So why is it that your not susposed to drink 30min before or after eating? Or even as your eating? Does it " flush you out"? Or is it because of absorbing nutrients and filling up too fast??

Thanx Carrie

Getting sleeves in the new year!

Both I believe. Oh there is a video that I think OTR sleever posted. I can't remember who posted it now... but it's a video that shows putting applesauce in a strainer on top of a bowl. That's the food in your belly. So imagine how the applesauce slowly glugs glugs out of the strainer into the bowl below. Your body needs that glug to indicate fullness and to absorb the nutrients. If you add Water to the strainer, then the applesauce and the water rush through.... food "slides" through you more easily. At least that's the way my brain understood it. I'm sure someone will correct me on how wrong I am my apologies, it's just been that sort of day for me today ....

I'm going to try to find that video now....

Pain.

Like 4A said it's both. You don't want to fill up with fluids before and you don't want force the food you ate thru to fast and like Joseph said it will cause you pain if you fill up your new stomach too much, or cause you to throw up.

Thanx for the info everybody.. I can't wait to get my sleeve

Almost all of the absorption of nutrients takes place in the small intestines. The stomach is merely the device to break the food down to make absorption easier. But drinking too soon after meals will force food into the small intestines too soon, making absorption more difficult. Plus, you will not feel full as long. In a normal stomach this is not a problem, but the sleeve is much, much smaller than a normal stomach.

This is also why chewing is so important.