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What Do You Eat For Breakfast?
I'm just curious about what others eat with their Riba. I know its absorbed better with fat (NOT that I'm having any probs with that mind you, lol), but I was just wondering what different people eat. I've found that I absolutely have to force myself to eat lately because this tx is making me shun food.
Hot cereal, 5 grain whole meal. During tx, hot cereal was the only thing that worked in the morning. On the worst mornings my sweetie would bring it to me in bed. I put flax seed in it to help keep my weight up.
banana's are my main food since starting Tx. All other foods are no longer appealing. I do force myself to eat other things. mostly apples, instant oatmeal, yoghurt, and baby carrots. also minwheats are startign to seem appetizing.
I find milk settles my stomach too. I know a lot of adults don't like it so much, but my son and I both drink it by the gallon.
unless you happen to have a lot of weight to give starting out
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hey hey hey there! lol No, I do not have a lot to spare. So yeah, I am making the big effort but its hard I'm telling you. It's funny you mentioned about visualizing the food. I have to visualize myself actually taking the riba. It takes me forever to actually take the stuff every day. So funny because I have no prob at all giving myself shots. In fact, I wish the riba was a shot.
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hey hey hey there! lol No, I do not have a lot to spare. So yeah, I am making the big effort but its hard I'm telling you. It's funny you mentioned about visualizing the food. I have to visualize myself actually taking the riba. It takes me forever to actually take the stuff every day. So funny because I have no prob at all giving myself shots. In fact, I wish the riba was a shot.
Hot oatmeal. A bowl with splenda brown sugar and a couple dried cherrys. Oh, and a glass of milk. I found that it settled my stomach and I was full for a long time. -Libby
48 weeks is a long time and it's therefore important you try and maintain weight (or at least control the rate of loss) unless you happen to have a lot of weight to give starting out. And given the fact your doctor makes house calls -- and your phlebotomist wants more than your blood, that may not be the case :)
So, if you don't have a scale, get one and keep track. You might also google "Prosure". Can't say it tastes great but it's very calorie/nutritional dense and used with cancer patients. I finally threw out my remaining cans not that long ago.
Also, flipping through pages of cook books or looking at pictures of food, sometimes help. I used to do similar until something 'clicked'. FWIW Sarah Leigh's Frozen Cheese Cake has about as much calories per serving as you'll find anywhere. That's a whole lot of brocolli calorie wise.
-- Jim
So, if you don't have a scale, get one and keep track. You might also google "Prosure". Can't say it tastes great but it's very calorie/nutritional dense and used with cancer patients. I finally threw out my remaining cans not that long ago.
Also, flipping through pages of cook books or looking at pictures of food, sometimes help. I used to do similar until something 'clicked'. FWIW Sarah Leigh's Frozen Cheese Cake has about as much calories per serving as you'll find anywhere. That's a whole lot of brocolli calorie wise.
-- Jim
my little sister is pregnant and I'm more nauseous than she is. Something wrong about that... ;)
Kidding. Actually, I'd take all of her nausea if I could. Oh wait, maybe I am...
Kidding. Actually, I'd take all of her nausea if I could. Oh wait, maybe I am...
Oddly, I have always done kind of a high fat modified atkins thing and I can't even look at it right now. I am desperately hungry but cannot eat. Sux. Definitely will be trying the pb&j with milk and I love cheese, but don't think I can stomach it right now. So strange, because it was the biggest part of my diet before. I CAN do high fat milk and it helps a lot. Shakes and things may work too. will try those. All good ideas folks. Thanks.
Corn Flakes or Special K with whole banana, buttered toast in oven... more than enough and a taste you never get tired of... that's breakfast
Think comfort food, ya know, what did you like as a kid? What foods did your Mom cook? What foods just kinda make you feel warm and fuzzy at heart? Use your imagination,,,a baked apple with cinnamon,brown sugar,raisins and nuts, oatmeal with brown sugar,raisins- butter on top, cream of wheat with maple syrup, soft boiled eggs mixed with diced up toast, sweet potatos or yams, Cambell's tomatoe soup....Bar-b-que from Corky's in Memphis, packed and delivered...nobody says you have to eat breakfast food at breakfast or dinner food at dinner. Keep cheese around or crackers to nibble on.The important thing is to eat something..
and if nothing else appeals, a top secret recipe...a buttered up, fried peanut butter and marshmellow sandwich...messy as hell, eat with a fork only goodness, it won't fail you (lol)
and if nothing else appeals, a top secret recipe...a buttered up, fried peanut butter and marshmellow sandwich...messy as hell, eat with a fork only goodness, it won't fail you (lol)
A sip of water. ; ] It's all I could hold down. I broke all the rules. Didn't even know I was supposed to take my riba with fat until I was late into tx. Wouldn't have done any good anyway since I couldn't even stand the smell of food. Later on I could manage a buttered english muffin.
How about Grammaveggie :}?
Living off of shakes and smoothies! Breakfast is whole milk with carnation instant break. in it. Never did that stuff before but figure any nutrition good.
Also lots of yogurt/fruit smoothies and ice cream milk shakes. Also doing 'Veggies' almonds suggestion.
DID love eggs, bacon, Breyers choco. chip, and so on. lost the taste for them. (eating them- shakes good tho.)
Wonder what an egg/bacon smoothie would taste like :}?
(God, made me gag thinking of it!!)
LL
Living off of shakes and smoothies! Breakfast is whole milk with carnation instant break. in it. Never did that stuff before but figure any nutrition good.
Also lots of yogurt/fruit smoothies and ice cream milk shakes. Also doing 'Veggies' almonds suggestion.
