YSK how to fix a bad sleep schedule: Eat > Wake > Sleep > Wait > Repeat

The irony here is that if I had this level of commitment to any schedule I would never have wound up reading this post at 1:20AM because I would have been sleep.

Is everyone else out here eating at the exact same times every single day? What’s wrong with y’all? Or what’s wrong with me?

it's weird how waking comes after sleeping, and not before

Ugh, I hate eating right after waking up, though

Is there a r/thisworksformemaybeitllworkforyou ? If so, this belongs there.

This may work for someone who isn't stressed and over worked.

I don't eat breakfast because I'm not hungry until afternoon.

This honestly seems anecdotal and doesn't show any use of biology.

For example, how you view sunlight in the morning and sunset will set your circadian rhythm via the pineal gland and it's release of melatonin.

Yes, eating does have implications in wakefulness and starting the digestive systems and blood/glucose relationship, but one can also feel "sleepy and groggy" if the digestion of carbohydrates raises their glucose and satiety levels promoting a sense of "sleepyness" or wanting to nap.

For those that are more interested in the biology/neurobiology of how to fix your sleep schedule, I would recommend listening to Andrew Huberman's Podcast. His first podcast explains the mechanics of the body and its' neurotransmitters. A bit "nerdy" or detailed, but I like thorough explanations that are objective and not "wordy" or subjective.

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My tip in a nutshell? Wake up in the morning to get some AM sunrays, ideally right as it rises but no later than 10-11AM, through your eyes, while not staring directly at the sun. Eat, exercise. Sunset sunrays in the eyes, again not staring directly. Reduce the use of screens and other blue light emitting at night time.

lol this is ridiculous. My ‘cycle’ isn’t going to shift an hour earlier just because I age two meals in a specific way.

This belongs in prolifetips which I left because of these shitty tips.

The eat step includes sleeping, the wake step involves eating. What is the logic behind the way the steps are separated here?

So the trick to going to sleep earlier is to go to sleep earlier. Genius.

Or you can do what the marines do. Hike up a forest/mountain the entire day with a bag pack weighing ten kilos and finish off with a session in the gym.

You'll sleep like a baby

And now there’s algebra in sleeping.

This is cool if you already sleep like a semi normal person I guess. However I do all this and a lot more trying to normalize my sleeping and still have very little success.

I just use nyquil to reset, fall asleep at the time I want.

Wow! This was incredibly useless for anyone who has sleep issues and can’t just sleep whenever they want!

As someone who has tried every piece of advice for 15 years, it’s so cute when someone tries to help. Oh I’ll wake up groggy? I’m always groggy. I’ll be more hungry in the morning? What sort of to-the-millisecond lifestyle do you have where 1 hour difference would affect your hunger in the morning? By that logic if I sleep in 3 hours on the weekend I should be starving. And I’ll be tired the next evening? I’m glad you live a blessed life.. the whole obstacle here is that if you have insomnia, a poor sleep schedule, or trouble waking up… you have no idea when you’ll be tired if ever. I’m only ever feeling awake at night. I feel groggy for most of the day. If you’re at the point where your sleep is so regular that one hour makes a difference youve already won most of the battle

Eat > wake is going to be hard lol. Hard to eat if I'm passed out

YSK Apache alarm clock.

I'm probably missing something but I find that if I stay awake 1 night then go to bed late enough that I'll sleep until I want to wake up, it works for me. Obviously tired the first day. I bounce between night and day shift frequently, this idea is best I'll try it next month, but I've always just stayed awake 26ish hours slept for 8, tired first day then been fine.

I wish I were this schedule oriented. Sadly neither is my toddler

I should really look into fixing my sleep schedule..

Monday - Thursday ~5 hours of sleep.

Friday - Saturday who knows, it is gaming time.

Saturday - ??? oh it is Monday.

I can't sleep when I'm hungry

I feel like this is good advice, but the way it's written confuses me.

I worked 8 hour rotating shifts for 11 years. My sleep was so messed up I got better rest while on night shift. So last year the company went straight shifts. I took nights and it's been great. Now they're changing to 12 hour rotating soon. God wtf..

