Sorry to have worried everyone...I am eating as I need to...and if I have a day (like today) that I didn't eat as well, then I go back to Ensure (and when it is gone the protein powder). I am not really trying to lose weight at this point...just trying to keep intake normal so I don't go back to the over-sized portions I was eating before.

I bought a few frozen dinners for lunch with shrimp and chicken with gravy type stuff, hoping I can eat those as well. With not much taste and having a slow time eating I still hate to cook for myself, then I find out I can't eat it so have been trying to pick things that are easy or a pretty "sure thing".

Don't worry, my neighbor is a retired nurse...she won't let me get by with anything! I have been drinking and eating...just slow trying new things. Yesterday was fine, tonight didn't go so well - mouth got sore and had the water blisters I get so I quit, brushed and rinsed, then drank an Ensure! :o)

I do appreciate the reminder in these and the earlier messages about the protein. I have been careful to get that in the ensure but forgot once I was eating. I was just trying to get FOOD! :o)

Michele in IL