Broken ankle, need help!

liftevenif
liftevenif Posts: 3 Member
edited July 2021 in Food and Nutrition
I'd love to keep working toward my goals while I'm kinda useless from the knee down. Will being in a constant calorie deficit help me lose fat with such minimum activity? Should i focus on high protein?

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  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,941 Member
    The general advice when injured is to eat at maintenance whilst healing. Adequate protein is important but there’s no real need to eat crazy high protein.

    Be patient, eat at maintenance. You’ll heal faster and be able to get back to your normal routine and deficit faster than if you try to deprive your body of the nutrients it needs to heal.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,059 Member
    I did cardio while recovering from knee surgery by hopping behind a zimmer frame on the good leg around the block. Hopping behind a zimmer frame or on crutches on one good leg is actually very strenuous. The MFP entry for walking on crutches was accurate for me (matched the burn according to my heart rate monitor). It was input by a diary pal who sprained an ankle, and was calibrated to her heart rate monitor.

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