Just curious ...has anyone started exercising yet!!?? I was banded May 8th...started my exercise routine on May 18th...walking 2 miles a day!! Let me know what you guys are doing or what you guys have been doing.

I saw my Dr today and was told other than walking I have to wait 6 weeks to start any other excercise that uses stomach muscle. I can't even use my recummbent bike until then nor can I go swimming until after 6 weeks.

I had my surgery on May 1st and I have started walking for about a half hour a day at work. I kind of figure that my half hour walk equals the multiple smoke breaks my co-workers take throughout the day. In about two weeks I plan on working out more with my nine year old son. I need to lose weight and he needs to get ready for football by the end of the summer.

Karebare, thanks for the resistance band exercises. I bought a set two years ago and have no idea what to do with them. LOL

Sad, huh?

Karebare, Sarah, and Ann... I hope these get better as you lose weight. I have a bad knee and it is already feeling better! Still difficult to go up stairs though.

Karebare, Sarah, and Ann... I hope these get better as you lose weight. I have a bad knee and it is already feeling better! Still difficult to go up stairs though.

I already am starting to feel some pressure lifting, But the weather has been really crappy the past couple of days, that high humidity misty drizzle crap, so It's been agony for me towards mid-afternoon. Thanking the heavens today is my day off, at least I can take it easy. But I walked this morning reguardless how it is outside, I have no more excuses not to get out and do it!!!!!! after I dropped my son off at school I just went a couple of blocks down and over and then walked home. :thumbup:

Thanks, Hallelujah. I am really hoping it gets better also. That's a big reason I had the surgery! :smile:

I was banded on May 20th and I am up to walking just over a mile a day...I too have fibromyalgia and have to watch what I do! Today, I have had really bad pain in the port area....I hope I am not overdoing it. Congrats on e1 for taking the banding step and keep up the good work exercising...together, we can all make a different in our lives...

I was banded on May 20th and I am up to walking just over a mile a day...I too have fibromyalgia and have to watch what I do! Today, I have had really bad pain in the port area....I hope I am not overdoing it. Congrats on e1 for taking the banding step and keep up the good work exercising...together, we can all make a different in our lives...

I'm also walking just over a mile a day, when it's not pouring rain, that is! Congrats on your banding, road2newme. I wasn't able to walk that much until about 2 weeks after my surgery. It just took the wind right out of me! Hope your port pain subsides soon. It seems to be common.