Dealing with injuries

Weight loss is not about how "well" you eat (although nutrition is important for health), it's about your calorie intake compared to how many calories your body burns. If you are losing weight and reduce your calories out, you have to reduce your calories in by that amount to keep losing weight. Depending upon how active you were, you'll need to reduce calories in just to prevent weight gain while you are less active.

As for exercises, you might look for chair exercises on youtube.

This guy actually turned out to be kind of fun. He's pretty good about showing modified versions of his harder exercises.

https://youtu.be/QkLFPGuF-tQ

Eat less calories

I know it sounds like piling on, but you really will lose weight is you eat less. It might be more difficult and uncomfortable for you to lose weight that way, but I promise that even if you’re on the end of the metabolism bell curve, eating less still works. If the calories MPF is giving to isn’t working then either your measuring is off or MFP is off - it’s just an estimate, after all.

That said, I’m a big believer in letting your body heal - maybe this is a good opportunity to take a diet break and practice eating at maintenance. Good luck - you can do this!

pastelfae wrote: »

seska422 wrote: »

Weight loss is not about how "well" you eat (although nutrition is important for health), it's about your calorie intake compared to how many calories your body burns. If you are losing weight and reduce your calories out, you have to reduce your calories in by that amount to keep losing weight. Depending upon how active you were, you'll need to reduce calories in just to prevent weight gain while you are less active.

As for exercises, you might look for chair exercises on youtube.

I know it's about calories when I say eat well that's what I mean. Even when I'm eating the right amount of calories if I'm not working out i just don't lose weight.

How are you tracking your calorie intake?

You obviously know that if you were cast adrift in the middle of an ocean in a small boat with no food (and no oars to give you a workout!) you would lose weight.
Somewhere between that hypothetical point and your current point where you can't lose weight without exercise is the calorie level where you will indeed lose weight while injured and sedentary.

I feel your pain injuries suck. Second 5k I did hurt my patella tendon just now almost year later does it feel back to 100%. Boxing I tore my rotator cuff still dealing with that now. Getting healthy is dangerous nobody told me that.

But for exercises I would try and get in a pool that's what I did when hurt my knee couldn't walk far but can swim far. But would just look into bodyweight exercises planks won't hurt your knees, and dumbbell or kettlebell exercises should be ok work on your upper body/arm strength. Don't rush an injury just sets you back further in the long run.

Would see a doctor also might just need a wrap or something else to stabilize it enough to walk well.

Have you let a doctor look at your knee? You may have done some damage in their that you will want to know about/may require restrictions to help heal/keep you from damaging it further. I'd start there and let the doctor tell you what activity you can safely do.

Here are some chair workouts, and they have a number of other limited mobility workouts as well:
sparkpeople.tv/video.asp?id=633

But what the others said is true....it really does come down to eating less than you are burning.

That being said, I find for me, trying to lose weight on just my eating leaves me miserable. I have a desk job M-F, and the calories are so low without added exercise that I feel like I'm starving and find it nearly impossible to maintain. Working out like I do allows me enough calories to not feel miserable and still stay at a slight deficit.

My body doesn't NEED the working out to lose weight - but my stomach much prefers it, and my mind most definitely prefers it!

I had a minor fracture in my left knee in November, took 6 weeks to heal and I still have issues with pain and discomfort when I exercise. My physical therapist suggested a recumbent bike for low-impact exercise and that works for me. Also gentle stretching exercises before and after help prevent pain too.