Keeping a good sleep schedule is based on when you wake up, not when you fall asleep.

You want a healthy 8 hours of sleep. Quality of sleep is just as important as quantity of sleep. 9 hours of sleep means nothing if you woke up every hour.

Wake up 16 hours before you want to fall asleep. This great chemical called adenosine will build up, and peak about 16 hours after waking up. You'll sleep amazing.

Lol what? People eat at the same time every day? If you're the type of person that does this, I doubt you have problems with a sleep schedule.

I think reading this made me realize I have some underlying problems... I

Honestly, like some other said this is pretty anecdotal.
What really helps though, as already mentioned is to actually get tired. So the easiest way to achieve this is by getting exhausted after a sport session. Any time in the day just do a good workout like jogging/swimming/weight lifting or a combination until you are really exhausted. Ideally this should happen not right before you sleep but at least an hour or so before.

What happens if you never had a normal eating cycle to begin with…

Also a climber with many years of Alpine starts, and man, this sounds like nonsense.

I get into the right schedule on a mountaineering objective because I force myself up on day one before sunrise and then bust my ass in the mountains until it's time to find a bivvy. You fall asleep easily on a multi day objective because you're getting a full day of heavy physical and mental stimulation. Your sleep schedule gets into shape because you don't have much you can do after the sun goes down, what with the lack of electricity.

Yeah, my sleep schedule is great when I'm in the mountains. It's all the life outside of that that causes my sleeplessness. The real advice here boils down to "can't sleep? Go knock out some 14ers, you'll sleep like a baby."

Makes sense to me. It’s basically how everyone naturally adjusts to daylight savings time.
Just individually initiated for personal reasons instead.

I’ve ruined myself by going to a 1-meal-a-day fast in the evenings. If I eat lunch, or - god forbid - breakfast, my sleep schedule gets absolutely fucked. My body now only allows me to eat between 6:30-8:30. Asleep at 11pm, up at 5am - every damn day.

Alright so in the end it is wait OVER repeat. I guess it does make sense to wait and figure out wtf is going on as opposed to repeating the same routine in hope of a new outcome!

If I eat early, I'll quickly be hungry 3 hours later as I'm trying to sleep. I can't sleep when I'm hungry. I can't eat shortly before bed because I'll be energetic from dinner. Sucks.

And then there's working in a restaurant lol. Don't even bother trying to have a good sleep schedule.

Aaaaand saved..

Thanks guy :)

Dogshit advice lol. "just get up and eat food"

Man just fucking go to sleep at 4am and get up at 6am and be DOA at work like the fucking rest of us

But I cant eat as soon as I wake up because I throw up with 100% certainty every time.

🌈 IBS 🌈

No one I know eats at a scheduled time everyday. This seems useless

What if the food isn't a motivator? 🤣

Step two does not motivate some people at all. Our bodies are made to get catabolic once there's been enough time since we last ate. The feeling of hunger can go away easily if you just sleep 1-2 hours more.

I went to bed earlier than usual and now its 4am cuz my body woke up early and now Im browsing Reddit 😐😑.

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How to fix your sleep cycle:

1. Go to bed 8 hours before you want to wake up
2. Sleep immediately
3. Wake up
4. Simply get out of bed and proceed with your day

That's like telling an alcoholic to just stop drinking if he wants to stop drinking.
If someone can't get out of bed there is no point telling them to just do a morning run or to just take a shower, as they have a problem with actually getting up instead of going back to sleep.

They lost me at the “Immediately get up” part.

I feel like the key to a good night sleep is not snacking. I see that is a big part if your routine.

I didnt eat until 7pm today

I'm terrible with the "eating" part. Kids are in bed. I can finally rest. and I just can't resist uninterrupted treats! Double edged sword there too, I imagine the full belly is keeping me up, but so is all the moving around and now I've found chores I feel refreshed enough to do and the dog wants out again, and suddenly my kids have been asleep for 3 hours and I'm wired.

I hope one day to take this seriously.

