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TheJOE · 02-19-2008, 12:05 PM

Hi Jen,

I concidered myself average muscle wise and lost about 59 lbs in the first 9 weeks after surgery. Currently I change the excersies I do everyday to keep from getting board but the following is a list of the things I do 5-6 times a week:

Walk for 30 to 60 minutes
Swim (Until I am just pooped)
Eleptical machine for 30 minutes (at about 55-60 RPM)
Hike for 20 minutes

During the first two weeks I lost the most and my Dr. Explained this as mainly muscle mass. According to him, after surgery, our bodies go into a sort of stress mode in which they canibalize the muscles until the fourth week at which point the weight loss stabilizes and focuses more on burning fat rather than muscle and hence the reason why men loose more weight than women...basically men typically have more muscle to burn than women. Which leads to the conclusion that the more muscle a person has before surgery the more weight they will loose at the begining until they reach the stable point of burning fat which then burns faster the more muscle one has left.

Hope this helps.

Good luck to your husband and yourself in supporting him as well.

Joe