Morning Lark

If I could change two things about myself, I would be naturally thin and be a morning person. I know anyone can make themselves get up in the morning, I mean I want to greet each day energetically, get more done before 9 am than most people do all day.

If you know me, you know I love a program. So after a little searching(thank you internet!) I have great tips to becoming a morning person.

1. Set your wake time, incl. weekends, holidays, etc. That's tough but I will have you know that I got up no later than 7:30 all weekend. This was especially helpful because I could watch the Olympics from the night before early enough that I didn't run into any spoilers. Oh Mikey Phelps, I love you.

2. Leave house immediately for a 1/2 hour walk. The daylight turns off your melatonin telling you that you are awake. Jack occasionally looks at me wondering why we are outside when he could be watching Elmo.

3. Avoid bright light at night. Strangely this might be the toughest one for me. I love running errands at night sans anklebighters! I almost ran to Walmart absentmindedly last night, forgetting that the bright daylight inside there would throw off my body clock.
They suggested you could wear yellow sunglasses. If I did I would have to go around singing "Man, I love these Blu-Blockers!"

4. Take otc melatonin at night. Not brave enough to try this.

5. No caffeine or alcohol after 3. This means no diet coke at night, but I am fully cleared to start drinking at lunch time.

If any of you know how to be naturally thin please comment.