Okay peeps, so Summer is over and Autumn is here in full swing. The kids are back at school, I’m back on the work life juggle and the search for the ever-elusive perfect chelsea boot is well under way. There are a whole bunch of things that I L-O-V-E about Autumn and without a doubt it is my favourite season but do you know what I don’t like? I don’t like all of the darkness.
Nope. Those 6am starts in the pitch black dark? The fact that often I head into the office in the dark and leave in the dark without so much of a sniff of sunlight? Nope. Nope. Nope. Me no likey.
And neither does anyone else. Nobody has ever said “yes I do love it when I can’t see outside anymore” because it sucks. We (sadly) aren’t bears that can eat our body weight in food, grow our leg hair and sleep until Spring so that means carrying on with our usual mum duties, just in a lot less light. Boo to that.
You know where I’m going with this because the clue is in the title – so if you want to win one of these fab Lumie Bodyclock GO 75’s to help you beat those winter blues then go ahead and enter below.
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1 x Lumie Bodyclock GO 75 – no monetary exchange available
Contest is open until 07 October 2017 00:00
Distribution of prizes is the responsibility of Lumie.
A Mum Track Mind cannot be held responsible for lost prizes
This post was written in collaboration with Lumie – all opinions are my own
All winner decisions are final – the winner has 48 hours to claim or a new winner will be drawn
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The Lumie Bodyclock GO 75 comes with a choice of whole range of wake-up sounds to go with the light, including my favourite, the dawn chorus. It’s a really gentle and natural introduction to the day providing I’m not already being poked in the face by an alert toddler that is.
I have to admit that I was sceptical to see whether the natural dawn light that the clock emits would be enough to wake me from my sleep but I needn’t have worried. The body clock mimics natural light and sends signals to your brain that the day is beginning and therefore it’s time to wake up and shake up. Or at least pour a very large cup of coffee.
If you want the science behind it, the natural light sends a signal to your body to ease up on the production of melatonin (the sleep hormone) and increase the hormones that get you fired up for the day (cortisol). The claim is that once you start your day in as natural a way as possible, the more productive and energetic you will feel throughout the day.
I found the Lumie Bodyclock Go 75 to be really easy to set up and it comes with the following features:
- 20, 30 or 45 minute sunrise to wake naturally
- 20, 30 or 45 minute sunset to wind down for bed
- Choice of five wake-up sounds: dawn chorus, drum beat, Big Ben, beep, windchimes
- Dimmable lighting for use as a bedside light
- Nightlight feature
- Snooze feature (my favourite!)
- Back-ups: optional alarm beep, power failure back-up
At this time of year I am always affected by SAD (seasonal affected disorder) and so this little treasure of a light is helping me along the way in conjunction with a light box. I found lots of really interesting information and advice on treating SAD over on the Lumie website which you can find by clicking on the link here.
So far I have been using my Lumie Bodyclock GO 75 for a few weeks and I am really impressed with it’s overall style and functionality. It beats hearing the blaring shrieks of my phone’s alarm clock anyway!
If you are entering the competition to win good luck and please see the t’s and c’s below.
Until next time – TTFN
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I think I’ve entered. Wish I WAS a bear
I do need help to wake up in the mornings
Would love to wake up feeling more energetic & refreshed
I am a terrible sleeper so struggle to drag myself out of bed in the mornings. I have heard these help so would love to win one thank you x
I struggle to get up in the dark mornings, hope this would help
I would like this for my Wife she hates the winter mornings so this may help!
To see if it helps.me sleep any better
Heard so many great reviews too
I’ve always found this time of year difficult with the dark morning and have often talked about buying one of these lights but have never actually done it, so this would be perfect!
I would like to wake up naturally as opposed to switching off my snooze alarm several times and then feeling absolutely rubbish!
I would love to win this fab prize because I suffer from S.A.D
I would love to win this – I suffer really badly with SAD and all my friends and family bang on about how one of these might make me slightly more human when I wake up at 5am to work…
I’m up very early for work, and this time of year I really do struggle to fall out of bed, and look lively. This sounds like it could help me wake up better, and leave me feeling much brighter.
