Hi I'm one month out of surgery and looking to exercise. Can you tell me how you started and how you moved up to muscle building?

I'm no expert, but I had the same general goal after surgery. What are your specific goals?

My goal is to get enough muscle to minimize the skin issue or at least lessen it. I'm 32 so I hope with working out there will be some mitigation.

I'm wondering the same thing. What's the best approach to minimize excess skin as weight comes off? I've heard one person mention resistance exercises, but I'm not quite sure what that entails.

I haven't been cleared for full activity yet... But I'd love to learn about what you're doing activity-wise.

If it's for skin issues, I think what has helped me (along with patience), is resistance (weightlifting) work. Perhaps concentrating on the areas you think you may have a problem with loose skin.....tummy, arms, chest, etc. I was a little worried about a sagging tummy when I got my sleeve, so I did lots of core and oblique exercises like sit ups, planks, deadlifts, etc. It has built up muscle in my torso and has filled in SOME of where I would have had loose skin. Now I'm concentrating on my chest in addition to all of the other lifts I had already been doing. But there's probably only so much that lifting can do to help with possible loose skin. Also patience/time (I'm over a year and a half post op) and many other factors/variables that determine loose skin issues. In fact, I have a link posted on my profile about skin issues....it's simple, yet informative.