It’s perhaps the biggest complaint about travelling from one time zone to the next is the dreaded jet lag. It can literally make or break a trip – because often, it could mean hours of sleep while you should be enjoying the city you’re in!
What are the pro’s tips to getting through it? While they may not work on everyone, it’s worth a shot to read through these 7:
- Be in the best shape you can be before your trip. If you have advanced notice, start eating healthy, take your vitamins and get plenty of sleep while you can.
- Once on your flight, set your watch to the time zone you will be arriving in.
- Plan to “be” on the time zone you will be arriving in. Once on your flight try to sleep if it is night time at your arrival destination. Set an alarm to wake when it is morning at your arrival city.
- Once you arrive, if you must take a nap, limit yourself to 1-3 hours. This is difficult and you’ll want to sleep longer (in fact you may want to shoot yourself, rather than get up) but if you do you will have trouble going to sleep on time in your new time zone.
- Try melatonin. It worked for me, but I had crazy dreams so I don’t like it. I know many people that love it.
- Have a night cap! No, not the alcoholic version. As tempting as that may be, your sleep will be interrupted enough without adding alcohol. Stick with a night time tea, like chamomile.
- Go to bed at the time of night you usually go to bed, in your new time zone. You may still feel groggy the next day and/or wake through the night, but this is the quickest way to be on the local time zone so you can make the most of your trip.
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