I have trouble sleeping…wake up at 3am and then sleep again about 4 but then am so tired i cant get up…..this clock sounds amazing and i am sure it would help!
would love to win it would help me with sad
i have lots of problems sleeping and with energy so anything to help would be appreciated more than you could know
this would really help with getting me up in the morning
I would love to win to to wake naturally <3
Would love one of these, waking naturally sounds much better than jumping out of my skin everytime my alarm clock goes off.
Would be great for SAD 🙂
I have always wanted one since I first heard about them. I am not a morning person and this sounds a much more gentle way of waking up.
I am such an erratic sleeper I need something to help me get a better routine.
I’d like to win to try and improve my sleep pattern.
I’d love a Lumie Go…I’m already dreading the darker mornings getting up 🙁
I struggle to motivate myself in the morning- it takes me ages to properly wake my brain up, this looks like it would wake me up better.
My sleep patterns are terrible, and just get worse in winter – this would really help me get more regular and natural hours!
To try and help with the winter blues
Oh my goodness, with my return to work on Monday and these dark mornings I need all the help I can get! Sj x
getting up for early mornings starts at work is a big problem for me a Lumie body clock might be the answer to all my prayers
I’d love this because it would encourage me to go to bed earlier.
I would love to win to see if these could make a difference to my sleep pattern and mood, I am awful at sleeping and waking is even harder and it does affect me.
I would love to win the Lumie Bodyclock GO 75 because when my alarm clock goes off in the morning it’s so shrill I jump out of my skin!
I would love to win this to help beat the winter blues
i really struggle getting up in the morning, it gets worse when mornings are darker. this would be really helpful!
These sound amazing. I’m someone who really struggles with the whole waking up part, would love to try this out. Plus i hate my alarm, would finally be able to ditch it. I really dread hearing that familiar shrill sound every morning.
I really struggle with waking up and exhaustion in the winter months. I think this would be a huge help!
I’m always tired in the mornings, if I stay in bed too long I have a headache all day and I can’t stop yawning.
Due to medication for bi polar I really sleep heavy & find waking really hard. I’ve wanted to try a lumie light for ages now just to see if it can really help with my mood upon waking
My son really needs this as I can’t get him up in the morning for love nor money. I’ve just spent 3 years of getting him up for a paper round and can’t get him up anymore
I definitely need ALL the help in the world with waking/getting up in the mornings coffee is just not cutting it for me at the moment!
Would love one of these. waking naturally sounds much better than My hubby shouting at me
I would love to win it for my daughter who has to wake very early for some of her shifts at the hospital.
Would love to win to see if it helps me to get up in the morning because I have real problems at the moment.
I would love to win this actually for my daughter, she really struggles to get up on these dark mornings and I really think the Lumie would help
this looks awesome a real tool to help me get motivated and get up earlier xxx
Having sleep issues this would be fab!
Wonderful would make a great start to the day
I despair with dark mornings, such a struggle to get up, a struggle I don’t seem to have in summer.
Help me become more of a morning person!
My partner suffers with SAD so have wanting to get one of these for him for a while, but I also think it would benefit me
Absolutely hate dark mornings, and always feel tired! Been looking at the Lumie lights and have heard good things!
I’d love to improve my sleep!
just sounds amazing. my friend has one and she highly recommends it, i really do struggle on weekdays gettign up on time!
I would love to win this Lumie Bodyclock Go 75 to help with my terrible sleep pattern. Im running on four to five hours sleep and Im shattered!
I would love to wake up easier I really struggle in the morning
To help my sleeping improve.
I’d love to win because I’d love to wake up feeling refreshed instead of always waking up startled and ending up in a bad mood!
Nice would love to win fantastic prize
I wake with the daylight , so darker mornings mean I wake later.
This would be brilliant.
I could do with this soooo bad! I really struggle to get up in the dark mornings, so this would be a great help.
I want to win because that Lumie clock seems a whole more advanced than the one on my bedside, it’s quite nifty
To get up in the mornings lol
I would love to be gently woken up in the mornings
To help my sister wake up for her shifts!
