What causes fatigue after eating

[SoreArms]

What exactly is it that causes fatigue after eating? There are days that I feel great and re-energized after eating, but once in a while I get real fatigued and sleepy after I eat. My diet is very similar through out the week so I have a hard time identifying a particular food.
I have not made this link yet, but sometimes I eat meals closer that 2 hours appart in order to keep the rest of the days meals as scheduled. Could it be caused by eating my meals to close to each other?

Thanks buds!

 

[OXANDRIN]

blood sugar rising and falling can make you feel tired

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

word

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

it's a good measure of ur insulin sensitivity
if u get tired after carby meals u have bad insulin resistance

 

[SoreArms]

I got pretty tired/fatigued yesterday after lunch
had:
1 chicken breast
2 cottage cheese
1 1/2 cup broc.

No carbs there, so what could it have been?

 

[Optimus B]

I got pretty tired/fatigued yesterday after lunch
had:
1 chicken breast
2 cottage cheese
1 1/2 cup broc.

No carbs there, so what could it have been?

it takes energy to digest food. so it was probably just a re-allocation of available resources. more blood to your stomach and digestive organs means less to go around to the rest of your body. hope this helps.

 

[SoreArms]

it takes energy to digest food. so it was probably just a re-allocation of available resources. more blood to your stomach and digestive organs means less to go around to the rest of your body. hope this helps.

Makes sence

So I probably ate too much and needed more energies than usual to digest, or did not get enough carbs in my earlier meals to provide enough energy for the digestion process.

Thanks all

 

[Keep Left]

i remember seeing a program about there being something in Turkey that makes you tired when you eat it. I forgot what it was though. Doh! But i always fell asleep after a Turkey sandwich when i did an office job. Maybe it was just boredome but i think it was the Turkey.

Oh and me falling asleep happened before i saw the program about the Turkey.

 

[Optimus B]

i remember seeing a program about there being something in Turkey that makes you tired when you eat it. I forgot what it was though. Doh! But i always fell asleep after a Turkey sandwich when i did an office job. Maybe it was just boredome but i think it was the Turkey.

Oh and me falling asleep happened before i saw the program about the Turkey.

turkey is high in the amino acid tryptophan.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

affects of insulin and blood glucose

 

[Synpax]

It takes energy to digest food, as someone said. That's part of the reason Ultima Replenisher (a sports HYDRATION drink) doesn't have any simple sugars. The digestion can knock 7-9 off of your maximum heart rate and limit you.

Hance, in a race, you should eat and digest carbs before, then deplete yourself on the way and don't 're-carb' until after. During hte race limit yourself you hydration, which is water + electrolites.

IE - avoid gatorade DURING your workout.