Rock Bottom

Hi I'm Rachel
I also have a knee injury. I have a tear and doctor is recommended surgery for me. But for now, I'm doing what I can, without putting much impact on my knee. There's actually a lot you can do, without adding stress to your knee. I've been on my journey to weight loss for a long time, Given up more times then I can count, but the only thing that worked was making it a lifestyle change. No more quick fixes, no more fads. After I made it a lifestyle change, it actually stuck! So good luck to you on your journey! I wish you the best!

Eh, this is somewhat how I feel, plus a bunch of other things piled on top.
I hope I find the drive I had a few months ago, I seem to have dropped it somewhere along the line.

Just keep chugging! Everything will piece itself together

Since you have the all clear from your doc, maybe start small. Like start by walking, log all your foods, and basically get into the habit of weighing and measuring your foods, and some form of exercise. After it becomes part of your daily life, it will be easier to do each day.

I tore my ACL, MCL, and PCL from rugby. I got tackled and my knee bent the opposite way. I did not need surgery because they were all partial tears and I did a lot of physical therapy and rehab. I am cleared to run and everything again but it's hard to get the motivation to put consecutive days of hard workouts together

As someone 30 yrs older who has been there, and chose the wrong path ... leading to weight gain and arthritic knees, my recommendation is to not give up now. If you're anything like I was, before your injury, you were highly active, and ate everything in sight, since you burned it off. The risk you face is to keep eating at your high-activity level, have a reduced calorie burn, get more lethargic, eat more, exercise less, gain more ... you get the picture.

Consider yourself to still be in physio. Ramp up to your previous activity level. Run a mile today and a couple more times this week. Run two miles next week, etc. Within 2-3 months, you should be at/near your previous level, and by the time the season resumes in the autumn, you'll be back at full fitness.

Or, you could wait until you are 50+, huff and puff through walking a mile, work your way up to 5+ miles a day, and be down 70 lbs with 30 to go, until you hit your former fitness level.

Good luck!

PS - In Sep/Oct, following exams for bad knee pains, was told it was either partial knee replacement, or lose 50+ lbs. I got myself in gear on 1st Jan, and when I hit 50+ lbs down, the doc said "Well done! You've pushed out the need for knee surgery by probably 10 years!" I'm hoping that by getting to 100 lbs down, that the surgery date moves out a further decade.

Well you know what they say about rock bottom... only place to go is up! Good luck with it!