Even though I'm still on liquids, I'm already really aware of how I have to change my habits -- not just eating, but drinking!

Every time I take a drink from my Water bottle, I almost completely fill my mouth. I then realize that if I swallow it all, it won't stay south for very long. So I have to swallow very slowly. Invariably, that's exactly when one of my kids asks me a question. It takes minutes -- nay, hours -- for me to divide that one gulp into about 12 tiny sips.

Just one of those things I will have to learn -- take small sips....or at least smaller gulps!

Blue

It's always a good idea to slow your drinking - not guliping - but maybe you're having difficulties now because you're still swollen from surgery.

I'm about 14 weeks out with 6 cc's in my 11 cc band, and can gulp like crazy. I try not to, and I'm working on changing my habit, but I've never had a problem with liquids going down except the first few days after surgery when I was still swollen.

I suspect that is largely because you're only 3 days post op and your stomach is very swollen. Once you're fully healed, drinking shouldn't be an issue. I gulp water all the time without issue.

Oh, I don't have a problem...Just trying to change a habit. Spend most of my time, while I'm drinking, looking like a chipmunk with nuts in both cheeks! LOL

It's that moment between gulping it into my mouth and swallowing it that can take forever! LOL