Losing by eating without exercise?

Yivs_87

I'm in a cast, so working out will be out of the question for about 2 months.
I've decided to tackle my eating habits first by following TDEE-20%;
But honestly, I'm worried about losing by only cutting food.
I've done it before, and I've always got it all back and some. So I'm wondering if others have made it or at least have successfully started by food regulation?

Any tips?

Dreysander

You can do it. Most of my weight loss has been "without exercise". Over the summer I just did ordinary outside chores like mowing the grass (we have 2 acres and I used a push mower), cleaning the chickens, walking the dogs. I did no planned exercise.

Where is your cast? On your leg? You can still do resistance stuff with your arms or get yourself an arm bike.

I do it now but that's because I'm close to maintenance and the weather is crappy.

Yivs_87

Yep, let - ankle to be precise.

Yeah, I was thinking about making small resistance stuff with my arms just to keep the blood flowing.

sijomial

Yivs_87 wrote: »

Yep, let - ankle to be precise.

Yeah, I was thinking about making small resistance stuff with my arms just to keep the blood flowing.

Why "small resistance stuff"? Why not heavy stuff?

Walking with crutches can actually be pretty intense exercise.

Focus on what you can do - not what you can't, both food intake and exercise.

RodaRose

Check with the doctor. It is possible that you need to eat at maintenance or above. Your body needs calories to heal.

Yivs_87

sijomial wrote: »

Why "small resistance stuff"? Why not heavy stuff?

Walking with crutches can actually be pretty intense exercise.

Focus on what you can do - not what you can't, both foo intake an exercise.

I don't have heavy stuff at home. The heaviest I've got is 5kg dumbbells and for me this is "light".

RodaRose wrote: »

Check with the doctor. It is possible that you need to eat at maintenance or above. Your body needs calories to heal.

I've checked. As it's not broken, it just needs rest and time to heal. The only nutritional advice I got was to intake some vitamins and minerals. (Health system here sucks, so I'm doing extra reading on the side if I need something more special to heal the sprain)

sijomial

You have your own bodyweight to use, doesn't have to be weights.
I put on a load of upper body muscle when I spent 3 months on crutches, no weights used at all.

Yivs_87

Well, I have one more week of crutches, though for short distances around my apartment doc said I can just walk around lightly. But yeah... body weight is something I have to look into.