Are you tired when you get up in the morning

NoviGlitzko

Poll to follow. Please explain why you think you are/n't? How is it affecting you?

I'm exhausted the majority of the time. I think it's because of how mad I go on the weekends partying and I'm just out of my twenties.

josip

Fcuking knackered every Tues-Fri morning.

I'm in my forties, do a few extra hours work each night until around 1 and get up at 7.
Thank fcuk I no longer get obliterated on Fridays and Sundays and can recover over the weekend.

ELM327

Yes.
It's all part of being in the squeezed middle unfortunately. Gotta pay for the scroungers.

Your Face

I don't really think about how Im feeling.
I just get up and get ready for work.

wakka12

If you are exhausted in the mornings, make sure you dont have sleep apnea, I think doctors can test for it pretty easily , its important to know you dont have it as it can have negative health impacts thta go beyond just feeling tired, such as high blood pressure. Exercising even mildly or moderately is important for good sleep too. I usually feel good in the mornings if I go to bed with a clear uncluttered mind and am not stressed out about anything in particular. If something negative is on my mind, its over, just no chance of sleep, and stressed me out even more because I knwot he next day will be depressing and exhausting, Vicious circle!

B-D-P--

Tired enough, And, if i stop everything, slow down and look for it, I realize, I have a headache, although very slight, all the time...
Right at the back of the head.

suicide_circus

pretty much constantly tired

My uncle said to me once years ago and he’s dead right that sleep makes you tired. Or well, it does for me anyway.

Berserker

josip wrote: »

I'm in my forties, do a few extra hours work each night until around 1 and get up at 7.

What do you do for a living?

josip

Berserker wrote: »

What do you do for a living?

Write code.
Then there's all the stuff around it from presales to support.
But in the end it's simply writing code.

At first, then I mainline caffeine.

robbiezero

josip wrote: »

Write code.
Then there's all the stuff around it from presales to support.
But in the end it's simply writing code.

I do similar, but only until 5.30 in the evening. Something badly wrong if you have to be regularly working till 1am.

ELM327

robbiezero wrote: »

I do similar, but only until 5.30 in the evening. Something badly wrong if you have to be regularly working till 1am.

If it's paid overtime maybe it's voluntary.

Sometimes. I don't like early mornings at all so avoid them as much as possible. I get tired a bit during the day regardless of how much sleep I've had. In fact there are days when I could sleep and sleep and sleep. I've had this investigated and all is well thank Gods. It's just the way I am I suppose.

Conservative

Self employed so have the luxury of choosing my own hours. Will never start work at 6 or 7am again if I can help it. Starting later and working later is heaven in comparison.

Wheety

I just can't go to bed early. Wife goes between 10:15-10:30 most nights. I say I'll be up soon but usually end up watching/on laptop until after midnight. Alarm set for 6:15am.

I know I should be going to bed earlier. I'm wrecked most days and after lunch can feel myself nodding off most days. For some reason, when I do this, I press the right button on my mouse :eek:

pekitivey

I have this theory that getting up at half 6 or half 8 is the same thing. I regularly do both and usually asleep by 11PM the night before. But when the alarm goes off it doesn't matter what the time is, I still just want to snooze. However, once I'm up I feel good. Unless I've eaten crap food the night before or eaten too late. That will make me sleepy through the morning period and reaching for the extra cup of coffee.

SusieBlue

I'm perpetually tired.
I promise myself every morning that I'll go to bed early that night, but between working full time, commuting, getting to the gym, making dinner/tidying up/showering, taking the dog for his walks and unwinding by watching netflix or reading my book, there simply aren't enough hours in the day.
This is without even trying to fit in meeting my friends for a weeknight coffee or having any sort of a social life.
I genuinely don't know how people with kids cope.

^ I have kids and I think one of the only reasons I cope personally is the things people do to "wind down" are things I do not have at all. Like Television.

While the things people are trying to wind down from - are the things I do my winding down with. Like cooking and taking the "dog" out and time with the kids.

That will not be the secret for everyone of course - but for me my entire life secret has been to make hobbies and "wind down" time out of the very things others see as the chore or what they need to escape from. And to make them things I love and enjoy - rather than things that are in the way of the things I enjoy.

And sex of course. Getting out of bed in the morning always seems easier when there has been sex the night before. Think it just makes me sleep better

yourdeadwright

Have a 10 month old and the last 3 weeks she has decided what time I get up, Teething is a nightmare it was 6 am this morning I didn't need to be up till 8 ,
I'm constantly shattered the last 2 months but its part of the job as apparent so I can't complain,

GoneHome

I find going to bed early and being in a constant time routine during the working week is the only way to go, I go to bed between 9.00 and 10.00 during the week and when the alarm goes off at 6.15 am I generally feel I've had a good night's sleep. The weekend can be a different matter!

