Are you tired when you get up in the morning

23-10-2018 11:00PM

Usually fairly tired but its manageable once I don't have to get up before about 8am which is thankfully rare thanks to having flexible hours at work I usually head in sometime between 9:15am and 10am depending on what time I get up which is usually around 8:30am, rarely earlier but sometimes later.

I'm a total night owl, around 8pm I'm as awake as anytime during the day and the period from around 8pm to around 12/1am is probably my favourite part of the day. Given total flexibility I would go to bed around 2/3am and get up around 11am or so and work from around 12noon until 8pm. I sleep much much better going to bed late and getting up late.

I couldn't hack getting up at times like 7am regularly, the thought of it even depresses me.

cbyrd · 23-10-2018 11:06PM

I have 6 kids, eldest is 19 so looks after herself, my youngest son is 18mths and has down syndrome so spent 11 of those 18 months in hosp.
My kids are my alarm. I'm exceptionally organised, so when the boys (8, 7) get up their uniforms are ready and they dress themselves and get their own breakfast while I dress and sort the 3 and 1 year old. The 16 year old is the hardest to budge.
I plan every day with 2 housework jobs ie: laundry, vacuuming, floor washing or bathroom scrubbing. But I'm generally on the go from 7:30am til 10/11pm when the last feed finishes. Then one or two could wake at night. I also.go to the gym 3 times a week and gave started to shift the bit of weight I put on sitting cotside for 11 months.
Morning time, once I'm out of bed I'm flying, but I'll stall around 4pm. Sometimes I'll sit and take a break, other times I'll say. OK, I have this and this to finish and then I'll sit, next thing it 9pm.

Kids are gone to bed by 7:30 so I can get all ready for the next day.
I find when everything has a place and is always in that place it cuts out a lot of stress.
I also learned worry isn't worth it, and if I don't get it done today there's always tomorrow.

_Brian · 23-10-2018 11:06PM

Get regular bouts of insomnia.

Had been good for a week but last night I was in bed by 11:30, still awake at 1:30 so got up had tea, mooched about with a book, back in bed at 3:30 and askeep sometime about 4am, her clock went off at 6:30 so no sleep after that.
No knowing yet if that’s a one off or it could go on for a week of sleeplessness.

branie2 · 23-10-2018 11:16PM

No

Sgt Hartman · 23-10-2018 11:24PM

I normally crawl out of bed exhausted at 6.40am after going to bed at around 11.30pm. In the winter months I normally check my phone any time I wake up during the night to find out what time it is. When it's dark in the winter months I'm not sure whether it's 2am or 6am when I wake up so I immediately check the phone. It's probably a form of anxiety.

TallGlass · 23-10-2018 11:29PM

I'm up and down in the mornings. One thing's for sure the clock going back this weekend is going to phek me up.

23-10-2018 11:31PM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I normally crawl out of bed exhausted at 6.40am after going to bed at around 11.30pm. In the winter months I normally check my phone any time I wake up during the night to find out what time it is. When it's dark in the winter months I'm not sure whether it's 2am or 6am when I wake up so I immediately check the phone. It's probably a form of anxiety.

it's great when you look at the time and you realize youve another couple of hours left in the scratcher!

Horrible when it's only 15 minutes to go though. :eek::eek:

josip · 23-10-2018 11:46PM

Dakota Dan wrote: »

I’m in my 50’s and get up at 5.30 am 7 days a week to face into milking a herd of cows without a bother. Haven’t had a break since January 2017. Pure misery I know but I’m baffled at how someone I. Their 40’s can be so wrecked.

You still up Dan?

r93kaey5p2izun · 24-10-2018 12:04AM

Acidogusto wrote: »

Why don't you get to bed until one?

A combination of work and having to look after someone.

Tell me how · 24-10-2018 12:18AM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I normally crawl out of bed exhausted at 6.40am after going to bed at around 11.30pm. In the winter months I normally check my phone any time I wake up during the night to find out what time it is. When it's dark in the winter months I'm not sure whether it's 2am or 6am when I wake up so I immediately check the phone. It's probably a form of anxiety.

