The Collateral Damage of Saturday Night
Sunday Scaries Part Three
In part one No Loose Ends you learned the benefits of tightening up your Friday. In part two Take a Bite out of Monday , you absorbed the value of one hour well spent on Sunday. In Part Three you’ll take a look at the ugly truth behind your Saturday night.
The Sunday Scaries: are the anxieties one experiences on Sunday when thinking about the impending workweek, school week, or other obligations that await in the week ahead. They are especially bad when accompanied by an end-of-the-weekend hangover. Urban Dictionary enters the term Sunday Scaries in 2009 and a 2013 article suggests it originates in the New York City area.
3.) No Hangovers on Sunday
“It’s a fine line between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” – Jimmy Buffett
Yeah, yeah, I know Saturday night is right before Sunday Morning but if that alcohol intake on Saturday is great enough it can seriously affect your emotions come Sunday. No eye rolling…no “whatever Liz”, this has been studied, see below.
McKinney (2010) summarized the literature on mood changes during alcohol hangover. The review identified that increased anxiety levels, decrease in alertness, increase in fatigue, lower arousal, physical discomfort, and emotional disturbance were commonly reported mood changes. To read more CLICK HERE.
In addition to the negative bio-chemical, physical and emotional effects that alcohol does to you and your body, you’ll also probably waste part of Sunday sleeping off Saturday. This realization will most likely hit around…let’s say 4pm adding a little guilt and remorse to your anxiety. Which is basically going for the value meal of emotional overwhelm…but who doesn’t like their anxiety served with a side order of guilt only to wash it down with 20oz of remorse.
You want to celebrate the weekend, do it on Friday. You can still have fun on Saturday just drink more water, say no to the last round and don’t stay up ‘to watch the sunrise’. You want to experience a sunrise, wake up early on Monday, go for a run and see that sun rising on a week that you’ve already started owning.
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