The Gallbladder Body Type Diet
Lose, Gain or Maintain Weight the Healthy Way by
Eating Right for Your Body Type
Women with Gallbladder body type can range from petite to average in height with shoulders relatively even with hips. They have a straight-to-defined waist, and may have small, deep-set eyes. Legs are slender with very little or no weight gain except for upper inner thighs. Torso is solid, and most weight gain accrues in lower abdomen.
Men with Gallbladder body type range from short to average height with medium to large bone structure. Shoulders are relatively even with, to moderately broader than, hips. They have a strong, stocky torso with solid musculature and a soft layer covering the abdomen which makes it difficult to attain muscular definition. Weight gain accrues as soft rolls around the waist and solid layer over the abdomen.
Key Nutritional Support for the Gallbladder Body Type
- Fats are necessary to digest raw vegetables, especially salads
- Largest meal best at lunch without fruit
- Meals should be high in fat, low in protein, particularly dinner
- Oils or seeds as fats with salads are necessary to digest raw vegetables
- Potatoes are an excellent carbohydrate source
- Best fat sources: butter; safflower, avocado or olive oil; sesame seeds; sunflower seeds; and avocados
- Drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water a day. Drink water before and after meals, not with meals
- Occasional desserts are best as an evening snack
- Eat more cooked than raw vegetables
- Eat beans, grains, chicken soup, arugula, nuts, and seeds
- Watercress is a liver stimulant
- Dense protein, including fish, supports the immune system
Key Weight Loss Points for the Gallbladder Body Type
- Reduce breads, crackers, dairy, and fruit (including fruit juice and dried fruit)
- Eliminate sugar
- If fats fall below 20 percent of calories, weight loss will be inhibited
- May include mid-afternoon and evening snacks
Celebrities with a Gallbladder Body Type include:
Bea Arthur, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Klugman and Harvey Korman.
When Energy is Low, Gallbladder Body Types Crave:
Carbohydrates, primarily bread with butter; beans; sweets, such as chocolate chip cookies or frozen yogurt; fats, like ice cream; mildly spicy foods, like Italian or Mexican.
Gallbladder Body Type Diet - Foods to Avoid
A partial list of Unsupportive Foods for the Gallbladder Body Type include: Pork including bacon and sausage, ham, sardines, nonfat milk, nonfat yogurt, ice cream, any roasted or salted nuts, kidney and red beans, buckwheat, whole wheat breads and crackers, broccoflower, seaweed, maple syrup, artificial sweeteners such as Equal or Nutrasweet, mayonnaise, cake, cookies, diet sodas.
Recommended Exercise for the Gallbladder Body Type
Useful, productive activities such as gardening, yard work, cleaning windows or carpets are ideal; walking, skiing – snow or water, treadmill, bicycling, rubberband exercises, callanetics, swimming or rebounding
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