Eat 16 hours before you want to wake up, near guarantee your stomach will be your alarm clock.

I just do a long reset, stay up for 48 hours.

Or you could just take Ambien

If you’re not a rock climber and need to rely on every move or your dead, the first trick you mentioned works. Don’t worry about when you got bed, just force yourself to wake up early one day, then follow your tiredness to bed instead of fighting through it, can accomplish a 3 hour switch in a couple nights rather than in two weeks.

I'm pretty sure it's EAT SLEEP RAVE REPEAT.

Looool eating earlier to be hungry again while trying to fall asleep? Not the best strategy I've heard of XD

What do you mean eat on hour earlier than normal?

I eat my dinner between 18h and 23h depending on when I'm hungry.

garbage content is garbage

This is garbage advice

Wtf is op talking about none of this makes sense...

Who the fuck eats at set times every day? Nobody I know.

I work shifts. My fix is dying 10 years earlier

The issue is that most of the people having shitty sleep schedules probably don't have proper eating schedule either

I started dieting a while back, and one of the steps I did was blocking out specific times I’m allowed to eat.

After a few months, I noticed that I went from a person who was up until 3-4 in the morning to someone who regularly wakes up at 8 with no alarm. Nowadays I don’t let myself eat anything later than 7, and I have. No problems falling asleep after 11:30. All it took was changing eating habits so I wake up hungry

laughs in third shift

This is great advice, but may not work for everyone since everyone is different.

So people need to stop being smug about someone trying to give advice that helped them. I bet there’s stuff that works for you that doesn’t work for most people.

This would be great if I actually fell asleep when I go to bed.

I eat when im hungry, completely regardless of what time it is

What if you don't have a fixed dinner time, and you usually skip breakfast?

Very helpful, but as I seemingly love self-destruction, I probably won't take your advice.

A simpler way is to wake up at the same time every day and listen to your body. When you wake up at 0600 daily, your body is going to start telling you when to go to bed. Easiest way to reset your circadian rhythm

cries in unconsistent eating times

assuming you have somewhat of a daily schedule already...

what do i do if im a complete mess, wake at noon, sleep at 5 am, sometimes eating, sometimes not

how can i change a routine that doesnt exist

Wait so this depends on your body being hungry? I’m pretty sure I’ve eaten at 7pm then didn’t sleep until 5am and proceeded to sleep until 1pm. Didn’t feel hungry at all until I was fully awake two hours later.

ITT: People with unhealthy lifestyles. People talking bout they never eat breakfast and eat whatever whenever they feel hungry. No better way to make sure you don't consistently feel good than by not consistently eating, drinking and sleeping right.

Thank you! I just got back to college and my sleep is struggling and melatonin isn’t exactly helping. So thank you for the advice! At least I’m waking on time and have not missed any classes yet. Trying to not let the adhd get out of control.

This assumes you haven't just landed in-country and have to conduct flight operations in 96 hours.

For those of you who do, try this:

1. Drink as much coffee as you can prior to landing.
2. After landing, unload the aircraft as quickly as you can.
3. Take good notes, since nothing the outgoing unit says will stick.
4. Eat lunch when everyone else does even though you're not hungry, because the chow hall won't be open later.
5. Drink liquor until you fall asleep.
6. Get up when your buddy says "yo, we got a brief in like twenty minutes"
7. Coffee
8. Brief

Pro-tip: sober up before conducting flight ops

laughs in overnight shift

Edit: Seriously though this is good advice. I’ve been a shift worker for the past 7 years and I’ve worked almost every shift you can think of, with a lot of that being some flavor of overnights. I’ve found that keeping your eating schedule consistent is key to a consistent sleep schedule, especially when you’re trying to stay awake during hours your body normally wants to be asleep

What if i wake up early? (Even when going to sleep very late)

Well, it works in my experience as well, and I haven’t yet read an answer here that says they’ve actually tried it and it doesn’t work. So if you are looking for a solution rather than just an opportunity to argue meaninglessly about what might happen if you did something you aren’t going to do, it might be worth a try.

1. This is bullshit.

2. /r/wowthanksimcured.

