How often do you work out? Do you have weekly goals? What type of exercise do you do? Walking? Swimming? Strength? Cardio? How does it work for you? Does it help with weight-loss slows/stalls? I want to know everything!

I am six months out and have been doing both cardio and weights. When I started I could only ride the bike for 5 minutes (because of a back injury) now that I have lost 140lbs since my hw I no longer have the back and hip pain I now do the elliptical for about 20 min and go as hard as I can for 2 1/2 miles. Starting Monday I will be increasing to 3 miles hard as I can. I try to better my time every time I work out. I have bested my time every work out for the last week and a half cutting over 1 minute off of my time. Then I do medium heavy weights. Hitting different parts every day ex:

MONDAY

chest and triceps

TUESDAY

Back and biceps

WEDNESDAY

Legs

THURSDAY

shoulders

Every day I work my core at the end of my workout.

@@heynowkc -- Pre-surgery I had been walking for 25-30 mins. on my lunch break at work, which I continued post-surgery when I returned to work. Then my surgeon told me I needed to ramp up my exercise in order to continue losing my weight.

On a side note, several days after my sleeve surgery, I encountered some complications that put me back into the hospital for 19 days, during which I lost about 30 lbs. and a lot of muscle and strength. Just stepping up a curb I required assistance. After discharge, and once I finished my outpatient physical therapy, I joined PlanetFitness so I could continue working on rebuilding my strength, balance, and muscle via their circuit training area. Once I started feeling stronger and getting some of my energy back, I then added time on the elliptical to my routine. All that said, here is my current weekly routine:

Monday-Friday (more days than not) -- walking 25 mins. on average

2-4 times per week -- 15-22 mins. on the elliptical

2-3 times per week -- several strength training exercises on machines/or circuit training (a day inbetween each session which is recommended

Until I started working out at the gym, my weight loss had stalled. Even when the scale wasn't moving, i was still seeing changes in how my clothes fit confirming that I was at least losing inches if not pounds. At times like this, you have to be patient and keep following the rules.

I hope this helps and encourage you in whatever form of physical activity you choose. Remember: This is for LIFE (literally). For every pound we lose, we are that much healthier.

. Thank you so much for sharing your day to day exercise routine. I'm still struggling and hoping I can be more consistent exercising since my weight-loss is starting to slowdown a little bit; but I'm still hopeful and will take exercising more seriously. Thanks again!

I do walk regularly.... But I found the most reliable exercise for me ( over 8 years) is to show up at my trainers and do exactly what she instructs me to do... I share her on one day and it helps with affordability????

For whatever reason, The reliability makes me go. NO excuses

(Well...vomiting or diarhea are acceptable no goes)

I am a morning person and work full-time so I get up between 4:00 and 4:30 am to workout. I am into biking and planning on doing a Century again this year so it is biking, biking, and biking. I workout for at least 1 hr on my spin bike (I have about 20 different biking videos) and try to bike outside (weather permitting) at least 3 days a week. My goal this year is to bike 2015 miles outside. Doing 3 different sponsored bike rides with the Century in June. At work during lunch I try and walk 45 minutes exercise instead of eating. LOVE BIKING!! I use to run until I had to have a knee replacement grateful that I found biking.

I guess it's high time I answer my own question! Thank you ALL for your valuable input! This thread seems to be helping a lot of people.

I am four months out from surgery as of last week.

Pre-Surgery

In the 2.5 months prior to surgery, I was doing an hour of Water aerobics anywhere from 4-6 times/week, and adding in 1-2 strength training sessions on top of that. That, coupled with a healthy ~1200 calorie diet kept me losing about 7 lbs per week on average.

Post-surgery

I'm sorry to say that I never really got back to that routine.

Everyone says you should walk for your exercise, especially in the early months. So that's exactly what I was doing, walking around 3 times a week, with occasional water aerobics (1-2 times per week when I could get to it.)

Since my weight loss has slowed (not stopped) in the past two months to about 2.5 lbs / week, (sometimes slightly more, sometimes less) I decided to mix things up and as an experiment went back to my pre-surgery workout routine. I actually did 7 ~hour-long water aerobics workouts last week. I lost 7.3 lbs! I know it's only one week, but I've decided to FORGET the walking as my primary source of exercise! It does nothing for me!

I'm sticking with water aerobics one hour 5-6 times per week or more as I find time!

As for WHEN I work out. Well, because I'm taking classes, I kind of have to go with whatever the schedule is at my gym. But I am excited to get to any early morning (5:30 AM) classes (I took 2 this past week.) that I can manage because if I work out early in the morning there are less distractions (social events, feeling tired from the day, traffic etc.) that will keep me from working out in the evenings. I commute, so time is precious!

Edited April 23, 201511 yr by heynowkc

Starting 1 week after surgery I started walking every day. Now I walk 3 1/2 miles every morning in an hour and I either do weights at the gym or riding my mountain bike on alternating days.

Monday - 3 1/2 miles walk and 14 mile bike ride

Tuesday - 3 1/2 miles walk and Barbell Strength class at gym for 60 minutes

Wednesday - 3 1/2 miles walk and 14 mile bike ride

Thursday - 3 1/2 miles walk and Barbell Strength class at gym

Friday - 3 1/2 miles walk and 14 mile bike ride

Saturday - rest

Sunday - 3 1/2 miles walk and Barbell Strength class at gym

My weight seems to have stalled at the same weight but I am still losing inches and I have incredible energy.

I love the elliptical trainer and try to do 2 hours a day on average. I do it about 5 to 6 days a week. Some days I just walk up and down the stairs in my house for half an hour that is a real workout.