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[DiAnne]

I am a night person.  If I have to get up early it takes two alarms to do the job!  I don't watch much TV but I will stay up until 1 or 2 am reading.  That is best part of being retired!

[Yardlie]

@Mominohio ... I'm with your husband! When I was working, I had to be a get up and go person. Now, as much as possible, I like to take it slow and easy in the morning. We don't have a morning paper around here, so I like a cup of tea and a little computer time in the a.m to read the news and visit my usual sites.

My husband still gets up fairly early and goes out to his workshop, feeds the wildlife, etc. I'm a caregiver for my 92 year old mother. She usually comes out of her room around 9:30-10:00 a.m. Then the rush starts. DH and I usually wait to eat breakfast with her. Neither of us eat the minute we get up.

[shoptilyadropagain]

I am NOT a morning person whatsoever.  I get up around 6:30 a.m. through the week but I am a zombie until 10:00 or so.  

[FastDogWalker2]

Out of necessity I tend to be an up and at it kind of girl in the morning.  On the weekends, when my timetable is not as urgent, I like to move at a slower pace.

[dex]

@beckyb1012 You are AMAZING! I feel like I need to get my act together after hearing all that you accomplish in a day.I your DH anything like you?

[ALRATIBA]

Now that I'm retired ... mornings are very slow.  I don't make any appts ealier than noon.

[sunshine45]

i am not a morning person generally.

i dont like to jump out of bed, dont like alarms, and dont like breakfast during the week.

i like to slowly get out of bed and have some coffee.

i am much more of a night person and get much more done as the day gets longer, especially after dinner.

[LilacTree]

The healthier thing is to take it slow in the morning whenever one wakes up to give the body a chance to restore blood flow to the heart.  Many heart attacks occur in the morning because of hopping right out of bed and exercising . . . the heart hasn't caught up with the blood flow yet, which has slowed during sleep.

I read an article on it recently and will try to find it to post. 

Here is article I read:

The Worst Time to Wake Up Is...

...before 5 a.m. And it's best for your heart health to sleep in until 7 a.m. or 8 a.m.--every day.

That mantra of "early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" is all wrong--at least in terms of health. To the delight of night owls everywhere, researchers from several universities and hospitals in the western Japanese city of Kyoto, have concluded that early-risers have a higher risk of developing heart problems than their friends who sleep in later.

Agence France Presse and Bloomberg News report that the Japanese research team found a definite link between wake-up times and a person's cardiovascular system. "Rising early to go to work or exercise might not be beneficial to health, but rather a risk for vascular diseases," said an abstract of the study, which followed 3,017 healthy adults ages 23 to 90. Specifically, the team found that people who habitually rise before 5 a.m. have a 1.7 times greater risk of high blood pressure and are twice as likely to develop hardening of the arteries as those who get up at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m.

If you get up early to exercise, you might want to rethink this plan. The study also found a possible link between vascular disease and early birds who start their day with a vigorous workout. "The results are contrary to the commonly held belief that early birds are in better health," lead study author Mayuko Kadono, a physician at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, told Bloomberg News. "We need to find what the causes of this are and whether exercising after waking early is beneficial."

There is one possible gotcha: In this study, those who rose early were typically older. And older people are, in general, at a higher risk for cardiovascular problems than younger people. So was the increased risk because they rose early or because they were older? Additional research is needed to determine the answer to that.

Cardiovascular disease, which includes heart attack, stroke and hypertension, is the No. 1 cause of death worldwide. The study was presented to the World Congress of the World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies in Cairns, Australia.

--From the Editors at Netscape

[beckyb1012]

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@dex wrote:

@beckyb1012 You are AMAZING! I feel like I need to get my act together after hearing all that you accomplish in a day.I your DH anything like you?

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@dex Mercy no which is why I divorced him in 1997.  The fool actually sent me an email two weeks ago asking for a date.  Please move on finally.   18 years was enough. 

I do like being in my p.j.'s at night by 6:00 pm.

[LilacTree]

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@ALRATIBA wrote:

Now that I'm retired ... mornings are very slow.  I don't make any appts ealier than noon.

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@ALRATIBA

I am the same.  I wake up early, but I have to move slowly to get my joints working again (I have RA).  If I try to rush around, I start getting tachardia and I have a bad day.

I also make all doctor appointments in the afternoon if at all possible.