Getting up early is actually good isn’t it?

I've found being a morning person that I'm not very good at getting stuff done in the evening, so also get this sense that the day is over if I have a lay in. I'm actually trying to be more active in the evenings. Not exercise per say, but not doom scrolling from 7:30 which is what I do now.

I defintely am an early morning person. We were out running before 7am this morning. If i get up late I feel like I've wasted the day. Half 7 is a lie in here.

Not a morning person, I feel sub human before about 7.30am, almost incapable of speech and thought! I get a surge of energy mid afternoon when most people are flagging and get loads of stuff done then, I feel much more mentally alert then than I do in the morning. I've just blitzed the kitchen and bathroom, put a wash on and tidied my bedroom. This morning the mere prosepect of it was making me tired.

I like being up before everyone else in the house. I get some time to just be quiet in the morning, to get done anything I want/need to do without other people being around. I always feel like I’ve had a more productive and calm start to the day if I don’t have to talk to anyone for at least 30 mins after waking up,

I hate getting up early but ultimately I find it doesn't make much difference. If I get up two hours earlier than usual, I go to bed two hours earlier than usual because I'm tired, so my hours awake are the same.

Oh really? Interesting. Maybe I'm just lazy 😂

Exposure to early morning light is said to have health benefits, but I haven't been able to find any clear guidance as to a) what constitutes early and b) whether it's ok to go back to bed afterwards.

That might be because doing night shift isn't just as being night owl. People do their shift then they still have to do other stuff, it flips clock on any circadian rythm.
Night shift and sleeping 1m-9am are not comparable

I voted YABU because there is not a universal/ objective “good” or “bad” answer; it’s highly subjective.

If you have a typical CRY-1 (human circadian rhythm) gene, getting up early can give you a harmless advantage, enabling you to function within chrononormative patterns.

If (like me) you have the mutation that means you are at your most alert and functional late at night, with a natural going-to-sleep time of c. 4am, then getting up early is the path to ill-health, exhaustion, and likely burnout. (Those of us with the delayed circadian rhythm mutation live shorter lives, in worse health, statistically.)

6.30 is a lay in for me 😊

We're up at 5 during the week and that's when my body clock wakes me up. Sometimes i lie there trying hard to lay in but then i think of all the things that need doing and i'm just like 'that's it i'm getting up!'

I was watering the front garden at 6 this morning and it was sooooo peaceful.

we're boring buggers and in bed by 9.30 tho

Yes cortisol is higher from the moment you open your eyes it doesn’t matter what time of day that actually is though.

One of my favourite treats is waking up early naturally and sitting outside with a coffee while the day is still.

Also feel better about the day if I've got the chores done earlier and can think of the rest of the day as my own/family time.

I quite like staying in bed too, though I generally do that in the evenings by going to bed early and reading.

I completely agree!
I was out with the dog at 6, everything done by 10.
This week I’ll be out even earlier, soon after 5 as tiddler dog struggles in hot weather- I’ll be knackered by lunchtime!

Totally agree
I have been having difficulty with sleep recently and it's been getting me stressed. I now get up when my body says to even if it's 2am.

Not for me, later the better. I feel worse the earlier it is, apparently cortisol is high first thing.

Early to me is 4-5am, that’s when i’m awake daily. 9am is a long lie in for me, never happens.

There are lots of studies that actually indicate this. Now of course that is not to say if you are a night owl you are wrong in any way as we are all different and have different circadian rhythms but there are several studies that show that people doing night shifts have higher rates of cancer, chronic illness and depression compared (plus lower life expectancy) to those who work a normal day pattern.

Yes as it turns out. I was a night owl until age 29. I’m 31 now and that 6/7am-8am hour is my favourite of the day. Birds singing, misty light, coffee, the world waking up. Lovely. I pop a wash in, check my plants, empty the dishwashers and tidy a bit and by 9am the jobs are almost over.

I hate a lie in. One of the few benefits to not having little children any more is no longer having to pretend breakfast in bed is a treat!

I’m an early riser and am normally in the gym at 5.30am and home by 6.30am. It gives me time to have a coffee and shower before starting to wake the reluctant teens up.

I’ve always been an early morning kind of person though and do try and lie in at weekends but it never works and I just wake up feeling groggy.

Yes get alot done. I cant sleep late or I be wide awake tonight joy of menopause. But yes op I got bit done this morning.

I get early 6 days a week, i love it. I usually sit outside and wake up for half an hour in the morning when it’s slient other than the birds singing. The other day I wake up between 8.30-10am otherwise I would need to nap on the other days.

Good for you. House of night owls here that only get up early if a flight is involved.

You should do whatever suits you best. But I do get a bit narked at the suggestion that sleeping later is somehow lazy. Some of us have body clocks which are naturally tuned later. If I could follow my natural pattern in summertime I'd be sleeping roughly 3am-11am but obviously that doesn't really work with children, so I try to get up by 9 at the weekends.

I like a small one to catch up but like you feel I've wasted the day if I lay in too long.