Has anyone else had an injury set them back significantly? I was bedridden for almost the whole year, and I lost all the progress I made. I'm having an incredibly hard time starting over again.

Hello everyone. This is my first time posting in this community. I'd like to hear from others who have had serious injuries or setbacks to their progress. How did you cope with the strain of starting over again? How do you combat the feelings of dejection and uselessness?

Back in early March, I sustained a pretty serious injury to my leg which required surgery, and left me stuck in bed until very recently. Before this, I had been working out/eating well and had made significant progress: I lost fifty pounds in six months' time, and was able to lift 60 lbs (a big feat for me). I was strong and thinner than I'd been in years and I was on the track to wellness.

Then, this accident happened. And now, here I am, walking/standing for the first time in months, and I have gained those fifty pounds right back. I'm weaker than ever. I'm basically starting from scratch, but it feels worse somehow.

I hate it and I can't stop the negativity going on in my mind. I'm so frustrated with myself (even though logically, I know no one is really at fault - it was purely an accident). I hate the situation I'm in so much and I'm seriously struggling with getting back into it. I am starting to have self-defeatist intrusive thoughts. "Maybe I'm meat to be fat"; "I'm gonna be fat forever"; "There's no point in trying". Logically, I know I the recipe for success and that I just need to start over again and be patient, but emotionally I am so. damn. drained.

I can't even walk normally yet. I still have difficulty standing or walking for extended periods of time. And I'm trying to account for my lack of movement; I cut my calories down even more than before I hurt myself and I'm going to a private gym when I can, but it feels like nothing is working. For the last month that I've been walking again, I've teeter-tottered between 280-290 lbs, and haven't gotten lower than 279.

I'm so frustrated and I just don't know what to do or how to feel. I don't want to be like this forever, but how can I move forward when I struggle to move at all?

Any anecdotes or advice is appreciated.

Also, if it helps at all: I'm a 5'4 female, current weight is 291 lbs. Before I hurt my leg, I was 243 lbs.

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