Do you hate Monday too? I hate Monday a lot during school days – but not now because it’s holiday. School holidays in Malaysia is going to end very soon, and we’ll have to get back to our boring days on 3rd of January.

Why I hate Monday? Because I feel lazy to wake up early in the morning and still have the weekend mood. Recently, there is a report on why peoples hate Monday. According to the report, the reason you hate Monday is because you have sleep too much on weekends.

And the reason you sleep so much during weekends is because you want back the sleeping time that you have lost on weekdays – and this is definitely like me, guess you are like that too, no? When the school re-opens, I will try not to sleep too much on weekends, but I doubt if I can do it.

The Report

A new study has found that lazy Saturday and Sunday lie-ins can disturb your body clock, leaving you fatigued at the start of the week.

Flinders University sleep expert Leon Lack said people often used the weekend to catch up on sleep lost during the week.

But he told the Australasian Sleep Association Conference in Perth that while this might help pay off a “sleep debt”, it came at a cost.

“We’ve discovered that these sleep-ins are actually putting your body out of whack enough to change your Sunday night bedtime and set you up for Monday blues,” Professor Lack told AAP.

His research team tested the theory by tracking 16 people over a weekend, asking them to go to bed a little later than they would on a weeknight but sleeping-in an extra two hours.

By comparing saliva samples and hormone tests he found participants’ body clocks had been delayed by 45 minutes.

“That might not sound like a lot but it means that you’re not quite as sleepy on Sunday night at the normal bedtime and you’ll be much sleepier the next day,” Prof Lack said.

Questionnaires completed on Monday and Tuesday showed much higher levels of self-reported fatigue and tiredness compared with pre sleep in days.

This was because the subjects’ circadian rhythms – which determine patterns of alertness and tiredness – had been disturbed, creating an effect similar to jet lag.

By mid-week most people manage to get back on track but then they start staying up later, getting into “debt” once again and perpetuating the cycle.

“These days, we’re pushing ourselves a lot, particularly during the week and the weekend is our only refuge,” Prof Lack said.

The problem, he says, is that this comes at a price.

“It’s a bit like paying off a mortgage – you take out a big one and you’ll have a lot to pay off later on.”

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