Assetbacked

pekitivey wrote: »

I have this theory that getting up at half 6 or half 8 is the same thing. I regularly do both and usually asleep by 11PM the night before. But when the alarm goes off it doesn't matter what the time is, I still just want to snooze. However, once I'm up I feel good. Unless I've eaten crap food the night before or eaten too late. That will make me sleepy through the morning period and reaching for the extra cup of coffee.

I have noticed this as well. Getting up at 6:30 when my gym alarm went or not setting an alarm and getting up at 8 for me has minimal difference, irrespective of whether I slept at 11 or 12:30.

I'm nodding off this afternoon and yawning a lot this afternoon but putting that down to staying up too late (1am) rather than getting up early.

Shanotheslayer

I work 9:30-18:00 Monday to Friday and Usually go to the gyms before work. I try to get bed around 10 and asleep by 11, but sometimes it could be 12/1 and I'll be knackered

super_furry

Got a 10 months old son at home, so I'm pretty much always tired. It's at the stage where I'm recording Match of the Day on a Saturday because 'it's not over until 11:30!"

Also I've never been happier.

nthclare

I think it depends on the job, if you're working in a noble job like gardening, forestry or farming you'll sleep well.

But if you work like a modern day slave like an accountant, programmer, IT sector, Tele sales, the hotel and catering industry you'll sleep really badly...

As your body clock is in perpetual trauma, not enough sunlight and too much Fuzz from electronic equipment....

Tell me how

Wheety wrote: »

I just can't go to bed early. Wife goes between 10:15-10:30 most nights. I say I'll be up soon but usually end up watching/on laptop until after midnight. Alarm set for 6:15am.

I know I should be going to bed earlier. I'm wrecked most days and after lunch can feel myself nodding off most days. For some reason, when I do this, I press the right button on my mouse :eek:

This is literally damaging your health.

Some people are night owls and stay up late but you are probably planning at 20:00 every evening that you are going to bed relatively early but then don't.

Being wrecked during the day is not worth watching anything on a regular occurrence which you might not even be that interested in.

madonna123

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

josip

You ain't fooling anyone Mags, we all know you're 60.

pekitivey

madonna123 wrote: »

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

Good for you. Have you considered that you might be on the extreme side of this workout feel good thing? Its great for you that you do this, but not everyone wants this. I exercise 3 times a week and eat some what healthy. But, come the weekend I enjoy a few pints and a bit of socializing, generally in the context of alcohol.

There is a happy medium.

SusieBlue

madonna123 wrote: »

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

I go to the gym 5 days a week, mostly doing HIIT & lifting weights, I take 10k steps every day and my diet is about 70/30 clean/treats (you have to live too).

Guess what? I'm still tired. Because I don't sleep for long enough & the quality of the sleep I get isn't great.

Its a bit patronising to assume that anyone who is tired or has sleeping issues is a sloth with KFC running through their veins.

madonna123

pekitivey wrote: »

Good for you. Have you considered that you might be on the extreme side of this workout feel good thing? Its great for you that you do this, but not everyone wants this. I exercise 3 times a week and eat some what healthy. But, come the weekend I enjoy a few pints and a bit of socializing, generally in the context of alcohol.

There is a happy medium.

Yes of course, happy medium, but if people are wondering why the feel so tired and eternally unhealthy.. the answer will more than likely be in what they are doing to their bodies.

If you look to overseas lifestyles with prolonged life expectancy and far lower obesity rates their lifestyle is the polar opposite of how the majority of our nation live.

madonna123

SusieBlue wrote: »

I go to the gym 5 days a week, mostly doing HIIT & lifting weights, I take 10k steps every day and my diet is about 70/30 clean/treats (you have to live too).

Guess what? I'm still tired. Because I don't sleep for long enough & the quality of the sleep I get isn't great.

Its a bit patronising to assume that anyone who is tired or has sleeping issues is a sloth with KFC running through their veins.

I apologise if that is how you interpreted what I was saying, I did not intend to comes across as condescending.
Sleep related issues are generally an indication of an problem within the body.
Lack of quality sleep can be linked to psychological issues also such as anxiety.
Yoga, Meditation and mindfulness classes can also be very helpful.

My partner had a sleep issue and underwent sleep testing. They put a monitor on him for 7 days, his issue was related to a sleep apnea

Jackman25

madonna123 wrote: »

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

If thats what feeling alive consists of, I'm happy enough feeling dead.

Assetbacked

madonna123 wrote: »

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

The word "boiled" is the most unappetising but commonly used word I can imagine when added next to food.

