Help me find fat-free foods...

emiannie

I just had my gallbladder out last Friday.  I've been pretty much only eating a lean turkey sandwich for lunch with baked chips.  For dinner tuna steak, grilled, with green beans.  I can't live on that stuff alone.  There is pretty much NOTHING I can eat out that I don't think will make me sick.  

So help me find some low-fat foods that I can add in to my diet.  All I'm seeing is fruits and veggies, which I love...but I need some variety! 

MrsJakes

Have you tried eating normally yet?

I was on a strict fat free diet for 6 weeks before I had my gallbladder out (I had to wait until my 2nd trimester to have surgery), and it was terrible! So I know how you feel! After the surgery though, I find that I can eat pretty much anything. Dairy does bother me now, and it didn't before. As long as I am careful about that, I can eat anything I want without problems.

emiannie

Mine was emergency surgery...so there wasn't a diet before...just normal food for me, but I did have the runs and stuff after I would eat pretty frequently before the surgery.  I've tried venturing out to regular foods...I tried pulled pork last night and a baked potato and that didn't go so well, but I put butter on my potato...so it might've been just that.  

Dairy is a big problem for me I can already tell.  But I've been so afraid to try stuff that I've just been sticking to fat-free...which right now is just tuna steaks and green beans.  I love them, but I can only do so much!

How soon after the surgery did you find you could eat regularly?  I'm a week out now. 

MrsJakes

I was eating normally by a week, I think. Definitely two. Potatoes hurt my stomach too. I'm not sure if it's the butter or the potato, but I'm still a little wary of them.

Before surgery, I ate a lot of fat-free refried beans and fat-free cheese burritos with a little fat-free sour cream. Turkey sandwiches. Marshmellow cream has no fat, so I ate that with graham crackers. I tried to keep my fat grams below 10-15 for each meal, and it worked for me. I didn't have any flare-ups for 6 weeks. It's hard to stay completely fat-free.