RickM

Walking right away, was outpacing my wife at about a week. Re-started weight machines at the gym after about 3 weeks, upper and lower body only, isolating the core/abdomin, cut the weight back to 1/2-2/3 what I had been doing before on a toning basis. Light swimming after 4 weeks or so. At 6 weeks am still apprehensive about tickling the abdomin too much - don't need hernias!

Being only 5-6 weeks postop, I'm still working on my initial goal weight which is based on attaining a body composition of around 15% fat mass, which is on the lean side of normal for men. Assuming that the weight loss is primarily fat (ideal and not necessarily entirely accurate, but a decent starting point), that would put me at a BMI of about 28 and 200#. I figure that I would re-adjust as I get closer to goal and see how things progress and feel. I suspect that 200-210 is where I will end up as that was a long term stability point way back when, and my 3 week stall happened in the 260-265 range which is another stability point in my past (both on the up side and the down.)