Weekday afternoons especially drag by, making clock watchers out of most of us who are working. If you keep really busy, you don't notice it. But on days when there isn't much to do, you're feeling tired and are anxious to go home, the day can drag by like if it were years. When post-lunch slump hits the office everybody feels it and it shows by the way people are walking around, dragging their feet.
Weekends are just too short.
I'm thinking maybe they should include Monday with the weekend. Sue Thompson, senior dietitian at The Methodist Hospital's Institute for Preventive Medicine in Houston, suggests that everyone eat a balanced meal as your best insurance against post-lunch slump. Around our office a balanced meal consists of anything from potato chips to nuts or an old burrito from one of the fast food convenience stores. So instead of picking up that bag of chips, grab a banana or orange. Their effects, however, fade in about an hour.