Ummmmm yum, isn't that VHC delightful? I just had my 5 pm feeding, only 1 more to go.

I will be 7 weeks out tx on Monday. I still swallow 5 cans of VHC or 2800 calories per day. I don't think I could put another can in my stomach in a day!! With the dry mouth I get plenty of water due to constant sipping.

I can eat and swallow anything I've tried including my cheeseburger, pastrami sandwich and recently a slice of pizza sans the crust. I still choose VHC over "eating" simply because I still don't enjoy eating and the VHC gives me the vits, minerals and calories quickly. I have gained almost 50% of my weight loss and my recent bloodwork was excellent per the MO, in fact he said my protein was very high which is helpful to cell recovery he said. All my docs tell me calories are what's important now. Believe me as soon as my taste gets better; I gain some more weight and perhaps I'm less dependent on water, I will wean myself off the VHC.

Even though I drink 5 cans and get 2800 calories my dear darling wife and her mother and her aunts are always bringing me things to eat. I can't seem to get them to understand how it feels to put 2800 calories in a stomach that never was used to that even before I was dx. They just see me as still under weight and they want me to get all my weight back overnight. All day long I walk around with the feeling of a full stomach and zero desire to put anything else in it.

I'm married to a Cuban and they seem to be able to eat as much as they want and for that matter anything they want and they never gain weight NOR do they exercise. I teach (pre dx) high impact aerobics and 15 years ago I dragged my wife to one of my classes. After the warm up I looked around for her and she had already left. Later she told me she wasn't about to get sweaty and that was the last time I tried to get her to exercise. I am a full blooded american and I can gain weight by looking at food so I always watched my calories in vs. calories out.