flu and diet?

sethysgirl
sethysgirl Posts: 45
in Food and Nutrition
So, lucky me, I have now been hit with either a really bad cold or the flu. When you are sick, do you try to keep to your diet plan and count calories? What about if you throw up?

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  • mactaffy84
    mactaffy84 Posts: 398 Member
    Drop your plan when you are sick. Eat when you feel like it, don't when you don't feel like it. Try to force water because you don't want to add dehydration into the mix. Then pick it back up when you feel better.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    If you had influenza you'd likely not be posting or thinking about calories, it's hardcore - people die, my sibling could not scale the little ladder into his cabin bed when he was hit with the flu as a strapping six foot plus teen.

    Forget counting calories, try to keep your fluids up. Eat a balance of nutrient dense foods if you can, thick soups and smoothies are fine if you can't face solid food, even milk or yoghurt or fresh fruit or vegetable juice counts.

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