Hi and welcome, @stever1. Your trials and tribulations with finding the right foods, when to eat and how much sound exhausting and frustrating. Eating out
can be higher stakes, too. Since this is all relatively new for sure, I'm confident that fellow members like @sjw6358 @dave640 @katoosh @naomicanada @lori57216 @pellaw @survivorsuz @puprluvr @dsh33782 @ajfromchicago @socalkelly and others will have tips to offer.

Steve, have you consulted with an oncology dietitian? Have you noticed specific foods that trigger an "episode"?

Buongiorno Steve,

Fully understand, where you are at in your journey with this cancer. Hopefully, you are still hanging in there. My diagnosis was Sep 2022. Received radiation and chemo, followed by gastricesophageal resection and then immunotherapy. Past immunotherapy and basically at the same level physically as prediagnosis. The only difference has been dealing with the nutritional consequences of chemo mainly and with surgery secondarily. Now at age 82. Also lost weight, initially, from 160 down to 136. Now back up to roughly at 150. So oh yeah, that muscle mass decreases. That is the negative side. The bright side is the fat goes, too! Muscle came back. The fat stores didn’t. But as you are learning, too, due to the gastric size reduction protein intake needs to be increased. I did doctoral studies in nutritional biochemistry in the 1970s, but felt like a neophyte regarding nutrition after chemo and surgery. Have been working my way through it. Would be glad to give advice from my experience. Nutritionists and docs gave generic advice, that was virtually useless.