I emerged miles ahead of wear I was before, and I’ve now compiled some simple steps from my own journey that contribute to the way I can now wake up and face each day with alertness and confidence (and stay that way throughout the WHOLE day).

 
            So let’s get down to business.  As per the title of this article, I want to help identify what areas of your life might be causing your tiredness.  This is an important first step (and one I talk about early on in my own homepage) because different people are tired for different reasons.


            I Am Always Tired – The Evaluation


Factor number one, let’s look at your sleep habits.  The average human has a sleep cycle of about 90 minutes, meaning that in 90 minute chunks our bodies progress through all 5 stages of sleep and recharge.  The problem is we’ve been force-fed these silly notions of sleeping 8 or even 10 hours; neither of these are divisible by 1.5 hours, meaning you are interrupting a sleep cycle when you sleep for 8 or 10 hours.  Waking up in the middle of a cycle is a big no-no (though most people do it every day) because your body is going to make you feel drowsy the entire rest of the day in an attempt to get you to lie and down and complete it.


            Next, you need to take a good, hard look at your meal and eating habits.  Another misconception running rampant in our society, is that we should eat just 3 meals per day.  In fact, our body metabolizes many foods in 3-4 hours… but there are usually 5, 6, or even more hours between lunch and dinner.  We begin to build up an energy deficit after those initial 3-4 hours and we run out of energy.  Eating smaller meals every 3-4 hours is good way to avoid this problem (try it!).  Also, make sure that your meals consist of protein rich foods, as stockpiling on fatty, sugary foods (which expend their energy potential after 1-2 hours) don’t do a very good job of keeping you energized.

 
          Other factors of tiredness that could be weighing you down can be found HERE on my homepage.  After you're done reading through that, be sure to check out my review of the "End Tiredness Program" (about halfway down the page) for an innovative approach to tackling tiredness that I personally used.
           

For those on the outside looking in, always feeling tired appears to be an “easy” beast to conquer.  “Just get more sleep,” they say… but oh they could not be more wrong.  If you’re feeling constantly tired and would like to get more energy, the first step is dispelling the myths and misconceptions that have arisen about sleep habits and energy in general.


First of all, let’s talk about sleep.  The average human being has a sleep cycle of around 90 minutes.  These cycles have five stages, ranging from the ‘I’m-pretty-much-awake’ to REM (rapid eye movement) sleep.  Your body can only be replenished by moving through all 5 of these phases. 


See, sleeping for 8 hours will often leave people more tired than sleeping for 7 and a half.  The reason for this is that 7.5 is divisible by 1.5 hours, therefore meaning you get in five 90 minute sleep cycles.  However, sleeping for 8 hours means you’ll be waking up in the middle of a cycle, never allowing it to complete.  In effect, you’ll be walking around always feeling tired with a body that begs you to get back to bed and complete your sleep cycle.  This is the reason that a person can sleep 10 hours still feel tired all day long (not to mention all-too-ready for that afternoon nap).


But what about other factors?  Sleep is definitely a big player in determining your energy level, but other factors come into play as well.  You’ve probably gotten your “second-wind” before, where you all of a sudden don’t feel so exhausted and can keep going for a while.  Just this right here is enough to indicate that there is a mental connection to your tiredness as well.


Furthermore, someone always feeling tired should take a look at their diet and exercise habits.  High fat foods can inhibit chemical connections in the brain and leave you feeling like you need to recharge way sooner than you would need to otherwise.  Also, exercising is key in maintaining energy level for multiple reasons: 1) Training yourself to live a sedentary lifestyle tells your body it doesn’t need to store much energy and 2) Exercising releases endorphins in the brain to help you stay awake and alert.

Learning how to get more energy and live a more fulfilling life is a many-faceted issue and to help me do just that I used the End Tiredness Program.  This is an excellent resource and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to stop feeling tired during the day and learn all about healthy habits for getting more energy.

You can use the link above to go directly to the program or read my review Here.

                                                                                                                                  - Angela Daniels

Welcome to the first post of Angela's energy blog.  As your intuition may have clued you in, I'm Angela!  After working through my chronic fatigue syndrome and learning to live life in a completely new level of energy and fulfillment, I thought it only fair that I shared what I learned with others suffering from the same tiredness I was (or really just anyone who wanted to be able to make it through a day easier without their eyes closing on them).

I am...

- 37 years old
- A mom
- Operating this site/blog all by myself ; )
- Passionate about helping people discover the same tiredness solutions I did
- Busy, busy, busy!

Anyways, I'll try to update this blog daily (although weekends may be an exception).

Enjoy, and be sure to subscribe to my Bootcamp/newsletter,

  - Angela Daniels