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For my diabetic husband, I mix chocolate Premier Protein powder into his sugar free instant chocolate pudding. I know the milk has carbs and sugars, but the sugar free pudding mix was a compromise.
What makes you think weight loss is due to medications? ls he eating his normal food and same amount? Did an MD suggest this? If the weight is going down due to medications for CHF then this is likely FLUID WEIGHT being lost and is a good thing. Fluid trapped in lungs and in lower extremities will go out due to the diuretics, and this is what is wanted. This isn't solid good weight; it's trapped water.
Discuss all this with the medical team. They are the proper ones to know their patients and what is going on. I am wishing you the best.
I keep writing it here over and over, we are better off THINNER than with more weight. We need very little to live. And a diabetic will thrive with no weight and pressure on limbs, on kidney's on heart. Tell me his height and his weight and I will tell you when to worry. Or his doc will. We seldom need more than a meal a day to live at about 80.
Take a look at height and weight charts as well; For a diabetic, he has no amputations?! Good for him. Keep up the good work and stop worrying.
I got 20 lbs. back onto my Ex with my "cookie milkshakes." He liked them better than coffee in the morning. He'd hear the ice crusher and get right of of bed and come get his shake, with his childlike mindset. Watch TV news and drink his shake down completely with a fat straw.
I'd make chocolate, banana or vanilla shakes. Sometimes Mocha ones, using those bottled Mocha Frappacinos with the chocolate fixings. I'd use various cookies (vanilla wafers or chocolate animal cookies), whole milk, pudding cups (vanilla, chocolate or banana flavors), whole ripe bananas, Cool Whip and crushed ice. His Doctor said do whatever works, so I did! I didn't use Boost or Ensure prepared shakes, since too expensive. If he saw those "nutritional" drinks on the counter, he wouldn't touch the shake. They had a chemical type taste he did not like!
Granted with diabetes, these shakes are full of calories, but my goal was to get his appetite back. You have to decide if you want to get calories in him, or not.
He got his appetite back after downing these yummy cookie shakes within a few weeks. Within a month he was eating more meat, potatoes, eggs, breakfast burritos and salads. Hope this helps!
Your LO was obviously not diabetic. Calories are not the issue with diabetes, carbohydrates and sugar in particular are. OP will need to find another solution or his diabetes will go out of control which will kill him faster than underweight.
My mom lost weight to due mental health issues and refused to eat. She got down to 80 lbs. A friend told me about Magic Cups nutritional ice cream cups. That was all she would eat and would have about 4 a day. I would order them from Amazon. They are a little pricey, but helped her a lot. Also, I bought Mass protein powder for shakes and she would have one or 2 of those each day. Eventually she began to gain weight and started eating more food. She has gained 35 lbs since then. Hope this helps :)
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APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
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We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
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APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
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ls he eating his normal food and same amount?
Did an MD suggest this?
If the weight is going down due to medications for CHF then this is likely FLUID WEIGHT being lost and is a good thing. Fluid trapped in lungs and in lower extremities will go out due to the diuretics, and this is what is wanted. This isn't solid good weight; it's trapped water.
Discuss all this with the medical team. They are the proper ones to know their patients and what is going on.
I am wishing you the best.
Tell me his height and his weight and I will tell you when to worry. Or his doc will. We seldom need more than a meal a day to live at about 80.
Take a look at height and weight charts as well; For a diabetic, he has no amputations?! Good for him. Keep up the good work and stop worrying.
I'd make chocolate, banana or vanilla shakes. Sometimes Mocha ones, using those bottled Mocha Frappacinos with the chocolate fixings. I'd use various cookies (vanilla wafers or chocolate animal cookies), whole milk, pudding cups (vanilla, chocolate or banana flavors), whole ripe bananas, Cool Whip and crushed ice. His Doctor said do whatever works, so I did! I didn't use Boost or Ensure prepared shakes, since too expensive. If he saw those "nutritional" drinks on the counter, he wouldn't touch the shake. They had a chemical type taste he did not like!
Granted with diabetes, these shakes are full of calories, but my goal was to get his appetite back. You have to decide if you want to get calories in him, or not.
He got his appetite back after downing these yummy cookie shakes within a few weeks. Within a month he was eating more meat, potatoes, eggs, breakfast burritos and salads.
Hope this helps!