Can anyone suggest foods that will help me put on weight. I'm pretty slim to begin with and recently suffered a recurrence of a fissure. So I went on a very low calorie diet and I'm really looking pretty thin now. I'll just tell you what I've been eating:
breakfast: fresh pear and honey wholemeal sandwich without crusts
Lunch: plain cod fish fillet, wholemeal spaghetti in olive oil, lettuce leaves, bowl of tinned apricots. Yesterday I branched out a bit and had a fish finger sandwhich on wholemeal bread, lettuce and a fresh avocado, again followed by apricots.
Dinner: Jacket potato, tinned tuna, broccoli & peas, 1/4 of a honeydew melon.
During the day: 2 mugs of peppermint tea with brown sugar.
I'm also having Movicol (about 90ml) in the morning and 80ml before bed.
I drink about 3 jugs of water every day.
Other than the weight, I'm also having problems with very full fluffy/flaky bowel motion, probably due to all the Movicol and high fibre diet. I'm going between 3 & 4 times a day and it's making my rear end pretty sore, as I already have piles, aside from the recent fissure. Ideally I'd like to produce slippery not too bulky stools which were a bit less loose, but at the same time not too hard.
My anxiety levels are off the chart at the moment and I'm not too sure how to improve things for less dramatic and more comfortable bowel motions.
Any help very much appreciated.