Thanks much, Heather. I sincerely appreciate your feedback, all the time you took to compose your message, and the research you did.
It has been 4 days since the procedure and I'm extremely bloated. Some of the things I have been reading about that on internet health forums are alarming.
I called the surgeon and awaiting a call back.
I'm hoping this bloat goes away soon. I experienced that before the surgery, as well, but not like this.
What seemed to help with bloat in the past was to move my 5 hour eating window up to earlier in the day and eat nothing past 5.
Hard to do but I always woke up with a flat stomach.
Have a wonderful day, all!
Sincerely,
Willow
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:46 AM, willowg26 <willowg26@...> wrote:
>
> > I just had my gallbladder removed so I need to watch my fats for awhile,
> > and I would like to follow a low carb way of eating. The Atkins diet, which
> > I just read, really stresses the importance of eating 3 meals a day and two
> > snacks. I prefer to stick with the Fast 5. Does anyone have any experience
> > eating low carbs without a gallbladder and sticking to a 5 hour eating
> > window?
> >
>
> What I found on Fast5 (and the reason I started it) was that food digested
> a lot better. My guess is that your body has time to do "housecleaning"
> between meals if you don't stuff food down your gut all day.
>
> My summary from reading a LOT of dietary information is as follows.
>
> 1. The way humans work, they need and crave a certain amount of protein.
> You'll keep eating and be hungry until your body gets enough of it. That
> often causes overweight, if the food mix doesn't have enough protein. The
> proteins in fish and eggs, and dairy whey, are the best for satisfying the
> protein need.
>
> 2. The rest of your diet will be carbs or fat ... the only two other
> choices. Atkins stresses your body doesn't NEED carbs. But your body
> doesn't NEED fat either. Esp. if you are overweight, your body has plenty
> of fat to call on, if needed.
>
> 3. The starches in the American diet are highly problematic for a lot of
> reasons. Part of it is that they are finely ground, dry, baked goods, which
> digest way too quickly and feed the wrong bacteria. And they are mostly
> wheat-based, and wheat reacts directly with the villi in your gut and
> irritate it (which is a cause of a lot of gall bladder issues, BTW: the gut
> gets irritated and blocks the bile duct). And there are additives etc. in
> store-bought foods that cause other problems. So going starch-free really
> does help a lot of Americans.
>
> The starches in your average Japanese or Kitavian diet though ... steamed
> rice or cooked yams ... don't cause the same issues. So I think it's good
> to be more specific about "carbs". Some cause problems, some don't.
>
> 4. The healthiest diet appears to be one based on plants (excluding the
> grains). I.e. a lot of vegies and fruits. The human body DOES have a need
> for the nutrients in plants. There is a good video embedded here, about Dr.
> Terry Wahl's experience:
>
> http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/weight-loss/mitochondria-rejuvenating-diet-the-nutritional-experts-bash/
>
>
>
> So overall, if you have a diet with enough protein, and the rest
> vegies/fruits, you should be fine. You do need enough of the "essential
> fatty acids" but you don't need a whole lot every day. You probably won't
> get enough calories to sustain your weight, but I'm assuming you want to go
> low carb to lose weight? Personally I don't think "low carb" is great for
> everyone, because the human body wasn't designed to stay in ketosis. People
> like the Inuit do adapt so they can create their own glucose from protein,
> and don't stay in ketosis either.
>
> If you need or want some fat in your meal, or added calories, the
> bodybuilders use MCT. MCT is also used with babies that have a problem
> digesting fat ... it's in mother's milk too. Anyway, you don't need a
> gallbladder to digest MCT, and you can use it in cooking as you would any
> oil. They suggest starting out with it gradually though because it does
> digest very quickly which can cause cramps on an empty stomach. Coconut oil
> is high in MCT, and coconut oil in general is easy to digest.
>
> MCT and coconut oil don't have the essential fatty acids though. I'm not
> clear on the exact EFA's ... I think eating oily fish and whole eggs gives
> you most of them, but some people recommend a tsp. of safflower oil or
> borage? If you don't get the EFA's your skin will get dry and some think
> lack of EFA's causes psoriasis.
>
>
>
> --
> Heather Twist
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
>
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