I gets sleepy after every meal...

Hahaha...you made me roll on the floor laughing! I noticed you mentioned "tail", but i didn't know you had a TAIL! Let us get you a doctor, since you are skinny, but with a TAIL, you might need a body checkup! Since both you and your wife loves to eat, is she skinny like you too? Or she would get grow in size easily? It is a good thing to love food. It makes me craving for them whenever i see delicious food. As for me, after a satisfied meal, i would feel sleepy. If like your case i were to go listen to a boring speech after a meal, i guess i would have dozed off through the whole speech.

no, i don't need a body checkup for that tail thingy. actually i purposely fix that thing to my body so that i can pull it to release the gas whenever the size of my stomach/tummy/belly is getting larger. i think if you were to know that you will be listening to a boring speech after a meal, you might have dozed off even on your way to the place where the speech is taking place (before you start listening to the speech).

I saw that in bold, ALL CAPS letters. You have a tail???? Well, anyways, I know one secret of your now, victor.

rice is good, i like it too.. i'm not sure that we can assume that carbohydrates react more during midday. it's just that midday is the time that I feel drowsier than any other time during the day. maybe for some people as well.

Yeah, you have the point. Normally i feel more sleepy during the day too. Unless i have had a tiring day, then i will surely get sleepy at night easily too after a meal.

Hi murkie, yes i do. I love to eat rice. Rice is one of my need in every day meal, part from western steak. My family members always say i am a rice bin. That's because i always store a lot of rice in my tummy. Hmm...i see, i learn something different. So, carbohydrates usually reacts more during the midday? But sometimes i eat noodles and i felt sleepy too. Hehe... Thanks a lot for your sharing. Have a nice day.

Hi GreenMoo, that is a good idea! I would prefer smaller meals, more often too. However, i couldn't keep going out to buy my meals especially during working hours. So, most of my meal time only split into three : breakfast, lunch and dinner. Normally breakfast i don't eat, so morning i don't get sleepy because of my meal. I gets sleepy because i have not enough sleep yet from yesterday night. LOL!

Sorry, typo error : "Normally breakfast i don't eat much..." Last time i totally don't take breakfast at all. I prefer to spend my time sleeping rather than waking up early to eat. But after married, my husband always force me to have some breakfast because he says is not good for our brain if we don't take breakfast. Breakfast is very important for the start of the day.

Hi surekharathi, LOL! Well, i feel sleepy but i don't sleep. My husband knows my character well in this, he knows i would get sleepy after a meal. And he finds it very cute. What?? Forgot your meals? How could you? I guess maybe you are too concentrated with your work that you didn't realize the time for meals has passed and you missed it. Taking meals late midnight is not good for health as it disrupts the body system functioning. Well, i think you need to take your meals at the right time to avoid gastric okay? Do take care, "Health is Wealth". Also, "Prevention is better than cure". So, don't forget to take your meals at the proper right time ya.

Hi doroffee, yes you are right. Eating too much or full would also make me sleepy...It is really troubling especially after lunch i felt sleepy because i need to continue with my work. If i feel sleepy, it would make me feel lazy. And i wouldn't be able to concentrate doing my work. But even if i don't too much or full, i would still gets sleepy...any cure for it?

5 minutes? I am afraid i would sleep through the whole afternoon later and woke up realizing everyone has gone home. Just kidding... Maybe i will try that. Normally we go out for lunch as there aren't much food sold in our company canteen. So by the time i reached office, i have no time to have a nap already. All bosses are around too.

Hi gilenie, hehe...yes it is funny indeed. I find it myself humorous too. I love to eat, but after i eat, i feel sleepy. That is true, after meal is not advisable to sleep. Our body needs to digest the food we eat. So your suggestion to keep myself busy after a meal is good, however the problem is after my meal, i feel lazy to do anything after a meal. All i want to do is just to sit down doing nothing and rest. But since i am working, i will not be able to do that. So, i will usually stay awake. =)

Hi youless, it's great that you can eat a lot and wouldn't gain weight. But do eat healthily ya. Enjoy your meals! Yes, i would like to take a nap or rest after my lunch too. However, i usually go out to lunch, and i only have one hour lunchtime. So, by the time i reached office after lunch, it is time for work again. Sigh...no matter how sleepy i am, i just couldn't sleep. Especially when you have your boss sitting right in front facing you right? =D

Hi sid556, sorry to hear that and your sharing reminds me of something. If i eat outside food like buffet style, i would gain about 4 pounds straight. However, when it comes to tomorrow morning, i weigh my weight again, the 4 pounds would have dropped because the food has been digested. My mother also says that if she eats outside food, she would gain weight. But not for home cooked food. For me, if i eat home cook food, i would never gain an ounce. And if i face with work pressure and stress, i might actually face decrease of 2 to 4 pounds in my weight. Home cook food is usually much healthier, less fats, less oil, less salt, less dark soy sauce, and more hygiene. Regardless i ate too much or just full, as long as i felt satisfied, i would surely feel sleepy. Although my body metabolism is still there to help me digest my food fast, i think i need to be careful too. As a person is aging, they should start controlling the amount of food intake because the body metabolism would be decreasing. And our body cannot digest the food as fast as it used to be. And also, doctor says that as a person is aging, they don't need so much food consumption in a day compare to the younger ones.

Hi dragon54u, that is really true. I feel that too, it must have been the amount of carbohydrates rising up that causes us to feel sleepy. Thank you very much for the suggestion, i will try to have more fish and vegetables instead. But those dishes comes with rice (carbohydrates)!

