Hello!! I'm new as well!

Thank you Diana.

As I was doing my pathetically slow run Monday night (7/17) I was mulling this over and I remembered my PCP's advice way back in 2010 when I was last trying to run. At the time I was over 200lbs and my knees were killing me. My PCP advised that I ice them after every run. I was running, three days a week in the morning, then I would shower and drive an hour to work. I got elastic pull over knee brace things, and stuffed a frozen gel pack in each, over the sore part of the knees, while I drove in. Her point was that my weight was doing more long term damage than the wear and tear on my knees.

That said, with your WLS you KNOW you're lose significant weight over the next few months. Maybe doing low impact, whole body workouts like the elliptical machine and swimming would make sense while you drop additional pounds. The aerobic exercise will grow your lung efficiency and make running that much easier once you're down another hundred pounds.

Just my two cents!

Oh, and eight weeks into running am at a blinding 18:30 minute mile. soooo slow!

If your surgery was laparoscopic, it was way different than a c-section. (I had two sections before my VSG - trust me on this.) I was doing yoga 3 weeks after surgery without issues. In a c-section, the abdominal muscle from belly button to pubic bone is cut open to deliver the baby. So while the scar is bikini line, the open the skin there, stretch the skin back and cut the underlying muscle to get to the uterus. Abdominal laparoscopic surgery usually involves three or four inch long incisions, at largest. I have two incisions under my ribs basically (one on each side) and one in my belly button.

The best advice my team gave me was to listen to your body. remember, you can always go to child's pose or another of the "resting" poses if you aren't feeling strong enough to continue. If you do a pose and it doesn't feel right, ask the instructor how to modify it. I was back in the gym a week after surgery doing cardio and light weights. By 3 weeks out I was back to my pre-surgery weights routine plus cardio I had developed with my trainer getting ready for surgery.

We are having a crappy summer. we get one or two days of nice weather than rain. It has not been a hot summer for us. Still wear a sweater first thing in the morning because it is cool