Are you tired when you get up in the morning

NoviGlitzko · 23-10-2018 12:24PM #1

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 · 23-10-2018 12:27PM

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 · 23-10-2018 12:29PM

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

Your Face · 23-10-2018 12:29PM

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

wakka12 · 23-10-2018 12:30PM

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-- · 23-10-2018 12:31PM

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 · 23-10-2018 12:34PM

pretty much constantly tired

23-10-2018 12:35PM

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 · 23-10-2018 12:42PM

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 · 23-10-2018 12:58PM

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.

23-10-2018 01:51PM

At first, then I mainline caffeine.

robbiezero · 23-10-2018 01:55PM

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 · 23-10-2018 01:56PM

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.

23-10-2018 02:00PM

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 · 23-10-2018 02:08PM

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 · 23-10-2018 02:17PM

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 · 23-10-2018 02:18PM

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 · 23-10-2018 02:25PM

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.

23-10-2018 02:34PM

^ 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 · 23-10-2018 02:58PM

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 · 23-10-2018 02:59PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:01PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:01PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:01PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:05PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:05PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:34PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:37PM

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

pekitivey · 23-10-2018 03:44PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:50PM

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 · 23-10-2018 03:52PM

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.

Are you tired when you get up in the morning

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