Nausea after a shortage-forced restart

Mine lasted about five weeks and then more or less stopped. I still get a mild version for a day after a step up and I now expect it.

This is the post I wish had existed when I was looking for it.

Bryony has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

The texture thing surprised me. Anything with more than one texture in it was difficult and simple, uniform food was fine.

Please do not push through a whole day of nothing on principle. I did that twice and both times it made the following day considerably worse.

Room temperature turned out to matter more than anything else on the plate. Straight from the fridge and straight from the oven were both impossible for a month.

I found that eating something small before I felt hungry was the whole trick. Waiting until I wanted food meant it never arrived.

What got me through was very small amounts, very often, and not caring at all what they were. Nutrition can wait a fortnight; not eating anything cannot.

Protein was completely impossible for me during the worst of it and I stopped trying. It came back and it came back quickly once the nausea lifted.

Ilse has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Something practical: I kept a bag of what I could actually manage in my work locker, so a bad afternoon did not turn into a bad evening.

The advice that helped least was to eat whatever appeals. Nothing appealed. What I needed was a list of things I could get down when nothing appealed.