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Lately I've been really tired in the mornings. School started over a month ago and I can still barely keep myself awake in my first and second block classes...and it sometimes lasts until the end of the day. I go to sleep at about 11:30 and wake up at 6:15. I need to start waking up at 5:45 so I can work out in the mornings, but that'll be hard when I can barely keep my eyes open in the morning.

What's something that can keep me awake during school? Do those Vitamin B pills work? I need something that actually works and won't make me crash when it wears off. I hear that those energy drinks wear off quick and you feel really bad when that happens. It's not something I can fix with my diet because I eat healthy and I can't go to sleep earlier.

Any help would be greatly appeciated.

Okay, well I can definitely help you out here.

I go to bed at 2 or 3AM, wake up at 5:30 or 6AM because I have so much HW and extracurricular activities going on. And I'm a really diligent at doing my work and managing time. This happens on the weekends, too. So basically I live off of 4 to 5(If I'm lucky) hours of sleep everyday.

1. Exercising DOES help in keeping you awake in the mornings. It gets your pumping, thus getting you hyped up. And exercising for at least 15min is proven to keep you awake until 3PM in some cases.

2. Do not eat bananas. They are natural beta blockers and have soporific effects on people.

3. Drink black coffee or green tea (Organic preferably) Black coffee is 5 calories per cup serving, which is like a tsp of coffee. And green tea is just plain delicious, healthy, 0 cals, and loaded with caffeine.

That's how I stay awake. You might want to drink coffee/tea like an hour before when you have to be awake, though. And whenever you get tired in class, just find a stupid reason to stand up and walk to something (Sharpening your pencil, bathroom, water, tissue, ask question, etc)

Emily
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(Rating: 5) Thanks! I'll get some green tea (I hate coffee) and stay away from bananas. :)

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