Well, I just ate my first proper meal in over 3 weeks

[thermodynamic]

I normally cook up this healthy mock-chinese chicken, broccoli, pea pod, carrot, onion, water chestnut, celery dish on top of a bed of Uncle Ben's brown rice (the healthy stuff) and topped with those pointless chinese noodle things.

Before the illness, I could scarf down a wholloping plateful.

Today, I barely ate 1/3rd of the plate and got FULL. 5 minutes later I had to go to the loo, but amusingly all the food stayed in this time...

Henceforth, I will no longer gorge myself every time I eat. When I start to feel full, I stop. No more continuing to shove food in until it's impossible like I had done.

That's probably why I weighed 230 pounds before all this started, and today I'm at 216, hehehe).

I love eating and now I can't even do that. And there's nobody to have sex with either as that's a much more interesting habit... And I've seen television for too many hours straight... oh well, I'll go watch the fish swim aimlessly until Knight Rider comes on!

[commander bunnypants]

1. good for you

I am happy for you and keep it up


DEMMAN

[Lars39]

2. I'm glad you're feeling better, thermo!!!

I was beginning to really worry about you. Did they ever figure out what kind of urpiness you had?

[thermodynamic]

4. As Khan once said, "the game is not over"

I love Khan... Anyway, although I am feeling well enough to properly eat anything approaching a meal, I won't know until Sunday if the meds are really helping. :-( But the fact I can eat more than 4oz of soup is promising. And if the meds don't help, then it's colonoscopy time. :scared: I don't like the idea of having things stuck up there, least of all a camera with room for 36 exposures in full color! I'd recommend Fuji Reala 100, myself...

I do appreciate everyone's concern though, thank you!

[Nikia]

3. I'm glad your eating again

Three weeks is a long time to be without anything substantial. It is a good thing that you had a little bit of extra weight to burn. Don't over do eating. I wrecked my appetite for now and had horrible stomach cramps after I ate an Italian sausage and roast beef sandwich from the vending machine at work, a piece of pepperoni and ham pizza after work, and then drank a 20oz bottle of the caffeinated green 7up an hour later. So less than two days after I finally wanted to eat again, I don't feel like eating anything again. I cannot believe that I was so stupid to wreck my better health like that. Don't do what I did.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Glad you're feeling better

The last time I got stomach flu, I had the same shrunken stomach experience. Sorry to report that those "I'll start eating less now" good intentions lasted about one day. Hopefully you'll do better.