One of my coworkers is an amateur body builder. He's one of 2 people at work who know that I will be taking the surgical route. He and I got into an interesting discussion on how body builders bulk and cut before a competition. He mentioned that since I would be getting surgery, it would be interesting to see if getting some muscle before surgery would counter the muscle loss usually sustained after surgery.

I'm doing this for my own health, but I had to.admit, this was a pretty interesting concept. Work out as hard as my body will allow and then the surgery do the cutting? It would help fill out a lot of loose skin, that's for sure.

Thoughts?

Even pre-sleeve, I found that bread actually made me hungrier. Now, it just overfills me and makes it hard for me to drink Water after a meal, even waiting 30 minutes. I'd add a piece of sausage instead of the bread... it's tastier, too.

The last time I circuit trained was at Curves, and it sucked, IMO. However, you have to do what you have available to you. Have you tried leaving the weight the same and increasing the amount of reps in a minute? I don't know if that's even possible, just thinking out loud.

Good luck! You're going to do great with your sleeve!