Even with a deficit, can past ghosts affect you forever?

Wow, was just about to ask a question similar to this, even though i'm still battling urges to restrict and i never had a dangerously low weight. ANd even though i'm still overweight, for me too, it's really hard (not impossible) to lose weight, even when i weigh my food, upped my intake, lowered it, cut out foods, added foods.... They say all you need is a deficit but i noticed i do lose when i exercise more, even when i eat the calories back. Which is pretty logical. 140 lb at 5'7 isn't bad at all, by the way.

If you have brittle bones, yoga is excellent. Why not give it a chance? Have you seen stuff from yogis and yoginis on Instagram lately? They sure don't look like something that came out of the free-weight section of a gym, but the strength and flexibility they have developed is beyond words. And yoga really isn't just asanas but so much more; could help you with the psychological part of your recovery.

Finally, if you have doubts about it, one can be "a Christian/Jewish/Muslim/atheist/whatever yogi" whilst still having (or not) a religious faith. I'm a beginner at practicing yoga and my daily meditations have brought more peace to me than I ever thought possible. It's like a second, better life.

First, This is not a rant at all. You are simply and politely asking for advice.

Have you considered low impact high volume exercise. Swimming is one thing to do but how about walking? Low impact is great because it doesn't put much strain on your bones or muscles and doesn't dramatically elevate your heart rate so it has a tendency to draw from fat almost exclusively. The big trouble with exercise like this is the sheer amount of time it takes. Walking is a great exercise for the obese I think for the same reason it is a great exercise for someone like you. We both don't want to put undue stress on our bodies. But still want to target and remove fat as best we can without compromising lean mass.

Walking will do just that. So my advice is get out there and make walking a daily habit. Try to build up to 10,000 steps a day+ If you can. But don't be afraid to start slow. If you get a lot of sun where you live the extra Vitamin D you get won't do your bones any harm either. Plus walking has been shown to improve the operation of the nervous system. Which might make more strenuous exercises less daunting.

Literally the only bad thing about walking is the time it takes. Oh and I have flat feet and bunions and weight 250lbs so I get foot pain but at your weight. I don't even think your feet will feel it. It will be you leg and abdominal muscles that need to play catch up.

I sincerely hope my advice is useful to you. And good luck

When you say "it starts to ache" what exactly do you mean. Do you get joint/muscle/bone pain or muscular pain?

When you say "it starts to ache" what exactly do you mean. Do you get joint/muscle/bone pain or muscular pain?

My bones are so wracked that my joints experience a burning, stinging sensation.

My physiotherapy specialists say it's due to something called "osteoblastic dormancy".

Basically, in your bones, you have osteoblasts (that build bones from the inside out) and osteoclasts (that pull the dead bone from the exterior). When you get severe osteoporosis, the osteoclasts continue to work but the osteoblasts go dormant. Basically, the bones continue to degrade but continue to break apart. By impact, it's like you're waking some of the osteoblasts up, so it IS positive, but it also makes the osteoclasts work a little harder.

So when you do impacting exercise, you make both the builders and the deconstructors work harder, only the builders are mostly asleep - so that pain felt is, well, basically, an increased alarm clock for the builders but also a whip for the degrading party.

Long term, it helps, short term, it hurts!

Man that sounds terrible. The only thing I would venture to suggest is to try and drive up the frequency of your short walks. Just do em as much as you can. And quit once the pain starts to get too severe. I am not a doctor though and I am sure your doctor has given you plenty of advice on how to manage what must be an incredibly frustrating condition. And make sure to run any advice you get on here by him/her.

You may want to consider focusing and supplementing your diet with Calcium, Vitamin D and Vitamin K and Potassium. all elements vital to healthy bone growth. Either take the pills or eat the food whatever floats your boat.

I would also encourage you to at least be at maintenance calorie wise. Calorie restriction will probably inhibit or even worsen the condition of your bones. In my honest opinion nothing right now comes before the growth and repair of your bones. If you become strong enough skeletal wise to handle decent amounts of exercise it will probably fix a lot of your other problems fat wise. But at the moment you are in a catch22 situation. You can hardly exercise so any attempt to increase your weight will probably put on a lot of fat. And any attempt to reduce that fat will probably worsen your osteoporosis. Because for lack of exercise you will have to cut on the aggressive side to see weight loss.

However with a healthy skeleton the equation changes. You can perform high volumes of low impact exercise and burn the fat rather than starve it. And that will help you to lose it while still maintaining the integrity of your bones.

But once again I am NOT a doctor please run this plan by him/her if you do decide to follow my advice.