I am just starting on this journey - have had my first meeting with surgeon and the psych eval- so I am not near the surgery part yet, but I have an exercise question:

If this alien is in my stomach area and I want to lose the inches there, what types of exercise would you do to tighten the stomach flab? I mean, it seems to me that crunches or abdominal work might be a bit dicey, you know? :smile:

Elgrad

I wasn't allowed to do any crunches until I was at least 6 weeks out of surgery. I'm 7 months out now, and am still a little nervous about doing actual situps, although I have gotten the ok to do so. Definitely check with your surgeon beforehand.

First off the way to get the flab off of your abs is diet. Doing ab exercises only strengthens the muscles underneath that flab. So the flab will come off of your stomach area when you lose substantial weight. People that have wash board abs have very low body fat. You can only strengthen the ab muscle so much. The fat has to be gone to see the washboard. Anyway as for doing ab exercises post op I waited six weeks. I currently hit my abs very hard. I just love working them. 'sick I know'. Just be mindful of your port. My doc gave me extra stitches to hold mine in place at my request. Because I tend to abuse my body as I have done in the past. Good luck.