3. OP posted subjective bullshit.

It's because of breakfast. Your body cares more about eating than sleeping and will change your sleeping patterns to accommodate your eating patterns. If you eat your breakfast at the same time every day, it will be easy to set up a satisfying sleeping pattern.

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You forgot getting outside exercise. You’ll get to sleep earlier, and you’ll sleep deeper.

This is close to what my family and I did when preparing for a trip to India, where the time is completely upside down from ours. It worked fairly well -- in India we all woke up at 4:30 am for a few days, but then we normalized some.

I thought about doing this in advance for my upcoming trip in a different time zone of -9h. How many ours in how many days is achievable with this method?

I've done similar traveling for work, half a world away. West coast US to Singapore or Tel Aviv. It's just wrong enough a time change to be right. I'm also good at forcing myself to stay awake on the flights only to sleep it off upon landing. Then main-line speed coffee to stay going during what would normally be night.

Edit: formatting

I just set my alarm and wake up early, taking melatonin if I need it

So I have to eat first, wake up second? Then go to bed?

The real MVS.

I haven’t had a regular sleep schedule in years. My shifts are like half days and half nights every week mostly. I just smoke a lot of weed to pass out. And if I’m out of weed I’m not gonna sleep well at all

Do you have something for us in Africa👉🏿👈🏿

bullshit. shitpost!

Is there a parents-of-baby-edition to this?

lmao, this might work if you have a consistent "bad schedule"

Don't eat any snacks? That's certainly a way for me to not be able to fall asleep at all

You think someone with sleep problems considers 2 hours a problem schedule, and will even notice eating an hour sooner? Hahaha op you sheltered child

That's great, but if anyone on here can tell me how to sleep well on a four crew swing shift I'd do anything for you.

You guys are killing me over here. I wish I could fix my sleep schedule but I'm just too darn lazy. Maybe one day I'll actually listen to the YSKs on reddit and get my life together. But for now, I'll just keep snoozing through life.

i was hoping i could apply this to a shift work schedule, 2weeks days 2 weeks night, but alas i think im destined to not sleep good

I'll try it. Doubt it'll work cause it's 4am and I haven't had a night of restorative sleep in 2 months and am losing my mind. Fibromyalgia sucks.

This advise dont help someone thats been struggleing with sleepingproblems since 15 years back. Hope its this easy for you peeps.

Or just stay awake all night the day before and you'll fall asleep super early the next day.

Eat Wake Sleep Wait Repeat

Eat Wake Sleep Wait Repeat

Eat Wake Sleep Wait Repeat

My sleep schedule is all over the place. Twice a week i work from 4am to 10am, most of the time without having slept prior. Then i sleep for 3-4 hours when coming home, study for my classes and play video games until i get tired again which is at like 1-2am. On days i don't go to work i drive my sister to her work at 6am. So after sleeping for 3-4hours before driving her, i come back home and am not tired for another 12 hours so i then fall asleep at like 7pm. Rinse and repeat and i feel tired and miserable all the time. I'm gonna try this out to hopefully get my sleep schedule back on track.

Something you can also do to alter your waking schedule is to use heat. Raising core body temperature by means of a cold shower will shift your waking time to a later waking time if done before sleeping. Dropping your core temperature by using hot water/bath will make you sleepy and can make your waking times sooner.

The food concept is based on "stress", which can also be applied to other forms of stress like exercise (exercising as soon as you wake up makes it more likely that you'll keep waking up at that time).

I'm a shift worker which is why I constantly need to change my sleep schedule and why everything you said is completely useless to me.

Eat/wake an hour earlier than "usual"? What?

So just wake up earlier.

Would it not be better to get up and drink a cold pint of water and go for a walk then eat?

Just set your alarm half an hour to an hour earlier than your new time. Repeat until your body adjusts. Or do what I do and fall into a 35 hour day cycle where you're awake for 35-40 hours, sleep for 6, repeat and really fuck yourself up right good!

It's 3:30am here. I work 2nd and 3rd shifts, I ain't changing shit.

