You ate. Now you're on the couch. Or scrolling. Or "just resting your eyes." The afternoon feels like a wall and getting back to your desk feels like climbing it. The work didn't get harder, but the transition from break mode to work mode is a full restart, and without a sequence, the restart never happens.
Your energy dips after eating. That's biology. But the bigger issue is re-initiation. You were in flow before lunch, and now your brain has to cold-start. Open the laptop, remember what you were doing, load the context back, push through the first few minutes of resistance. Without a cue to start, the couch wins.
Ready Time builds a 20-minute re-entry: clean up lunch, make coffee, walk for 5 minutes, sit down, review your task list, and start the easiest thing first. The sequence is designed to be low-friction. Each step is so small that doing it is easier than deciding not to. By the time you're through it, you're working again.