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Power Smoothie to Start the Day

One of the most important matters for Gallstones Diet is reducing the daily fat consumption. How is that even possible for me, born, raised, and currently still in Indonesia, be expected to reduce the fat consumption when our favorite cooking process throughout the nation is by deep-frying all the things?

And, how can it be done when almost every signature dish in every city, not to mention almost half of my favorite food, has coconut milk on it. Not the fresh one, but several-hours-cooked one.

Well, I’ll go with another ancient proverb that says “It always seems impossible until it’s done”

Pinterest is my first touchpoint when I look for a proper Gallstones Diet for myself. I figured that if I really want to do it right, I had to start being resourceful. The first topic that popped up is healthy smoothies, with a lot of recipes and tips, and I love it.

Combined with intermittent fasting, have a power smoothie as the first meal is actually a very strong way to start a day. My working hours is from 10 a.m. and I used to fast until 9 a.m. With all the busy things I have for my son in the morning, smoothie is like the answer I’ve been looking for even since life before Gallstones.

Basically, just mix everything you have in the fridge. I rarely do the veggie ones because I rarely have the fresh greens. My mixture usually consists of the combination of such fruits:

· Banana

· Strawberry

· Kiwi

· Dragon Fruit (the purple one)

· Pear

· Apple

· Grape

One of the most important ingredients that must be there is Oatmeal. It’s just going to stuff your smoothie so you can have it heavy but definitely low on calories and fat.

Another element that you can put there is liquid, and you can choose any of your favorites. Most of the time, I go with water, but sometimes I’ll also have fresh milk (full-cream) or yoghurt. There are lots of alternatives you can use for it, such as coconut water, almond milk, oat milk, and so on.

Sometimes, I also add a non-dairy cream just to have more flavors in my smoothie.

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Intermittent Fasting

It’s already an ancient wise in my religion, where fasting is like a medicine to all disease. It’s like a religious way to tell your body to detox itself from all the toxins.

So in order to start my gallstones diet, I started it with the famous intermittent fasting method.

The reason is basically because I finally feel the urge to think about when I should or shouldn’t eat on a daily basis. Because frankly speaking, I never really care about it, so that when I craved for instant ramen even if it was already 11 p.m. I would definitely still did it. Deep inside, I know it was wrong on so many levels. But yet, I just didn’t care.

About intermittent fasting, you can look about all the scientific facts about it, which I basically agree on every single one of them, but through this I just want to share about my personal opinion and experience doing it.

I feel like there’s a need for my body to embrace feeling hungry. To acknowledge the hunger itself, to remember that it is very normal to feel it when you do your daily activities. Up until now, I’ve been doing the fasting for almost 4 weeks and I never took a longer fasting period than 14 hours. Maybe someday I will push myself to do more but for now, I think it’s really fine and I’m progressing really well.

I used to start fasting at 7 p.m. each day, and then I’ll have my first meal the next day at 9 a.m. Throughout the fasting period, I’m still allowed to drink so I have as much as water as I can, and also black, unsweetened coffee or tea in the morning (before 9 a.m.) to start the day.

Basically, this is like the basic framework for my diet.

I’d like to show you the apps that I use to help me get through it, it should be available for iOs or Android user in your App Store.

You can easily find it on your application store, and I'm sure the similar apps are there a lot too so just choose which suits you best.

Fasting App helped me with the scheduling, and it also allows me to have my customized fasting period, which is really fun and easy to operate.

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All About “I wish I didn’t..”

Trust me, it’s really hard no to say those words once I got diagnosed.

I’m 28 years old now, weighed way above average woman, 167 cm tall. It’s never a secret that I love to eat, and didn’t do much work out.

Yeah.. I wish I didn’t eat that much and work out more.

But somehow I don’t want to grieve longer than I should about this. This is not a death sentence already, I still have my chances.

My family has a bad history of chronic disease. My grandmother diagnosed with a lot of heart complications before she died. So does my uncle and aunt, they all had their rings for their heart in such a young age (below 50). Cholesterol runs like a friend in our blood. I knew it since I was younger but yet did nothing. I still eat fried, processed foods very, very often. Thank God I don’t like sweets, so I can still manage the sugar level in my blood really well.

I’m done regretting the past, I’m learning hard from it already. However, changing old habits is never easy, no matter how old you are. I’m willing to do it, for the sake of my future, I still want to play hide and seek with my son, teach him how to swim, and so on. I’ve witnessed lots of diet struggle in my family before and definitely they weren’t happy doing it.

I chose not to do it. I chose to change my habit, happily.. I chose to stepping up my diet game.

So this blog is basically going to be a regular updates for my gallstones diet. Let’s surviving this!

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Seven Days

I think there will be very boring if we talk about how much changes we’re gonna have in our entire life. About how does the change itself changes us as a person.

But it does.

Last month, I might be standing as a very happy woman who just landed a new job, a better one, and willing to spare all the time to celebrate it with my son and my husband. I might would plan and do all the things on the list, visiting places, eating those fancy foods on the Instagram. Seemed like I can have all the happiness in front of me already.

But then, on one fine Wednesday night, I got some bad fever. So bad that I couldn’t get up the next day because of the abdominal pain. The family doctor said it might be an infection, and gave some medications for the next three days.

On Monday morning, the pain got way worse. I rushed myself to the ER and got hospitalized right away.. After three nights at the hospital, the doctor diagnosed me with gallstones.

Well it took me approximately Seven Days to change my whole life.