It makes sense, but it's something I've never thought about. In order to heal, my body is burning through tons of calories.
So, I've been eating the same amount I normally do, and I'm normally pretty active. But, I've been losing weight, even though I'm doing far less physical activity.
I found some sketchy sources, but this one looks pretty legit:
https://www.hss.edu/files/Nutrition_for_Healing.pdf
It turns out, I'm burning more calories than I'd normally burn - even though I'm normally pretty active.
That explains why I'm losing weight. I've lost like 12 pounds! Well, that's more like 14 pounds, 'cause I have about 2 pounds of titanium in my hip.
I haven't actually confirmed this with a physician yet, but the web and some not-very-sketchy sites seem to confirm it.
It makes sense. I just never really thought of it before.
So, if you want to lose some weight, just get into a wreck and break some bones!
I'm going to increase my caloric intake to about 3,500 calories a day and see where that gets me.
What I find amazing is how rapidly the weight is going down. It has been less than a month and I'm already about 15 pounds down - more if I count the weight of the metal!
I take both a multivitamin and I take an additional vitamin D supplement. They have me taking Vitamin D3, two tablets. The bottle says they are 5000 UI (125 mcg). For some reason, my vitamin D was really, really low. I think I'm supposed to keep taking that for 90 days, so about another 2 months.
For my multivitamin, they weren't very specific. They just said to take a daily multivitamin and I happened to have One-A-Day Men's Health.
IF you know about the subject, do you have a different multivitamin to recommend? They were only specific with the D3. Initially, they said 1000 UI, but they then told me 10,000 UI. So, I take two of them at night when I take my sleepy pills.