I had my VSG on 9/5/2017 and I was so thrilled before I had my surgery. I felt so much excitement because I worked hard to lose the weight I needed. I kept to the pre-op diet and managed to cut a lot of bad foods from my life. I made some big lifestyle changes as well. I hardly slept the week before my surgery and I felt the happiest I had ever felt in my life. But post-op, I just feel blah. It seems like I just lost all the excitement I had before. I go to my group meetings and I see all the other patients who had the surgery, and they have seem to have endless amounts of energy. I don't regret my surgery at all, but could it just be from the hormonal changes my body is going through? What is causing this emotional fog?

I think it's like when you plan a big party, or a wedding. You spend a year planning and prepping and getting excited about the big day, and then the big day happens, and the next morning you wake up and say, "now what?" We plan so much for surgery, that once it happens, we don't have anything to fixate on any more. After surgery, you're just waiting... waiting to heal, waiting to feel better, waiting for the number on the scale to go down.

i don't have any advice, but I understand how you're feeling. I've started planning a vacation that we are going to take in a few months, just to give me something else to be thinking about.

@ZinNH is right with that analogy. So many of us view surgery as the destination. It isn't. It's just the biggest event on your way to your destination, which is after you're healed & are doing daily maintenance. The destination isn't a number on a scale or even lower blood pressure. It's living your new life.

I feel the same. Shaky weak down in the dumps. Teary all the time. Need some ideas to snap out of this

Sounds like post op for most things. This will be my 12th surgery. Medication is slow getting out of our systems sometimes.

Also, events are huge & we do sort of go, uh now what? As a gramma, it's the journey not the destination!

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I had my VSG on 9/5/2017 and I was so thrilled before I had my surgery. I felt so much excitement because I worked hard to lose the weight I needed. I kept to the pre-op diet and managed to cut a lot of bad foods from my life. I made some big lifestyle changes as well. I hardly slept the week before my surgery and I felt the happiest I had ever felt in my life. But post-op, I just feel blah. It seems like I just lost all the excitement I had before. I go to my group meetings and I see all the other patients who had the surgery, and they have seem to have endless amounts of energy. I don't regret my surgery at all, but could it just be from the hormonal changes my body is going through? What is causing this emotional fog?

I feel the same way. We just need to channel our thinking to something else. This time off work has really got me thinking of changing careers. But, ensuring it will benefit my family. Maybe take a class, read a novel, write your journey down. Anything to keep your hopes up and eyes on a better life ahead [emoji4]

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