Weight loss and gallstones
My clients sometimes get frustrated that they lose weight quite slowly on my programme. Because it is not a diet, your body loses weight in its own time and it won’t drop off at 5lb a week the way it can on a programme where you live on shakes and weird food packs.
It may seem tempting to do a crazy 500 calorie a day diet and get slim quick for summer, even if you know you’ll be fat again for winter!
However it’s not just the torment of the diet, the loss of valuable muscle mass and the almost inevitable regain of the weight that you need to worry about. If you do a low calorie, low fat diet you have a good chance of developing gallstones, and these are really no fun.
In one experiment, so many of the people on the low fat 520 calorie a day diet developed gallstones that they had to abandon the experiment for ethical reasons! See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8781321
Although the conventional advice for those with gallstones is to eat a low fat diet, recent research suggest this can actually cause gallstones.
More on dietary fats in future posts and in our non diet weight loss home study programme
