Posted 6/22/2023 1:10 AM (GMT 0)
Jlita, I hope you are well on your way towards a healthy hip replacement. The doctors are right to ask you to lose the weight as they are trying to save your life, they think is too dangerous to do surgery with you this big. And that if you survived it still with the extra weight, the PT would be difficult to do and therefore the operation not very successful. They know what they are doing! I have had. Hip replacement and a knee replacement, need the other one too. BUT You cannot exercise off fat! It is great for a number of reasons but not calorie loss. That is 98% what you put in your mouth. I have lost 45 lbs since Jan 10 without any exercise, just counting calories and weighing measuring and logging my food in a journal. No magic diets, you find healthy foods to nourish you, get used to it and it doesn’t feel like deprivation. I am working for 20 more pounds loss to help that other knee as I cannot get it operated on because I am a caretaker for my 94 year old sweet mom. It has helped ALL of my osteoarthritis pain to not carry that load around! Talk to your GP also about a prescription for the new pre diabetes drugs that are so helpful with hunger. Also Wellbutrin 150 antidepressant can help some with hunger suppression. And when you get your pain doctor, maybe you are a candidate for a Butrans patch like I wear for continuous pain medication. They start you on a 5, work up to a 20. Even then I do need breakthrough opiates for when I am overactive. And I hope you are on an anti inflammatory like Mobix. That helps me overall the very most. Good luck with it all! It is no fun having bad bones!