Fat free diet for gallstones. Suggestions please

[Ledkr]

After the worst attack yet I've been referred for urgent removal of gallbladder which gp says is probably acutely inflamed.
In the meantime I need to eat a pretty much fat free diet and just wondered if anyone has any good suggestions.
I've bought yogurt and quark and some chicken but I'm a bit lacking inspiration.
Going to post in food as well.
Thanks

I lived of wholemeal toast with Marmite (no butter or margarine). It was grim.

I lived on rice cakes and bananas

Jelly babies ;) Plus lots of home made, fat free veggie soups. Fish oven cooked in foil with lemon juice. Prawns in sweet chilli sauce.......

Egg noodles (check they're not the ones made with Palm oil!!) cooked in broth with vegetables (frozen soya beans for fat free protein) - add spices if they don't trigger your attacks. Total 0% fat Greek yoghurt with fruit compote and meringue for pudding.

Obv there's many who have suffered.
Can I ask if anyone fejt nauseous a lot.
I'm not having an attack I just feel permanently sick.

Oh god yes! The nausea was the pits, and would peak in the 24 hours following an attack. I actually barfed into a plastic bag in the middle of a (thankfully almost empty) train carriage once, and another time in the middle of a street full of Christmas shoppers

Get your doctor to prescribe some anti nausea drugs. They're not a magic bullet, but definitely better than nothing.

IIRC I alternated between jacket potatoes with baked beans (no butter no cheese), beans on toast, tinned spaghetti on toast, low-fat soup in various varieties (veg, tomato, Tuscan bean), and sushi for a treat.

Tis grim, OP, good luck and I hope the operation comes through fast.

How long is the wait? Do you have to meet certain criteria?

I was on the waiting list but fell pregnant. During my pregnancy I thankfully only had one attack (which was odd as they were so frequent before).

Once my twins were born I had two horrendous attacks where I was hospitalised. I think they felt sorry for me as I had my gall bladder out a week after my second attack.

Do you find it actually makes a difference if you stick with fat free? Towards the end I had attacks whatever I ate - so I gave up trying (lost my appetite really as I always felt nauseous). Discussed with my consultant and he said fat free doesn't make any difference for most - think he said 20% could control it by diet, rest there were no discernible triggers and fat free made no difference (contrary to GP advice and NHS choices website, I realise!). Only thing that helped was actually removing it (which was totally fine, felt normal within 2 days).

Hope you get it out soon - bloody awful pain and horrible feeling sick all the time. Actually vomitting usually relieved my pain by the way, not sure how you find it but at height of attack I eventually found out that if I made myself be sick it made the pain go away reasonably quickly so I could go back to bed (usually middle of night attacks).

Yes mine are normally middle if the night and I get some relief from making myself sick.
I had a more comfortable two days with the fat free but as you say it maybe thT I'd have had that anyway.
Between attacks tho I've been still feeling slight pain and very sick which was a new thing.
I felt really sick today tho but took a domperidone which took it off.
Were you feeling nausea between attacks too?

Sounds just like I was. Yes, felt nausea and mild pain all the time towards the end. Hope you get it out soon. Luckily I have private health through work and it was covered so got mine out quite quickly when eventually diagnosed. Though I heard it's quite quick through NHS anyway (6 or 8 weeks?).

Thanks for reply.
I feel almost normal today after two weeks of feeling dreadful so I'm guessing it's the low fat diet.
I'm going to stick with it cos need to shift some pounds anyway and I'm scared to risk it.
You need to do low fat after it's removed anyway don't you?

Ledkr I'm now on the Waiting List , (after a long protracted wait with referalls, diagnosis, further diagnosis...) it's 12-14 weeks where I am (Essex), but mine isn't urgent (more a pain in the guts)

YY to fat free, if I eat any cheese (even low fat Halloumi) it flares up hugely. The amount of cheese in a Wetherspoons Toastie was enough too.

Small amount of fried food ( spring rolls or few chips in sunfllower oil) is enough too.

I've been very sick today despite fat free although I had wine and a jacket potato for lunch and thought that maybe there was some butter on the spud even tho I said not to.
I've had no attack of pain just vomiting and wondered if it was to do with my gall stones or not.
What do you think?