I get it stuck in my head every three days or so that i'm going to get up early (work 12pm to 12am) on the days I work, take the dog out then go for a spin on the bike to wake myself up/try to get fitter. But every morning without fail I get up too late to fit everything i need to do in.
I'm sure it cant just be that i'm carrying too much weight.......so has anyone any ideas for getting my fat ass out of bed so it doesn't stay fat?
I use an alarm clock.
It's cos you are not a morning person.
Real measurable differences in brain chemistry between people describing themselves as larks or owls.
i use a small child never fails to get me up 3 minutes before my actual alarm clock goes off **Shakes Fists
Take a load of speed and just don't go to bed.
Put a sandwich near your bed before going to sleep. If you are too fat you will not be able to resist it in the morning, if you are not too fat then you will be fine to leave it.
HTH.
place the alarm clock closer to the kettle than the bed and you'll get up
Put a sandwich near your bed before going to sleep. If you are too fat you will not be able to resist it in the morning, if you are not too fat then you will be fine to leave it.
I used to get offended at comments like that, but that genuinley made me laugh 😆
I don't really use an alarm clock.
I use a zest for life that sees me leap out of bed every morning hungry to get down the gym by 7am. HTH
You can get hoists for the bedroom.
HTH
Real measurable differences in brain chemistry between people describing themselves as larks or owls.
Is that actually true?
For as long as I can remember, I've never been a morning person. As a kid I could never get up for school, and as an adult it's still a real struggle of a morning.
I've tried going to bed at 8pm, going to bed at 4am, and everything inbetween. I've tried eating before turning in, drinking, abstaining, nothing makes any difference.
I always thought it was just me being crap.
what's with the HTH at the end of posts?......is it hard to handle?
It's not important enough to you. Stay in bed.
I'm not sure about any chemistry but I'm awake before 6 every day, no alarm required
At the moment I'm actually getting out for a ride 3 morning a week too
Hope That Helps.
Early Bird / Night Owl are surely just excuses for being grumpy and/or lazy?
How hard can it be?
Piece of cake.
Why not invent something that combines the features of this
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Imagine how much fun waking up would be then eh?
Prep everything the night before to give you no excuse.
You probably find yourself saying that you can't find x or y, your riding top isn't washed etc.....
Make it as difficult as possible to find an excuse not to do it.
And put your alarm out of reach so you have to get up to turn it off.
HTH - Hope That Helps.
Early Bird / Night Owl are surely just excuses for being grumpy and/or lazy?
Nope. Although society labels us this way.
It's a serious issue actually...
http://www.suite101.com/content/circadian-rhythms-and-sleep-a185256
More techie here:
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090311/full/458142a.html
Try drinking heavily the night before, this will ensure that you wake up due to the overwhelming thirst and urge to pee. See to those matters then straight on the bike and off you go!
maybe so Mol but the body can be trained... we can ALL adapt to different situations, or we'd have died out long ago...
Kev
My wife and youngest daughter both wake early and are instantly [i]wide-awake-look-at-this-what-do-you-think-what-shall-we-do[/i]. At 8pm, they crash and are asleep.
My eldest daughter and I can and do wake early, but it takes us a while to get going: leave us alone, watch TV, drink tea for a while. At the end of the day, it takes us an hour or two of reading to switch off and go to sleep.
This causes some issues.
maybe so Mol but the body can be trained
Read the article? You can force yourself to against your body clock but it's really not good for you, and you're never going to be happy about it.
So are you saying that you're lazy or grumpy or both Mol? 🙂
Frequently both.
Is it possible to be both a lark and an owl?
an ork?
Lawl?
Based on that article can I refuse to teach lectures at 9am because of the increased risk of cancer to me and some of the students?
It's coz you are focussing on losing weight. Am sure you are motivated to do that, but if you want to get motivated to go for a ride you have to focus on going for a ride. Or find a way to enjoy it (riding not losing weight). Long term goals don't get people out of bed, instant gratification does.
Cut down on the booze. I positively leap out of bed nowadays. Always had to drag my sorry arse out of warm lovely cozy bed and duvet at the last minute. Since we've knocked a lot of the drinking on the head, I'm awake at 7, and straight up.
apart from the weekend though, LOL
I find wetting the bed helps
To be fair, working til midnight won't be doing your chances of getting up early any favours... But it may get easier now that it's lighter in the mornings - and once it starts getting warmer too.
I used to be a real morning person, uni has began to change me, although still awake by 8/8.30 most days!
Work experience this week and I need to be out of the house by 8.30 and feeling actually awake and ready to go by 9! Setting an alarm means I wake up at least 10 minutes before it actually goes off, and then knowing I have to be somewhere means I get up.
Put your alarm clock on the other side of the room, then you have to get up to turn it off!
Based on that article can I refuse to teach lectures at 9am because of the increased risk of cancer to me and some of the students?
The educational perspective is interesting. I was listening to a program on Radio 4 about a school in Denmark (sounded like a college actually) where they timetabled courses such that you could attend either 7-3 or like 11 til 6 if you wanted. People who were previously under-achieving wasters immediately became great students because they weren't battling sleep deprivation all the time.
I have about 12 alarms set on my phone to go off from 615 until 730
on average, I get up 1hr30 mins after the first alarm goes off
I'm a grumpy ****er in the morning
and for the rest of the day
If you have a partner living with you, get them to jetwash you at the time you need to be got up.
Is that a euphemism?
Could be. Either stands a good chance.
Brakes +1
As a teenager my mother once got so fed up of telling me to get out of bed the morning after the night before that she came into my room, looked away, lifted the corner of the duvet and threw a frozen chicken into the bed.
Result = instant awake + rather unhappy
threw a frozen chicken into the bed.
Is [i]that[/i] a euphemism?
I have about 12 alarms set on my phone to go off from 615 until 730
on average, I get up 1hr30 mins after the first alarm goes off
I'm a grumpy ****er in the morning
and for the rest of the day
+1.
If I set an alarm an hour before I have to be in (takes 30 mins to get in) I'll generally sleep right through it, regardless of how loud it is or where I place it - I'll get up, cross the room, turn it off and go back to bed without even knowing I've done it. I have to set a succession of alarms starting at about 2 hours before work, slowly getting more and more annoying and distant. By about 6 or 7 alarms I'll be awake enough for conscious thinking and get up, feeling aweful, having less sleep than I need and not being happy. Left alone I wake happily at 10:30 to 11am without an alarm. The problem is society doesn't like that much, everyone else works to normal times and you miss out on loads because you can't do DIY at midnight and miss 50% of the meetings in work!
I love getting up early in the sense that I seem to have massively long days when I do, and its nice to have long evenings to do stuff in like go for a ride, I just never can make it a reality.
I don't know what your problem with getting up is. I wake up every morning with a smile upon my face and my natural exuberance spills out all over the place.
Obviously not crepuscular.
Simply move the alarm out of arm's reach
Simply move the alarm out of arm's reach
Dont know about the OP, but it doesn't work for me. I regularly leave the alarm in the next room or downstairs and don't even know I've gone to it, picked it up, turned it off and fallen asleep with it on the bed next to me. I guess it's a bit like sleepwalking.
Our house is similar to Miketualy. Mrs OJ is a morning person and the rest of us are not. The main problem is that she is ready for bed at the same time as the nippers and the atmosphere in the mornings is generally a bit tetchy.