Before surgery I would drink a gallon of water a day now I can barely get 6 cups fulls down. How do you get all your fluids down with taking small sips? ANy pointers would be helpful!

Did you just get your band? If so the drinking water thing will get easier. I guess you just have to get use to the feeling. 6 cups is good. I just try and carry a bottle of water around where ever I go and sip, sip sip.......

oh, I forgot to add that it is easier if I mix in the little crystal light on the go drink mixes.

Before surgery I would drink a gallon of Water a day now I can barely get 6 cups fulls down. How do you get all your fluids down with taking small sips? ANy pointers would be helpful!

Same here. Before surgery I drank so much water I sometimes sloshed when I walked. No joke. After surgery, it was a battle just to drink any water...and not because I felt too full, but because I wasn't thirsty and didn't remember. I have 7.5cc in my band and can still gulp down water without any restriction so that's not an issue.

I carry around an 18 oz water bottle filled with crystal lite. My favorite flavor is cherry pomegranet or the green tea & honey. I find if the water is flavored, I'll sip from it more.

I had to make it a regiment and it has gotten easier as other posters said as the days since the surgery has progressed--I have to be at work at 7am and have a 30 min commute. As as I wake up, I begin sipping so by 7:00 I am finish a 20oz bottle--I then eat my breakfast at work around 8:00am--about 30-45 min I begin sipping on another bottle to be finished by that by 10:00 in case I want to eat a snack. I then sip some more until 45 min to my lunch--I then sip so more. Now because I work as an assistant principal, my day does not always flow like that:biggrin:--so I grab that bottle wherever I go. If that happens I drink alot more after-school and on the way home and later that evening especially if "head hunger" happens.

I drink just as normal as I did before. I don't have to take sips. I have 7cc in my band and I think I'm at my sweet spot already! :-)