Liam - welcome to the family. Listen to what Christine said above. As you lose your taste, so goes your appetite. I had many days where I had no desire to eat at all, not even one meal. Do that for a couple of days and you can get mal-nourished quickly, to the point of needing hospitalization to fix it.

Don't go down that road, even though you may have no desire to eat and it may actually hurt to swallow, you have to force yourself to do so. Ensure Plus has the calorie density you will need, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry are all very tolerable. My doc said I needed 7 of them per day to get enough nutrition. That's like one bottle every two hours from wake up to bed time every day. Vanilla sells out quickly, so when it's available, stock up to the tune of even 3 or 4 six packs at a time. Consider giving one shelf of your refrigerator to Ensure for the next couple of months.

Some on the forum will pooh-pooh Ensure saying it has too much sugar. There are less sugar substitutes, but I think they are quite a bit more expensive.

You will likely lose weight during treatment anyway, the trick is to not lose too much weight. I lost 42 pounds during treatment, others have lost more, lots more. Had I lost anymore weight they would have put me on a PEG feeding tube, something else you don't really want to experience unless you have too.

I can't stress enough that this nutrition stuff is extremely important while you are in treatment. Cancer is what they call hyper metabolic, it eats a high percentage of what you intake every day. The treatment is also hyper metabolic, combine those two together and there are few calories left over for your normal body use. So, in effect you are having to eat enough for 3 people.

I hope you now understand the seriousness of nutrition during treatment; screw this up and you can make your recovery way more difficult.

Now, go get something to eat. Welcome to the family.

Tony