How depressing :( Need inspiration ladies

[all girls]

Hi all

I need some kind of encouraging words or advice...... I was very fit and active until I played my first ever game of soccer in May and tore the cartilage in my knee, it took weeks to be able to do any exercise again and it was never 100% again but after a couple of months i went back to playing soccer because I loved it (was seeing a physio from the beginning of my injury) anyway I was playing and my knee gave way again and I couldn't walk again luckily I kept my appointment for the ortho specialist which was the next week and he basically booked me in for surgery the very next week even thru the public system because the type of tear i had was severe and there was a flap of cartilage that was stuck in my joint.

So I have an arthroscope and wake up in a full leg brace and not able to weight bear at all for 6 weeks so much pain and extremely difficult to even walk 5m so I went from 5 days a week at the gym doing lots of cardio and weights and playing soccer and training twice on top of that to sitting on my bum not able to do anything and also having to eat food that was easy to eat like pasta and sandwiches things i don't usually eat.

So now i have had the brace off for 2 weeks and can walk but still not allowed to do much at the gym I am feeling so disgusting i have no clue on how much weight i have put on ive lost lots of muscle and put on fat I know i can get it off but i am so frustrated and I have lost motivation to even start eating better (not that im eating that bad) And to make matters worse I have a hens day on Saturday hate dressing up when ive put on weight.

Sorry it ended up so long pls give me some sort of advice, encouragement anything will do.
Thx Trina xo

[jmmum]

Hey Trina,
Don't be so hard on yourself. You sound like a very motivated person. Give yourself a pat on the back that you got through the last couple of months. I'm sure will find motivation again. Go out and enjoy that hens night. Trust me you won't be the only girl there who has felt the way you did when you wrote this post. Also if these are a gruop of your friends I'm sure they will just be happy to see you.
Chin up.