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Yea... so I used to do the whole nap thing too. I still always felt groggy and had a head fog. For the last 2 years I decided to discipline myself to get roughl

Yea... so I used to do the whole nap thing too. I still always felt groggy and had a head fog. For the last 2 years I decided to discipline myself to get roughly 8 hours of sleep every night (a sleep mask to block out excess light has been a God send). Also no caffeine after 5pm and only 2 cups of coffee max per day. Oh and less carb, more protein diet with daily exercise. In essence, I quit giving myself excuses for being a lazy whinner. Other than the Thanksgiving food coma, I dont take naps because, and sit down for this revelation, I dont need to since I get a proper amount of rest nearly every single night. Look, sometimes life throws shit in your face and a nap is a great stop gap remedy to pull you through. Nothing wrong with getting stitches when you get a cut. Theres a problem when you keep cutting yourself because you jump into a pool of knives everyday. It's just weird that we are fetishizing piss poor health habits and then glorifying the bandaid fixes instead of simply addressing the main problem. But hey, that's the great evil self-responsibility everyone wants to avoid.

nix23 6y ago
Little tip, stop drinking coffee after 3pm. Try to drink at least 2-3L of water until 5pm, not later or your sleep will be disturbed by..well pissing, at 8-9 do a little (easy) jogging but not more then 10 minutes, drink a little bit of water after jogging and go to bed 1-2 hours later, you will sleep like a princess.
- NoOneNew 6y ago
  Agreed that the sooner your caffeine cutoff is, the better. I used to do 7pm with poor results. I find 5pm and going to bed at around 11pm to be fine. I normally finish drinking caffeine at around noon. Just 5 is my hard cutoff no matter what. I dont know about the jogging prior to bed. Jogging amps me up and gets my mind fired up. But it may help some folks, so it's worth a try for others.
  - nix23 6y ago
    >I dont know about the jogging prior to bed. Really easy jogging, it saturates your blood with oxygen, and because your body just burns the carbohydrates you can sleep much better afterwards....but really just 10 minutes easy jogging.

nix23 6y ago

Little tip, stop drinking coffee after 3pm. Try to drink at least 2-3L of water until 5pm, not later or your sleep will be disturbed by..well pissing, at 8-9 do a little (easy) jogging but not more then 10 minutes, drink a little bit of water after jogging and go to bed 1-2 hours later, you will sleep like a princess.

NoOneNew 6y ago
Agreed that the sooner your caffeine cutoff is, the better. I used to do 7pm with poor results. I find 5pm and going to bed at around 11pm to be fine. I normally finish drinking caffeine at around noon. Just 5 is my hard cutoff no matter what. I dont know about the jogging prior to bed. Jogging amps me up and gets my mind fired up. But it may help some folks, so it's worth a try for others.
- nix23 6y ago
  >I dont know about the jogging prior to bed. Really easy jogging, it saturates your blood with oxygen, and because your body just burns the carbohydrates you can sleep much better afterwards....but really just 10 minutes easy jogging.