I know that your comment was long ago, but can I have an update on your situation? My gallbladder is barely functioning (no stones) and I have horrible bloating that makes me look prego. I'm 30, 5'4, 110-115 (depending on the bloating), a very stable exerciser, and fear that I need to have this thing yanked out. Both my mom and g'ma had theirs out and they are very overweight. I am so afraid to lose weight. It sounds sad, but I am so scared to gain weight. Being fit and skinny has always been a huge part of my life. I want to have a baby, but I'm so scared that without the GB, I will never lose the weight. I hope your doing better now.
I am so for this. Please let me know if I can be of help. I have put on around 10 lbs since my surgery in May '09. I seem to have leveled off, but the frustration have having this extra 10 irremoveable pounds is so depressing. I am a runner that averages 12 mi a week in addition to two days of cross-training per week. I am very diligent about nutrition. While I am not considered overweight, the fact remains that I have gained weight that will not shed. I have experimented with bile salts to no avail. I tried really beefiing up on fiber, but the gas and bloating was rough. I am going to attempt to increase fiber again, and try to combat the bloating with Beano. A typical day's worth of food for me would be:
Breakfast - 1 serving of oatmeal w/ a fresh banana, coffee (black)
Snack - 1 apple
Lunch - veggie sub sandwich (wheat bread) w/ multi-grain chips & diet drink
Snack - 1 serving grapes or low fat string cheese (not every day)
Dinner - grilled chicken or fish, 1 vegetable, whole grain or brown rice
Water intake, probably 6 8oz glasses/day
Why would someone that eats this way daily and workout for an hour on top of it gain weight. It just doesn't add up.
I know; my doctor says that I must be eating more. My weight gain has been about 10 pounds in the past 2 months which isn't as bad as some of the posts I have seen, but I have stayed on the pre-surgery diet of soup, no sugar, juice, and the only meats I eat are the lean chicken and turkey. (Never drank soda much at all so that wasn't an issue.)
Despite the fact that I eat next-to nothing and always spend my day hungry, and I've starting taking the baby (gallstones were pregnancy-related) out with me for exercise; I still am gaining weight with increasing speed.
Would there be a way for us to form our own research group? If we could get a good cross-spectrum of people in a survey, I could even try to petition to post the findings in a scientific journal where they might be noticed. I have a Master's degree in biochemistry and experience in testing, so I have been testing on myself to see what foods fill me up and adding exercises to look for a result. Especially if there are other gallbladder removal victims who can test nutrition changes, we might be able to gain acceptable evidence.