I know this isn’t a common thing in terms of weight loss, but I’m genuinely concerned about gallstones. When my father lost a bunch of weight quickly years ago, he wound up having to have had his gallbladder removed because of the gallstones. I never thought I would experience rapid weight loss, but here I am.
My husband and I are both counting calories together, and started January at 280lb (him) and 238lb (me). We weigh daily, and he has been averaging just over a 500 calorie deficit and I have been around 700 calorie deficit. I am breastfeeding our 6 month old who is only starting to try foods (he is 20lb chunker who nurses well!).
I’m worried because we’ve both lost weight more rapidly than either of us were expecting. We were expecting not to see much progress the first 4-6 weeks followed by a flush followed by a steady loss of 1-2 pounds depending on our deficit. We would not consider ourselves active people. He works from home, I’m a stay at home mom to our 4 kids. I cook nearly all of our meals completely from scratch. We do not exercise regularly, I have a mini stair stepped that gets used infrequently. The only “regular” activity that we do is use our stairs a lot (his office, the kids‘ playroom, and the pantry are in the walkout basement but the kitchen, bathrooms, living room are on the main floor).
My husband is now 256lb, officially dropping from Class II Obese to Class I for a total loss in 32 days of 24 pounds. I’m down to 217 pounds, a 21 pound loss in the same amount of time. Our family members around have been talking already how much thinner our faces and stomachs are looking without us even bringing the topic up. Clothes are fitting better, or in my husband’s case falling off (we have to buy him new pants!).
While of course thrilling, I am getting worried. I saw my dad suffer and I don’t want to experience that or for my husband to experience that. We are not taking ANY meds, no GLP-1s or diet pills or anything like that. Just manageable lifestyle changes. The only supplements we are taking are inositol, collagen, soluble fiber, Omega-3 fish oil, and calcium as needed. There are no off limit foods, everything gets fit into our macros. Protein is set at 1.2g/kg or 0.55g/lb of our goal weights and 25g fiber for me and 30g for him. We eat out MAYBE once a week (yesterday we met friends up at Chipotle for instance). We still have our morning coffee. We are not low fat. Everything is just…in moderation.
We were expecting to see stagnation, a slowdown, or a plateau, something by now. But nope. My husband sees basically the same weight on the scale day to day followed by a random drop that then becomes his new weight day to day before another drop. Mine changes pretty wildly day to day, but just keeps trending down. Our energy is great, hydration is great, and besides the occasional gas/bloating on the days we’ve had too much finer, we’ve had no issues. Satiety is great, cravings are mostly gone and the few ones we have are easily controlled.
So what do we do to avoid gallstones?
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