I get that at times. If you paid me I couldn't confidently say what time it is until I've checked and can panic that I might be late. This has happened from every time like 30 minutes after drifting off to having slept in by half an hour. Those couple of seconds between waking and finding out what time it is are frantic.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-10-2018 01:11AM

During the week is crazy fo me, average about 4 a night. In a constant state of knackeredness.

Then I go through periods of really bad insomnia. There's been some nights where I haven't fallen asleep at all. Those days at work are compete hell.

PapaOscar · 24-10-2018 02:08AM

Working nights at the moment one week on one week off 7pm-7am . Maximum ill sleep is 5 hours per day on my week on work. My week off ill get at least a 10hr sleep in most nights. All over the shop.

Dakota Dan · 24-10-2018 08:19AM

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

People are different, imagine that

And lazy.

KERSPLAT! · 24-10-2018 08:24AM

Dakota Dan wrote: »

And lazy.

And some people are lazy, yep. Now you have it.

terrydel · 24-10-2018 08:28AM

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 am a developer myself, and I find the mental tiredness far worse than physical.
I'm 40 too and very fit. I've never been a natural for this job and the mental effort it requires of me is constantly huge, to the point I dont see myself working in it for too many more years, or it might kill me.
I'd always be knackered when I immediately wake up, but once out of the bed I'm good, I have a routine around my breakfast, feeding and taking care of the dog, and getting out the door. The routine helps. I cycle home from work a couple of times a week (40km, will cut down now that the clocks go back) and would be out of bed at 6.30 regardless.
I just think Im not a morning person in terms of being alert when I immediately wake, and have never been a good sleeper.

terrydel · 24-10-2018 08:34AM

Deleted User wrote: »

^ 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

Why is dog in inverted commas?

_Brian · 24-10-2018 08:37AM

Dakota Dan wrote: »

I’m in my 50’s and get up at 5.30 am 7 days a week to face into milking a herd of cows without a bother. Haven’t had a break since January 2017. Pure misery I know but I’m baffled at how someone I. Their 40’s can be so wrecked.

I farm myself but work outside the farm too.

I think lots of farmers are very dismissive of just how stressful non farm jobs and lives are. Yes lots of farmers get up early but it’s a whole lifestyle that affords much family flexibility fresh air and satisfaction in work. Many non farming jobs offer none of that which becomes exhausting to the extreme.

terrydel · 24-10-2018 08:42AM

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.

Well said, and that diet she outlined is f**king depressing, I'd rather bite the bullet than survive on that.
That post just smacked of 'humble brag'. A real look at me post.
Instagram generation stuff.
I cycle a lot and walk my dog, thats my exercise, I find gyms miserable, soul destroying places and a waste of time, but each to their own on that front.
I love a bit of bad food, but eat a good breakfast, lunch and dinner nearly every day, outside of those 3 meals I have whatever I fancy, bars, biscuits, a bit of ice cream. Food is to be enjoyed, not suffered.

BrookieD · 24-10-2018 08:44AM

Everyday i wake up i am shattered, up at 5am, leave house 5:20, walk 1 and half miles to bus stop (helps with my 2 herniated discs, no walk means more pain all day) home for 5:30, run kids around 3 evenings a week, bed about 10/11pm and cycle starts again. Weekends up early to run kids around and wife to work... it never bloody stops......... not want to complain as others have it way way worse.

realitykeeper · 24-10-2018 08:52AM

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

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.

This is what I do to keep healthy:

Go to bed earlier. (not good at that myself)

Take a magnesium citrate supplement in the evening.

In the morning eat oatmeal with berries and a a scope of wheatgerm.

Try zinc citrate and kelp supplements in the morning.

Chop up a clove of garlic and swallow it raw with juice from a freshly squeezed lime.

Do deep breathing and have a good stretch each morning and evening.

Quit smoking, cut down on drinking, gambling, rock `n` pop, mind altering drugs etc.

Go for a brisk walk in the evening.

Get some greens into you every day.

Stratvs · 24-10-2018 09:03AM

realitykeeper wrote: »

Chop up a clove of garlic and swallow it raw with juice from a freshly squeezed lime.

