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How do you get enough calories?
Esophageal Cancer | Last Active: Jul 25 4:39pm | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
I'm my fiance's caregiver and when he was on the feeding tube we used Kate's farm products which were organic and that kept his weight up. to 190 Now when he's back to eating without the feeding tube. He says he's not hungry and says he doesn't want to eat unless he's hungry. His beginning weight before cancer, treatments, surgery and aftercare was 255 now 160 and his doctor wants him to gain 15 pounds and so do I. Dr. said eat the fat on the chicken and the fat on the steak and cream soups. He hates all the ensures, boosts and all the drinks like that I have bought him. We ended up giving boxes away. So we struggle with keeping weight on him. Each person is different. All his life he was heavy and he ate salads and took the skin off the chicken and I think a lot of it is mentally programmed into our brains from years of eating that way. Old habits hard to break. I do bake lots of desserts but he never has had a sweet tooth. Good luck everyone.
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@franscg1946 I have a nutritionist doctor and my sister is a retired OB/GYN vegan counselor and I don't think it's a good idea to eat high fat to gain weight. I think it's important to eat the right amount of protein, carbs, fats, and fiber and after esophagectomy, I don't have any appetite I eat to live. I don't live to eat the food I eat is healthy and it keeps me alive and while I may like one of the foods I eat or two every day mostly I eat because it's healthy. I know it's depressing but if you want to be alive and love the sound of birds and love to be with your partner, then you eat to live it may take counseling to get used to this idea but just to have a diet high in fat somebody told me that I should eat coconut oil because it's easy to digest and my cholesterol level went up. I don't wanna die of a heart attack or a stroke so it's very important to be healthy but that's up to the person. Good luck. I hope your husband will not be in any kind of pain or discomfort.