Truckermal

I get up at 3am every morning normally 6 days every week and I work a 7 day Rota so including weekends! I used to get breakfast and coffee at 7am and I'd be fit for bed after it but I'm eating healthy stuff so I only get tired at 6pm.

Pyr0

Anything less than 7/7.5 hours sleep and I feel sluggish and tired in the mornings.

Noveight

I've gotten in to the habit of having the lights out at 11pm. Alarm goes off at 7:15 and I'm on the road at 7:45. That's a pretty solid 8 hours so I'm rarely sluggish in the mornings.

IvySlayer

If I get 5-6 hours sleep I'm good but less or more than that I feel sluggish...

Dalomanakora

Always exhausted. I eat healthy foods (almost nothing processed bar cheat meals), daily walks, relatively physical job, 8 hours of sleep.


I've got illnesses though so until they're resolved, I'm told that's normal :pac:

Greyfox

Always Very tired but that's cause it's hard to turn the playstation/Netflix off at a reasonable time.. I'd love to sign on the dole for 3 months to clear my gaming/tv backlog : )

OldMrBrennan83

I'm tired 24/7.

freshpopcorn

When I wake up I always feel tired and want to go back to bed but after a few minutes I'm wide awake and have intention of going back to bed.

AllForIt

Yes I do and I know it's down to drinking too much caffeine. I've given up the booze, the fags and my only vice now is coffee.

SilverPenney

I was always naturally an early riser. Have no problem jumping out of the bed at 4:30-5:00 and going running (which is normally 5-6 days a week). It has its downsides though, normally mentally and physically exhausted by 8 and fast asleep by 10.

theteal

super_furry wrote: »

Got a 10 months old son at home, so I'm pretty much always tired. It's at the stage where I'm recording Match of the Day on a Saturday because 'it's not over until 11:30!"

Also I've never been happier.

Ha ha, the series link for motd was set a looooong time ago.

I'm not tired in the mornings, alarm goes at 05:15 (I may or may not be awake beforehand) and by the time the toothbrush is in the gob I'm bright eyed and bushy tailed. In to bed somewhere between 22:00 - 22:30 usually.

backspin.

From April to September I had no bother getting up. Into work early etc. This last couple of weeks it's a chore to get up. Keep hitting snooze button.

Franz Von Peppercorn

IvySlayer wrote: »

If I get 5-6 hours sleep I'm good but less or more than that I feel sluggish...

Hmmm

Often sleep threads will get the “I don’t need more than 5 hours” guys. This took longer.

I try sleep before midnight these days. Apparently it’s not just what you get but when you sleep. 4am to noon isn’t as good as 11pm to 7am.

Conservative

madonna123 wrote: »

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

I'd rather die young than endure that level of mundanity and live til 200.

Paint watches you dry Madge.

madonna123

madonna123 wrote: »

What do you eat everyday?

How much processed foods? When is the last time you ate fruit, vegetables, fish?
When did you exercise last? Walk , Run , Light weights, swim?

Don't even try say 'I don't have time'.. I bet you have time for TV every evening or pints in the evening or weekends.
Stop at the gym in the mornings before work or in the evening on the way home and do 30-40 mins everyday.

Swap Chinese , fried , chipper fast 'food' for something natural, meal prep in advance if your short on time.
This is all 100% possible if you want to feel alive again.

My day.. up at 6am .. Gym for 6:30, out, showered and dressed for work by 7:45am. At work for 9am.

Food in lunch box, left overs from night before or raw chopped veg with grilled chicken or fish. Boiled mixed veg with rice or big mixed salad with lots of spinach.

home at 7pm, 30mins boiling veg and grilled chicken / fish.
do some laundry, brisk walk or evening exercise class. tidy house, read, chat with family.. watch the odd soccer match or Netflix show. In bed for 9:30 - 9:45 pm .. Alarm set for 6am.

Big gym workout early Saturday & Sunday mornings. Feel amazing.

No alcohol, occasional meal out at weekends, depending on social calendar.

That's some sermon.

Ray Palmer

For people who keep hitting snooze set your alarm a little earlier like 7 minutes for a week then expand or retract over a 15 minute range for a couple of days.

You will find a time that feels better not far from when you want to get up.

You are trying to find the gap in your sleep pattern where you don't interrupt a deep sleep. Sleeping a little less can make a huge difference

I tried power napping for a while and felt great but very hard to do in a workplace.

I have habit of being a night owl but if you can sleep a few times in a day you can have it all

Austria!

Acidogusto wrote: »

Put a blue light filter on your phone once it hits 9pm. Don't stay up too late, get 8 hours sleep or whatever you personally need.

There's blue light option on most laptops too. As well as being good for sleep it protects your eyesight from degrading.