I’m really struggling with my appetite too. It’s the hardest on days 2 and 3, it seems, when I can barely face eating and at times have struggled to get 400 calories in me per day.
I’ve found that if I don’t eat at least 800 calories I feel absolutely rotten, even if I don’t feel hungry.
A few things I’m doing to try and get the calories in:
4-5 ‘snacks’ / little teeny plates of picky food per day rather than 3 meals. I basically eat like a toddler now.
make a protein shake with milk and add a scoop of slimfast powder. I sip at this over time if can’t face necking it.
have cooked chicken ready in fridge and try to nibble a bit through the day, if it’s there and cubed into little bites I’m more likely to eat it.. even if only one bit.
same with cheese, tiny cubes to snack on.
tuna with tiny dash of balsamic vinegar and or chilli flakes , as I love it and it’s pure protein.
toasted bread (the stodgy thin rectangular stuff from Lidl) with seriously strong cheese spread… cut into little ‘soldiers’ as it feels smaller 🤣
have boiled eggs in fridge ready to go, I cut them in half and did them in salad cream.
peanut butter spread on thin apple slices.
Lovely olives in the fridge to pick at.
Brazil nuts. I have a pot of these on my desk and try to eat one every hour or so.
what I tend to do is to prepare a small plate of a few bits of the above , regardless of if I fancy anything, and I find that i get into it after a few notes.
maybe this is absolutely not your kind of food, but this is what I can seem to face at the moment. Eating little tiny picnics of snacks is way more manageable than a ‘meal’ for me. I’m not sure I’ve eaten a ‘normal’ plate of cooked food / regular meal since I started MJ. But to be honest I’ve always preferred to eat like this anyway… I just used to eat WAY more of it plus a massive bag of crisps with everything 🤣