Question:
Does anyone else have a hard time dealing with all your excess energy??

I am 2 1/2 months post op and down 30 lbs. I am now FULL of energy!! I work in an office environment so it really isnt professional to skip around or dance at the fax machine (but I still do it....lol). Sometimes I go in the bathroom and do kicks for a few minutes but I still feel super hyper. It seams like the more I move, the more hyper I become. Anyone else feel like this?? How did you deal with it at work??    — S A. (posted on August 20, 2003)


August 20, 2003
Sondra, I am still pre-op so I don't have an answer for you. But I sure hope I have that kind of energy post-op and beyond. Just think of all the things you can get done. I think all that energy will continue to help you loose weight. I wish you all the best
   — Greattobe B.

August 20, 2003
As everyone else has said - you go girl! I am almost 4 weeks out and do not have my energy level back. I think that you should just try to keep busy and get up and walk as much as you can. Walk at lunch and deliver items instead of sending them interoffice if possible. Enjoy the energy level and get some for of exercise in after work or before, which may help. I think you should count your blessings and maybe do leg lifts underneath your desk.
   — K H.

August 20, 2003
This might not apply to you, but I found that I have a problem with caffine. I know many of us are told not to drink coffee, including me. It just seems that I can't work unless I have a cup or two. Well, I used to need that cup or two, just to get the energy to work...when I was 160 lbs. heavier. Now I don't and after I've had a cup or two...I'm almost bouncing off the walls! Sometimes I just get up and walk down the hall, pretend I'm doing something and back at the desk. Well, I've cut back a little on the coffee. I wish my office building was a little bigger so I could take a real walk inside, it's a little silly to do laps! :)
   — Scott L.

August 20, 2003
Go Girlfriend! Bless your heart, you sound like me. There's not enough hours in the day to get all done I have the energy to do now. lol I walk/jog/bike every morning (1 hr total) 7 days a week. I swim/water aerobics 3-5 afternoons a week, and now I'm looking into kick boxing! No, I don't work! I'm 53 and feeling like a Spring Chicken! lol Exercise is the key to loosing faster and toning, while you loose. My 1st day home from hospital I walked 1 mile. And, I've never looked back. At a suport meeting last night others were talking about "It's too hot to walk and exercise" I told them ... Do like me, get up at 5am and do it before the sun comes out. How bad do you want to loose the weight and inches and be healthy once more? This surgery is a tool, it will work for us, but by "Us" making a special effort, it will work better! Trust Me! Lap RNY/2/11/03*** 250/160/140*** -90 pounds*** 53(age)5'4"***
   — Hazel S.

August 20, 2003
Geese give me some! I'm over two years post op and have no energy at all. Zip. All kinds of blood tests and no one knows why. I had a heck of alot more energy at 319 than at 162. Not fair. You must have my share of it.
   — Danmark

August 20, 2003
God Bless you!! I am 4 almost 5 mos out and I am just now beginning to not feel drained. For the last several months I have just been wiped out. Next week is my next doctors appointment so I can check blood results. Slowly it is beginning to get better. So I say don't try to restain it, enjoy it to the max!
   — Marie S.

August 20, 2003
Hi Sondra, boy am I like you also, there is not enough hours in the day for what I do so I know where you are coming from. I had my surgery on 02/19/03 and my starting weight was 412 now I am down to 252 as of monday the 18th, I walk 5 miles every morning and as for the poster that said walk in the morning thats what I do I do it at 5:00am to beat the heat then I work during the day and then go to our hospitals wellness center 3 or 4 days a week. I am up at 4:00am every morning and dont go to bed till midnight, I dont know when all this energy will stop so I am putting it to good use while I can so like the other people say lets run with it and keep the energy going as I am still loosing and have 50 more lbs to go so I hope the energy stays till then. Tony Talarico LAP RNY DISTAL 02/19/03 6'2" 412/252/ 160 gone for good Dr Korman Ingelwood, Ca
   — tonyskid

August 20, 2003
Sondra, I too am a fireball of energy, at 16 months post-op. Even after I bike the hour to work, I can hardly sit still all day- but need to ;) I take a little walk when I can, and do some "Office Yoga" to try to chill. I am going to bring my "Resist-A-Ball" to work this weekend! My boss loves my productivity. I agree, it is like perpetual motion... the more I move, though, the more I want to. I am riding, working out, etc. And loving it. But seriously, the yoga helps a lot for focus.
   — kultgirl

August 20, 2003
You must be young..energy is so wasted on the young. It took me a good 2 months to get my energy back and while I have more of it and you will the more weight you lose, can't say I have felt like dancing at the fax machine. I do notice I take the stairs instead of the elevator and walk faster to meetings, but no, no dancing! How to deal with it? Do you have stairs? Try climbing them on your break, that oughta do it.
   — Cindy R.

August 23, 2003
took me 8 weeks to get energy, but then I turned into the energizer bunny, I hardly ever get tired,(well normally, but I had a hernia repair last week and have been draggin my butt around) any ways other than the hernia repair, my house has never been cleaner, my curtains are washed and ironed, carpets shampood, garden is immaculate. And I sleep so much better too!
   — **willow**




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