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3. Yes, I find Ensure helpful to get rolling again and keep my health up
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 04:43 PM
Jan 2016

My government doesn't provide me (I don't think) with any cases, surely not not 48 cans a month (they're bottles here). Actually I don't drink the shakes, because I'm lactose intolerant - only "Ensure active" which used to be sold as "Ensure clear" - I don't know if I'd want to live on them, but one a day certainly helps break the cycle and I do feel better. If I have them around I feel - particularly when I'm feeling weak - one or two a day makes a difference.

I know I'm not restricted to liquids, but sometimes it feels that way, and my diet resolves around carrot juice or coconut water (either for potassium) and a few other things, including Ensure.

I personally find that if I'm trying to break a cycle where my stomach is upset, and I don't think I can other stuff in, that I start small with something dry - I like to use Saltines, but also plain white rice or a dry toast, to soak up the acids in my stomach help me to stabilize it, and then I can put something like Ensure in, or maybe even part of a sandwich (sometimes I can stretch a sandwich out for a week, just having a bite now and then. I'm sure that's not healthy, but at least I'm trying to get some fuel in. Of course, this fucks with my sugars, but that's yet another story.

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