I'm starting OMAD today. I really think it would make more sense for me to wait a while before starting this thread, but I decided to do it anyway because I need to be accountable to myself. Immediately! About 18 months ago, I had successfully completed a 60# weight loss here on mfp, and was starting to look good. Then disaster struck. I was dancing at my daughter's graduation. Dancing in shoes that weren't made for the purpose - and I twisted my knee. A couple of meniscus tears. I went to physical therapy, got a cortisone shot, and tried hard to wait it out and let my knee heal. No go. I found a great knee surgeon - he quoted 50% chance that arthroscopic surgery would make things better, 10% chance things would be worse. Had the surgery last July, and then faithfully did a heckofalot of physical therapy. Unfortunately, the knee keeps getting worse. I use hiking sticks a lot to assist my walking, and some days I pick up my crutches just to get around without pain. I have gained 20# since the knee injury. NOT GOOD!
I am finally motivated to get this extra weight off! My schedule doesn't allow me the luxury of a knee operation until late summer. I WILL get this extra 20# off by then. I will use this accountability thread to keep the progress moving.
I have no doubts about OMAD. That is going to be the easy part. The harder part will be figuring out what physical exercises I can do to strengthen my muscles and get in better shape prior to getting a NEW KNEE!
Height: 6'
Starting weight: 195.8
Goal before getting a new knee: 175
Eventual goal: 165
amflautist
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What I think is most important is to stop stressing your body. Start OMAD, do what's right for your knee, and don't worry about the rest. Your major priority is to feel good, and that includes both weight loss AND a healthy knee. Getting the rest of your body in shape can wait until later. Until then, I would follow whatever your doctor is telling you.
Don't stress about getting in shape. Numero uno for you is to get that knee back, I would think. In the meantime, OMAD will help, as you already know.
I'm with you! Lucky, lucky, lucky. What a great group.
26 Mar 2017: 195.8
2 April 2017: 193.8
I'm going to put it on my desktop and watch it every time I think about eating when I shouldn't.
No luck involved. That might work for you but it would be easy for it to get out of control so understand your concern.
Sobering. I thought I was maintaining my weight in the 170s. Nope! Most of the time in the past 5 years I have been in the 180s. Lately in the 190s, and even over 200 (data not yet entered). I SO happy I found this group! My knee is going to be happy too!
1st Goal = 172 (weight when I wrecked my knee)
Wk .. Weight ... Chg ... Total
0 .... 195.8
1 .... 193.8 ..... -2.0 ..... -2.0
2 .... 191.4 ..... -2.4 ..... -4.4
Luck is with me again! Lost 2.4 pounds. It's what I gained that I really appreciate however.
I am sleeping a LOT better. I always knew that if I ate dinner late, or drank wine, I didn't sleep well. So I would try to have dinner 5-6PM. Now I know that it's even better to have dinner 12-1PM. I'm sleeping like a baby now.
Even better, the swelling in my knee is way down. Yesterday I went to the library, and walked around the supermarket - with no pain!
Today I'm going to try a little walk up the road ... We'll see what the knee can do now.