It's a tragedy that it works...

Just like Picard:

Tea.
Earl gray.
Hot.

The trick is to not care about what other people say is a good time to wake up. A good time to wake up is when you feel well rested.

Fuck the premise that everyone should wake up early and that it's a good or virtuous thing. Getting a good night's sleep is a good thing.

at least for me this simply isn't physically possible, most days the mere thought of even moving significantly when i wake up too early fills me with a sort of bone-deep almost painful exhaustion, which can only be forced through via external motivation like

it's fucked because that obviously seems like a serious issue yeah? and it certainly feels like something is severely wrong, but then after an hour of drifting in and out of sleep all of a sudden i'm wide awake and feel perfectly fine.

i can only assume it's something to do with the body's sleep mechanisms not properly disabling when i wake up, and man do i wish i could just give my nervous system a kick so it snaps back into always functioning fine..

My dude, I totally appreciate that you're trying to help, and please don't stop encouraging people to work out because it REALLY DOES WORK for most people, but I spent the better part of a decade doing all kinds of things, from yoga to iron man segments, and not a single thing was enjoyable beyond the small amount of satisfaction of having done something hard and finished it.

I dropped 120lbs, and have stayed relatively the same weight since 2015, even with all the other stuff.

So I'm sure I learned more healthy habits, hence the weight being kept off, and I don't regret a second of it, I have no desire to try again.

The only working out now is biking for enjoyment with my wife. And also when she feels the desire to go to the gym, I go with her.

My sweating is genetic, my mother's side of the family is all the same. I sweat at 300 the same as 160.

Working out for health reasons sucks, but if you've got enough reason for it, show that workout who's boss. Spite is as good a reason as any. Staving off diabetes is even better.

The first thing I want to do when I wake up is to go back to sleep. The second, third, and fourth through 180,000,000,000th thing I want to do is go back to sleep.

There are only three things that get me out of bed: my dog is hungry or needs to pee, my body is hungry or needs to pee, or the annoying requirement that I have to work in order to give someone all my money so I have a place to sleep.

You're speaking from the point of view of a person who wants to do activities, or at least an activity. For some of us, any physical activity is repellent. Personally, I hate breaking a sweat, and I sweat profusely, at any weight or level of fitness. It's why young me gave up on ballet; I was good enough to start auditioning for a corps, but nobody wants a sweaty swan. Now you have a point that putting on some music and dancing is less repellent to me than running down the street, but it's still not whatchy'dcall FUN. And I still need a couple cups of coffee, a shit and a shower first, plus of course another shower afterwards.

You get to pick 2? I get to pick one, and it's never reduce stress. And the exercise is just being on my feet at work. And the sleep quality sucks. Basically I get to pick zero.

When I exercise, I need an hour less sleep a day.

Thanks, added to my meme folder