I was reading if u eat fast your pouch gets full quicker and u feel full faster but I was always told eat slow? Eating faster makes sense having a pouch but then again eating slow gives you time to feel full? Any advice on that?

You need to be able to get your nutrition in which is why they say usually take 20-30 minutes to eat. You want to be able to chew, chew, chew so you do not have large chunks going down. If you eat fast or not chew well, you can get stuck, end up with the PB's (productive burps), throw up, and the one I think I hate the most is where your mouth feels like you have a hose filling it up with fluid until you get unstuck (sliming). Getting things stuck is not pleasant, it is a fact of the band when your not paying attention. You want to take it slow with foods as well, because something might agree with you one day then it might not another. It can also vary with each fill that you get and it can cause you to have the above symptoms. Things like weather, stress, water retention etc can also affect the tightness of the band.

Honestly it will most likely be trial and error when you first start. At hardly any restriction it might not cause you any problems but when you get filled and start to feel a restriction then is where most of this stuff can happen.

If you eat too fast you risk PB'ing. You need to eat slow and chew well. Think of it like a funnel... the faster you pour water into a funnel the higher risk of it overflowing. Pour it slow and it will all go down eventually.

I was reading if u eat fast your pouch gets full quicker and u feel full faster but I was always told eat slow? Eating faster makes sense having a pouch but then again eating slow gives you time to feel full? Any advice on that?

if you eat slower you give the food the time it needs to go down the esophagus into the pouch before swallowing more. Plus the fact that the slower you eat the more you chew. the pouch needs time to accomodate the food you are eating, its not like the old stomach was. Believe me, you will know when the pouch is full. lol. If you insist on eating quickly you will get numerous problems, one of them that you will get ''stuck'' which is not a pleasant experience. Eating quickly is one of the bad habits that we need to drop, and this is what having the band is all about. re educating how we eat.

So, I read that our pouches will only hold 3 tablespoons of food comfortably. Any more than that and you will feel discomfort. I also read that it takes about 1 minute for one bite to pass through the band into our lower stomach. If you hurry and eat fast, you're going to plug up the dam and be in a world of hurt until you can pass all that food you shoveled down your piehole. The pouch will only hold 3 tablespoons and if you hurry and eat a 6 oz slab of salmon, you've overloaded the pouch and you will pay for it.

There's also studies that show how food gently pushing against the top of our pouch combined with the pulsations as the stomach massages food through the band, will eventually send a signal to our brain that we've eaten enough and we're now satisfied. That's why we eat slow. Unfortunately for most of us, pre surgery, those signals were slow or weak to the brain.

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So, I read that our pouches will only hold 3 tablespoons of food comfortably. Any more than that and you will feel discomfort. I also read that it takes about 1 minute for one bite to pass through the band into our lower stomach. If you hurry and eat fast, you're going to plug up the dam and be in a world of hurt until you can pass all that food you shoveled down your piehole. The pouch will only hold 3 tablespoons and if you hurry and eat a 6 oz slab of salmon, you've overloaded the pouch and you will pay for it.

There's also studies that show how food gently pushing against the top of our pouch combined with the pulsations as the stomach massages food through the band, will eventually send a signal to our brain that we've eaten enough and we're now satisfied. That's why we eat slow. Unfortunately for most of us, pre surgery, those signals were slow or weak to the brain.

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this is interesting. i did wonder how long it would take for the pouch to empty into the big stomach. it makes a lot of sense.

So many things about the band and what they tell us do not make sense. E.G certain foods such as white bread or rice being a problem because they swell and cause discomfort in the stoma. It takes a while for them to swell so if the food really does pass through as quickly as they are now telling us then the swelling should occur when the food is in your main stomach and this should not cause discomfort.

I just get really frustrated with the lack of clarity and facts about the how, when and wherefore of the band!

So many things about the band and what they tell us do not make sense. E.G certain foods such as white bread or rice being a problem because they swell and cause discomfort in the stoma. It takes a while for them to swell so if the food really does pass through as quickly as they are now telling us then the swelling should occur when the food is in your main stomach and this should not cause discomfort.

I just get really frustrated with the lack of clarity and facts about the how, when and wherefore of the band!

i agree. i think its trial and error most of the time. i find that i can have an egg with a small half section of toasted wholemeal bread, if i take very small bites and chew well. other than that, i cant eat bread really. i havent discussed this with my dr. i know know what his opinion is on it all. i must say that i feel '' full'' after eating that half slice though. that with an egg keeps me goign all morning.

i agree. i think its trial and error most of the time. i find that i can have an egg with a small half section of toasted wholemeal bread, if i take very small bites and chew well. other than that, i cant eat bread really. i havent discussed this with my dr. i know know what his opinion is on it all. i must say that i feel '' full'' after eating that half slice though. that with an egg keeps me goign all morning.

typo ... that should read...'' i dont know what my dr's opinion on it is...''

typo ... that should read...'' i dont know what my dr's opinion on it is...''

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