• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    23·
    12 days ago

    Eat relatively healthy, stay hydrated, and get 7 hours of sleep.

    cracks a beer and stuffs a jalapeño popper in his gob

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    252·
    12 days ago

    Wake up early consistently every day for at least a week before then. Also go to sleep early every day for a week before then.

    • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      12 days ago

      If I might add: Jump out of bed the moment your timer goes off. No 8 timers to wake up bullshit. Just one. When it rings -> you’re already on your way to the bathroom.

      It’s kinda inhumane the first few times but the shock will wake you up. You will be too preoccupied with shivering and can’t feel like shit.

    • strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      10 days ago

      This is technically the best advice.

      I just got back from 4 weeks in a +5 timezone and after a week home I’m still waking up at 5:00 fresh as a daisy.

      So if you’ve got the money, time, inclination maybe go for a trip to help.

  • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    11 days ago

    get 10-12 hours of sleep before, works like a charm, I get tired around 3pm and go to sleep at 7-8. wake up at 4-6 and have no free time. but I manage to get to school on time, and all I have to do is sacrifice my entire personal life.

  • Billegh@lemmy.world
    20·
    12 days ago

    So far it looks like the consensus is: wake up early and don’t feel like garbage. 😆

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      10 days ago

      The masses do not always have the solution. Genetics is a harsh mistress. We are the ones that take the late watch. We protect the tribe at night. Today, we are despised unless we fulfill the meager agendas… But we are not without worth. Chin up, friends. We may have our day.

  • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    11 days ago

    Get up. Don’t fuck around with snooze, those few extra minutes don’t help.

    Allow time to reward yourself for getting up. For me it’s word puzzles and coffee before I get ready.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    182·
    12 days ago

    I wake up between 4-5AM every single day of the week, and all year long. I don’t even need an alarm clock. I can go to sleep at anytime

    • No screen before bed. No computer, no phone, no tablet, no TV (we don’t own a TV, so we don’t have much choice here ;). What do I do instead? I read a book, journal, write, chat with my spouse or friends, play chess or board games,… I do various stuff just not on a screen. Not even using a Kindle.
    • No coffee in the evening. No alcohol at all (evening as well as in the day: I was an alcoholic many, many years ago). No soda either. Either I’ll drink water or herbal tea.
    • Light & healthy diner. I don’t stuff my stomach, don’t eat garbage pre-packaged industrial ‘food’ either (this alone was a huge change for me, the day I quit eating that absolute turd a few years ago and my health has jumped through the roof, pre-packaged food is just poison in a fancy packaging and a lot of marketing, I would not be surprise if it was to become the tobacco of the XXI health-wise).
    • No snacking, no candy, chips, or whatever.
    • At least one long walk during the day. Every day.
    • Greee1911@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 days ago

      My wife has to eat a snack with her medicine she takes before bed or she gets nauseas. I have struggled to find an alternative to goldfish because I agree, it’s garbage. Any thoughts?

      • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        My wife has to eat a snack with her medicine she takes before bed or she gets nauseas. I have struggled to find an alternative to goldfish because I agree, it’s garbage. Any thoughts?

        What is a goldfish (beside a fish, I mean)? If you mean an alternative to snack, has she tried fresh fruits (an apple, pear, a few grapes,…) or maybe things like nuts? The idea being to no eat heavily processed food at all and not too much of anything. If she is not into fresh fruits (that would be sad), at worst I would suggest a slice of fresh bread (here again not the industrial hyper-processed kind of bread, real bread) with something, maybe a little jam?

      • jim_v@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 days ago

        I’ve had great luck with rice cakes, unsalted pretzels, or natural peanut butter on toasted bread of some sort.

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
    15·
    12 days ago

    Waking up early and feeling like garbage is amplified for me by drinking, staying up late, eating just before bed, watching screens until I fall asleep, having inconsistent hours over the weekend, and getting accustomed to snooze.

    Avoiding these things seems to help.

    Having kids and hearing them do stuff early in the morning seems to get me moving early.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    151·
    12 days ago

    You can’t make yourself sleep. You can make yourself get up. Force yourself to get up early the going to bed early part will take care of itself.

    Oh and you should stop drinking liquids a couple of hours before bed. Unless your a man over 50, in that case if you want to sleep through the night you’ll have to avoid any fluids after Tuesday.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      12 days ago

      Force yourself to get up early the going to bed early part will take care of itself.

      Maybe for you, for me I get exhausted in the middle of the day, and when night rolls around I get a second wind that lasts until the wee hours anyway.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
      3·
      12 days ago

      YMMV but personally, I’ve never found that no liquids thing to be good advice. My body seems to wake me up if I need to pee in between sleep cycles, and I have no problem getting back to sleep. But I can get busy and forget to drink enough, and then realize how thirsty I am as I’m getting ready for bed.

  • Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    11 days ago

    I do several things in conjunction.

    1. I plan when I need to go sleep using either sleepyti.me or wakeupti.me and set my alarms accordingly. Setting your alarm to align with your sleep patterns makes the act of waking up much easier.

    2. I set my phone on my desk away from my bed. The reasoning is two-fold; it forces me to get up and out of bed to dismiss my alarm(This works extra well if you make it a habit to get dressed as soon as you’re out of bed.), and it prevents me from laying in bed while playing on my phone.

    3. I wake up at the same time every day. Consistency is paramount managing sleep.

    4. I only sleep in my bed. I don’t do anything else. This builds an association to automatically get sleepy when you get in bed because the only thing you in bed is sleep. Your brain knows what to expect and just does it. Sort of like how some guys get excited when they see their girlfriend tie her into a ponytail.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    12 days ago

    Go to bed early if possible. Coffee if I can’t and then try to stay away from other humans till I can be less of an asshole.

    If I’m shifting my schedule, I’ll try and aim for 9 -10 hours in bed until my body adapts, then it’s back to the 6 to 7 I usually get.

  • P1nkman@lemmy.world
    8·
    12 days ago

    My puppy. First thing at 0430, get up, take him out to pee, get dressed, go for a short walk, inside for training (all kibble is used to training), then hand him over to my wife at 0530. That hour really gets me going, but only because I want to give the puppy three best life, which also brings me joy!

  • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
    7·
    12 days ago

    I do the classic where I get anxious about having to be up and actually alert, and don’t sleep as a result. Don’t really recommend.