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I had my sleeve a little over a month ago and am struggling with the exercise piece. I was doing well before surgery but I work 12 hours most days and am finding this soooo difficult to get in and to muster up the motivation? I am not a gym person at all! I was hoping to get some advice on what exercise everyone else who works full time etc seem to fit in?? Thanks in advance!!

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hi! I know exactly what you are going through, but I am doing my exercise everyday. My surgery was July 28th. I walked an hour everyday or I get on my Tony Little Gazelle machine. I also work 9 to 10 hours a day, but I have to exercise everyday. On weekends I take longer walks and I'm starting to love it. Only think I can tell you is that you have to make it a point to exercise everyday. Monday thru Friday I do the Gazelle an hour and on weekends I walk at a track. Good Luck to you.

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My advice is to look at exercise as a job. Average people have to work. They have no choice. Don't make exercise an option, make it a necessity that you can't live without. Do what works for you. My day is long. I teach at the high school level, I tutor after school and I coach a dance team after that. Then I go home to a house filled with 4 kids. My days are never ending and exhausting. But I get up at 4 in the morning and get my one hour in. It is what works for me because I'm too tired and still too busy after work to get it in, in the evening. On my days off I concentrate on lifting, because now that school is back in session, lifting doesn't fit into my afternoons. Point is...I make and find the time. Tired or not, it is a must and necessity to live a longer and healthier life style. Not to mention that I love what it has done for my physique.

Hope you find an exercise and time that works for you!

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What helped me and what I continue to do is while watching tv I exercise during the commercial break.

I incorporate lunges, squats, push ups and hand weights. There is about 10-15 minute commercial breaks in a hour long show. So if you start watching tv at 7 and finish watching at ten you've gotten in about 30 minutes.

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And that doesn't include my actual workout I have around noon. But this helped a lot early on and it's a habit now.

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What helped me and what I continue to do is while watching tv I exercise during the commercial break.<br> I incorporate lunges, squats, push ups and hand weights. There is about 10-15 minute commercial breaks in a hour long show. So if you start watching tv at 7 and finish watching at ten you've gotten in about 30 minutes.

Great advice. I teach at a college, I have always been a pacer when I lectured, now I walk around the entire room during my lecture time so I basically get very slow hour and 15 minute walk during each of my classes. My office is also really close to the copy machine so to increase my number of steps that I take every day anytime I print something out I'll walk down to the end of the hallway about 300 steps and back before I go pick something up from the copy room.

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i have simply walked since surgery, at least 5/7 days. sometimes on a treadmill at work, most of the time outside.

i try to change up my route or add a little to it every few days. my hubs and i are joining a gym just simply because i am losing muscle and need to better define what i have, so that will be added in too. we are joining a planet fitness which is open 24 hrs from monday-friday and i'll be getting up at about 430am to go and get my workout...

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I am doing mostly walking, too. Between my 9 hour work day and 2 hours of commuting time, it's a challenge. I don't do it every single day. But any lunch hour is now a walking hour. If it's raining my new thing is body weight exercise in my office. I am fortunate to have a private office and I can shut the door.

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When I went into this I made up my mind to become a life long athlete. That was in January of 2012 . I have kept that commitment. Exercise was just a means, not an end. I visualized the finished product... In the best health and shape possible...and structured my life to make it happen.

When I first started I could barely climb stairs. I used a steep hill by my house as my gym. I walked up and down the hill, going longer each time. Then I added weights, more time. Then I started running, then more weights. At the end of a year I was running full speed up and down the hill 12 times with ankle weights and 20 pound dumbells. This on top of push ups, knee bends, and kettle bell routines. I follow simple Protein first guide lines.

Now I don't work out at all. Why? I work at a job where I shovel dirt and run a wheelbarrow, carry heavy boards, and lift heavy poles all day in the Florida heat. I work with men nearly one third my age, (I am 65), who can barely keep up with me. Other than fighting cramps and joint pain my health is good.

Oh, yes, forgot to mention, I had prostate cancer treatment in 2009 which caused my cascading weight gain. I was supposed to be dead in 2012. I am not dead.

Make your mind up, invest your heart, your body will follow.

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Make your mind up, invest your heart, your body will follow.

Right on gmanbat!

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