How much is your fatigue costing your business? Fatigue is a common complaint for busy women. Juggling a business, career, family, kids and a social life can take its toll. Coffee, chocolate, convenience foods such as pasta, 2-minute noodles, Cup-a-Soup and bread quickly become the staples you rely on to get you through your day. The 3pm slump, crashing on the couch as soon as you get home and poor energy first thing in the morning are common signs that your diet is impacting your energy. What if there was a solution to your fatigue allowing you to be productive all day long including during the normal 3pm slump? Research shows that simple changes to your diet can dramatically increase your energy throughout the day due to the stabilisation of your blood sugar. Going too long without eating, combined with excessive consumption of complex carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and rice have been found to create havoc with your blood sugar resulting in fatigue. The following five tips are easy to implement and have been designed to maximise your energy!
- Increase your protein (chicken, lamb, beef, lentils, chickpeas or eggs) especially at lunch. Protein helps to stabilise your blood sugar.
- Eat breakfast every day. (Coffee does not count as breakfast!)
- Limit your servings of bread, pasta and rice. Avoid white carbohydrates as much as possible. Eat wholegrain or brown instead.
- Increase your overall intake of veggies and salad veggies.
- Eat regularly. Don’t go longer than 3-4 hours without eating. This is a big key to having super fabulous energy.
Do an experiment on yourself! Record what your energy is out of 10 and identify whether you suffer from morning, afternoon or evening fatigue (or all three!). Follow the above 5 tips for two weeks then record the changes. You will be pleasantly surprised with your increased energy and productivity.
