[mncharity]

Fwiw: Strenuous winter activities (eg mountain hiking and camping) can more than double baseline calorie demand. Sitting down to a base camp meal afterward can be a body-has-a-mind-of-its-own saliva-gushing "FEED ME NOW!!!" experience of really-need-to-pee intensity. Normally unappealing food commonly becomes just fine - uncooked pasta, blocks of lard, whatever. So I wonder... what happens if food-is-nauseating is repeatedly hit with a hammer of the "are you going to eat that vomit, or can I please have it? - it looks quite yummy" of extreme calorie appeal?

Another thought is the breastfeeding maternal-diet envelope expansion drill, of working outward from some one bland safe thing, experimentally adding a thing at a time, and backing off upon problems.

[dgunay]

I haven't ever had a real eating disorder, but a lot of my childhood food aversions were finally broken during times of extreme hunger.

[gcanyon]

The absolute best meal I've ever had was a cup of clear chicken broth: my first meal after a month in the ICU without eating. As the old saying goes, hunger is the best seasoning, and as I always say, when you're hungry -- I mean really hungry -- nothing satisfies like... food.

[wwilim]

As plausible as this might sound, it's kind of "just man up and power through it" advice. They stated they often don't feel well enough to leave their house.

[stevage]

Drinking pasta water is another thing that becomes totally appealing during calorie deficit.