Hi redredrose, yes i think that would be the reason after reading much responses from our dear mylotters. That's true, we may need to watch out if we gain weight too much if we eat too much. Actually, i don't prefer to eat a lot, but is because i get hungry very fast, so i eat more. Surely the bigger meal we eat, the more tired we are. This is because it takes up most of our energy chewing the food.

Hi kokomo, you may be right. Normally when i eat too full, i have difficulty in breathing. I feel like the food is stack too full up to my throat sometimes and makes me difficult to walk or move about. So, when we face difficulty in breathing, not much oxygen is being pump up to our brain, and that may cause a lack in oxygen there. And since we ate too full, most oxygen is shifted to our stomach instead to digest the food. Thank you for your sharing! Have a good day.

Hi neelia27, yes that's right. I couldn't resist eating too. Sometimes, i get too hungry, so during meal time i would plan to eat bigger portion. But after that satisfying meal, i become sleepy. LOL!

Hi Mavic, really?? Wow, i couldn't understand too. Maybe you ate too much and became very full each time after your spaghetti meal? Try to add some fresh vegetables into your meal, see if it helps. And don't eat too full, just have 70% to 80% full would be great. See if that helps you, and let me know. Enjoy the pleasant day.

not too full, just on the normal one. maybe the pasta is too heavy. LOL

Hmm...then cut down the amount of the normal pasta being cooked. Well, you know best. But if you are still young, then shouldn't be a problem i guess.

Hi ClassifiedInfoEpic01, thank you for the information. Well, i seldom take fatty foods. I eat bigger portion in a meal, but i don't take fatty or even sweet food. I would eat the amount or portion of food that would last me till my next meal. If i were to use a lot of my brain thinking, i would surely eat more because i know my food will be digested very fast and i would get hungry easily. If i don't have much work to do for the day, maybe i would eat normally. But regardless, i will still feel sleepy especially after lunch. Regarding the MSG you are saying, any food we eat outside surely has MSG. There is no food that you eat has no MSG, unless is home cook food, or certain organic food shop. But we only eat out during weekdays lunch and sometimes weekends. Other time, i would cook at home : less oil, less salt, less soy sauce, less sugar, no MSG, no starch, and others. My family cares for health very much, and my mother is as good as a food nutritionist, and we usually eat home healthily with all organic ingredients.

so its not the problem only for me. i guess i have high rate of metabolism too, i make myself full after each lunch and love to eat high fat things . but unfortunately i feel nauseated after i have things even its water. so may you good health and keep doing physical exercises.

may be.. you feel nauseated because your tummy is too full.. hahaha! XD It's not good that you're feeling nauseated..but thank God, you do not vomit.. because if you're vomiting..you may actually have bulimia.. as I remember..bulimia is a condition or something like eating disorder.. it's like you eat too much..then force yourself to vomit... I think you need to moderate your food intake..and hmmm..lessen your intake of fatty foods and replace it with vegies! I may suggest you to try to taste vegetables*WASH IT FIRST!* when it's still fresh(uncooked), and you'll realize that vegies are really good and tasty! The fresher,the better.. fresh foods (specially fruits and vegetables), makes our feeling lighter.. not like meat that makes us feel heavier... Hope my comment may help you.. ^_^

I was very depressed today so again it was hard to eat. I made coffee but could only get about 1/4 of it down. When my kids ate their pretzels at the mall they didnt eat all of it so I finished what was left and that was my food for the day. I hate to waste food thats the only reason I ate it. It was tough my mouth started to water and I felt like I was going to throw up just knowing I had to eat it. I love the food its just whatever is going on with my depression is making me not be able to eat.

Hi shaggin, hahaha...that shows you have over consume certain food at a time. And that is "delicious yummy food"! Well, i had a similar experience just like you too. I ate quite a light dinner, so i was rather hungry at night and i couldn't sleep as my stomach is grumbling for food. I thought i could just ignore it till tomorrow morning. Thinking that i will not feel my stomach hungry anymore if i fall asleep. However, when i woke up the next morning, i felt ill, i felt like vomiting and fainting. I felt so bad, that i rushed to the kitchen to prepare some noodle soup. After i gobble up everything, then only i felt slightly better. But, i took a few days to recover from the upset tummy, feeling of vomiting and dizziness. So now, if i feel hungry, i better make a cup of cereal drink. I heard some elders told me before that if i leave my stomach empty and let it grinds my stomach, it will cause a hole in my stomach. And by that time, i will need to admit to the hospital and get my stomach hole stitch up. I wouldn't want that to happen. .

Hi Professor2010, i like the point where you say, "many eat a lot, don't gain a pound, many do exercises, dieting to lose; that too doesn't help". Maybe like you said, this is the matter of individual gene, the heredity. Thanks for your sharing too. Have a nice day!

you are right, that's the scientific reason.

Hi Shavkat, thank you for the information. So, it is because lesser oxygen is being carried to my brain, so i am feeling sleepy. As for me, i always thought it was because i consume too much of carbohydrates and sugar. That is why i feel very tired after the meal. But it is very funny that after every single satisfied meal, my face immediately turn to a sleepy look automatically. And my husband always laugh and commented that it was cute. LOL!

Hi valerievy, hahaha...that's very funny. You really do have good imagination and connection of thoughts. Maybe we are likened to polar bears lifestyle?

Hi inspirations88, yes that is true and i believe so. I have heard many mylotters here responded the same way too. I agree with you that when we eat too much, the sugar level in our body do rises and make us feel sleepy. But eating a lot, we also need more exercise too. Otherwise we may have blood cells problem causes our heart to get blocked easily.

Hi Anshee, yes that is a good advice. We just had a three kilometers walk last week. But after a heavy meal, we should take a light walk, not too heavy...otherwise may cause appendicitis. Cheers to good health!