Feeling sleepy at breakfast

I'm the same and it happens again after I've had my lunch. I'm not like it in the spring and summer so think it's a seasonal thing. With the days drawing in my mind and body think it's time to hibernate. Like you, if I get moving I'm ok...but it would be very easy just to have a nap. zzzzzzz.

Scones it's so delicious to have a nap - and I do sometimes in the afternoon. But it seems odd when it happens to me such a short time after a night's sleep.

It happens to me after the evening meal, my mum was the same, I thought perhaps a sugar issue, as my glucose is occasional borderline high. But when it used to happen to my DH after breakfast, it was sleep apnea.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like dropping off just after breakfast - or even during breakfast. I sometimes find that my tea has gone cold while I have had forty winks. I am a night owl, rarely in bed before midnight.

It happens to me when I have eaten white bread. Must be slightly allergic.

I know the feeling OP but I often don’t get as far as breakfast. A mug of tea in bed does the trick - or rather half a mug- as I often nod off and find the cold tea on the bedside table .
I think it’s to do with blood sugar- (or the caffeine) - a sudden surge after several hours’ “fast” and then a dip as your system digests what you have eaten or drunk.

yes, frequently happens to me too, regardless of season.
dare i suggest that it may be an 'age' thing?

I never feel great in the morning, it takes me a while to come round. It always has done, which made going to work difficult for me, but I just forced myself. Now I can take as long as I like to come round.

A shower always knocks me out, so I do not shower in the mornings.

Think it’s fairly normal - it’s body’s response to biochemical changes which happen when we eat/digest food. Look at your cat or dog after it’s eaten……absolutely flaked out! We’re just the same, it’s a primitive response.

Thanks for the responses. It's good to hear that others have a similar thing.

Do you eat fruit for breakfast? Always seems to wake me up!

That's interesting Zoejory. I mostly have some form of cereal, but I do always have a glass of orange juice (if that counts as fruit).

I sometimes wake, have a cuppa whilst I watch bbc1 breakfast news programme in bed, start to feel sleepy & go back to sleep. This can happen anytime after 0600 until I wake again after the BBC breakfast has finished. Who cares? I’m not worried. Joyful retirement. Doesn’t happen every morning.

For years my OH has had Humus for breakfast and has always had a problem getting going by 10 o/ clock ( when he goes to the gym)
I’ve finally persuaded him to not have anything. It’s completely changed him. He’s now up and running by 9 o/clock.
Overload of carbs ?