Calling all NON morning people....

Seriously, I don't know why there is such a stigma about adults taking naps. haha.

My Dr. actually encourages them! I tell everyone they're Dr. approved so no one can say anything, :laugh:

I'm not a night owl ( I turn into a pumpkin around 9pm ) but I'm not an early bird either. I am fine with getting up and out of bed, but I want my coffee, GMA, and I do NOT want to be bothered!! My co-workers know not to mess with me until after lunch. Haha. If there's a cure for that, do let me know lol.

I've never been one to bounce out of bed in the morning, not even when I was a kid and had energy to spare. Like you, I wish I could do that. However, I'm not really grumpy in the mornings either...just very, very groggy. I've been doing a couple of things lately that seem to be working so far.

1. I've been sleeping on the couch on nights I feel particularly tired because I don't sleep as soundly or as comfortably so it isn't as appealing to sleep in. This probably wouldn't work for someone who's married, though.
2. I've been setting the stove timer to go off at 6am. Crazy as it sounds, I am more likely to hear the stove timer in my kitchen than the alarm clock right next to my head. I think it's because a loud beeping coming from another part of the house makes me think something is wrong so it wakes me up. Also, the alarm clock is in close proxitmity so I can hit the snooze in my sleep without even knowing the alarm ever went off. To turn off the stove timer, I have to get up, walk into the kitchen, and turn on the light. By then I'm pretty well awake...even if not bright eyed and bushy tailed.

I'd like to get one of those alarms that shines a light on the ceiling and it gradually gets brighter, mimicking a sunrise. They're pretty expensive, though, and I don't know for sure that they would work for me.

When I lived on campus me and my roommate at the time found this alarm clock in a catalog for college dorm decorations. If you ever seen those toy helicopter blades that shoot off (blade only, not the actually helicopter...well this thing was like that. Only it had a senor in the blade. It would fly around the room with the alarm going crazy. You couldn't turn off the alarm until you ran around trying to catch the flying blade and put it back on the base.

By that time you're either fully awake or ready to kill someone :laugh:

I'm not a morning person. I never have been and I doubt I ever will be. Sometimes, especially in the summer, I wish I could be one of those people who get up with the sunrise and start their day right away all cheery and peppy. Can't do it though.

So, I personally drink a lot of coffee in the mornings b/c I have three young kids and I have to get up early. I prep as much as I can in the evening for the next morning. Breakfast prep, pre-pack their lunches, lay out clothes, etc so I don't have to think a whole lot. Then once I get them off to school I eat and wake up some more.

I do my exercising in the afternoon or evening usually. I usually run in the afternoon and do an exercise dvd (P90X or JM) in the evening.

I'm NOT a morning person and I embrace it. I just figure my schedule is a little different than everyone else's. Since I'm still in college it is working out pretty well for me I sleep 2am-10am. I get my full 8 hours sleep and still have 3 hours in the morning to get things done before class.

I'm not a morning person either. I've just kinda accepted it as fact at this point. Lol.

At 57 years old, and having working 37 years on a schedule where I have to get up early............I have come to the conclusion that some people are NEVER EVER going to be morning people! I am one. I set my alarm for 6:03 (I just like the odd number). Often, I wake up JUST before it goes off......I think that's just my morning pattern. I don't LIKE getting up, but try to do so on the first buzz.........will occasionally hit the snooze, but not often.

I don't have to be to work until 8:00, and it's a 10 minute drive. But I NEED those two hours to get into the groove of my day..........and I take my time with it. I know I cannot adjust my schedule now..........I try to get to bed by 11:00 pm, and can function quite well on 6 good hours of sleep.

I will never be a morning exerciser, either. Nope........not gonna happen.

This ain't changin' now, folks. But retirement beckons, and then I can FINALLY be on my body's schedule!!! (maybe

Sometimes, especially in the summer, I wish I could be one of those people who get up with the sunrise and start their day right away all cheery and peppy. Can't do it though.

I say every summer I'm going to make the effort to be a morning person to make the most of the lovely long days, NEVER happens! lol

I also do my workouts at night after my boys go to bed, it's the only time I have the energy to do it! I'll never be one of them people who wakes up a couple of hours early to do a workout, I love my bed toooooo much! lol :laugh:

I exercise after work since I have to leave for work before 7. Straight from work to the fitness center, then home and shower and dinner. Days that I work out are eternal...