To think I can become a morning person?

[walksonthebeach]

I'm usually the type of person that has a lie on at the weekend & only getting up early if I have to but now with this lockdown & not having a routine I'm lazing in bed every day until around 12 every day & then I have no motivation to do anything for the rest of the day. I haven't exercised for weeks which is not like me at all. I'm starting to feel really crap in myself. I'm usually a night owl but I'd love to become a morning person. I feel my day would be so much more productive & I'd feel better in myself & I'd love it to become a habit that I can carry through to when things get back to normal. Any early birds out there that can share their tips?

I have more chance of being a size 8 than I have being a morning person.

I’m very much an owl. A fat one.

I've always been a lark -even if I go to bed really late, I get up early.

I can't often get more than 6 hours sleep, and I simply cannot sleep in in the morning (I'm happy having coffee and papers for a little while). I love the mornings actually - and it's so nice to get up before everyone else, have coffee in a quiet house and go for a run when it's sunrise (less so in the dark in the winter).

I can't give any tips - I've always been like this.

I wish I was a night person. But I’m in bed asleep by 8.30 pm as I can’t keep my eyes open ( in bed now about to lie down ). And I can’t sleep past 5am. I would like an evening with my husband.

Tip no 1, go to bed earlier

Night owls make melatonin on a different schedule to larks so if we go to bed earlier, we lie there. For a very long time. Going to bed does not mean you sleep.

I’m naturally a night owl, when I was at uni I worked in nightclubs and it was great. I would go to work for 10/11pm, finish between 2/4am and would wake up about around 12pm to go to lectures and do my studying.

I am now forced to be a morning lark, I start work at 7.30am so get up around 5.30am. I am in routine now so I don’t mind it so much, though WFH at the moment this has been great, as I don’t have to wake up until 7am, and can stay up until 11pm and still get enough sleep, this is a good routine for me. I still get woken up early at weekends by the cats wanting to be fed so rarely get out of routine. I’m also pregnant which seems to wake me up earlier as well.

No tips I’m afraid, I think just staying in a constant routine is your best chance. I do find I am more proactive if I am out of bed earlier, but I think deep down I will always be a night owl.

I’m a morning person. Usually up at 6 am and quite often in the supermarket soon after.
I can’t remember not being Like this. If I ever sleep in until nearer 8 it feels like the most wonderful long lie. If I try to get any longer I get a sore head.

Having a baby then a toddler has forced me to be a morning person

I am not a morning person. I became one last june when my times changed for gym. So up at 5:30. It was horrendous for the first few weeks. Then I loved it. But since this lockdown I've gone down hill. Crap routine and eating like a pig!

So, I made a deal with myself from today on wards I'm up early (7:30) walk, then kids sorted. Treat on a Saturday (something to look forward too) I'm hoping this works. Although I actually have to force myself. I literally had an argument with myself this morning to get out of bed but I was glad I got up.

I'm naturally a night owl but becoming a parent forced me into a productive morning person. I'd say just enjoy the lie ins but maybe have a rule of must shower by 10am

I heard somewhere that it takes 3 weeks to break a habit. So maybe if you force yourself to get up early every day for three weeks you might find your body clock has reset itself by the end of the three weeks. I’m naturally a night owl but my alarm goes off at 6.30 am for work and I find now that even if I don’t set my alarm I now naturally wake up at about 6.30 am anyway. Good luck!

Naturally I'm a night owl but like everyone else in normal life I have to get up for work. At the start of lockdown I was getting up later every morning - came to a head when I found myself waking up at 10 am. I made myself the rule that I had to get up and do something every morning. During the week I make myself get up at 8 am (asleep by 11 pm), have breakfast and then get the kids doing their school work and do my chores in the house.

The afternoon is for reading and exercise. Saturday I let myself sleep until 9. Lockdown is hard enough without setting yourself a stringent routine.

Cut out the carbs. It absolutely transforms mornings for me. I wake up feeling rested, not tired, then I just get up... like, I just get out of bed without pressing snooze a hundred times or dropping back to sleep, or lying there resentful at the thought of getting up.

I’m a night owl. I really don’t think I can’t change. I’ve always been like it. My Mum said that as a baby I slept 10 til 10. I remember as a child (when I was put to bed at normal child hours like 7 or 8) lying awake for hours which was so miserable.

I was a teen, studen, young adult who like to stay up late and sleep late. Have never minded working into the evening but can’t get up.

I could do it for a bit while my kids were tiny but now I’m back where I was with late hours. If I get the chance I can easily lie until midday and I love it. The days when I can do that I feel healthier, even if I’ve gone to bed late.

