This is the reason why Monday is so heavy

Monday is and remains a thing for many people. You turn over one more time, have already had your fourth coffee before ten, and the week seems longer than ever before. Recognizable? Then there's a good chance you're suffering from a social jetlag. Your own fault, big bump.

 
According to researchers, the tired Monday feeling has everything to do with the way you spend your weekend. If you go to bed later on Friday and Saturday than the rest of the week, because of wine and parties, it can negatively affect the quality of your sleep. And that fatigue in turn affects your mood.

Because what you're actually doing is completely upending your rhythm, causing your sleep and eating patterns to become totally disrupted, something that also happens when you skip a night and a jetlag is lurking. On weekends, you often eat, sleep, and exercise at different times, which slows down your circadian rhythm, according to Shelby Freedman Harris, a sleep expert affiliated with the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Due to changes in your lifestyle, our bodily clock gets disrupted, making it difficult for us to adjust back to our ‘normal’ rhythm on Sunday evening. The result: a grumpy Monday morning.

 
So if you want to do something about those Monday blues, you'll have to turn off the lights a bit earlier on the weekend. In your bedroom, okay? And if you still can't shake it off, this might help you.