Two weeks out is still early. I could not eat until the 7th week post treatment, and that was cream of wheat, peaches by the teaspoons, and that's about it, and just relied on my peg. Slowly I started trying new foods, adding them to my diet supplemented by glucerna. I can eat everything now, you name it, I probably ate it, and often take pictures of my dishes, which started out as celebration showing my first post treatment meal, now into a hobby, when others encouraged me to post more. I have maybe a thousand pictures lol, so that's a lot of meals. It will come in time, and there are ways to increase weight, taste, and swallowing ability to enjoy food, but this may be too early, and tasting is more thsn just eating. Do what you can do now with issues not often associated with eating, tasting, and appetite is treating mucocits, thrush and other bacterial, viral infections, dehydration, thick mucus, dry mouth, exercising mouth, keep swallowing, even dry swallowing, I lost 110 pounds from one treatment, and have gained 60 back, which took a while.

It is said, "use it or lose it!" which is true to some extent, but the tongue, taste and other swallowing muscles have memory, like other muscles in the body and come back to what it was, and I don't believe in no pain, no gain. The same for his weight, the body has an affinity to go back to your highest weight, which can be controlled by diet, exercise to fit your lifestyle.

Btw, I could not eat mashed potatoes for a year or more, it was a texture thing I could not tolerate. Now I make all kinds of potatoes.

You will find new pleasure in food, taste like you never tasted before, although not the same, but you will become a more discerning conneoisseur of food, I guarantee.

Good luck.


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