Hello everyone. I was just banded on Mon. 2/18/08 and am going to the gym on Friday to see what I can do. Everything feels great and I haven't been slowed down any at home. I was just wondering if you guys had any suggestions as to what I should work on, what to stay away from. Any Advice at all would be helpful. I'm planning on asking the trainers for help, but I would love to hear from people that are actually going through the same thing as me. Take care

Be very cautious as to not injure the stitching holding your port in place, they flip if the stitches come loose--it is not an uncommon thing and would require another minor surgery to fix.

I would check with my surgeon as for when you can hit the gym--they told me not to take care of my grandkids for 2 weeks.....which I felt fine and thought that was a little extreme.....but better safe than sorry.

Maybe mild work out---treadmill etc.

Sorry not meaning to interupt the mens room----but since no one responded---thought I would drop in my .02 cents worth---you know how us women are!!! LOL

Kat

For now, I'd do gentle cardio like the bike, treadmill or elliptical until you're a good six or eight weeks out when you can start weights.

Once you're back to normal, you'll find so much conflicting info on what you should do. There's so much out there to say focus on strength training, but well, experience has shown me that cardio works. The theories on why lots of heavy cardio waste your muscle away and are detrimental to your efforts to improve your body composition make sense when you read them but I'm hear to tell you that an 40 minutes of running five times a week does NOT have that effect on one's body, lol.

I'm a cardio addict, so to get in the strength training that I know I need, I do circuits with a treadmill and fast, heavy weight work, takes about 45 minutes and gets my heart rate through the roof but has also built nice muscle tone (personally I couldnt give a rats proverbial about scultping individual muscles, as long as I dont wobble like a jelly and dont look hard and manly like that awful Gillian on biggest loser, I'm more than happy). I dont have the time or patience for dedicated strength training and I always worry about the running I'd not be doing whilst I'm in the gym.

The bottom line is what works best is the exercise you'll do and at average every day levels - which includes 40 minute runs - the effect on your body will all be positive no matter what it is.