During treatment when a loss of appetite can plague you it’s still vital to get essential nutrition in. Sometimes treatments can affect your appetite causing you to skip meals and opt to not eat, but it’s essential to still get what you can in order to maintain protein and fluid intake.
It’s important to not overly stress about food, keeping a healthy positive relationship to food, and not add stress to your life. It’s always important to talk to your doctor about guidelines you should follow, however, some great tips to follow to help improve eating are:
I’ve seen many trying for weight loss and fat loss during treatment and I know it’s a huge desire to lose weight or gain back fitness, but it’s important to remember when battling an injury, illness or during treatment the need for calories increases to allow healing.
Putting a focus on getting or staying active, doing the activities you can and eating whole foods should be most important. If you or your loved one are battling a lack of appetite it can be easy to add extra calories to your cooking.
Protein is important for the growth, health, and repair of your body especially during times of healing. After surgeries, the recommendation is always to increase protein intake for improving healing. Don’t be afraid of adding a little extra protein to your meals in the form of cheese, cottage cheese, beans, nuts, fish, eggs, and yogurt.
about the author
Linnley Sweeney
Linnley joined HealthTree in January 2020 as the Fitness Events Manager. Her husband is a childhood cancer survivor as well as a cancer biologist. Finding a cure, better treatments, and balance through treatments is what drives their family. Linnley is an Advanced Cancer Exercise Specialist and focuses on finding what you can do rather than can't.
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