Those high energy mums. Where do you get your energy from?

[daisymay1020]

Where do you get that 'get up and go' from?

I heard someone say they don't ever sit down, because if they did, they wouldn't get back up again... so that's how they keep on going.

I just want to have more energy for my toddler. I don't right now. I can just about get out of bed, let alone whizz around and go here, there and everywhere.

What gives you enegry?

I don't stop. I also have a good diet and a good sleep routine. I exercise, even just a ten minute walk at lunch time works, and I do things for me too.

Bumping as I’d also love to know! I’m exhausted all of the time since having children (16 month old still up all night!!)

I’d love to know too. One of my friends is a mum of two girls under 8, works a challenging full-time job and is training for an ultra marathon. I’d love to ask her how she does it without seeming rude. She seems to go to the gym at 6 AM and running at 6 PM in the week, as far as I can tell. I am in awe. Meanwhile I scrape through the week chasing my tail and try to go out for 3 x 30 minute jogs to get some fresh air & hit my step count.

Honestly everyone is just different, some people are out at it from 6am until midnight and others crashed on the sofa by 7pm. I think it just is individuals rather some secret we can all unlock.

Good grief if a 10 min walk is considered exercise what is 'sedentary'?

Probably loads of support? I have 4 kids lone parent and no support it’s extremely tiring

@redheadsaregreat like she said even just a 10 min walk for exercise. Its still exercise whether you like it or not. Why try and shame her? It's better than nothing and it's all she can do. I bet you're one of them gym/exercise freaks that judge everyone because they don't do enough or doing it wrong.

I have a friend like this and she just lives of nervous energy, she is always asking me how I am so calm and serene when I'd just kind of low energy and placid by nature.

I find that the more I do, the more energy I have (up to a point of course, I mean being "busy" as opposed to "overloaded"). Eating well definitely helps.

All the mums at school fighting to be on the PTA and organising All The Things. I'm grateful to them. I don't know how they manage.

I got to work today and realised that although I'd brushed two peoples hair and two people's teeth, I had not managed my own.

For me and DH, the "secret" was being young! I take my hat off to older mums and dads. How do they cope? I don't think I would have coped well with having young children to contend with in my 40s.

Following too 🕵️‍♀️

I have a lot of energy and exercise a lot. High pressure job. 2 kids. Stopped at 2 kids deliberately so I would still have energy. I don’t watch much tv. Eat well. Even if I do feel tired I still crack on and usually find it helps feel more energised.

Don't be a dick. hth.

Good grief if a 10 min walk is considered exercise what is 'sedentary'?

She's just pre-emptying people saying they have no time for exercise.

You know, because whatever people say then someone else will jump on them and criticise.

I was young ha! Now that I’m heading straight towards 40 I am definitely slowing down (and needing more naps)

Given up ft work recently as well as just couldn’t do it anymore. When I had my first at 27 I was back working in my self employed job 3 weeks after birth, breast feeding all night feeds blah blah. Then 6 months I returned to my ft city career job waking up at 5am going for a run, then getting train around 7am arguing with dh who would leave work first to be home to sort dc out in the evening.

I also looked bloody fabulous. The complete opposite is true over a decade later for tiredness levels and looks so perhaps I did eventually succumb to not being able to sustain it all.

Getting up early without snoozing! Seriously, I function so much better on 7 hours sleep than I do when I snooze, plus it’s scientifically proven to make you feel worse.

I get up at 5am to sit and have a coffee in peace, this clears my mind for the day ahead meaning I don’t start the morning frazzled. I potter doing some jobs then do a 20 minute workout before getting showered and fully ready before the bambino is up at 6:30am.

I find prepping everything the night before means I can switch off fully for a few hours and still be asleep by 10pm.

Get the book The Miracle Morning. Game changer!

I commit. So I plan activities, book tickets, arrange play dates, tell my toddler what's coming up - so the framework is all there and I just get on with it. Plus my toddler is a great sleeper, but one of the reasons is that we knacker them out morning and afternoon, whether walk or scooter or activity or whatever. So we all sleep better (and at 3yrs+ I still get a 1.5hr lunchtime breather). I'm not a high energy person, I'm intrinsically a lazy person. Nor am I young. But this really does the trick for me.

I'm not a mum sadly. I get my energy from cocaine cookies massive mumsnet salads

Agree with those who say age ! I have 6 children the eldest 20 the youngest 7. The eldest few i breezed through the day just seemed to keep going.
i am in my 40s now and pretty much rely on an afternoon nap!

My sister in law is an absolute whirlwind. Three kids, interesting job, pta, political activism, busy social life, vats of home cooking and all three of her kids play sports and musical instruments to excellent standards. I'd hate her if only she wasn't also brilliant, hilarious company and a total rock in a crisis.

She's just built like that, I wouldn't even attempt a fifth of her activities.

I had my two children young so i had loads of energy.
I had no support at all single mum and i was on the go non-stop I was very committed.
Always had a spotless home. Everything was done kids in bed at 7.30 i was crashed out by 8.
Now they are adults i wouldnt have the energy to do it now.

What a nobby comment.

I am very busy and always have been.
4 kids (youngest now 13 so a lot easier)
2 dogs
Work 5 days (in 2 different jobs)
Volunteer at a campaigning group
Love going out a lot (pubs, clubbing occasionally, gigs, theatre)
Play in a team sport twice a week
Do a drama club once a week
Try and go to the gym every day.
I have to push on through sometimes as have a chronic health condition. This makes me feel shite a lot of the time but have learnt to work around it. Often start work at 7am then have a crash in the afternoon and work early eve.

Agree with shield - you are or are not full of beans. You may be able to work at being more like that, or you may not, but if you aren't naturally inclined that way, I don't know many people who changed their inherent self post children (on the energy front anyway). I'm a potato with limbs, always have been. I have bursts of energy, but my favourite thing is sleep and I have zero interest in having all the energy.