angaustinbrody
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with no exercise and not the way i wanted to lose it. I had lost and regained the same 20 pounds over the past 3 or 4 years. Just before September I had a horrible horrible gallbladder attack. I had a few minor attacks before, but this one was extreme. Nausea, vomitting, severe pain. Ever since then I have had lingering pain, nausea that comes and goes, sometimes severe pain and severe backpain. I've been on the surgical wait list to get my gallbladder out for 2 1/2 months and will be going in to get it out in 2 weeks.
For the first couple weeks after the bad attack I tried cutting out most fats, and having my meals at 5 grams of fat or less and less than 20 grams of fat in a day. Pain still lingered and nausea was still unbearable. I cut my meals down to 2 grams of fat and less than 10 grams of fat a day. It was very hard, my meals were very limited, but I did it. I felt a lot better in terms of gallbladder pain and nausea. I stuck with this for about 2 weeks but then I noticed a lot of anxiety, and a severe depression sinking in. I almost felt on the verge of having to check myself in to a mental health hospital. I spoke with my doctor who suggested adding some fat back in. I am now up to about 30 grams of fat a day and mentally I feel much better (still not 100% though) but I am back to having lingering nausea, some gallbladder pain and the back pain again. Ugh.
So since the beginnign of September I've lost 38 pounds. I am now 25 pounds above my goal weight, but I have not been able to exercise. I've tried to get out walking and I get really dizzy. I've tried going really slow, and I can only go about 10 minutes. I have two small kids so going for 2 or 3 walks a day is not going to work. Yesterday my kids and I were downstairs and my son was on the home gym. He was using the machine where you push the bars forward and it works the shoulders. He had 20 pounds on it. He was doing it no problems. I hopped on it, tried it, and couldn't even make it budge. Ugh. I used to have some nice calf muscles, and those are gone. No muscle defenition at all.
So since I'm 2 weeks away from my surgery I want to know what I can do once I am recovered to help get that muscle back? I have been advised that I need to stick to very low fat or fat free for at least 1 month after surgery.
Any advice?
For the first couple weeks after the bad attack I tried cutting out most fats, and having my meals at 5 grams of fat or less and less than 20 grams of fat in a day. Pain still lingered and nausea was still unbearable. I cut my meals down to 2 grams of fat and less than 10 grams of fat a day. It was very hard, my meals were very limited, but I did it. I felt a lot better in terms of gallbladder pain and nausea. I stuck with this for about 2 weeks but then I noticed a lot of anxiety, and a severe depression sinking in. I almost felt on the verge of having to check myself in to a mental health hospital. I spoke with my doctor who suggested adding some fat back in. I am now up to about 30 grams of fat a day and mentally I feel much better (still not 100% though) but I am back to having lingering nausea, some gallbladder pain and the back pain again. Ugh.
So since the beginnign of September I've lost 38 pounds. I am now 25 pounds above my goal weight, but I have not been able to exercise. I've tried to get out walking and I get really dizzy. I've tried going really slow, and I can only go about 10 minutes. I have two small kids so going for 2 or 3 walks a day is not going to work. Yesterday my kids and I were downstairs and my son was on the home gym. He was using the machine where you push the bars forward and it works the shoulders. He had 20 pounds on it. He was doing it no problems. I hopped on it, tried it, and couldn't even make it budge. Ugh. I used to have some nice calf muscles, and those are gone. No muscle defenition at all.
So since I'm 2 weeks away from my surgery I want to know what I can do once I am recovered to help get that muscle back? I have been advised that I need to stick to very low fat or fat free for at least 1 month after surgery.
Any advice?