There's no science backing up what you say but here's what would happen to me using your method.

1) Eat early. vomit as my system rejects a large amount of food prior to expected meal time

2) Wake up groggy and very hungry. Eat, vomit again because eating immediately after waking up in the best of circumstances will fuck with my system.

Don't assume everyone is like you and take your bullshit somewhere else.

See for me the problem is I don't have a set sleep schedule or eating schedule. My eating schedule can range from 3-4 hours before/after noon for lunch, for example. They wouldn't be "breakfast" or "dinner" either cause I eat when I'm hungry and typically one meal does it for me.

And my sleep schedule completely depends on what I have to do that day and what time I work at (I always nap before work to get more time in the day early on).

So I doubt this can work for me.

How are you eating before you wake

I physically cant eat more than a slice of dry bread for the first 3 hours after i wake up

Just wake up 2 hours earlier, have an extra coffee and don't nap. You will eventually need to sleep earlier even if you can't fall asleep earlier the first day. Always works.

I would like to emphasize the “Do not eat any snacks after”

This is similar to training a baby for wake/sleep schedules. Sorry to see everyone dissing your theory as if it has no science behind it. It's tried, tested and proven with huge success. I personally used it for my twins, and they've slept through the night since they were 2 months old.

I was doing this in 6 hour jumps (instead of 1 hour at a time) through 5 years of college.

I have a harder method : after vacation, my body is used to sleep at 2AM. So one day I sleep only 3 or 4 hours. And then I go to sleep extra early like 8PM, sleep until 8AM, and here we are

Damn, i get nauseated when i eat after waking up

? I've literally never eaten at the same time outside of elementary school this is wack

How about the other way around? I'm going to bed too early and as a result waking up too early, and I can't stay up later without falling asleep and I can't sleep more because I'm not tired.

such a dumb post, just stay up awake and fix it instantly or just get 3 hours of sleep, you aren't going to die.

I did that while working as a security guard at the night, you can literally just stay up later so you don't waste time sleeping.

If I was capable of having my schedule consistent enough that I ate around the same times every day, I would also probably be responsible enough to go to sleep at the same time too honestly.

Clearly not a night shifter.

While I'm sure this works, it requires a commitment to eat at the same time everyday, something not everyone has access to. Im thinking of my boyfriend who works shifts, meaning some days dinner is at 7 and some days its at 5 and some days at 1030. Even in my 8-5 job, most days I can't leave at 5.

We've ended up just having a after work routine. No matter what time either of us gets home, we each have about a 2 or 3 hour end of day routine depending on our workout days.

This plan kinda falls apart when you don't have a regular eating schedule lol

My sleeping schedule is fucked but also I work nights so I guess it's not? Sure feels like it is tho

I just take zzzquil to ensure I fall asleep on time for a few times while getting up immediately after the alarm. I then stop taking it after I'm naturally tired. About 3-4 days. The zzzquil makes you a bit groggy for those few days but it works.

Also, ignore alcohol like the plague.

This app Timeshifter worked really well for me for dealing with jet lag on international trips. Was developed with some pro sports athletes or something. https://www.timeshifter.com

wtf is sleep

YSK that if you have the kind of life where having enough free time available that years of mountaineering is a thing in your life, you probably have the ability to slightly adjust things to make other things work better for you.

What does quickly mean to you? If you take a trip across 6 time zones, you’re looking at 6 days to adjust. I don’t have 6 days to get acclimated to my Hawaiian vacation plus 6 days to get acclimated when I get back.

Or you could just sleep later & later, then eventually, you will sleep during the time of the day you wanted to sleep in. Just keep sleeping in that timeframe for the following days.

Would be nice if I ever had an appetite in the mornings lol

Eating time and all is okay but I think you are missing something there. Which is exercise. All of my sleep cycles brakes the days I sit on my butt all day and eat poorly. I am not talking about serious exercise but at least you could go for a walk in the block to tire your body

I got suspended for mentioning this in the adhd sub for mentioning this tactic for going to bed earlier.

