![]() ![]() ![]() The Instant Pot, the Internet-famous electric pressure cooker ( it’s our favorite), cooks up energy-sustaining proteins and high-quality carbohydrates faster than food delivery. I can make soups and salad dressings in it, too. Trading my decades-old jalopy of a blender for a more efficient model (I got our budget pick, the KitchenAid 5-Speed Classic Blender) made it easier to jump-start the day with a smoothie instead of a bagel. Prep food with low-effort, fast-working appliances. A colorful range of produce-”at least three different colors per meal,” says sports performance nutritionist Sean Casey, RD-supplies the vitamins and minerals that fuel your body’s various functions so you feel less tired. Making meals at home a few times a week can help curb the damage. But you don’t have to be a dietitian to know they leave you feeling sluggish. bad takeoutįruits and vegetables are appealing in summer, but when it feels like Siberia out there, comfort foods, preferably takeout, hit the spot. “Your brain feels as if the sun came out and you feel more awake,” he says. (Talk to yours about whether the device is appropriate for you and how best to use it.) Chris Winter, MD, author of The Sleep Solution, keeps a lamp in his office in the winter and turns it on for 10 minutes in the morning (and, if he’s dragging, also in the afternoon). Doctors often recommend these for seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression triggered by certain seasons. (While you’re at it, why not program your smart speaker to play whatever song fires you up?)įor an extra kick, light therapy lamps (Wirecutter’s pick: Carex Day-Light Classic Plus Lamp) might help. ![]() Hue, Wirecutter’s smart-bulb pick, offers lighting "formulas" such as brighter intensities in the morning and warmer glows in the evening. If the thought of entering a dark home after work makes you want to ditch all household obligations, you can also arrange lights to turn on before you walk through your door. There’s a backup alarm too, which I set to the sound of birds chirping so I can pretend it’s actually May.Ī more integrated strategy: Outfit your home with smart bulbs instead, which you can program to brighten just as you would a sunrise alarm clock. Its light gradually fills the room and peaks at the designated time. in winter-a sunrise alarm clock might help (Wirecutter recommends the Philips Wake-Up Light HF3520). To mimic the refreshing effects of a bright spring morning-but in the darkness of 6 a.m. When sunlight takes its own sweet time to arrive in the morning and slinks away before dinner, that sleepy feeling prevails, even if we’ve just slept. Its presence suppresses the flow of the sleep hormone melatonin its absence encourages it. Shorter days are largely to blame for the blahs. To help make your seven to eight hours of sleep feel exactly that, here are four expert-approved strategies. Winter tiredness is as mental as it is physical, and you need to consider things both in and out of the bedroom to reawaken your fun-loving self. But as Wirecutter’s sleep writer, I know that many sleep-promoting products don’t actually do much. It’s enough to make anyone want to curl up under a blanket and snooze until March. ![]() But after wearing dozens of puffy coats thin over my lifetime, that’s not the case: I hate the relentless chill, the heavy boots, the darkness. I grew up in New England, so you’d think I’d be used to winter by now. ![]()
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