...to ask how you get out of bed in the morning?

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Just that really. I mean how do you literally force yourself to get up? I snooze my alarm 5/6 times, feel terrible, start every day rushed and late. Each day I think it’ll be different but it never is. desperate for strategies! This has only started in the last year or so - I used to be able to spring out of bed on the alarm. Is there anything that makes it easier?

I got a teasmaid.

It. Changed. My. Life.

I now have 10/15 mins in a dark bedroom tucked up in the covers with my cuppa doing a bit of mindfulness / meditation.

Then when my infant captors come roaring in at 7 I'm ready for them!!

I bought a sunrise alarm but could smell the bulb turning on. Had to bin it.

What kind of person recommends stopping drinking coffee on this kind of thread?

You're not a tea drinker are you?

Buy a new "old fashioned" alarm with no snooze function and a loud ringer, its what I use. I place it across the other side of the room, not next to me. You have no choice then but to get up straight away to switch it off and whilst I'm up I usually open the curtains straight away and put the TV on.

Get older. That works.

It's a bummer - my eyes open automatically and that's it, I'm up. I used to be just like everyone else who struggles and would hit the snooze button multiple times, but that changed some time ago! Damn ageing - it means I also can't lie in.

fusion I'm close to getting a teasmade too.

If you get a teasmaid where does the milk go?

I literally have no idea how I get out of bed. On autopilot, far too late generally. It’s one of the hardest things I do every single day.

I’ve had 10 years if dc getting up really early I literally can’t lie in even if I could. I tend to surface around 5 and listen for the onslaught of a 10 and 5 year old I have no choice but to get dragged up

I set the alarm later so I only have 1/2 hour to leave the house. So I just have to get up to catch my bus. I rush around and dh sees the kids off. I find this works much better than allowing more time.

Up before 6 here too. We're early birds, even on holiday. I don't work but I love getting up early, get so much done first thing. Up at 5 this week as I always have coffee with my husband before he goes to work and he's going in very early this week.

I just don't ever ever ever hit snooze. It's not an option. The alarm is off, therefore I have to get up. And the alarm goes off 10 minutes earlier than it needs to so I have 10 minutes cuddling the cat and drinking coffee - makes the whole shower/makeup/getting kids up thing so much easier.

It's not usually the waking that is problematic - for me, it is the reluctance actually to get out of my nice warm pit, instead of reaching for book, iPad or radio knob, and settling in for the duration...
In fact, it's DH making the tea downstairs that does the trick. ☕️

I use the Sleep-As-An-Droid app linked to my FitBit and it wakes me up when I'm already near waking. It makes an enormous difference.

Instead of being dragged from a deep sleep and feeling like crap all day, I wake up reasonably easily :)

Force myself straight away, eventually it becomes normal... just takes time

I have to leave the house at 7am to get to school for 7.30 so my alarm is set for the latest it possibly can be in order for me to get all the things done that I need to before leaving the house (showering, dressing, make up, collecting all my school stuff etc). I know that if I hit snooze then I'll be late for school and hit the morning traffic, which I hate. I like to have a good hour at school before the kids arrive so it's a bit more chilled.

It's awfully depressing at the moment though - I get up when it's dark and I don't get home until it's dark. Thank goodness for collecting the children from the playground twice a day or I'd get no vitamin D! LOL

Do you find your job stressful. Long time lower stress levels can cause underactive thyroid. I got diagnosed with it about four months before being diagnosed with anaemia. Both were as a result of going to the gp for something else, but all made sense. Dh had to wake me several times and I would then fall to sleep after my breakfast. Once I was then up and going I was OK for a while. I also had a job I didn't enjoy which I think may have been a contributor. I had just put the tiredness down to being busy, not having a great diet by comfort eating etc.

Actually @MeadowHay has hit the nail on the head - DH bringing me breakfast in bed every morning is what really makes it easier to get up!

Put your alarm out of reach so you have to get up to turn it off, then stay up.

I was always like this before children. One thing that worked for me is this technique I read somewhere...

Repeatedly practise getting up, whilst you are wide awake.

Set your alarm for a minute from now, and lie in bed under the covers.

When the alarm goes off, immediately go through the following steps:

1. reach over and switch off alarm
2. arms down by sides and push yourself up to sitting
3. swing one leg then the next out of bed.
4. both feet flat on floor
5. stand up
6. Grab towel and head to bathroom. Start shower etc.

The key is to keep setting the alarm and repeating the process 20 times from start to finish, to get it ingrained.

Think about each step as you do it (arms down, swing leg out, etc) but don’t stop between each step, it should all be seamless and immediate.

When you try it in the morning for real it will be like clockwork.

Hope this, or one of the other suggestions, works for you!

Try leaving your phone downstairs with the alarm on loud with a really irritating ring tone. Mine just won't give up. It's happy to keep sounding the alarm until I go down and switch it off. That and the cat...

I ignozre all alarms. Then dh brings me a cup of tea and if I'm not very discipl8ned, I'll start reading (book) with my tea and that'll be me for the next hour or so.

Luckily, I only work part time and don't have to be in until 11ish.

I use DDs tiny Peppa Pig milk jug and it's cold enough in the night that milk lasts until morning. In the summer, I've used frozen milk ice cubes which defrost overnight.

I never snooze my alarm. As soon as it goes I immediately get up. If I'm lucky, my eyes have opened by the time I reach the bathroom.

HeadBasher that tip sounds really interesting - I’ve never heard of doing that before but I will try it. Thank you!