Exercise Training / Healthy Living

Making a commitment to manage your weight for the rest of your life is an important part of your success. Exercise is a critical component in weight management.  Exercise  keeps your muscle proteins intact and stimulates your body to use fat stores as energy. Below are helpful links to provide you with resources to help you choose a program that works for you. Following laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery or LAP-BAND® surgery, you may begin exercising as soon as you feel comfortable.  After open gastric bypass surgery, we ask that you wait 6 weeks before sudden straining, jumping or lifting more than 30lbs.  Less demanding forms of exercise are desirable as soon as comfort permits, and to the extent that comfort permits.

Coastal Center for Obesity: Exercise Programs

Coastal Center for Obesity: Additional Healthy Living Resources

ediets™ eDiets is building a global online diet, fitness and motivation destination to provide consumers with solutions that help them realize life’s full potential

ObesityHelp™ Founded in 1998, we are the internet’s meeting place for information and resources on obesity and bariatric (weight loss) surgery. We connect patients, surgeons, hospitals, physicians and others fighting against the consequences of obesity

America on the Move™ helps you take simple steps to become more physically active and eat more healthfully. This site is for everyone.

American Council on Exercise - ACE Health and Fitness Tips offer insight into the latest research, trends and workouts. Originally published in recent issues of ACE Fitness Matters, each tip covers a different topic related to health and fitness, including muscle strength, weight loss and the latest FTC ruling.

Weight Watchers - For over 40 years, Weight Watchers has helped millions of people around the world to lose weight! Find out about our history and philosophy.

Shape Up.org - As the nation looks toward controlling health care costs, no workable agenda can ignore the pressing issue of combating obesity in America. After smoking, which causes an estimated 400,000 deaths annually, weight-related conditions are the second leading cause of death in the U.S., resulting in about 300,000 preventable deaths each year.

Kidshape.com - KidShape® Foundation is proud to offer the largest and most successful weight management program for youth and their families. Being overweight is difficult for families and many parents do not know how to help their children lose weight and be healthy. Many children are being told by their doctor that they have health problems which may be related to their weight. These health problems include diseases like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or asthma, which used to be seen primarily in adults. And many children are suffering from depression, low self esteem and isolation after being teased because of their weight. KidShape® Foundation can help!

American College of Sports Medicine - ACSM advances and integrates scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.

Obesity.org - Here you will find what we think is the most comprehensive site on obesity and overweight on the Internet. Obesity is not a simple condition of eating too much. It is now recognized that obesity is a serious, chronic disease. No human condition — not race, religion, gender, ethnicity or disease state — compares to obesity in prevalence and prejudice, mortality and morbidity, sickness and stigma.

American Diabetes Association - Links for a healthy lifestyle from the ADA.

American Heart Association - Heart Association information, healthy lifestyle, exercise, and more.

iVillage.com - Women's lifestyle focused with links to affiliates and information on a wide range of lifestyle related topics.

Oprah.com - Links to everything Oprah!

Presidentschallenge.org - It only takes a small change. Instead of telling yourself you can't, you tell yourself you can. The President's Challenge is a program designed to help you get fit. No matter what your fitness level, the President's Challenge can help you improve it.

Note: All of the links above are for informational purposes only and no endorsement has been made by Coastal Center for Obesity to them.