do you ever get days like these?

Same here. Know there are things in the house to do but only do the essentials. I get up late and wish I hadn’t missed so much of the morning. My feeling is it is something to do with the time of the year and hope my energy will return with the warmer weather.

I am so relieved to find this thread.
I struggle with tiredness and low motivation. I am trying hard to lose weight and do strength workouts a few times a week but often that's all I feel like doing. The weather depressed me but so does knowing others have active friendship circles ( I'm better one on one as an introvert). I am grateful for what I have, for my OH and DDs, who have their own child each now. I have much to be thankful for but I still often feel tearful and lost. I used to enjoy textile art and have hoarded so much from.my past life, but lost the desire to create when a toxic friendship finally ended years ago, devastating my life. I've really tried to be positive; I garden when I'm energetic enough, I enjoy outings with DH and love learning, but there are far too many days frittered away feeling low, tired and demotivated. I lost my beloved father last summer, a friend has been diagnosed with dementia and another has died suddenly...all part of the cycle ofife and death,but it makes me feel how fragile life is. I completely understand the posts here and can relate to so many of them. I think we all need some warm spring sun to lift the spirits. It's not the whole story but it would certainly help a little!

Having M.E./CFS I regularly feel like that. Low blood pressure makes me feel like that too. Sometimes a shower "kick starts" my body.
I keep jigsaws handy to fill the no energy/motivation times.
MadeinYorkshire and Ann 💐 💐

I woke up with a migraine and have done very little all day. It's poured down for hours so haven't had my usual walk.
I feel bad when I've wasted a day but I really can't be bothered doing anything today. Motivation is in very short supply.

I usually go back to bed and do a couple of hours of sleep meditation (Jason Stephenson….I switched to him from Paul McKenna when one of his videos popped up on my iPad…it sends me to sleep straight away). I know as soon as I wake up if I’ve had enough sleep. A cup of strong coffee would help but if there’s any chance of getting that extra couple of hours I daren’t drink any! I know throughout my life I’ve suffered from motivational tiredness because quite often something stimulating happens ( eg DH goes out and I put some of my favourite music on full blast) and my brain fog clears straight away. And sometimes, if I feel overwhelmed by what I have to do I feel as if I want to just curl up in a ball and go to sleep. I’ve always said I could sleep for England. Before I retired I worked mornings only and always had a nap in the afternoon and my body clock never readjusted. As my kids taxi service I could get very little sleep at night because of pick ups and go into work as long as I knew I could get that afternoon nap. And then, when I had grandchildren I’d sometimes have to go and babysit late at night ( one of my grandchildren used to get croup very badly and they’d have to take him to A&E….I didn’t touch alcohol for years because I never knew when the phone was going to ring!). I’d love to have 8 hours straight sleep one night to see how I feel afterwards but the bladder ( or sometimes the dogs bladder! )won’t let me do that these days.

I have a form of long term fatigue, because I do not respond like most people who take thyroxine for an underactive thyroid. I’m seeing a consultant, but to be honest I think he has run out of ideas to help.

As well as sleeping in the early afternoon for half an hour (don’t let yourself sleep longer as you go into a really deep sleep and feel groggy for the rest of the day).

If I had felt like you this morning I would switch on my Smart phone app of CALM where I would select a 10 min meditation and just let myself drift away then get up. It then seems to make me feel somewhat better. I let myself have 10 minute boosters whenever I want. Try it. Best of luck.

PS if you don’t have a smartphone just go onto YouTube using earphones and select a free 10 minute meditation from there.

I think our bodies are simply resisting too speedy a change from Winter to Spring. Strange for me as I would normally be running as fast as I could from the miserable season. Anyway.....that's my reason for lie ins.

I have PVF so have to pace myself and if I have a busy day I invariably need to stay in bed the next day, but I just try to enjoy it reading or watching iplayer.. til the energy rises again..
I only make plans for social contacts every other day if I can

I didn’t feel that I’d had enough sleep last night but had to get up because we had an early Tescos delivery. So then decided to give the dog a quick walk and, realising our deliver didn’t include eggs went to the next village to buy some. I felt that I needed to have a bit more sleep before we went but then thought I’d get it out the way. Ended up buying some bread rolls from the bakers, got home and realised I’d walked out of the shop without them. DH has got to go back and pick them up ( I don’t like driving his car) so I’m in the dog house. This is what happens when I’m tired. I’ve also realised that, because we’ve isolated ourselves so much over the past three years I get really flustered when I do actually go anywhere. I feel really stupid now . Having said that I don’t understand why the shop assistant didn’t notice that I hadn’t picked them up.
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I have days like this. The cure for me is to play some really upbeat and cheerful music. It always does the trick and makes me feel happier and more energetic.

Thank you all for your best wishes, and all the best to you *travelsafar and all who are feeling down xx

Haven't watched Doctors for a while, now I will need to see what has happened.

All the time. Have wasted so many days of my life not being motivated.

Won't spoil it for anyone, but in Doctors I did not see that coming!

Ann💐
MadeinYorkshire💐

for ann and everyone finding life a bit like running up a sand hill and never getting to the top.

Oh yes and am always relieved when a day like that is over.

MadeinYorkshire

annsixty.

Crikey, not Karen! I'm not up to date with Doctors - I save it till Saturday afternoons.

I actually did it today, just stayed in bed and I’m still here.
I had a busy but fraught day yesterday, my S is very unwell with stress,I have a difficult financial decision to make in the next couple of weeks and the weather is getting me down.
Today would have been my H’s birthday, he would have been 87.
My GD sent me a short video she made of him on his 82nd birthday which brought tears so I have given up for the day.

I do too. Some days I have to force myself to get up, and then can’t settle to anything and waste the day doing not a lot. I feel incredibly guilty about it because I never used to lack motivation.

I’m like that all the time these days. I could happily sleep all the time. There was the most beautiful sunrise the other day and I should have thrown on some clothes and walked down to the beach but I just went back to sleep. I do hate the cold now though and can’t motivate myself to go out walking. When I do motivate myself to go somewhere I’m fine: it’s just getting the motivation to do it. I do find, though, that I now get tired in a way that I never did just a year or so ago. I used to love walking in the dunes but after finding a tick on my leg the other year I no longer walk through them: it freaked me out so much. Silly little things like that have a lasting effect on me.

I felt like that this morning, just didn’t want to get out of my nice warm bed, every joint seemed to be aching. But I did get up and hung the washing out and discovered it was quite warm so sat outside for a bit and then pottered round the garden for a bit. It was a really miserable, slow start but it improved.
MadeInYorkshire

I often feel like this, just don’t want to get out of bed. But even though I bury myself under the duvet I can still hear the protests of my cat, who squeaks rather than meows - incessantly.. If I don’t capitulate he squirms under the cover and starts pawing at my hair, and frankly it is already thin enough, so I give in and get up.

This was me last week, with jet lag and miserable weather. Doris is my soul mate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-65123453

Well, I had a week last week:
Boiler and central heating broke down on Monday,
Dyson jammed Wednesday
printer broke on Saturday
power cut Saturday due to iron malfunction
new printer ordered Sunday, none to be found in store despite 6 in stock on computer
special delivery on Monday, note pushed through door to tell me I was out, (NO); chased driver down road in bare feet and caught him so did receive printer;
and now it looks as though something dreadful has happened to Karen in Doctors
Really made me appreciate dull days!

I get days like that too. I suspect we all do. Like GrannyGravy says, it's most likely our bodies telling us to just relax a bit. Well, that's my excuse!!