What are your energy levels?

[Linwenilid]

I'm not sure if this is the right wording, but I mean the amount of energy you have when you wake up in the morning, to do the daily stuff.

Mine is very low. I used to think it had to do with the IxTx, but I better ask you all about it. In contrast, my ENFP husband has almost-limitless amounts of energy: he loves to run and exercise, jumps out of bed in the morning, while I hate to exercise with every cell in my body and it takes me a while to really get up. It makes me feel inferior, sometimes.

So, self-pity aside, what are your energy levels? Do you think they relate to something you eat or do? Have you tried to be more/less active? How do you fare with strenght or resistance requirements?

[Monte314]

I used to be like your husband. Now that I'm much older, I find that I only have twice the energy of most people.

[NephilimAzrael]

I have been told I'm like a bear with a sore paw.

[AutisticCuckoo]

I'm usually fairly energized in the morning. Always have been.

For me it has a lot to do with what I did the day before. If I was active and stimulated, I wake up the same way. If I spend the preceding day vegetating I'm more zombie-like in the morning.

The season and the weather also affect me. I'm more alert in the summertime when it's light 24 hours a day up here, and my energy levels are much lower in the winter when the sun barely makes an appearance above the horizon. Sunshine makes me feel more alive, overcast skies and rain has the opposite effect.

[Linwenilid]

Good point about the weather, AutisticCuckoo. I do feel more active under the summer sun, but just not that much.

Now that I'm much older, I find that I only have twice the energy of most people.

Twice the energy??! Damnit, how the heck do you do that?! :p

[thegnat]

I'm best in the afternoon in the suuun. The bad thing is, that when it's not nice out, I should work out more. But I feel less like it because I have less energy.

My energy levels are generally low in the morning, increase as the day goes on. After about 5, they drop, then I get a second wind at like 11 pm. Not good for the sleep schedule. Then it drops. Steeply after a point.

[Undead Bonzi]

Seasonal depression and how it effects peoples energy levels has always interested me. I've met a number of people who tell me they are always depressed in the winter and it always makes me feel like an oddball. For me Fall and Winter are my favorite times of year, I like the cold and the snow or the crisp air and smell of dry leaves in October/November. By contrast I detest summer...extreme heat and humidity, bugs, dust...gah summer sucks and I have a hard time seeing why anyone likes it. Give me cold any day of the year, you can always put more cloths on to keep warm.

[current]

In general, I have high energy levels in the morning, which only gradually decrease during the day, but very seriously go down around 10pm. Consequently the moment I generally go to bed. If I then however somehow make it to one o'clock my energy levels rise up to the air for a couple of hours (after which they will be low for at least 24 hours).

Seasonal depression and how it effects peoples energy levels has always interested me. I've met a number of people who tell me they are always depressed in the winter and it always makes me feel like an oddball. For me Fall and Winter are my favorite times of year, I like the cold and the snow or the crisp air and smell of dry leaves in October/November. By contrast I detest summer...extreme heat and humidity, bugs, dust...gah summer sucks and I have a hard time seeing why anyone likes it. Give me cold any day of the year, you can always put more cloths on to keep warm.

I don't like the heat either, and I can enjoy coldness, but the problem is that you can only enjoy this so shortly each day. The day that I see daylight only from my office-window is not my best day. And although I'm not an expert, I think that much research pointed into lack of daylight as a cause for seasonal depressions, (maybe in combination with all these family-obligations around the shortest day ;) ).
Winter could be a great thing, it should just work a bit on it's daylength ...

[Jakalwarrior]

If I am happy or having fun i have limitless energy. Bore me or make me sad and I might as well be a grizzly overdue for hibernation.

[Seppuku Savant]

It use to be much lower when I wasn't eating regularly or exercising. Now, I function as close to maximum potential as possible.

[PortInStorm]

I'm best in the morning, get almost giddy/high/dopey after lunch, really tired after work, then pick up from about 6-10. Then crash. I think this has more to do with blood sugar and preferred time of day...

However, compared to my husband who many call 'the energizer bunny' (I swear, he does a physical job for 8 hours, then most often does another 4-5 hours of side job work or stuff around the house), I have about average to low energy, generally. One of the reasons I don't fancy kids- they take so much of it. He must think I'm a lazy turd.

[Deepdelver]

Variable, variable. Some days I have high energy and some days I don't.