what is sliming and bping?

Sliming- when you've eaten enough or if you've eaten more than enough, you're body produces mucus like crazy (think of just before you throw up). I'm sure there's a more scientific explanation, but that's my take on it.

PBing- productive burping- happens when you eat too fast, don't chew well enough. You literaly feel like you are burping up food (and sometimes something will come up!) Very uncomfortable, and can be embarrassing if it happens in public.

Both are very good incentives for stopping when you are satisfied and for chewing well and eating slowly.

The reason we slime (from a science teacher's point of view): The mouth's job is to produce saliva and masticate (chew) the food for initial digestion before it proceeds to your esophagus, stomach and intestines for final digestion. When you eat with the LAP-BAND®, your food doesn't go as quickly to the final stages (stomach, intestines) because it's held in your band stomach until it passes through to your "real" stomach. As a result, your mouth kicks up the salivation notch because it still thinks you have food that needs to be pushed through and is simply doing it's job. The PROBLEM comes when you've eaten a little too much...you've got food hanging out in your band stomach and/or your esophagus, it hasn't or can't pass through to your "real" stomach because it is either temporarily blocked or hasn't had time to move yet...your mouth does it's job by producing more saliva...and that saliva has nowhere to go because it can't push through the food to your "real" stomach. End result? A mouthful of delicious (okay, not really) slime that looks a lot like saliva.

I sometimes get to the point where I'm sliming - you can either attempt to swallow it if you're out in public or driving, although the saliva has nowhere to go and you're going to continue sliming for a little while until your food can pass through your band stomach. If I'm at home or near a bathroom, I try to expel some of the saliva by spitting it out. When I spit it out, the food is also going through it's digestion through your band stomach...eventually the sliming stops and you're back to being all good!

JR, I have to disagree with you.

The mucus/Slime that we enjoy spitting up so much is NOT saliva. Saliva is produced in the mouth. Slime is produced by the esophagus.