Oh you mean daylight savings time 😉

Wait is the key. Wait until the morning to eat, wait until everything adjust. We'll put!

Here's an easier way: go to bed when you should, set an alarm for when you want to wake up, repeat.

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I dont want to eat if im sleepy. Eating does not have the power over falling asleep again.

What i did was, i moved my alarm device from bedroom to other room. I have to get up to shut it off. That way i might "wake up" to function and maybe try to eat.

Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.

I wish it were this simple. I’m sure for most people this works but I have Delayed Onset Sleep Syndrome and falling asleep at midnight is probably the earliest I can force myself to sleep.

Where's that guy who deconstructs overwrought 'life hacks'?

This isn’t a critique of this method, it’s just that after thinking “oh that’s pretty smart, maybe I could do that” I came to an instant realization that was kind of funny.

As someone prescribed 50mg of Adderall daily for Narcolepsy, absolutely none of this discussion applies to me. I basically eat before I take my meds and eat again after they wear off, whatever time that may be for the given day and what my schedule for the day is. When I don’t take them (in between prescription refills, or just when I oversleep) my “sleep schedule” is literally 18-20 hours per day of sleep. Oversleeping for me can actually mean sleeping for almost an entire day.

When the refill has been egregiously late due to error at the pharmacy or doctor’s office (has happened twice in 4 years) and I’ve gone without meds for a week or two I’ve kept up that 18-20 hours per day schedule the entire time, and the entire time felt like I wasn’t sleeping enough. For anyone wondering this goes a bit beyond “oversleeping makes you more tired not less”

I always had issues with being late to work for oversleeping, would basically go to sleep as soon as I got home from work, and also sleep during all of my breaks and lunch breaks before I was diagnosed.

The brain is so smart it trickes itself

Blinks in rotating nights/days shift work

You can also do this except with your first morning vape hit instead of food

I've done this before, but not so intentionally. It works.

I used to work split shifts. Two morning shifts, and two graveyard shifts. The solution to a seamless transition is pasta. A heavy meal of spaghetti or macaroni, and you'll fall asleep easily though it's not your accustomed sleep time.

I have insomnia, my sleeping schedule is "oh boy, apparently we sleeping now" no matter what time of the day it is

Eat, wake up, go to sleep, wait, repeat

got it

Here’s me eating a moderately sized ‘snack’ about 20 minutes before bed each night.

I’ll just eat before I wake. No prob.

I have morning nausea so my first meal of the day is lunch, oftentimes a laye lunch at 2-3pm so yeah this won't work.

Yes I'll get up at 3am now and make breakfast. Thanks, you fixed me.

My sleep/wake cycle could be used as a random number generator

Having this problem, but I can't eat in the morning.

how does one eat while still asleep ?

Eating cycle determines sleep cycle.

Lol assuming you have a set schedule already for your daily routine. I eat anywhere from 11am to 5pm only once and I change it day after day.

If I'm going to a different time zone, I usually just get plastered at 9pm local time and sleep till 6am.

eat 1 hour earlier than normal

And that's where it all falls down... there is no "normal" for eating for me.

reading and saving this post at 1:28AM! i'll fix my sleeping schedule soon hopefully

This makes no sense:

So you're saying EAT is better than WAKE, bit wake is greater than SLEEP. But REPEAT is the least or smallest of the bunch? Like. . whaaaat? Wtf

A brute force way that I use to quickly adjust to daylight savings is to just stay up all night and go to sleep at your new preferred time, no naps. 4-5am is the toughest to get past, but after that it's similar to just normal bleh on Mondays.

Don't overly rely on this method too much, as you are going down a full night's sleep.

What if you don't get breakfast?

This also works with infants. Babywise is know for the Eat-Wake-Sleep cycle. It's VERY effective.

https://www.babywisemom.com/eatwakesleep-cycle/

This is dumb

Make a sleep schedule. Don't allow yourself a nap if you get sleepy. Then you can sleep the next night. No caffeine after 2 pm .

2 hours too late

Boy I wish it were only 2 hours

This assumes I have any kind of consistency to begin with.

