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If you got up 45 mins earlier

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Draconis · 29/12/2022 09:09

What would you do with time?
I want to do this (when we get back to our normal routine) and fit in 20 mins of exercise and 20 mins of reading.

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2reefsin30knots · 29/12/2022 18:16

I get up at 5.15 and work in my home office 5.30-6.30. I then get ready and have breakfast. Leave at 7.15 to drop my DS off and start the day at work at 7.35ish.

I am not adding stuff into that!!

GreekGod · 29/12/2022 18:23

Dogsgottabone · 29/12/2022 11:09

I already set my alarm for 4.30am and aim to be walking or doing weights by 5am.

This gives me an hour to myself before I get the DC up and do the school run and go to work. I also walk in my lunch break.

I do go to bed at 9pm on a weekday and sometimes 8pm at the weekend. This gives me about 7hrs sleep.

I couldn't go to work without exercising first, it makes me feel sluggish.

wow - that is amazing, well done.

Dogsgottabone · 29/12/2022 18:31

GreekGod · 29/12/2022 18:23

wow - that is amazing, well done.

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Thanks, but I am an early bird and I don't find it difficult. However I to to sleep before my DC and children every day and I can't watch anything after about 8pm, ever.

I've never really had a lie in as an adult, I don't know how you stay in bed once you've woken up!

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BedTaker · 29/12/2022 18:32

I always stay in bed until the last possible second, so this would never work for me. I do absolutely zero of anything productive or relaxing in the mornings, I don't even have breakfast. Wake up, shower, dressed, teeth, poo just before I leave the house (annoyingly it almost always comes after my shower), out the door. I know lots of people do housework before work, or excercise, so it's 'done'. Or watch telly. No, nothing for me.

I do everything in the evenings, I excerise late at night and I actually find it helps me sleep better.

Pinkjacket22 · 29/12/2022 18:42

17caterpillars1mouse · 29/12/2022 17:41

I have a child that senses the moment I open my eyes and is up and awake before I've even moved. How? I don't know, but getting up early would just result on her following me around talking to me and subsequently wake up her sister too. I see no benefit in waking up earlier unfortunately

Ive got one of these too! Hate getting up early when I know I'll be emotionally depleted before I leave the house! I do totally love him honest. Thankfully he's a bit more tired in the winter so getting away with it a bit more these days.

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