Weight Gain with Gastroparesis: A Catch-22 Situation

I’m no stranger to having to restore weight. In the various eating disorder treatment facilities I was in as an adolescent, restoration typically involved consuming thirty-five-hundred calories a day of high-fat, calorie-dense foods: milkshakes, protein bars, rich pasta dishes, desserts that sent my mind into a full-blown panic. Worse than the food itself were the GI symptoms that often accompanied these periods of rapid weight gain, namely bloating, fullness, and constipation.

Suffice to say, w...