Quick progress report: 3 weeks

42 pounds lost in three weeks. Walks up to 1.5m, and back to lifting weights. Feels great.

Three weeks after surgery and your surgeon is letting you lift weights?  WOW and another WOW.  That is unbelievable that they are letting you do that so soon with the wound healing that needs to take place internally.  Be very very careful.  You could really mess yourself up with "wound separation at the sites as well as the anastamosis sites internally where things were put back together with staples.  Hernias are another big concern as well.  I think if you poll most of the guys on here, you will find that usually the minimum recovery time for Lap RNY is at least 6 weeks and people with open RNY is about 12 weeks.  The walking is great, but lifting that early on is crazy.  I know your body probably feels great, I know mine did at three weeks and I even felt like I could start lifting weights again without any problem, but my surgeon demanded that I didn't lift anything heavier than 20-30 pounds for six weeks.  Thin of it like this, you waited all this time to get the surgery and now the last thing you want to do postop is create a major problem which will require you to have another surgery to fix problems from lifting.  I could be wrong, but most guys will probably agree with me on this point.  Maybe your surgeon has a different way of doing things and he wants you lifting sooner than later.  Whatever you do, good luck and be careful.  Take care, Taz

The doc said go ahead, but I agree with you guys. That first day back I was careful, but I can tell I have a ways to go. I'm just working with two 20-pound dumbbells for now. Think I'll give it another month or two before returning to the weight room. Thanks!

Congratz! I have to say I'm with Taz on the weight lifting.  Be careful.  I was told I was able to do some, but to be careful through my 12th week.