WHat exercise is everyone doing to help with their weight loss after gastric bypass surgery?

I am almost 4 weeks post op and down 18 lbs. I am doing 30 mins on the elliptical and then free weight exercises for my arms. I plan to add more weight lifting exercises once the doc gives me the okay in a few weeks. I am doing this four days a week. I would like to try some Zumba classes. They sound like fun.

I do cardio (walking/jogging) on the treadmill on tuesday's and thursdays....on monday, wenesdays and fridays I weight train....so I work out 5 days a week! I'm kinda frustrated because I have only lost 8 lbs in the last 3 weeks and this morning the scale tried to telling me I gained 11 lbs.....I have no clue how that happened!

I walk as often as I can and on average four days a week. Started with about a mile and have been doing 2.5 to 3 miles for quite some time now. I don't jog but I don't saunter either. Guess I'd call it a fast walk. Didn't do any weight training until this week. I lost some muscle mass in my upper arms so I'm trying to get some of that back. But I have to say that I feel absolutely great and look forward to walking. I started walking on my treadmill but soon changed to walking in a park near my home. I enjoy the park more and so does my black lab. I'm 27 weeks post-op and it took several months but at this point I'm really quite addicted to walking. There is absolutely no question in my mind that walking has helped me enormously with the weight loss. I also feel better, physically and mentally, when I walk. I have noticed that I get tense and irritable when I don't walk for two or three days. Can't explain it but it definitely happens.

I do cardio (walking/jogging) on the treadmill on tuesday's and thursdays....on monday' date=' wenesdays and fridays I weight train....so I work out 5 days a week! I'm kinda frustrated because I have only lost 8 lbs in the last 3 weeks and this morning the scale tried to telling me I gained 11 lbs.....I have no clue how that happened![/quote']

Could be muscle not fat.

That's what I'm hoping I'm looking slimmer and slimmer so I've got my fingers crossed for weight loss this week

I am almost 4 weeks post op and down 18 lbs. I am doing 30 mins on the elliptical and then free weight exercises for my arms. I plan to add more weight lifting exercises once the doc gives me the okay in a few weeks. I am doing this four days a week. I would like to try some Zumba classes. They sound like fun.

Zumba is awesome! Give it a try!

I have just started walking & working up to running with a group here called "Mom's on the Run". Cool group of women at all levels of running.I am also going to get back to Zumba soon.

I will defiantly have to try it! My gym offers it a few times a week...I'm just afraid that I'm not going to catch on fast enough and look silly. Guess I need to get over that.

I just started the couch to 5k program. Designed to train couch potatoes to run a 5k in about 12 weeks. I love it!! You start out so simple, you download the app from I tunes and it tells you when to jog, walk, and cool down! My doc told me about this and I love it! I also use the elliptical and lift weights.

I'm going to the gym 3x a week. I do 2hrs every time I go, 60mins cardio (30mins treadmill & 30mins elliptical) and 1hr of Zumba! I love it! Feeling very energized!