Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
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If I was you man I'd really avoid the gym until you can walk without a limp, which is usually around the 6 week mark. People will walk in your way and cut you off without noticing you're crippled and the last thing you want to do is tear the graft. I think it was the first 3 months were the red zone irrc, basically where your graft is getting a blood supply and is at its weakest.

Ah alright mate I'll bare that in mind, I appreciate it!

One thing I have noticed is at the moment I struggle to fully strengthen the leg, I'm just guessing this is due to swelling and the fact they grafted from my hamstring its going to be tight, when would you say you recovered over 75% bend in your knee? Mine is currently at about 40-50%
K3V0
15 years ago
1 year ago
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Ah alright mate I'll bare that in mind, I appreciate it!

One thing I have noticed is at the moment I struggle to fully strengthen the leg, I'm just guessing this is due to swelling and the fact they grafted from my hamstring its going to be tight, when would you say you recovered over 75% bend in your knee? Mine is currently at about 40-50%


If you do go the gym earlier try go when it's not busy, less people = less chance of one of them causing you trouble. I think I got about 75% back about the 2 month mark, but everyone is different. I'd strained all the ligaments and torn my acl and torn up some of my meniscus. So my knee was all kinds of messed up! Elevate your leg as much as you can and ice, get the swelling down and you're half way there pal. It's a struggle man, more mental than physical, it will heal, just takes time and a bit of patience.
Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
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If you do go the gym earlier try go when it's not busy, less people = less chance of one of them causing you trouble. I think I got about 75% back about the 2 month mark, but everyone is different. I'd strained all the ligaments and torn my acl and torn up some of my meniscus. So my knee was all kinds of messed up! Elevate your leg as much as you can and ice, get the swelling down and you're half way there pal. It's a struggle man, more mental than physical, it will heal, just takes time and a bit of patience.

Cheers dude! It definitely is mental, hate being off my feet yet I know it needs so much longer to heal than normal injuries. My leg is currently elevated and iced as we speak!
K3V0
15 years ago
1 year ago
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Cheers dude! It definitely is mental, hate being off my feet yet I know it needs so much longer to heal than normal injuries. My leg is currently elevated and iced as we speak!


Just more time to play FM pal
Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
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Just more time to play FM pal

I've already got through five seasons of my current save since the 9th!
Carroll.
15 years ago
3 years ago
3,361
Alright gym buddies.. Need some advice re nutrition. Have limited time to meal prep etc, so have a very similar diet each day.
Porridge with soy milk, beans with a sandwich, then one of the Tesco healthy living meals. Example
Are they actually healthy? I know microwavable shit isn't really good for you, but they seem to be fairly lenient on the macros side..
Also fruit and yogurts for snacks. Staying under my calories and macros usually, but mainly wondering if those tesco meals are doing me more harm than good?

Dropped about 3-4kg since Christmas, as my diet before was awful, so just cutting out the sugars has made a massive difference. Currently 81kg, trying to get to 79ish by March, and 75 by summer.

Also only drink these, again are they bad? No added sugars, I know they have the two sweeteners, but quick google seems to be positive.
Zinedine Zaiddin
14 years ago
3 years ago
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Alright gym buddies.. Need some advice re nutrition. Have limited time to meal prep etc, so have a very similar diet each day.
Porridge with soy milk, beans with a sandwich, then one of the Tesco healthy living meals. Example
Are they actually healthy? I know microwavable shit isn't really good for you, but they seem to be fairly lenient on the macros side..
Also fruit and yogurts for snacks. Staying under my calories and macros usually, but mainly wondering if those tesco meals are doing me more harm than good?

Dropped about 3-4kg since Christmas, as my diet before was awful, so just cutting out the sugars has made a massive difference. Currently 81kg, trying to get to 79ish by March, and 75 by summer.

Also only drink these, again are they bad? No added sugars, I know they have the two sweeteners, but quick google seems to be positive.


I ain't so sure about Tesco healthy living meals, but if it does served nutrients well for your need then probably good enough.

Just for the drink, I still think either water or green tea good enough. Your Tesco drink ain't that bad, judging from the nutrition info...but still plain water much better.
Ninja
14 years ago
6 years ago
5,341
Alright gym buddies.. Need some advice re nutrition. Have limited time to meal prep etc, so have a very similar diet each day.
Porridge with soy milk, beans with a sandwich, then one of the Tesco healthy living meals. Example
Are they actually healthy? I know microwavable shit isn't really good for you, but they seem to be fairly lenient on the macros side..
Also fruit and yogurts for snacks. Staying under my calories and macros usually, but mainly wondering if those tesco meals are doing me more harm than good?

Dropped about 3-4kg since Christmas, as my diet before was awful, so just cutting out the sugars has made a massive difference. Currently 81kg, trying to get to 79ish by March, and 75 by summer.

Also only drink these, again are they bad? No added sugars, I know they have the two sweeteners, but quick google seems to be positive.


When you say 'healthy' what do you mean?

People mean so many different things when they use the word I'm not sure what you're actually asking.
Carroll.
15 years ago
3 years ago
3,361
When you say 'healthy' what do you mean?

People mean so many different things when they use the word I'm not sure what you're actually asking.


Well I'm trying to lose a bit of weight and like I said not much time for meal prep, so is that going to cause me to put on weight instead..
Ninja
14 years ago
6 years ago
5,341
Well I'm trying to lose a bit of weight and like I said not much time for meal prep, so is that going to cause me to put on weight instead..


Nah.

The equation is simple. Calories in - calories out. If your calories out is higher than your calories in then it doesn't matter what you eat you will lose weight. For example: http://www.niashanks.com/teacher-lost-weight-eating-mcdonalds/

If your only goal is weight loss and you're counting calories then you can simply trust the scales. If you're losing weight now it's proof that its working. You may need to jiggle with the numbers a bit later because your BMR will change as you lose weight, but we're talking a few calories here and there and its easily worked out.

You could probably eat more healthily (by which I mean more veg, less processed foods etc...) but it won't cause you to lose weight more quickly and, if you eat too much of it, it will cause you to put weight on just the same as unhealthy food, and if you're trying to his macros then you're already eating more healthily than a huge number of people.

Just find something you can stick too. There's no point beating yourself up for eating 'unhealthy' foods if it stops you from binge eating much worse stuff and blowing our your calorie goals.
Carroll.
15 years ago
3 years ago
3,361
Hmmm okay, like I said it seems to be working, but wasn't sure whether eating the processed / microwavable is 'healthy/good' for me. Like I said pretty much a similar diet each day as it's easy enough and don't really get bored, just come of it recently due to travelling a bit more recently etc, but should be back on it this week. Haven't picked up the exercise to the levels I wanted to either, so that should accelerate the weight drop too.
Shola
15 years ago
5 years ago
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We didn't vote for Brexit, so Eurotrash can talk in KG.

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