Are you tired when you get up in the morning

D3V!L · 24-10-2018 10:51AM

I usually feel like I've been hit by a truck first thing in the morning

Dakota Dan · 24-10-2018 10:51AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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

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Boom_Bap · 24-10-2018 10:53AM

The better I eat, and the more active I am, the better I sleep and the getting up is easy.

I particularly find it's exercise that gets me more fresh in the mornings. After getting into exercise, the first few mornings are tough as the body is a little delicate, but once I push through that, I can spring out of bed.
I also note that my getting up time gets a little earlier as the weeks pass by.

sweetie · 24-10-2018 10:59AM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

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

My xiaomi mi band has a feature where if you set an alarm it will wake you
at a time you are in your shallowest sleep before/close to that time, could be fifteen mins earlier. Must get it charged up and use it again!

Ragnar Lothbrok · 24-10-2018 11:13AM

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

That sounds absolutely amazing!

More of a cat person myself, but a beast as fine as that sounds could make me change my mind

Rubberlegs · 24-10-2018 11:18AM

Widdershins wrote: »

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.

Can I ask what time do you take the melatonin? I only took a couple of the ones prescribed to me and gave up as I was a complete zombie the next day. I took them around 7pm. My problem isn't getting to sleep but staying asleep.
So yes, I am completely and utterly knackered much of the time

Ragnar Lothbrok · 24-10-2018 11:41AM

I'm tired most mornings and hate getting out of bed. A quick shower usually blows the cobwebs away, but I never really feel full of energy. Then again, I'm in my 50s, smoke and drink too much, and don't have the best diet (life long vegetarian who lives mainly on carbs). I'm not noticeably overweight, but should probably lose around a stone.

I'd say my main problem is that I seldom go to bed before midnight, even if I feel wrecked. Then I might read for half an hour or so. I have a desk job and do little exercise (none really). Generally get around 6 hours per night during the week, but could get as much as 12 hours on a Saturday night.

As many people have alluded to on this thread, lifestyle has an awful lot to do with tiredness, and my lifestyle I would imagine is the main cause of my tiredness.

However, it is also very important that people get checked for sleep apnea if they feel constantly tired. I was diagnosed with this a few years ago and had to wear a sleeping mask for over a year. When I was undergoing the tests for apnea, it showed that I was waking for a second or two every minute of the night without realising it :eek: So even though it felt that I had a good night's sleep I actually had a terrible night's sleep.

The effects of sleep apnea are extremely dangerous due to the pressure it puts on the heart. Most people aren't even aware that they have it.

After a year of wearing the mask I had my tonsils taken out and it solved the apnea, and I felt 100% better.

24-10-2018 12:14PM

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

That sounds absolutely amazing!

More of a cat person myself, but a beast as fine as that sounds could make me change my mind

Well on the subject of the thread - having an animal that literally will eat your walls if you do not get up early and go for a run with it - is a wonderful motivator

5am every morning - or thereabouts - sees me going for a one hour run before breakfast/shower.

orourkeda1977 · 24-10-2018 12:20PM

I usually have great trouble getting up in the morning.

I'll start getting worried if I start waking up without a hard on. Then I'll really have trouble getting up.

josip · 24-10-2018 12:21PM

^^^^ What's the difference between a light on and a hard on ?

You can sometimes go asleep with a light on.

ginandtonicsky · 24-10-2018 12:27PM

Terrible morning person. Hate the world, hate my life, hate my job, hate the tube, want to curl back up in bed and die.

I do a lot of the classically terrible things, go to bed late, don't eat breakfast, lots of caffeine and a non perfect diet, but have started getting better with getting out of work in time for the gym and a healthy dinner before hitting the hay.

Still, I can't imagine a world where getting out of bed isn't a struggle and doesn't feel me with abject horror. Total night owl.

ifElseThen · 24-10-2018 12:29PM

Get yourself one of those fitness tracker with a sleep tracker. Might give you an interesting insight.
Here's mine from last night.

https://imgur.com/a/HCVXajO

I'm 37, a developer, rarely do overtime, sleep like a log. usually gone within 2-3 mins of hitting the pillow and sleep through. When I wake, am out of the bed within a minute and don't liein at the weekends. Rise and sleep at approx the same time 7 days a week.

I do be tired though, usually at weekends but not usually in work.

Am 16.5 stone and looking to reduce that for hopefully increased energy levels.

24-10-2018 12:34PM

There are 2 parts to this

1) Physical: If you eat well, exercise, look after yourself and get into a routine of sleeping and waking up at the same time, you won't feel tired.

