Skipping Dinner

Skipping Dinner Without Gallbladder

It is not a good idea to skip dinner when you no longer have a gallbladder. That is about 17 hours of fasting, continuous bile secretion, peristaltic movement, and other acid secretion. And in my account, I had my lunch at 12:30, snacks at 3:30, no dinner, no midnight snacks, breakfast the following morning at 8:30. Result of not eating dinner and a removed gallbladder (through Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy)upset stomach and diarrhea.

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Eating Cheese Sticks

Last year, I made a test – Eating cheese and dairy products. That was few months after my lap chole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) operation. Even without gallbladder, I ate a home-made burger with cheese, butter and mayonnaise and to test how my system would react to dairy products. And the outcome of the test – upset stomach, gas was formed and grumbled inside my stomach. Although it was not a system overload, but it was a warning.

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Drinking Rum

Drinking Rum Without Gallbladder

Drinking Tanduay Dark Rhum

According to Wikipedia:

Rum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses, or, directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak barrels.

Dark Rum, also known by the rum’s particular colour as brown rum, black rum, or red rum, classes as a grade darker than gold rum. It is generally aged longer, in heavily charred barrels. Dark rum has a much stronger flavor than either light or gold rum, and hints of spices can be detected, along with a strong molasses or caramel overtone. It is used to provide substance in rum drinks, as well as color.

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