I sleep through ordinary alarms and have to rely on others to wake me. I have often wondered if one of these would work for me 🙂
I would love to win, to have more motivation in the morning
my son needs help geting up
I’d love to win as I hope it would help make my mornings getting up at 5am much more pleasant
I really hate getting up in the mornings and I am very grumpy more so in the winter with the dark early starts for the school run then work so would love to be woken up more gradually and more naturally
I would just love to wake up in a more natural way and I do suffer from SAD
To help me wake up more easily in the morning, especially in winter
I have wanted a Lumie lamp for so many years! I have Bi-polar and the winter months I am more likely to suffer with depression and I really think this would help me get up for work everyday If I was lucky enough to win one xxx
I hate alarm clocks! The buzzing noise, the sound of people talking on the radio, or songs blasting out that I can’t stand! I need a nice gentle wake up and this would be perfect!
I’ve always wanted one of these. Fingers crossed!
I struggle to get up in the dark mornings
I would love to win a Lumie body clock as I work permanent night shifts so this would definitely help me sleep and wake up feeling refreshed instead of sluggish and tired all the time xx
I really need a calmer, less aggressive, wake up system
I’d love this to wake up to instead of
My loud alarm on a morning, hopefully it’ll help me wake up feeling refreshed and ready for work
I would love to win this for my Mum who struggles to get to sleep and wake up in the morning
I need help to wake up in the mornings
It would be great to wake up naturally instead of so abruptly by the alam
I really struggle especially at this time of the year. I suffer from chronic fatigue. I really think this would help.
I need to wake up feeling refreshed instead of startled
I think the Lumie would be fantastic for my boyfriend, would really help him to wake up refreshed
I really struggle to get up in a morning, particularly in winter, and think this would make a huge difference.
My sleep is awful! This might help!
I’d love to win as I definitely have an energy slump in the Winter and really struggle to get up and going in the mornings 🙁
I need all the help I can get, to get up in the mornings
I would like to wake up naturally as opposed to switching off my jarring alarm clock.
I really struggle with waking up in the winter and have a really low mood and no energy – I’ve heard lots of good thing about the lumie bodyclock and how it can help with these
the wife needs it i,m retired
I’d love to be able to wake up a bit more naturally in the winter months.
I suffer from SAD..which seems to be getting worse as I get older lol. I think I could really benefit from a natural, light charged wake up alarm instead of my current iPhone alarm which I always manage to drop or cant find in the dark so its an all round stressful process!
Now when my daughter started school I really need some help waking up
I’d love to give this a try. I always feel so tired in winter.
Anything that can help me feel refreshed in the mornings has to be worth a try
I’d love to win this because I’ve wanted one for years. I have some strange issues regarding sleep and I’m finding it so difficult having to wake up early now I’m back to work, especially with the darker mornings. I think one of these could really help me 🙂
I’d love to win it to help me wake up on these cold, dark Winter mornings.
I could cry in the morning. Just dont know why i cannot get up these days. never used to be like this. i need to do something before i start getting in trouble at work
I need help waking up on these dark mornings!
as the darker mornings are setting in need help getting up for work this sounds ideal
It’d be the’ light of my life’, a shining beacon to regular restful and plentiful sleep, setting me up for the winter days and months ahead 🙂
To help me unwind at night and wake up naturally in the morning
I’d love to try one of these to help me wake up in the morning xx
I would love to win as I get very low in the winter and this might help x
The long dark nights that creep into the day make life rather hard to cope with. I just want to pull the covers over my head and hide until Summer. I am sure that this lamp would really help me feel better in the winter months and not feel so depressed.
I am struggling to get up now in the mornings as so dark so this would be perfect to motivate me more and wake me up slowly
I’ve been coveting a Lumie light for so long! I’m terrible in the mornings, I need all the help I can get!
i would like to win as i really do struggle with getting up in a morning, fingers crossed
I’d like to see if it can improve my mood in the mornings.
I’d like to see if it can improve my mood in the mornings.
I’d love one to help with my SAD and make it easier to drag myself out of bed on winter mornings.
I would love one of these to help me sleep better and to get up in the mornings, thanks.
This sounds wonderful, I’d Would be over the moon to win. xx
I struggle in winter, well from mid October really, so I’d love to try a Lumie light and hope it helps!
I struggle getting up so much in the mornings as I don’t sleep well at night. This would be amazing
I’m originally from the Nordic so you’d think I was used to dark mornings and early nights by now….not a chance. These lights are super popular up there and I really need one to get me going with early school run days and late nights whilst working from home.
I would love to win so that I can give this to my Son to encourage him to get up in the morning!!! Fantastic prize, thank you x
I struggle to get up in the mornings x