Three months? That's nuts. Are you okay now? What were the effects? Just worn out, or anything in particular? I gained 40 pounds in 8 weeks, and had some sort of blood pressure incident that made me swell up like the Michelin Man and get so physically feeble for a week that I could barely function. (And it was qualitatively weird weakness—flus and exhaustion make you too tired to expend much effort, but I found that lifting a 50 lb. weight made my muscles strain and hurt like I was picking up something four times the size.)
I'm OK now, though on blood pressure meds and likely will be for the forseeable future. But I've gotten myself back into shape similar to what I was before all the overtime (still somewhat overweight, but active and healthy feeling).
I don't know how much of a part mental stress played in the whole ordeal, but exhaustion and lack of sleep were definitely major causes on the physical side. And I got less sleep than I could have even given the crazy schedule because I still wanted to read, or watch TV, or socialize with friends in my off hours. If WG is open to unsolicited advice I'd recommend making 8 hours sleep a night minimum (and 9 or 10 would be better) his first priority before doing recreational things that are mentally relaxing, at least until the weekends come back.
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Date: 2007-05-27 01:59 am (UTC)I gained 40 pounds in 8 weeks, and had some sort of blood pressure incident that made me swell up like the Michelin Man and get so physically feeble for a week that I could barely function. (And it was qualitatively weird weakness—flus and exhaustion make you too tired to expend much effort, but I found that lifting a 50 lb. weight made my muscles strain and hurt like I was picking up something four times the size.)
I'm OK now, though on blood pressure meds and likely will be for the forseeable future. But I've gotten myself back into shape similar to what I was before all the overtime (still somewhat overweight, but active and healthy feeling).
I don't know how much of a part mental stress played in the whole ordeal, but exhaustion and lack of sleep were definitely major causes on the physical side. And I got less sleep than I could have even given the crazy schedule because I still wanted to read, or watch TV, or socialize with friends in my off hours. If WG is open to unsolicited advice I'd recommend making 8 hours sleep a night minimum (and 9 or 10 would be better) his first priority before doing recreational things that are mentally relaxing, at least until the weekends come back.