Nah the real step here is to stay up which I did today but it’s always 50/50

Any ysk for people who wake up multiple times at night despite going to bed early?

You assume I eat more than one meal a day whenever my body says" hey dude been a while gimme something"

My usual start is just staying up the next day and sleeping around 20:00 or so

stopped reading at eat 1 hour earlier then normally.

This is really good, but I don't know if I can actually follow through

I think it’s better to pull an all nighter the day before you want to fix your schedule than by the next night you’re exhausted so sleep however early you want. Obviously results may vary and not the safest idea lol

Bold of you to assume I feel hungry

I pull a all-nighter and then go to bed early the next day and am tired.

Or you know, just sleep 3 to 4 hours later each day

This is terrible advice

I eat between 2-4 meals a day, and I don't think I've eaten meals within even 2 hours of the same schedule as the day before. Do people really legitimately have 3 meals a day a the exact same time every day? Same for sleeping; I'll go to sleep anywhere between 10pm and 4am and it's never the same day to day, it depends on what I have to do that day.

I have tried staying awake until the following morning, and then falling asleep at a normal time, but that does not always work.

One small problem in this for me is I usually wake up too nauseous to eat breakfast. Would just pushing back the first time I eat an hour still do the trick since I'm already used to skipping breakfast anyways?

You lost me at “DO NOT EAT ANY SNACKS AFTER”

Hunger is a motivator? I eat once a day bro, I’ll eat earlier if u want but it ain’t gonna do anything

Alright here is to anyone with commitment problems

Instead of being early, be late, instead of eating early, eat 1-2 hours late, instead of waking up early, wake up 1-2 hours late so you can stay awake more, stay awake 1-2 hours more (play games for 2 more hours like I do). This way you don't feel like shit 'cause you woke up early, get to play more games or watch movies, and still change your cycle

I do this all the time before my lectures start, my sleeping cycle turns 180 degrees when I come for holidays

You should be able to change your schedule in a week at most, much less if you can stay awake for more hours

I need to shift my sleep schedule 12 hours, how do I do that? No I will not be taking questions

You eat without waking up?

Yers as a call out engineer, all I did was YOLO and red bull.

Did I get it right...? It might take 2-3 days to adjust a single hour?

I've taken ~10-11h trips to places 5-6h ahead/behind many times in my life. I usually adjust the very first day, 2 days tops.

And I always get hungry when traveling, and can eat 1-2 extra meals during the trip. So for me at least, I don't see how moving one meal and hour would really change anything, especially since I have a very loose schedule in general and never eat on a schedule.

Everyone's different

If I eat after waking up it would immediately put me back to sleep. Food makes me extra groggy.

Yeah nah hahaha I hate these posts, they're so anecdotal and don't say anything of substance. Like what, to sleep better, do everything earlier, including sleep! Then, do it for weeks, until you sleep. Like, no shit? People can't manage that, that's the point, but yeah whatever go brag about your new "hack" hahah

Going to sleep right now love you bye

Laughs in insomnia and anxiety.

The better solution is to move westward four time zones every month...

All the muppets commenting 'I eat when I want to' or 'I never eat at a set time'

This post is about setting a routine to change sleeping habits not for you to vent about how you want to live your life

For me, it’s more like, smoke a joint, go to sleep six hours early, and wake up when I need to be awake

I was hopeful to use this method and then I remembered that I fly for a living…

This seems like a way better approach than what I use to reset my sleep schedule: stay up the whole night and then collapse from exhaustion.

Interesting. I've always wondered about that dinner to bedtime gap (4-5 hours) and this seems to go hand in hand with that. Thanks!

Any advice for shift workers?

I finished a run of 4 night shifts on Monday morning at 06:00 and will be working 10-6 fri-sun but working 18.30-06.30 nights tue-thur.

I know the day shifts are shorter this time but not always the case.

Stupid. Just have the discipline to wake when you need to. Problem solved.

Ive been tracking sleep with a whoop for 3 years now. Going to bed hungry improves my sleep recovery ~10%. I will not eat a thing past 8 pm now.

Step one is to delete Reddit