04/22/2026
🛑 If any of these caught you by surprise, you are not alone!
Fatigue, exhaustion, and crashing at 2pm are sadly common in perimenopause.
Which btw is a game changer.
Here are the New Rules:
1. ☕️ That 2pm crash is your blood sugar tapping out. Done. Nada left. Because a coffee and granola on your way out the door will not fuel your body properly. In fact, it's just going to add MORE stress to the entire system.
2. 🥗 Salad for lunch...if you eat lunch. Greens are good. But again....not enough fuel! Our body is screaming for protein, fats, and yes....carbs. (The good kinds though bc there IS a difference, but more on that later). Now your blood sugar is really angry. Cortisol is rising. Energy...tanked.
3. 📲 Ah...the doom scroll. TikTok sucked you in. Again. Until midnight. Again. Oh, well. You'll still get 6 hours of sleep, right? Wrong! That blue light is messing up your circadian rhythm, your melatonin, and your cortisol. Which.....will mess up your blood sugar. Which....will ultimately hit you at 2pm the next day.
4. 🍷But what could be wrong with wine? The relaxing reward at the end of a long day. Wine actually disrupts your cortisol rhythm overnight—raising stress hormones and reducing sleep quality, including deep sleep. That leaves you with low morning energy and a misfiring cortisol curve, which often shows up as that 2pm crash.
5. Emphasizing cardio as your main workout. 🏃♀️ To clarify, a couple Zone 2 cardio sessions a week are good. Daily steps? Also good! But making intense cardio your primary workout is actually going to increase stress in the body. And if you're not fueling properly as it is....you are going to end up in a downward spiral. 🌪
Save this post for the next time you crash and burn at 2pm. 📌📌
And put your phone to bed at 9pm. 🫶🏻