Everyone tells you to eat Mediterranean. Nobody mentions that the diet runs on olive oil, and oil is exactly the thing you are counting. Which parts of it you can actually borrow, and which you cannot. https://pancreaszen.com/tips/eating-mediterranean-on-a-fat-budget/

Losing it was easy. I did not have to try. Putting it back is the part nobody coaches you through, and doing it fast is how people end up back in the ward. What worked for me was slow, boring and five meals a day. https://pancreaszen.com/tips/putting-weight-back-on-after-pancreatitis-without-triggering-a-flare/