Also guarantees no one will invade your space on the bus/train to work

No seriously, can relate to a lot of these, the oatmeal, supplements, greens, and walks especially. Am going to bed earlier, putting down iPad/phone earlier before bed ( the new screen time feature was a bit of a wake up call ). Also no booze on a Sunday night before Monday work as felt was affecting sleep and kept waking running through issues for the week.

24-10-2018 09:07AM

madonna123 wrote: »

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.

I think I would be cautious about assuming relative likelihoods based on zero actual data. As I - like you - am heavily obsessed with my physical exercise and food people often come to me in my circles for advice.

I have seen people who do pretty much _everything_ right that they conceivably can and still end up tired and drained and inexplicably knackered. I have seen people laze around and eat the most tremendous crap and still be full of the joys and energy all day every day.

So I would not leap to assumptions like you about what is wrong or what the relative likelihoods are. There can be any number of factors in play. Some people for example have mild allergies they are unaware of - leaving them drained. Some people simply are constitutionally night or day people.

While for others it has absolutely nothing to do with what they eat but _how_ they eat. I have seen peoples low energy levels shoot to high energy levels merely by shifting from being a single large meal a day person to grazers. Or vice versa. Whatever metabolism they have - mediating how and when they eat - rather than what or how much they eat - changes almost over night their energy patterns.

While others have high energy demands in the morning but eat their high energy foods in the evening - for example. Conor McGregors nutrition manager was on Joe Rogan recently talking about that very thing if it interests you. Changing what you eat can be effective. But so too - it seems - can matching up what you eat with the times when you need it.

So for people suffering low energy issues - I tend to make no assumptions at all. Rather I tend to work them through varying many things until we hit on a combination that works for them.

terrydel wrote: »

Why is dog in inverted commas?

Just testing if anyone actually reads my posts and is paying attention?

Nah actually I did that without thinking or noticing until you pointed it out! But I imported an animal from a US wolf breeder. It is not really a dog. It is genetically a mix between an Alaskan Tundra wolf and a McKenzie valley wolf from the Canadian north west.

But I tend to call him a dog because some people who will now probably be along shortly get triggered if I don't

Also - he is not entirely legal nor was his passage into the country.

Dakota Dan · 24-10-2018 09:18AM

_Brian wrote: »

I farm myself but work outside the farm too.

I think lots of farmers are very dismissive of just how stressful non farm jobs and lives are. Yes lots of farmers get up early but it’s a whole lifestyle that affords much family flexibility fresh air and satisfaction in work. Many non farming jobs offer none of that which becomes exhausting to the extreme.

Dairy farming is up there with the most stressful jobs.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/dairying-among-worlds-worst-jobs-109602.html

lawred2 · 24-10-2018 09:19AM

I'm flying once I have a shower

Widdershins · 24-10-2018 09:58AM

No,I'm fine in the mornings. It used to take too long to fall asleep but now I take melatonin which helps a lot. I'm wide awake at dawn and ready to go.

bur · 24-10-2018 10:01AM

Might be a thyroid issue.

bee06 · 24-10-2018 10:01AM

I’m the mom of a 10 month old who wakes at least 3 times every night. I haven’t had a full nights sleep since I got pregnant so yeah, I’m pretty tired all the time.

Feisar · 24-10-2018 10:09AM

Not to cast aspersions on a simple poll however I believe there is room for a wider reaching survey.

Relevant questions:

Age
Hours spent commuting
Diet, how much fruit and veg etc
Hours of exercise a week
Alcohol consumption

24-10-2018 10:17AM

ELM327 wrote: »

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

Lol two posts in and its already come to this. I need to find a new website.

24-10-2018 10:49AM

I'm usually fine. Like only a couple of bad mornings in a month, usually after midweek beers. Even when I'm wrecked, I just go through the motions and the coffee kicks in. 5-6 hours sleep is enough generally with a nap during the day if needed.

I never snooze. I'm out of bed within 5 seconds of the alarm going off, even hungover. It's just an automatic thing where I get up as I'm switching it off.

This morning was one of the bad mornings but I was in work an hour later feeling grand. I have this idea in my head that my body is wrecked but that's not my brain's problem. Distancing myself from the actions works pretty well.

Are you tired when you get up in the morning

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