Broken ankle is ruining my weight-loss streak!

Ditto Karenjewel's comments. I broke my left leg and ankle in 3 places and went literally months non-weight bearing followed by months more in a walking boot and then another surgery to remove some of the hardware and I was almost back to square one. I highly recommend being cautious with the broken ankle - they are easy to break again until they are truely healed. Focus on eating well and healthy and keeping your calorie intake down (at least try not to go over a maintenance diet at the moment). Better to stay even on weight and heal your bones than to try to lose and make the ankle worse. I don't know how bad your break is but if it is severe enough you will end up in PT at which point they will give you a bunch of stretching execises and slowly add weight bearing movements. Best of luck with your recovery!

YES! to what the 2 posters above say. also I just noticed your age. UGH!!! makes it even harder. all the more reason to make sure you heal well. losing months of weight bearing will be worth a full healing. i have a chronic shoulder and knee injury from lifting too heavy and playing racquetball. NOW i can't do either of those things. You don't want that. i hope you continue to post so that you will be able to encourage others in similar predicaments.

I reduced ny calories down to 1000-1200, clean eating, upper body, & lots of stretching including lower body as tolerated.
When I was feeling down I overate a couple of times and felt lousy afterwards.

I watched some older episodes of the biggest loser, reached out to some people here on MFP, and
helped a couple of people here with their stuff. Those things worked.

At physical therapy once my ankle could handle it, I was allowed to stay after my sessions and ride the recumbent bike.

I feel your frustration. I couldn’t do impact cardio from late Spring until 2 weeks ago...I learned patience and persistence.
Ankles take longer than we’d think. Hang in there, :flowerforyou:

You can still do sit ups and push ups on your knees (still working) Sit ups with weights, twists, ect. you could still work on those things that might help. Good Luck hope it heals fast!

Really focus on nutrition. A 3500 calorie deficit still equals a pound of weight loss. Good luck. I hope it heals quickly :flowerforyou:

Lucky for you, MFP is designed so that you can still lose weight through calorie deficit without exercising! Make sure you set your activity level to sedentary and your weight loss goal to 1/2 pound per week (this is the most healthy/realistic based on the amount of weight you're trying to lose) or even maintenance if you just want to make sure you don't gain any while you're healing. As long as you don't go over your calorie goal, you should be just fine.

As others have said above, there are still some exercises you can do. Upper body and core strength training, maybe some yoga. Do lots of googling to see what your options are and/or talk to your doctor.

You can do it!

P.S. I'm sure a lot of your eating is out of boredom (and maybe some depression since you're stuck on the couch) at this point since there's not much you can do - it's a pretty common eating trigger. Make sure you've got lots of healthy snacks in the house like low cal popcorn snack bags, fruit, nuts, veggies with hummus or low cal/low fat dip, sugar free/fat free pudding, etc. And to chase the boredom away, find some things you can do while sitting like craft projects, some really good books/movies you've been meaning to read/watch, word puzzles, catch up on your photo albums, etc. Make yourself a to do list so every day you've something to reference when you feel that boredom setting in and telling you to nibble.

P.P.S. keep a big water bottle nearby to keep your hydration up - sometimes that can help with the munchies too

I had dislocated toe, foot surgery and same thing---no weight on foot. Try focusing on eating healthy---tons of great recipes on here. I had a rolling scooter thing I could get around on and it was better than crutches. Not much you can do as far as exercise except upper body and core exercises---crunches, curls, tricep work, etc. Then when I was in walking boot, I was able to do a little more. I got very down because I had just gotten really excited about seeing some progress on weight loss. I have some friends that have done the ideal protein diet and all they focus on in the first phase is simply following a strict diet. No exercise allowed until later in the program. I am not suggesting you do an extreme diet like this, but if you focus on healthy eating and get that down pat, then by the time you are ready for exercise, you will be halfway there! Good luck with your recovery!

To add to what I have said and after reading some other posts, yes it is harder to recover when we are older (I am one year older than you) but I can assure you, it can be done! I focused on HEALTHY eating ---things that will heal your body. Have you tried green smoothies?? I LOVE them now---not sure I would have tried them before I was injured. Here is one recipe I like: CHOCOLATE SMOOTHIE: (serves 2) 5 OZ SPINACH LEAVES, 2 C FROZEN BLUEBERRIES, 1/2 C ALMOND MILK, 1 BANANA, 2-4 PITTED DATES, 2 T COCOA POWDER, 1 T GROUND FLAXSEEDS Blend and drink! It is wonderful. The key to any green smoothie is to counter the greens (romaine and spinach are best tasting) with frozen fruit, like blueberries, bananas, or dark cherries and the main taste you get is the fruit. You have to get past the green appearance, but this is a wonderful way to get in your nutrients and heal faster!!!

If you're struggling for healthy choices because they're too hard to do with a broken ankle, try cooking up large amounts of stir frys, healthy meals, and freeze them. That way you can grab them out of the freezer and re-heat as a healthy option.

as for motivation?
Don't let this ruin your hard work so far. It won't be for long.