I have messed my back up pretty bad. I have 9 herniated disc in my back and neck. Three bulging disc in my neck also a pinched nerve in the ball of my neck and two pinched nerves above my hips in my lower back. Needless to say I won’t be able to lift for at least another 3 weeks until after I get out of physical therapy. I haven’t lifted since 5/18/05 and it is starting to show. I have went from 205lbs 10% bf then to 218 today and it is all fat.
Would it be a good idea to get on the V diet to lose some of this fat even if I can only do limited workouts like body weight stuff? I have an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon on 6/14/05 by the way. Thanks for any input T folks!!
Well, first, I’m no expert in this area. However, I’d recommend against any type of severe calorie restriction while you are trying to recover from an injury.
If you have become sedentary of late, it is possible your eating habits haven’t adjusted to your new level of activity and that you are or have been overconsuming.
Again, while I’m no expert, I’d suggest working your way to a maintenance level diet and then make small adjustments from there.
As you appear to be in the care of one or more medical professionals, raise the issue with them and then take their advice…
It depends on the injury, but if your body is “fixing” something, then you’re going to want to feed it. Not excessively, but starving it isn’t going to speed up the process.
I broke my hand 5 1/2 weeks ago. It was very tempting to diet hard because I could barely work out, and I had some belly fat to remove from a bulking cycle. On the other hand, I knew my broken bone needed nourishment to rebuild itself.
So, I just sucked it up, kept a maintenance diet with maybe really light calorie restriction. After all, I wasn’t as active, even though I manufactured a minimal workout program that worked all the muscles I could without irritating the hand (didn’t want atrophy!)
The hand is healing great. And, instead of considering dieting at this point, I’m really looking forward to starting a hard-burning workout program. CW’s Outlaw Strength and Conditioning is high on the list of candidates.
On the other hand, if your injury is something like a severe sprain or pull, where you didn’t actually “break” or tear anything, you might not need to worry about feeing a repair process as much. The focus there might be minimizing inflamation (lots of fish oil!) and reducing irritation. But don’t starve yourself if your body needs to repair something.
