Daily Post--6/22/08

I'm preop and get in 10k steps (3.15 miles) a day 5 days a week. Some of it is walking some is bounding on my rebounder. Twice a week I walk swinging weights to build my arms up. I don't know much about weights. If someone would like to share what they do, I'll try more things. I'm afraid I'll do it wrong... ---jan---

I meet with a personal trainer for a minimum of 2x per week. Trying to increase to 3x per week when time permits. I tried to exercise pre-op, but could not do near what I do now. I remember when I started at the gym and saw my heart rate zoom up to 158 after 5 minutes on the elliptical. Now I have to work hard to get my heart rate up to 145 and regularly spend 35+ minutes on the elliptical doing different programs.

I am still trying to find something I like to do, but I walk everyday. I did not exercise preop Vivienne

I walk every day at work for at least 15 minutes - sometimes as much as 45 (when I can get away from my desk that long at lunch!). I try to do my Bean workout on weekday mornings, but honestly, most of the time I'd rather hit the snooze button and blow off the Bean. I told my boyfriend that I needed to be more active, so he's been so good about taking me places where we walk a lot - museums, parks, hiking, etc... I exercised as little as possible pre-op - too much joint pain! Walking around the grocery store was difficult!!

I did not exercise pre-op, and don't really do anything except walk now. That is not a regular basis. I know it is one of the things I really need to work on.. .

I strive to excersize every day but don't get it in all the time. I walk, work out in the garden, go swimming and try to keep up with my Nephews most of the time. I took them roller skating last Wednesday and ended up in the ER with a concussion, major goose egg on my head and a broken finger - I also figured out I'm not 20 any longer... lol! I did not excersize pre-op, I tried not to let my weight stop me but didn't "excersize". Sheryl

Bad Bad topic for me. I do not exercise on a regular basis and it is a major problem involving my self esteem, how I feel about myself and my respect of how I feel like a real failure in regards to this whole surgery, because sucessful people who have WLS exercise and love it???????? Right????????? Sally

Sally, You should not feel like a failure! You should be proud of all that you have accomplished. It made me feel so sad to read your post. You are a success. You have done a great and difficult thing in having the surgery. Not everyone likes to exercise. For you, maybe you just haven't found the activity that you like. Step out of the box and try something that you never thought you'd like or even be able to do in the past--or find a friend who will exercise with you. But, please don't beat yourself up over it. Just keep working at it, and it will click. You are doing great! Kathy

I try to do something at least 6x times/week. I have a membership at Planet Fitness where I do weights at least 2x/week, or I do the circuit training there. With the nice weather, I've been doing a lot of walking. I've started walking to and from work at least a couple times a week, weather permitting. I also walk at lunch with a couple of friends, or I'll walk to the gym to do my weights during that time. I've also been doing a lot of gardening. If the weather is bad, I usually do my cardio at the gym on the upright bike and/or the elliptical. Preop, I also exercised. I had the gym membership a couple of years before the surgery and went about 3x/week, but there were gaps where I didn't go at all, sometimes for a couple of months at a time. Before that, I went to Curves for about 2 years and averaged 3x/week there. I never walked outside. I've always loved to garden, but I couldn't do much preop without getting a backache. Exercising was certainly more of a struggle then. I welcomed any distraction that would allow me to skip a workout. Now, I actually enjoy working out, and I don't like it if something gets in the way of my workout.

Walking tapes (Leslie Sansone) 3 to 4 times a week. I did walk some before WLS. Jules