DID love eggs, bacon, Breyers choco. chip, and so on. lost the taste for them. (eating them- shakes good tho.)
Wonder what an egg/bacon smoothie would taste like :}?
(God, made me gag thinking of it!!)
LL
Do you like cheese? I keep a big block hunters sharp cheddar in the fridge, and nibble on it all day (g)
pulled this from dmhrdh's thread "During the Prove 3 trial we were instructed to take our doses with a 300-500 calorie meal, 30% of that being fat!! " I suspect this advice is applicable to all the meds in prove 3, and would probably apply to the ribavirin as well, my guess.
--so,2 slices of buttered toast, about 325 cal....
Keep in mind, the riba and high fat meal comes fron the literature provided by the drug company (pegasis -I believe pegintron says "with food") and the comparison was based on fasting vs. a high fat meal,basically worse case/best case situation.....most of us have to live somewhere in between..
--so,2 slices of buttered toast, about 325 cal....
Keep in mind, the riba and high fat meal comes fron the literature provided by the drug company (pegasis -I believe pegintron says "with food") and the comparison was based on fasting vs. a high fat meal,basically worse case/best case situation.....most of us have to live somewhere in between..
I didn't each much dinner. My appetite was gone by then. I just ate half of what I usually would eat. Or just have a snack.
I had 8 or 9 almonds after cereal then I'd take my riba in the a.m. I had ice cream at night after dinner then the riba. I lost 17 lbs. and was able to reduce the riba by one pill after 30 weeks, that helped a lot.
My usual treatment breakfast (riba chaser) was Cheese Omelet (egg whites and don't ask my why. LOL) with crispy Bacon, Home Fries and buttered toast. Ate around 10-11 AM. This compares to my post tx bkfast which is egg whites, oatmeal with soy milk and fruit.
I had significant weight loss on treatment (over 30 lbs of lean muscle mass) combined with pronounced taste alteration. There were only a select group of foods I was able even to 'look' at, never mind digest, and this old breakfast of my youth was one of the few combinations that I was able to tolerate. It helped pack away the calories and offered plenty of fat for the riba to flourish.
I only was able to eat one other meal during the day -- usually around 4PM -- and beforehand, would often spend over an hour literally meditating and visualizing different kinds of foods until I could come up with something that didn't have the appeal of dog sh*t. And this is from someone who could eat literally anything prior to treatment. I then took the riba with this second meal which might be a ham and cheese sandwhich, for example.
As to fruits, I couldn't eat them for close to a year on tx -- exception for a few bananas an some applesauce -- because of my GERD. Looking at a salad or vegetables (both a primary part of my diet now) would make me sick. Same with fish. In fact, I couldn't even look at sushi, which I have always loved.
I certainly don't recommend that breakfast to anyone -- very high in saturated fats -- except those that might find themself in my position. VERY selective appetitite with significant weight loss. Ironically, my cholesterol was never lower than while on treatment. But this had to do with the effect of interferon, not the breakfast.
My appetitite and taste sensations returned toward normal after a few weeks off the drugs and 100% back to normal by 2-3 months post treatment. That breakfast was the only thing I missed about treatment and wish I could have it now but way too much saturated fat for this person's cardiac system.
-- Jim
I had significant weight loss on treatment (over 30 lbs of lean muscle mass) combined with pronounced taste alteration. There were only a select group of foods I was able even to 'look' at, never mind digest, and this old breakfast of my youth was one of the few combinations that I was able to tolerate. It helped pack away the calories and offered plenty of fat for the riba to flourish.
I only was able to eat one other meal during the day -- usually around 4PM -- and beforehand, would often spend over an hour literally meditating and visualizing different kinds of foods until I could come up with something that didn't have the appeal of dog sh*t. And this is from someone who could eat literally anything prior to treatment. I then took the riba with this second meal which might be a ham and cheese sandwhich, for example.
As to fruits, I couldn't eat them for close to a year on tx -- exception for a few bananas an some applesauce -- because of my GERD. Looking at a salad or vegetables (both a primary part of my diet now) would make me sick. Same with fish. In fact, I couldn't even look at sushi, which I have always loved.
I certainly don't recommend that breakfast to anyone -- very high in saturated fats -- except those that might find themself in my position. VERY selective appetitite with significant weight loss. Ironically, my cholesterol was never lower than while on treatment. But this had to do with the effect of interferon, not the breakfast.
My appetitite and taste sensations returned toward normal after a few weeks off the drugs and 100% back to normal by 2-3 months post treatment. That breakfast was the only thing I missed about treatment and wish I could have it now but way too much saturated fat for this person's cardiac system.
-- Jim
Eat what you can. I have found that I do better on days that I eat bacon for breakfast. As a matter of fact I think I would choose bacon at every meal. about an hour after I eat bacon I feel preety good for about 2hrs,
You always have great ideas. Pb&J seems like a very good idea. Lots of fat, and I can drink milk with it. I may be one of the few adults who actually loves milk and who feels less nauseaus after drinking it.
My son has pre-diabetes with a hypoglycemic arch so we don't eat any refined sugar here, but he eats lots of natural peanut butter with natural fructose flavored jam. The fat and protein in the peanut butter help his blood sugar a lot in small meals. Would work for me too I think.
My son has pre-diabetes with a hypoglycemic arch so we don't eat any refined sugar here, but he eats lots of natural peanut butter with natural fructose flavored jam. The fat and protein in the peanut butter help his blood sugar a lot in small meals. Would work for me too I think.
take your zofran first and when it starts to work, eat something quick and then take pills
it is the only way i was able to manage last month and not lose too many doses of pills
it is the only way i was able to manage last month and not lose too many doses of pills
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