However, if you binge drink until 4am on the weekend and stay in bed until 3pm the following day, your sleep cycle is going to be broken.

2) Mental: Perhaps more importantly is the mental side of things. We tend to ignore mental health as we don't properly understand it.

If you are really happy in your life, love your job etc etc, waking up will be easier.

If you are stressed, dislike your job, struggling financially, toxic friendships... All those things impact you.

Do you wake up feeling tired when you're really excited about something? Probably not

ifElseThen · 24-10-2018 12:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Your sleep cycle is going to be broken.

Yeah this is why I force myself not to liein at the weekends. Makes it a bit easier every Monday.

The mental aspect is critical, seems like a vicious circle too. Colleague has issues sleeping, and that contributes to their unhappiness and then the unhappiness impacts on their sleep patterns.

Dakota Dan · 24-10-2018 12:50PM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The better I eat, and the more active I am, the better I sleep and the getting up is easy.

I particularly find it's exercise that gets me more fresh in the mornings. After getting into exercise, the first few mornings are tough as the body is a little delicate, but once I push through that, I can spring out of bed.
I also note that my getting up time gets a little earlier as the weeks pass by.

Yep excercise is great for getting it up in the mornings ðŸ˜€

southcentralts · 24-10-2018 12:55PM

I read somewhere about sleep cycles where getting up in any multiple of 1.5 hours will be a lot easier such as 6, 7.5 or 9 hours or 4.5 if you are not lazy! if you drift off before hitting the pillow try a timer instead of an alarm as it starts from when you fall asleep not go to bed, i tried it but usually spend 20+ minutes concentrating really hard on clearing my mind to sleep, so i did not have much luck.

terrydel · 24-10-2018 12:57PM

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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.

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.

Ok, not in favour of people keeping those kind of animals as domestic pets, but thats a different debate so I wont go off-topic.

sbsquarepants · 24-10-2018 01:30PM

I have a house full of young kids (4 from 5 years down) - I'm generally up and down like a yo yo all night. Luckily, I can get by on 6 or 7 hours, moderately interupted with no real problems. I've always been a good sleeper, it doesn't take me long to get back to sleep after I've awoken. I also wake up around 6am no matter what time I go to bed at.

The flip side of that though is I sleep when I'm really tired, it doesn't matter where I am or what's going on around me! Plains, trains, automobiles, parties, dentists, bus stops, work - wherever - if I'm tired and I stop moving, i'll fall asleep. I've even dozed off mid sex on the odd occassion - it doesn't go down well!

Pac1Man · 24-10-2018 01:57PM

One of the best things I have done is to start getting up at 4am. Get up and go exercise straight away, no excuses. Have a shower and then have breakfast. Do some house chores and then leave for work.

Yes I am tired when I wake up first but that feeling is only temporary until I start exercising. By the time I leave for work I am wide awake. I go to bed between 8.00-8.30pm.

It might sound crazy but previously I would get home from work and basically not do much for about four hours due to tiredness before going to bed. Now I'm simply taking back those last two hours in the evening and moving them to the morning.

I'm obviously tired in the evening (but I would be anyway) but I'm now less tired during periods of the day when it matters most.

I would urge people struggling to at least try it for a week and see how it goes and maybe change the times to better suit your schedule.

wakka12 · 24-10-2018 02:05PM

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.

And Im sure youll meet many young people in their 20's studying some easy degree who are also tired all the time, everyone functions differently

Especially doubt theres much difference in natural physical energy levels between 40 and 50 regardless of the individual variation between people

Aongus Von Bismarck · 24-10-2018 04:13PM

This is a pretty depressing thread to read. We've never had as much free time as a species, yet people are complaining about being continuously exhausted. I think a lot of this is down to spending an inordinate amount of time staring at screens in a state of nervous outrage.

I sleep for 6 hours each night, and find it more than enough. I get to sleep at 11, and rise at 5 on the dot. The two hours before bed are spent winding down in a measured and balanced way. This means no interactions with modern technology. I read, and listen to some music. I'll have a cup of herbal tea, but no food. I sit in a state of awareness for 10 minutes before bed as part of my daily meditation practice. This is a gentle meditation designed to quiet the body and the mind before blissful sleep.

I awake fully refreshed. The first hour is very much 'me time'. The idea of getting up at the last minute, and rushing to work/college puzzles me. It automatically places you in a state of stress, which isn't good for your mental or physical wellbeing. I start the day with 20 minutes of mediation in an area I've set aside for just this purpose. It's astonishing how beneficial this is.

