MPWT: How to adjust your body clock!?!?

[Max Power]

It has come to my attention that during my downtime from work... i end up staying up later and later each night and sleeping in half the day.

What are some of your nifty lil tricks for re-adjusting your body clock to function at more reasonable hours?!?!?!

P.s Current time 2:18AM

[kale]

Set your alarm for 5, get up and do shit, you'll be shagged by 9.

[Max Power]

Haha i have it set for 7am... I hear it, turn it off, roll over, and go back to sleep till about 11am

[kale]

Chuck it at the other end of your room so you have to get out of bed.

[tonka128]

Set your alarm for 5, get up and do shit, you'll be shagged by 9.

Therein lies the problem...

I have no answers....

posted 3.08am

[Squash]

Hold down the set time button until the clock starts flashing...............oh wait

[Phildo]

5:05am. Just mopped the kitchen floor and vacuumed the office. Checking for recent posts on PSB (in the last hour) before begrudgingly going to bed.

Useful thing: if you're going to stay up wayyyy late at night, do something that you've been putting off. If there was any more muck on the kitchen floor we could have run a supercross on it, so it just got mopped because I don't want to go to bed yet.

[Max Power]

My reset buttons are broken. Last time i saw the clock was about 3:00am. Haha maybe as Peeches suggested on FB... Sleeping pills and hard liquor might be the way to go!

[Maxo]

What are some of your nifty lil tricks for re-adjusting your body clock to function at more reasonable hours?!?!?!

You've answered your own question:

Function at reasonable hours.

You'll feel jet-lagged for a bit, but you'll get over it.

Routinely exercise.
Routinely eat proper food at the same time.
Stop drinking caffiene after 7.

^ If you can't do these, then no whining about not being able to adjust your body clock.

[justo]

Restavit is a sleeping pill available over the pharmacy counter.

I take a quarter to get me sleepy when i need to go to bed early. Best to start small and see how much you need to get drowsy otherwise it carries on the next day and you feel hella slow.

Only side effect i get is the munchies.....

[Petrov]

Grow some balls, inject some motivation, wake up early and do something productive.

The problem is you not wanting to get up early - I'm sorry but people on an internet forum can't help you there.

For about 3-4 days waking early, you wont feel too great. Do some exercise and eat correctly like the other guy said.

After 1 - 2 weeks it will become progessively easier, your body clock would be pretty close to being adjusted.

After 4 weeks it will become a habit.

Summary - stop making excuses, or, rename thread to "I'm too lazy to wake up early, how do I become less lazy?"

[Samuelg]

figure out your circadian rhythm, to go from awake to deep sleep and back to nearly fully awake. Mine is 50min. So when i am working shifts i set first alarm for 50min before i need to get up, alarm goes off, i hit snooze and get into deep sleep and then in 50min i am pretty much awake anyways when next alarm goes off. yes its complicated but for me it works. and you don't wake up felling shagged which is what happens if you get woken from a deep sleep cycle.

[mekon]

See the other threads about sleeping etc. Try Valdoxan (algomelatin)

Agomelatine resynchronises circadian rhythms in animal models of delayed sleep phase syndrome^[10] and other circadian rhythm disruptions. It increases noradrenaline and dopamine release specifically in the frontal cortex and has no influence on the extracellular levels of serotonin. Agomelatine has shown an antidepressant-like effect in animal models of depression (learned helplessness test, despair test, chronic mild stress) as well as in models with circadian rhythm desynchronisation and in models related to stress and anxiety. In humans, agomelatine has positive phase shifting properties; it induces a phase advance of sleep, body temperature decline and melatonin onset.^[2]

[michael]

Maybe you should have gotten up early and started on your brake pads....

[meatbag]

Activity is the key.

I do a lot of shiftwork and it is always easier to change the body clock at work than at home. Simply put, at work you have shit to do, you have to be awake at an early hour and you can't just lounge around watching telly.

If at home, I can sleep in, watch telly, snooze on the couch, order pizzas delivered and generally do fuck all. No surprise by the end of my week off I am staying up until 3 a.m. bored as hell then sleeping in all day.

[Guil]

I read that not eating for around 16 hours then eating when you want to be 'morning' (here, around 7am, I guess) will reset your internal clock.
This makes your body assume this meal is morning, because of the break in food.

Probably flawed, but I can see the logic here

[Max Power]

Haha not really wanting to smash down some pills. Yeah day / night shifts up north really mess with me when im back on break, week of days week of nights, week of days, week of nights etc... Some good advice up there, rekon i'll 1) Either grow mightier balls and force myself outta bed ater staying up till 3am, or two.. just stay up all night and all the next day. Probably be pretty shattered, but might do the trick Better than hammering down shit loads of piss like most guys up north. I was on one site where days going to nights, they'd buy heaps of piss, keep it in the fridge, drink all evening, have dinner, drink all night, right through to breakfast, crash all day, then be right as rain for nighshift.
Insane!!

[fredie]

some people take years to adjust there body clock

[Jezzabelle]

Go and buy yourself a decent bike...That alone should give you the inclination to get yer lazy ass outta bed!!....

[Max Power]

Go and buy yourself a decent bike...That alone should give you the inclination to get yer lazy ass outta bed!!....

Hahah or make it worse, coz id be out riding it all night, like much tonight.. 2:35am
Can ya cruiser do a wheelie?