Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[KiloKAHN]

A number of different sources online say that the energy required to repair fractures is so immense that a healthy adult male with a bad fracture could need to up his caloric intake from 2,000 to 6,000 calories per day for speedy recovery. For those who have lengthened or are currently doing so, were you getting near this amount? Do you think you would need 6,000 calories per day or possibly higher?

I don't think I went over 2,000 calories per day while in India and I ended up losing around 30 lbs. My bone consolidation is speedy though so not upping my intake didn't seem to impair the healing process.

[ItsMyLife]

doctor says to eat more. calories needed to heal #.

I am eating about 4000 calories. 6000 seems impossible?!

I am also worried about the telomeres effect; people who eat less calories age slower. it stands to reason that if i eat more, i will age faster. but i want a faster healing. so i opted for about 3000-4000 calories a day.

Take into mind you are spending most of the time lying down ambulatory.


I do bed-side weights and exercises, and my intake is still about 3000-4000 calories. The exercises maybe help burn only 100-200 calories.

[Polycrates.]

I augmented the diet supplied to us (which was very insufficient) with mostly high sugar foods. I got the calories from it, but they weren't the most ideal calories. A lot of chocolate, pizza, and guava juice were consumed by me. At least the cheese on the pizza had calcium. I probably made it to the 4-5000 calorie range on many days thanks to these foods.

[ItsMyLife]

I augmented the diet supplied to us (which was very insufficient) with mostly high sugar foods. I got the calories from it, but they weren't the most ideal calories. A lot of chocolate, pizza, and guava juice were consumed by me. At least the cheese on the pizza had calcium. I probably made it to the 4-5000 calorie range on many days thanks to these foods.

did u put on body fat? haha
or weight? ( u definitely will put bone weight)

[Polycrates.]

Yes, I was fat.