My weekday routines vary, but I'll always get a 5km run in as part of my waking experience. Breakfast is a meal to be enjoyed and savoured, and I take the time to prepare food that will nourish and sustain my body and mind for the opening half of the day. I refuse to be one of those gormless idiots who eats while they stare at their iPad. Only after breakfast is prepared and eaten will I take the time to see what is happening in the world. More and more this involves listening to the radio as opposed to consuming clickbait on the internet.

24-10-2018 04:20PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

This is a pretty depressing thread to read. We've never had as much free time as a species, yet people are complaining about being continuously exhausted. I think a lot of this is down to spending an inordinate amount of time staring at screens in a state of nervous outrage.

I sleep for 6 hours each night, and find it more than enough. I get to sleep at 11, and rise at 5 on the dot. The two hours before bed are spent winding down in a measured and balanced way. This means no interactions with modern technology. I read, and listen to some music. I'll have a cup of herbal tea, but no food. I sit in a state of awareness for 10 minutes before bed as part of my daily meditation practice. This is a gentle meditation designed to quiet the body and the mind before blissful sleep.

I awake fully refreshed. The first hour is very much 'me time'. The idea of getting up at the last minute, and rushing to work/college puzzles me. It automatically places you in a state of stress, which isn't good for your mental or physical wellbeing. I start the day with 20 minutes of mediation in an area I've set aside for just this purpose. It's astonishing how beneficial this is.

My weekday routines vary, but I'll always get a 5km run in as part of my waking experience. Breakfast is a meal to be enjoyed and savoured, and I take the time to prepare food that will nourish and sustain my body and mind for the opening half of the day. I refuse to be one of those gormless idiots who eats while they stare at their iPad. Only after breakfast is prepared and eaten will I take the time to see what is happening in the world. More and more this involves listening to the radio as opposed to consuming clickbait on the internet.

American Psycho is a rollicking good read.

jester77 · 24-10-2018 04:26PM

I'm usually ok, too busy with the kids to even think about it :pac:

I'm up at 6:30 each day, go to bed any time between 12:30 and 2:00. Last night it was 2:30, had a late gym session that I didn't finish until 12:30, chilled for an hour and then my daughter was awake until 2:30, took a while to get her back to sleep.

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-10-2018 04:26PM

ifElseThen wrote: »

Get yourself one of those fitness tracker with a sleep tracker. Might give you an interesting insight.
Here's mine from last night.

https://imgur.com/a/HCVXajO

I'm 37, a developer, rarely do overtime, sleep like a log. usually gone within 2-3 mins of hitting the pillow and sleep through. When I wake, am out of the bed within a minute and don't liein at the weekends. Rise and sleep at approx the same time 7 days a week.

I do be tired though, usually at weekends but not usually in work.

Am 16.5 stone and looking to reduce that for hopefully increased energy levels.

You sleep a whole lot sounder than I do.

josip · 24-10-2018 04:47PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

..., and I take the time to prepare food that will nourish and sustain my body and mind for the opening half of the day. ...

What happened to the kitchen staff you peasant?

24-10-2018 04:53PM

Acidogusto wrote: »

Why not just get an extra hour's sleep at night so you don't need to sleep during the day?

It's nice to sleep during the day, if needed. I'd rather an hour more at night with a thirty minute nap some time the next day.

Even without bad sleeps, naps are fantastic. I worked at home for a year on something and did it frequently, especially after something mentally draining.

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 24-10-2018 05:19PM

ELM327 wrote: »

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

Board's Law - As more threads or posts are made in After Hours, the probability of dole bashing approaches 1.

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-10-2018 05:21PM

Alvin Howling Toy wrote: »

Board's Law - As more threads or posts are made in After Hours, the probability of dole bashing approaches 1.

Even though it's become an in-joke here, it doesn't ever make it untrue though.

seamusk84 · 24-10-2018 05:30PM

I’ve found that, when I get home, by flicking the phone to airplane mode and switching off from communicating with the outside world except for my wife it really helps.

You have been dealing with people all day so it’s inportant to shut them out in the evening. Guaranteed to rest better and wind down properly.

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-10-2018 05:33PM

seamusk84 wrote: »

I’ve found that, when I get home, by flicking the phone to airplane mode and switching off from communicating with the outside world except for my wife it really helps.

You have been dealing with people all day so it’s inportant to shut them out in the evening. Guaranteed to rest better and wind down properly.

I don't need to put the phone in airplane to do that, I just don't answer it.

Are you tired when you get up in the morning

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