I'm eating. Why am I not gaining weight?

Here's what I learned today. COVID gave me a metabolic disorder. It likes to invade the small intestine, you see, where the nutrients from all the food you eat are absorbed, and the damage can take a long time to heal.

When I finally started to get better, I thought I was doing all the right things. I was eating the best of the healthy snacks throughout the day. Drinking kefir and electrolytes. My gut had been through such an ordeal, I was very conscientious about feeding myself well. So why was I still so thin and weak? Well, because it was too damaged to absorb all those nutrients. They were just passing through. That's why I needed the extra electrolytes. That's why I was still so underweight.

I've read that many of our symptoms may stem from this problem: dry itchy skin, troubles with eyes, hair loss, etc, including the racing heart I talked about earlier. Experts say that you can mend, but it takes time and attention to replace what all was killed off or damaged, and of course with COVID it's going to take longer.

Hope that's useful to someone. Next time I want to talk about this eating disorder it's given me that keeps recurring. It switches off my hunger periodically. I simply don't want food, don't care about food, don't feel hungry at all, sometimes up to 5 days, and I can't afford to lose more weight. I'm kind of mad about that.