nutrition, training, and the gall bladder

[~gymdiva~]

Anyone on here ever have their gall bladder removed?

How did it affect your training and diet?

How was recovery? The good, the bad, and the ugly....




I've known a few people in my life who have undergone the procedure but none of them were into training/fitness/competing/etc...


thanks y'all!

[Poker face Ace]

Damn you're screwed sorry

[~gymdiva~]

I'd hardly say that

[BananaHammock]

Damn you're screwed sorry

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[Curt James]

Damn you're screwed sorry

Can you repeat that?

[Sunnyday]

I keep hoping data4 will make an appearance as he's probably seen this with a client or two, or maybe several. But since he hasn't...

Here's what (little) I know as my hubby had his gall bladder removed a few years ago. And while he doesn't lift heavy like we do, he IS lifting. So I think I can give you a tiny bit of insight.

He's currently running a similar diet to what a lot of competitors I know do at the start of a prep, close to 50p:20c:30f or around 50:25:25. He has no new digestive issues and no problem doing cardio/training. And he's leaning out about 2 lbs/week pretty steadily.

When it comes to fats, what we've seen is he does better on a low-ish fat diet to begin with, getting fats from a variety of sources: MCT oil, coconut oil, CLA, Udo's Oil, egg yolks, avocado, animal fats, fish oil supps, etc. I think part of the reason he's doing ok in the digestive sense is because he doesn't overload any one meal with a honking ton of fat. We have noticed he seems to really get into trouble (i.e. digestive issues) when he overdoes it on nut butters or other foods higher in omega-6s, so I'd say try steering away from those even on your cheats.

A lot of people tend to think that without the gall bladder, no fat gets absorbed and that's actually not true: the liver produces bile salts too and so you will definitely absorb/digest omega-3s and other goodies. Just don't go overboard, which naturally on a contest diet you wouldn't. If you add beef in your diet, just make sure it's grass fed because the omega 3:6 ratio is different enough that you might notice it. And your body will appreciate the extra omega 3s!

To diet down for a show, you might do better leaving carbs in and not carb cycling, just because having extra fat might give you digestive issues.

Hope that helps somewhat.

[Shawn Bellon]

It took me a couple years adjusting to fats in diet. If I ate too much I might get sick. Otherwise I was ok. Recovery time wasn't that bad either.


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[~gymdiva~]

Thank you for the replies

I'll update this from time to time....right now I'm almost back to normal after cutting all fats and slowly adding a few back in...I'm going to line up a surgical consult to see what he says and go from there