The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life

Happy Sunday 🌞. Welcome to your weekly read, The Mummy Mail.

I spend hours losing sleep on finding THE best mummy fitness hacks, so you don’t have to.

On today’s agenda:

✅ The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.

✅ Sleep tight.

✅ Sleep walk your way through the week with me.

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WEEKLY WELLNESS WINS

As you have guessed, this weeks topic is all things sleep 😴.

I think I can speak for all of us Mama’s, we would kill for more of that stuff right?!

I find it quite frustrating, to be honest at times when all these “sleep professionals” are talking about how lack of sleep can shorten your life, without the consideration of being a parent with kids that don’t sleep!

However, having said that, I do find myself up late most evenings, regardless of how tired I am. Mainly due to the fact that it is my downtime. Kid free!!

I know that lots of you are guilty of this too.

I have another podcast episode for you to listen to this week. It is incredibly eye opening and maybe can help you change your perspective on the importance of sleep and how this can directly impact your health and fitness goals.

Give it a listen and let me know your thoughts - maybe there is a light bulb💡 moment or two in there.

Click the image below to listen to the sleep episode.

For a much shorter “How to Master Your Sleep” podcast episode, CLICK HERE!

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HEALTH HACK THIS WEEK

Well, it’s got to be a hack on how to prioritise your sleep as a parent this week.

Let’s face it, it’s a daily struggle. Caffeine becomes your best mate. Doom scrolling becomes your procrastination tool. Snooze on the alarm in the morning is a given. You know you aren’t getting up to that first alarm!

But this week, I am going to teach you how to get better sleep (even if your child doesn’t sleep well) and I am going to give you MORE energy this week. But only if you follow these steps 👇🏼

We need to get an evening routine in place. You can set this BUT I have some rules that you MUST stick to:

1. No screens an hour before bed - that includes phones, TV’s, laptops.

2. You must lay your clothes out ready for the morning.

3. You set an alarm for the same time EVERY morning and you put your alarm/phone on the other side of the bedroom (so you have to get up to switch it off).

We got ourselves a deal? 🤝 

Next up, we need a morning routine. Again, I will allow you the freedom to set this routine for yourself. However, the same applies, we have rules to follow 👇🏼

1. You GET UP to your first alarm.

2. You drink 500ml of water before any other drink.

3. You get 20 minutes of outdoor daylight BEFORE your day begins. This could be a walk, standing in the garden, hanging out the washing. But you must get outdoors for 20 mins.

Are we clear?

Bonus Points for Better Sleep 👇🏼

1. No caffeine after 2pm.

2. Lights out by 10pm 🛌.

Trust me - you’ll feel like a new person!

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LEADING FROM THE FRONT

(What this week will teach me)

I mean, half term 😮‍💨…

I’ve struggled to spin all the plates this week, so I can’t tell you I have lead from the front, I have just about got by. To be honest, I don’t know where I found the time to write this email 😂.

However, I am going to commit to focusing on my sleep this next week.

I am going to work on morning and evening routines. Cutting caffeine out from 2pm onwards and ensuring I am in bed with lights out by 10pm.

I will document everything on my Instagram account @rhi_form so if you want to join me in focusing on your sleep this week, here you will be able to take inspiration (hopefully) and tips on what I am doing.

I think this will be quite the challenge for me because I am a sucker for doom scrolling at silly o’clock in bed and enjoy my child free evenings maybe a little too much.

Not to mention, I am a pretty slow morning person!

Will you be joining me for the challenge?

Alarm set and ready for 5:30am - morning walk here I come.

See you sleep Queens next Sunday ✌🏻

Happy sleeping 💤