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i've been drinking apple cider vinegar most of the day, seems to help some. for the time being, i've lost a lot of my appetite so it'll be awhile until i can stomach anything of substance. i'll keep smoothies in mind though.
so gallstones run in your family, how have you been able to avoid them?
i cant say for sure. since the gallbladder is used for digesting fats, maybe i ate less fat.
my sister got her gallbladder removed about 7 years ago, some time when she was in her mid to late 20s, she often ate out cos she worked. idk where she went cos i wasnt with her, but i have seen her come home with mcdonalds soda cups, and i have seen her with sandwiches and salads. also a lot of snack food. so i can assume she ate a lot of all around unhealthy foods. she didnt eat very much, i think that was due to her being a smoker.
my mom on the other hand, she recently got hers removed earlier this year. i feel like a douche, idk my moms age, i think shes 58. i dont live with her, but i know her habits. she likes to make hot or cold cereal, and sandwiches, fries, and very rarely she got boxed lunches. she made her own dinner which was typically rice and meat. like rice soup or rice and beans, with meat, either baked, cooked in the rice, or fried. i know that her doctor told her around 2009 to not eat beans, corns, and nuts cos she cant process them, i moved to a different state around that time so idk how her diet changed cos of that. she's also one to not go to the doctors, so idk how long she's been living with them.
i ate a lot of junk food, a lot of cereal, chips, candy, and rice and beans too. i think i ate less snack food than my sister cos i think she had access to that more than i did cos of where she worked back then. i can say i had milk, yogurt, and eggs often, and so did they, but i wasnt a fan of meat so i ate significantly less of that. i think most of what i ate was cereal. i had other health problems, i had acne, i got dizzy often, i slept 14 hours at a time, i ate very little, and had other digestive issues. i also suffered from constant headaches every week, and not a month went by that i wasnt sick with a cold or flu.
i guess the biggest differences is my sister ate a lot of fast food, she may have eaten more snack food, and i ate less meat than both of them. i'm not sure what my mom did to compensate for the beans cos it's a big part of our culture, it's something we ate every night, and idk how long shes been that way since she doesnt go to the docs often. i cant say how i've been able to avoid gall stones precisely, it could be because i was eating very little amount of food and less meat. my diet has changed drastically over the past four years, first i started making smoothies often with lots of greens in them, greens and veggies is something i never used to eat. then i became a vegetarian, not out of choice or for ethical reasons, i just wasnt a fan of meat. eventually i stopped drinking milk, and yogurt cos i hated the way it made me feel and look. butter, cheese and eggs were the last to go, so i guess that makes me a mostly raw vegan now, i cook dinner. but what i do now is usually have a smoothie, or fruit, or salad for breakfast and lunch, and for dinner i like rice, potato, yuka, soup with rice or corn pasta, no wheat pasta. i'm pretty lazy when it comes to food, i like it fast and simple and tasty. and i eat around 3000 calories a day, i dont count. that's how much ive got to eat in this lifestyle, some people say it's too much calories but i'm not overweight cos of it. thats how much my body requires, if i dont eat that much then i get hungry, dizzy. im 95 pounds, ive been underweight my whole life, but recently ive been loosing fat and gaining muscle weight. anyways, sorry for the rant but that's what i do. if youre more curious about what i eat i suggest checking out fully raw kristina, freelee, happy healthy vegan, on youtube. freelee just made a video about gallbladder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpEJDn4xL9Y&list=UULwUd5KtYONsRJ3UAOojZ0w
