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Post-Pandemic541I was very faithful at eating less, mainly because I knew I wasn%u2019t going to be on a permanent diet. But I did miss tossing back a small handful of mixed nuts or eating a few blue-corn chips occasionally. I was also faithful about riding each day. So I was quite pleased when I weighed myself after the first week, and saw that I%u2019d lost 2 pounds.%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022%u2022Just as I started my second week of diet and exercise, everything fell apart. Over the next several days, I often had a headache and had a great difficulty sleeping. When I did sleep, I was often tense and had strange repeating dreams. On three occasions I awoke in the middle of the night soaking wet from sweat. I also had bouts of chills during the day on two occasions.The headaches were usually mild. When I%u2019d had similar ones in the past, I would have gone to bed and they would have cleared by morning. But these lasted through the night, likely because of the tension. The result was a lack of sleep, which left me tired and weak during the day. Sometimes I got up in the middle of the night to take Tylenol and a hot shower, both of which usually helped with both headaches and tension. But, this time, not completely %u2014 sometimes not at all. Because I was worn out from not sleeping, it was tiring to just stand in the shower. One time when I left the bathroom I was so disoriented I ran into a wall, then went into the wrong bedroom. I felt a bit dizzy for most of the next day.I hadn%u2019t been remembering my dreams recently, but now recalled several. In the first one, I was going through a long document, making specific changes. I couldn%u2019t recall what the document said, nor what changes I was making. It seemed like I must have been working on a computer, although I didn%u2019t actually recall a computer in the dream. But the changes didn%u2019t take, and I%u2019d have to make them all over again. Then, those wouldn%u2019t take, and I%u2019d have to start over once more. This frustrating process kept repeating over and over. Which probably contributed to the tension and headaches. I also had similar, but different, repeating dreams on three other occasions, where I couldn%u2019t make some other type of