Healthy lifestyle

I know many of my friends like to sleep until the afternoon especially on weekends, I used to do that, too but in fact, that kind of sleep just mess up our biological clocks and doesn’t soothe tiredness in any way. And more often the case is that before midterms and finals we stay up studying and after exams we go to karaoke the entire to celebrate- the week after that became a vicious circle of going to bed late again and waking up late again. Realizing how weak and I got after freshman year, I decided to put an end to this dreadful lifestyle. 

 When I go to bed late the night before, I still wake up at 8 or 9 rather than sleep for 10 or 12 hours. Then I have nutritious breakfast rich in protein and vitamin C, eggs, soy milk and some kiwis for example, these things would work better than those extra time of sleep to make me feel energetic again. After that, I do some reading or check e-mails sometimes I also work on assignments. Of course the breakfast doesn’t make me a king kong, in two to three hours I would be sleepy again, then I’d take a nap after lunch, when I go back to bed this time I only need no more than 1 hour and I can get up and go exercise. 

The magic about this method is the combination of nap and work-out. Nap according to research is effective because an hour of nap between 12~6 pm equals three hours sleep at night. And we are all aware that exercising boost circulation and metabolism what’s more it gives you high-quality sleep, so we shouldn’t stay inside when feeling lazy, on the contrary we need to go hiking, jogging or bicycling. And the last but not least, after taking a nice shower, that night I go to bed early, no later than twelve 30 to be exact. This way I can start a brand new day after 8-hour of sound sleep. An improvement tip for this schedule is to adopt it with roommates, my former roomies and I always slept so late as if we were competing for the best sleeper but it’s much easier in sophomore year, I tried to keep up with my roommates who have great lifestyle and fantastic skin that I yearned for.