Josie Gibson is no stranger to an early morning after waking us up on This Morning, but she has now shared the sleep hack that has changed who she is as a person.
Although the sun is starting to creep out from behind the clouds and summer is just around the corner, Josie, 40, is inspiring us all to get an early night.
Speaking to heat, she said, ‘I’ve learnt more about my sleep, I had to track how many hours of sleep I was getting.
‘I was living on four or five, six hours [of sleep] at a push, but now I make sure I get eight or nine hours, and I feel like a totally different human being.'
Josie – who is mum to six-year-old son Reggie – continued, ‘I used to think I only needed four or five hours because I was a go-getter but it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever lived by.
‘I’m a better mum, I’m better at my job, I remember things a lot more. I try and walk a lot more than I did now, because I was so tired all the time I’d take the car everywhere.
‘I get so much more done in a day now and one thing I do is leave my phone downstairs at night.
‘I go up to bed between 9pm and 9:30pm on a weekday and I’m waking up naturally between 6am and 6:30am so it’s just getting an early night and not being on your phone right before bed.'
Josie has changed the way she lives after doctors warned her she was at risk of developing gout during filming of her new show The 1970s Diet.
She told us, ‘I got a bit of a health scare while filming this show, so it knocked me into submission a bit, I had to do something about myself.
‘I had really high uric acid and my toes had been hurting so they suspected I had gout. I thought only kings like Henry VIII and old men got gout. I was like, I’m a 39-year-old woman, this is really embarrassing!’
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