Auspicious August 2025 W.I.S.H. Thread

[Summer2018]

I'm fortunate that my household is all early risers, so everyone goes to bed between 7:30-8:30PM.

DD travels for work a lot. She's in NY this week, commuting every day except for Thursday because she is getting a hotel on Wednesday night. Visual Stylists at Bloomingdales report for work at 7AM, and when she can, she will report at 6AM. She's up for a promotion (please God), so she's putting in even more time. She wakes up any time between 3:30AM-4:30AM depending on where she will be and what time she must be in the store.

DH reports anytime between 6AM and 7AM depending on overtime. He's also up at the crack of dawn.

I had to get up this summer at 5:15AM. Once school starts, I will get to sleep in until 5:45AM lol.

I'm usually the last one to bed. I make it a practice to get off my devices an hour before bed. My phone is on "Do Not Disturb" after school dismissal. I shower, apply my magnesium cream (which helps me sleep more deeply), then read until I can't keep my eyes open. Sleep is so important to overall health and well-being, but especially weight loss.

Water...I drink out of a 24 oz. Tervis Tumbler all day long. I bring two with me to school, and sometimes that isn't enough. I will need a 3rd one now that I'm working until 6-6:30PM. Other than water, and the occasional cocktail or glass of wine, my only other beverage is milk or a fruit/vegetable smoothie. I gave up diet soda 20+ years ago. Initially, I switched to flavored seltzer. Now I just drink water.

 

[piglet1979]

DH goes to bed at about 8 and then "reads". Really he falls asleep shortly after laying down. My teenagers stay up late and when I thought DD might be going away to school, I started to stay up and spend that time with her. She is staying home so time for me to get back to a better sleep schedule. I start work at 7:30 but I only need to roll out of bed and make to the the living room to my desk. Starting in September DH will be going back to the office 2 days a week. One of the days is the one day I am in the office. I will need to be up by 6 to leave by 6:15 (I will have to learn to have everything together the night before) to drop him off at work and get to work myself. It will only be for 2 weeks then I will have my surgery. I will be on restriction (can't lift anything over 10 pounds) so I will be working from home the next 6ish weeks until I am cleared. So sleeping will be my start.