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Scrutinise my day and help me become more energised!

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MrsMurphyIWish · 15/01/2025 06:21

46, on HRT, low BMI, good diet.

Typical day:

Alarm: 4.30 for hour of exercise
6: breakfast and get kids up
7.15 leave house to drop DS at breakfast club and off to work
5: pick up DS from club, go home and eat dinner
6-7: marking whilst cooking dinner for next day
7-8: bed time for DS (autistic so needs a structured bedtime)

DH does breakfast club/after school on his day off (other days he leaves and gets back too late and takes DD to her extra curricular).

Saturdays is housework, marking and making sure kids do homework. Also fixtures for DD.

Sunday is crying in a dark room 😂

I’m pretty sure it’s menopause related but have been on HRT for over a year.

Any advice or is this a life of a menopausal woman with a pre- teen and teen?

I will come back to thread but have parent evening later so hopefully can check some responses beforehand!

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HowToSaveAWife · 15/01/2025 06:39

How much water are you having as well as the coffee? If you're having as much coffee as you say you are, you're probably having a caffeine crash and that's not helpful. I gave up coffee recently and I feel tonnes better.

Worth doing bloods too and make sure you're not lacking anything.

You also need a protein based snack and maybe move your wake up to 5am and do 45 mins of exercise instead.

Mairzydotes · 15/01/2025 06:36

Are you going too long between food ?

What about a protein snack ? Drink plenty of water.

I agree , the 4:30 wake ups are odd. Sometimes sleep is more beneficial to well being than exercise.

GrazeConcern · 15/01/2025 06:33

Do you have to exercise for an hour? I’d be tempted to half the exercise time to have you an extra 1/2 hour in bed. How old are your DC, if primary age homework of no benefit so I’d take a more lackisdasival approach to that. You say marking so assume you’re a teacher? Any new marking strategies on the horizon - lots of my teacher friends only mark assessments now and the rest of the time they give verbal feedback or feedback whilst tasks are done.

Outsourcing/making dinner easier? We both work FT and we have a couple of easy nights meal wise - one night is always beans on toast night (or a jacket potato) , and we have pizzas (just supermarket) every Friday.

mylittledoggie · 15/01/2025 06:32

That sounds like a slog. How much fun stuff do you do? With or without kids?

Could you do exercise at lunch at all so you didn't have to get up so early?

Do you have a lie in on a weekend or still up at 4.30?

LandSharksAnonymous · 15/01/2025 06:31

I’ve always found that waking up that early, even if I go to bed super early, is more exhausting than going to bed an hour later and waking an hour later.

I’d try moving your exercise to 8PM then going to bed at 9PM and getting up at 05:30/05:45. I did that (I used to be up at 04:15) and it’s been a total game-changer for me in terms of energy!

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MrsMurphyIWish · 15/01/2025 06:31

Agix · 15/01/2025 06:29

How low is your BMI, and can you describe your "good diet"?

Must be about 20/21? I’m 5’ 7” and 9 stone 3.

Breakfast: cereal Lunch: something and salad sandwich Dinner: something and vegetables Snacks are oranges and apples. I drink too much coffee - must have 6 mugs a day but I’m a teacher, it’s a staple 😂

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Agix · 15/01/2025 06:29

How low is your BMI, and can you describe your "good diet"?

ZaraSkyTraveler · 15/01/2025 06:27

Getting up at 430 would kill me…

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MrsMurphyIWish · 15/01/2025 06:27

8pm. I go to bed after DS goes down so I typically have 7 hours.

It’ll be less tonight as wont be home til 8.30 but typically I go to bed at 8.

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WonderingWanda · 15/01/2025 06:24

What time are you going to bed if you get up at 4.30?