But recovering from the weight gain after a little medical difficulty can be a pain in the backside, so go easy on the heavy cream, Greg! I didn't eat outlandishly, but was just stuck with my foot up for weeks after foot surgery last summer. Follow that with several months of forced inactivity as I wrote a book chapter I never should have agreed to and the weight now has to come off. It crept up on me, but it'll gang up on you with that rich diet!

Are scrambled eggs soft enough to eat? How about an eggdrop soup for the liquid and the soft protein? We love oatmeal (porridge) so would be happy with that every morning. I use brown sugar on it and soy milk (and I put raisins in it when I'm fixing it just for myself--the kids won't eat them).

SRS