Originally Posted by
OkeefenokeeJoe
OUCH!! That's not a diet I'd wish on anyone. Where's the fried chicken and red beans & rice?
Listen, as a survivor of a nasty blood cancer, after being told (in 2008) I had "about 18 months" to live, I know how cancer/chemotherapy effects one's diet and eating habits. Chemo ruins your taste buds and makes most foods taste nasty as hell. My recommendation is to eat anything you can tolerate and hold down. I don't care if it's tree bark, or sirloin, or fried chicken. If it suits your taste buds and you can keep it down, then eat it. Just eat SOMETHING!
I can recall, while I was lingering in my hospital bed at Emory in Atlanta, friends would occasionally visit and many would bring me a lot of this holistic, foo-foo, tree bark and nuts & berries food crap and I just couldn't see it. What got me going again was ... get this ... a single ripe Georgia peach and fried chicken gizzards (with Texas Pete hot sauce), and fresh Georgia white shrimp (thank you Paula Deen!!). No joke. After that, my appetite was on the rebound, big time.
Prior to cancer I was a 100-miles-per-week runner. During my three years of INTENSE chemotherapy, I hardly ran a step. Now, post cancer, I am running again, though not as far, but running nonetheless, and I enjoy a regular-guy diet. A salad now and then, an occasional double cheese burger, pizza, pasta, steak and, yes .... fried chicken and red beans & rice.
Eat what you want and begin your hiking rebound in measured increments. Don't go too far, too fast. Take your time and heal, and progress as you feel your strength returning.
OkeefenokeeJoe