excercise

I joined the gym two weeks ago. I need some advice on what I should be doing to help prevent the excess skin under my arms and my stomach?

There is no exercise that will prevent excess skin.  You have excess skin because your grew extra skin to fit your body.  Once you grow skin, you can't ungrow it.  there is no exercise that will ungrow skin.  Exercise will tone muscle, but it won't do anything for skin.

What Kelly said. My new song ought to be I Believe I Can Fly :P

Bahahaha!

my boxing coach says the only thing you can do is make bigger muscles to fill the empty space..otherwise..batwings forever..or plastics

Depending on how much skin you have, muscles that big might not look attractive.  I mean, I do not want to look like the Incredible Hulk.  Also, you might have to lift a LOT of weights to get muscles that big!

Me gonna get all pumped up!

My arms are hruge. HRUGE. They're the only part of my body that's not proportional (yeah, it's all fat, but my arms are so much fatter!) and I know I'm going to have issues with them. So I just resolved to learn to love my bingo wings until I can get plastics done. 

 

I have a question regarding lifting..When I saw my NUT last week she said to be careful about lifting because she has seen women who lift lose slower than they wanted or compared to "normal". Has anyone else heard this? I am a patient at Stanford so basically everyone there is among the "best"--but I am just not sure about this...Thoughts?

I am 6 weeks post-op on Tuesday and was looking forward to doing exercises to tone my arms (my legs are basically fine muscle wise) but now I am considering waiting a while longer. I do 60-90 min cardio 6 days a week. I have always lifted some, so I am not a newbie to anything but I did not know this about post-RNY during the honeymoon phase.

I can see how lifting might actually slow weight loss a bit. When you lift, you're building muscle mass. Muscle mass weighs more than the same amount of fat. So if you're adding muscle, you're actually putting on a little additional weight, but you're getting smaller. Adding muscle mass will also boost your resting metabolic rate, because muscle tissue uses more energy than fat. So gaining muscle is a good thing, but yes, it might make the scale slow down a bit. The trick is to measure yourself, and monitor your measurements as well as your weight. If you're adding muscle, your scale may slow down, but your size may change (decrease!) more rapidly.