I’ve always been a night owl so I’m always awake into the early hours - for me there is something magical about that time of night and I always feel at my best and most alert! 🦉 My Dad is the same, he hates early mornings and struggles with them as I do. Try as I might I just cannot change who I am!

I'm a night owl but we dont have curtains in our bedroom at the moment as we recently moved and it definitely helps with getting up earlier as it's so bright.

I definitely feel less tired in the morning as I'll often wake up on a saturday thinking its eg 10am and it will only be 8.

This has then helped me get to sleep a bit earlier, whereas I used to go to sleep between 12am-1am I know seem to fall asleep between 11 and 12.

I'm going to try and keep it up and when we do get curtains try and get light ones. When I've had black out curtains previously I've had to set alarms as if I didnt I could sleep until 1pm - it was as if my body just didnt know to wake up even if I'd been asleep for 11 hours.

I'm a night owl surrounded by larks.

I think early rising, achieving and productivity are well overrated. The larks in my family claim moral superiority, not realising there is no light without dark. They are bland, joyless and uncreative people and they bore themselves into sleeping by 9pm generally.

There's a reason why romance, bonding with newborns and philosophical awakenings tend to happen at night. Business, politics, science and all boring things look like they happen in the day... but the cogs and thinking behind anything important run late through the night.

Nocturnal animals are wiley and cool. Just compare the nightime cat who speaks in silence yet owns you, vs the in-your-face yapping daytime dog, always desperate for your love.

Anyway, i am an owl in lark feathers, thanks to a boring corporate job and then kids.

Earlier at 8:30pm as DH could barely keep his eyes open, I said, "We'd have more and better quality sex if you were an owl."

He said the same back to me replacing 'owl' with 'lark'.

We are as different as night and day. My advice is you can certainly train yourself into larkness, but why if you dont need to?

I think its really really hard to shift your natural body clock, I'm sitting here wide awake , I need to go to bed but will probably take an hour to go to sleep. Yesterday I shampooed our carpets at 9-10pm, husband thought I was mad but id rather do it then than in the morning. Naturally i wake up late between 9-10 am but have to get up early for work and normally school runs, I'm not a nice person early mornings but lockdown and working from home make it easier.
Larks generally have a superiority complex but as a pp they usually bore themselves to sleep by 9pm🤣
However if I am awake early before others wake, it can be magical to be outside, dawn chorus, sunrise, frost on the grass, early morning mist and peace and quiet.

3 weeks to break a habit? I've been waking up at 6am for 15 years and I still hate it. My next job will start at 9 am or later.

I am naturally a night owl - it’s literally in my genes (did one of those gene tests).

But. I have reset my body clock and now wake up much earlier. I am so much happier for it. All the best stuff happens in the morning. Right now 6am and I am in bed with a cup of tea contemplating my day. So much better than staying up.

I'm naturally a morning person, I've been awake since 5.30. I have my owl 3 year old laying next to me asleep so am having to be very quiet. Incidentally, through sheer bad luck, my lark 2 year old is up with my owl husband. We ended up with the wrong child overnight!

1. Morning sex.

1. Followed by a walk with a little makeup on, as part of the feelbgoid factor.

‘Makes me purr!

Correction: Feelgood factor.

I disagree going to bed early is boring, I think there is nothing nicer than getting in to bed with a cup of herbal tea and reading a book (insert choice of activity here but no screens) until I fall asleep, heaven.
I like to do this by 10pm at the latest, then I'm good to go by 6, 5 at a push if I want a really early run.
But usually run by 7, home and showered around 8. Ready for work at half 8 (wfh atm, usually I would need to do this all a bit earlier).
That way I'm shattered by bed time again, works for me, appreciate its not for everyone.
Time to run now actually!

I think there is more chance of a night owl becoming a morning person than the other way around. You can’t force your self to stay asleep later if you’re a morning person but you can wake up earlier if you would normally sleep in. Use an alarm to wake up at the same time every day and make yourself get up. Don’t go for silly o’clock to begin with, go for an hour or so earlier than you would normally get up and then you can make it earlier and earlier if need be. I get up early with the dogs and DH gets up an hour or so after me and I enjoy that time alone to read or sit in the garden with a coffee in peace 😂

I've never been an early bird and never will be. Even now that I have kids who get me up at 6am every day, I still hate it and look forward to my weekend lie in. So I don't think you can make yourself love mornings, but there's definitely a middle ground between "up at 6" and "sleeps til noon". Can't you just set your alarm for 8 or 9? And follow it up with 3 cups of coffee? I also have my phone set to block all my apps and turn an unreadable colour at midnight so that I have to stop fucking around on mumsnet and go to sleep. I should probably set it to shut down a bit earlier really, but I need the "me time" !