Body and mind

Hi all, I have been having an issue...it's not a terribly bad issue, just one of adjustment.  I am nearly 9 months out and down 120 lbs or so.  About 2 weeks ago I started getting a whole new level of energy, really to a level that feels hyper...all day.  Certainly I love the energy, but it is my mind that is racing these days.  In some ways I am always thinking, strategizing...even when I weighed 350.  That is what helped as a type A build a business at 350 lbs.  Now I find that as the body motor has sped up that the mind has sped up even more and it is affecting concentration and the ability to stay focused.  Its sort of like being hyped up on caffeine all day.  Then at the end of the day...I just crash. I'm curious.  Is this something others have experienced or am I just out here on my own?  Perhaps I just need time to adjust and the body and mind to sync up.  It's just really wierd?  Anyone else going through this? Thanks Greg

Hi Greg,

My body clock has been off (wake up at 3:30 or 4:00), but not really hyper. I don't know anything about thyroid, but doesn't that leave your tired? Maybe hyperthyroid? Pretty rare in men, though.

Best Wishes,

Dave

Greg,

 

 

I will have to agree with you. At 8 months out I find that I am having a hard time focusing my attention at work. It seems like a slight attention deficit issue. As you say being down over 120 lbs has given me a higher energy and need to move around. As you say, my mind is sort of on a long caffeine high. Though it also is a risk for me due grazing, not real from hunger, but for a form of stimulation. I have focused on curbing this by drinking much more water and sugar-free gum.

I find that I do sleep harder, but for much less time. I really have not used an alarm clock for the last 4 months because tend to wake up at 5:30 after heading to bed at midnight or later. This week I started doing squats, sit-ups, and push-ups in the morning to burn up some energy and get my legs stronger for bike riding.

 

 

Herb

Yo Greg, 

I'm just past 9 months and had what you are experincing as of last month.  I have a desk job and my mind is racing on all of the things I can be doing, how to do them, prioritizing, and analyzing and is seldom content on any one topic for very long.  It has gotten better over the last month but is still an issue.  I'm not sure if it si getting better or if it is just me adjusting.  I have also been thru a period were 5-6 hours is all I could sleep to within the last week, gettting up in the moring is like pulling boulders out of bed.

Still doing the same vitamins and stuff.  I did reduce my last BP med to half the dosage with the WLS CNP blessings at my 9 month checkup.  That may have had an impact but logic tells me that should speed things up rather than slow them down.  I just write it all off as the body still going thru WLS transisition and the ride just took another twist.  Adjust accordingly.  Weirdly as it seems. I am going thru a period where I feel like I am losing but the scales and pants size just sit there, not moving.  So I am kinda waiting for a sudfden drop as it was been a while and the last plateau only moved 6 pounds instead of the usual 10-12.  It even dropped to 236 for 4 solid days then went back to 240 the day I had my checkup and weigh-in. 

Back on topic,...sorry,.....I think it is a brain juice/chemical phase.  It calms down but it definitiely lasted long enough for me to cause me have to take some measures to control my focus, which I gues is a taking charge of you r actions kinda thing and I see that as a related issue to the changes we have to make post-op, just not directly food related.  Indirectly I am sure because of the new types of fuels we are putting in the body. BUt a good type A knda guy, wordl traveler, successful WLS patient and handsome dude with a great looking set of shades like yourself will keep this new episode in check now that it has been identified, which a the first major step in ovecoming any challenge; identifying the issue/problem.

Charge on my friend and and thanks for posting.  I thought I was losing it last month and am relieved to hear others having similar experiences.  Maybe I am still on the sane side of reality after all.  Maybe.....  

Hi guys, great insight as always.  I guess it is a phase.  I know it doesn't help that after a year of trying we finally created this awesome tool so that makes me extra excited.  You remember that movie "Sneakers" with Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley and the "No More Secrets" box that was the super decoder of passwords?  I feel like it is something like that.  Not nefarious in any way, just that we have harnessed this mammoth called Google to do exactly what we need it to do and that has created close to a 9,000% productivity improvement in what we do.  So I am stoked about that as well.  Some days I feel like I'm just going to explode.  It's sort of like the perfect storm of energy and excitement hitting at the same point...Physiologically it is like a high...on the mind the result being scatterbrain.  Fortunately it is not like a high from smoking a joint because it doesn't come with the munchies. Good to know that the physiological stuff is a phase that others have gone through as well.  I really appreciate all of you as always.  All the best on that plateau Joe.  You've been throug the ringer on that one, my friend.  Thanks so much for the encouragement.  Means a ton... Blessings, Greg