What do you eat when you are sick?

141by2016
141by2016 Posts: 179
in Food and Nutrition
I am not really feeling the low carb, healthy goodness today, just want to curl up with some soup and take a nap. Antibiotics mess my stomach up badly. When you are sick do you stick to your plan or do you just eat what you want? I know I will not go over in calories, but I will probably over do it on sugar because of all the hidden sugar in meds, juices, etc. I know I should theoretically be the one who knows about this, but I've never been seriously ill while watching my intake before.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
~C

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  • JasonDetwiler
    JasonDetwiler Posts: 364 Member
    Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup. Magic healing powers.
  • moreORless50
    moreORless50 Posts: 261 Member
    ummmm i dont know , so far since changing my eating habits and taking more exercise i been lucky enough not to have been ill :bigsmile: But i would have thought if you feel able to eat then do and try keep it healthy soup is always good but if you feel unable to eat then try drink lots
  • dshalbert
    dshalbert Posts: 677 Member
    Curling up with soup and a nap sound good to me! If you have a cold or flu, I suggest some good vegetable soup like minestrone (sp?) and add a dash of cayenne pepper to it. If it's a stomache flu, a chicken broth based soup is good. Stay away from protien and fatty food if your stomach is upset. They are harder to digest.
  • dexter4564
    dexter4564 Posts: 86 Member
    Don't worry about it, eat what your body wants. The more quickly you recover, the more quickly you can get back to burning calories exercising.
  • reddingaz
    reddingaz Posts: 39 Member
    I generally go the soup route myself - But it's got to be Lipton chicken noodle out of the box :tongue:

    Weird thing is that once I'm feeling better I crave meat like nothing else - Like to the point that I could sit down & eat a porterhouse!!
  • bahacca
    bahacca Posts: 878 Member
    I'd try to stay in calorie range, BUT, I'd eat what sounded good first and foremost. I'm of the belief that the body will tell you what it needs. If it is telling you some soup and a nap, then do it!
  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
    Bone Broth,
  • SageGoddess320
    SageGoddess320 Posts: 2,589 Member
    Usually the only things I want when I'm feeling under the weather are Mrs. Grass Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup, OJ and tons of ZZZ's.
  • WhatDoesLisa
    WhatDoesLisa Posts: 214
    Ever since I was a little kid, I always crave a meatball hoagie when I am sick. Too bad I can't get my mommy to go get one for me anymore!
  • Elen_Sia
    Elen_Sia Posts: 638 Member
    I go with the BRAT diet when I fall ill: Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast. And lots of hot peppermint or ginger tea, depending on the ailment.
  • jilliew
    jilliew Posts: 255 Member
    Don't worry about calories when you're sick. Just eat what you can keep down/what makes you feel better. I find that gingerale with a little apple juice in it really helps for nausea. Make sure you drink a lot of fluids (in the form of tea or broth or something)!!
  • quiltingducky
    quiltingducky Posts: 103 Member
    Usually I am way under on my calories when I have a cold. I eat chicken soup and drinks loads of hot tea. I also take 2 chewable vitamin C tablets a day while sick. I avoid dairy because it seems to produce excess mucus (gross, I know).
  • Hollycat
    Hollycat Posts: 372
    Unfortunately, everything. The trick is to eat super healthy so you don't get sick.

    Seriously, soup and crackers. Oatmeal. Comfort foods. NOT cookies.

    Hollycat:flowerforyou:
  • alaskaang
    alaskaang Posts: 493 Member
    What ever actually sounds good. Typically I don't want much of anything and just have lots of broth.
  • cgfol1
    cgfol1 Posts: 179 Member
    I often find that soup isn't filling enough by itself, so if I'm unwell ill get some crackers and put them in the soup so they go all sloppy and then eat them. It sounds gross I know but it adds a little bulk to my meal and some different flavour
  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
    I was sick last week for the first time since starting this and I didn't eat hardly anything, and the choices I made were baaad haha. I just ate what I wanted and then took naps. I wouldn't worry about counting or anything if you're majorly sick.
  • Beethoven1827
    Beethoven1827 Posts: 102 Member
    Last night I was hit by the tummy bug that one of my daughters has just had. Today I have eaten buttered toast for breakfast, and peanut butter on toast for lunch and dinner. All washed down with a couple of glasses of diet coke (which I normally hate!) and several mugs of decaff coffee. Can you guess I'm a carbs girl?! Back to normal balanced eating tomorrow, but today has been about something easy to prepare and easy to eat.
  • ripemango
    ripemango Posts: 534 Member
    when i'm sick i have chicken noodle soup at least once a day. when taking antibiotics, i have yogurt in between doses...so if I took an antibiotic at noon i would eat yogurt at 2:30 and take the other round of antibiotics at 5 pm
  • ValeriePlz
    ValeriePlz Posts: 517 Member
    When I am sick, I always want a Chipotle burrito or Mexican food. Clears out the sinuses and the spices are great for your health.

    If you feel a cold coming on, eating raw garlic can also help, if you can stand the taste.
  • fattypattybinger
    fattypattybinger Posts: 337
    I like toast with a little margarine. Sometimes I will eat Cream of Wheat as well. I am ot big on soup but I saw somebody said Mrs. Grass chicken noodle soup. I didn't even know they made that. It used to be my favorite. Can anybody tell me where I can purchase it. Does it still have the golden ball?
  • tommygirl15
    tommygirl15 Posts: 1,012 Member
    Spicy soup - get that mucus flowing.
  • RBXChas
    RBXChas Posts: 2,708 Member
    Don't worry about it, eat what your body wants. The more quickly you recover, the more quickly you can get back to burning calories exercising.

    ^THIS. Also, be sure you are rested enough before you get back to working out. The worst thing you can do is go back before you're fully recovered and then feel worse.
  • JennKie1
    JennKie1 Posts: 200 Member
    I eat what I want when I'm not feeling well. Sometimes it's good stuff, and sometimes it's not-so-good stuff. When I'm sick I don't usually feel like eating much anyway, so I don't worry about the calories, etc.....
  • Chewster001
    Chewster001 Posts: 201 Member
    Pho
    Chicken noodle soup
    Saltines
    And as many Cold Eeze lozenges as I can stomach. Zinc kills the bugs.

    When needing to just sleep instead of coughing all night, Nyquil.
    When it gets really bad, and cold outside, a shot of Drambuie (Do NOT mix with cola unless you like to vomit)
    Drambuie is the original Nyquil.
  • YaGigi
    YaGigi Posts: 817 Member
    Recently I was really sick with flue for ten days. Had bad fever and etc. I was eating healthy except of I had some chocolate cake. But didn't go over my 1200 calories a day, maybe once or twice.

    Do whatever makes you get back in shape.
  • 141by2016
    141by2016 Posts: 179
    Curling up with soup and a nap sound good to me! If you have a cold or flu, I suggest some good vegetable soup like minestrone (sp?) and add a dash of cayenne pepper to it. If it's a stomache flu, a chicken broth based soup is good. Stay away from protien and fatty food if your stomach is upset. They are harder to digest.

    I have had a sinus infection for three weeks, just crossed the line where I couldn't ignore it anymore. Nothing tastes right, but the only things that sound like food are simple carbs. i just ate a plain baked potato.

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