CHEWING FOOD AND SPITTING IT OUT!

[No game 14,436]

Not good, not good at all.... Please people don't do it, and please stop suggesting for other people to do it.

First, this behavior is the first steps of bulemia and getting into the habit of chewing food and spitting it out can lead to a very serious eating disorder. After WLS we are already dealing with changing the way we relate to food, so we want to instill good habits all along the way and avoid the bad ones as much as possible.

Second, there's a biological reason not to do this too. When you smell food and when it enters your mouth and you begin to chew, the body goes into Prep Mode to receive food. Your salivary glands produce saliva, your pancreas produces insulin, your liver produces gastric acid and your brain begins to calculate how much nutrition you're about to receive from the food you eat so it can keep track of it's daily needs/calories --- the body is a well tuned machine and it knows how to deal with food when it knows it's coming. But then you spit out the food. Your body still has excess saliva, insulin, gastric acid and it can't figure out why it didn't get the nutrition it thought it was going to get so the brain accountants go nuts.

Excess insulin in your body causes your appetite to increase so you'll eat more food to soak up all that extra hormone. Excess gastric acid in the stomach -- now released at the Y of your common channel -- can cause indigestion or heartburn or ulcers. And those brain accountants are now doing some creative math to recalculate the nutritional value of food because it thought it was going to get a certain number of calories, but none came, so next time you try to eat that same food the brain thinks you need twice as much to get the same nutrition as it thought it should have gotten last time.

So not only is the whole "chew and spit" habit a training ground for bulemia, it's also a way to tease your body into thinking it's getting food when it really isn't. Bulemia is a very serious illness and not something you want to play around with.

From the unknown sleever.

[No game 14,436]

Nothing? The unicorn is feeling ignored.

[AshleySkinnyer 7]

I agree whole heartedly. And know this post either has or will help someone a lot

[jmonique78 54]

I think your post is spot on. I don't think a lot of people u set stand the harm that can do sleeve or not and some don't understand how digestion works etc. great post I love reading on these boards to

Get me prepared!

[No game 14,436]

Thank you guys! It just really concerns me because this last week alone on several different threads people have giving this as a suggested thing to do when you have "cravings".

I feel strongly about putting dangerous information out there for people in the research stage or early stages after surgery.

[jmonique78 54]

Good god was I drunk responding! Sorry for all

The typos!!!

[No game 14,436]

Good god was I drunk responding! Sorry for all

The typos!!!

Lol it's ok I do it all the time!

Hint you can go back and edit your post

( I usually have to edit at least once per post)

You just click on your post again and it will give you the edit option.

[gmanbat 5,889]

Gman's wing man:

I must confess I did a bit of chewing and spitting but moved right into very small tasting and licking. My uncle used to gag me when he spit his tobaccy juice into a jar....reminded me of that.

[Vixynne 695]

The reflex to swallow is hard-wired into us; I can only imagine the panic that would set in if I tried this tactic on a food I shouldn't eat (say, a nice cut of steak during the mushy-food stage) and accidentally swallowed it. And then panic would be followed by pain and horking. No thanks!

[No game 14,436]

Gman's wing man:

I must confess I did a bit of chewing and spitting but moved right into very small tasting and licking. My uncle used to gag me when he spit his tobaccy juice into a jar....reminded me of that.

I must say that I have made I million "mistakes"

On this "journey".

I am flawed and have a problem with food (still)

I just have a hard time people being told that

Chewing and spitting is a viable option.

[Nicolanz 1,484]

I have to admit I did this one time while on liquids. Afterwards I thought what the hell??? That's disgusting! Not good!

[LipstickLady 25,682]

I would have answered earlier but my mouth was full. I spit it all out and all is well now. :ph34r:

[No game 14,436]

If you guys ever came over here and tried my cooking, I'm sure there would be a lot if chewing and spitting out

[jmonique78 54]

I think your post is spot on. I don't think a lot of people understand the harm they can do sleeve or not and some don't understand how digestion works etc. great post I love reading on these boards to

Get me prepared!

[No game 14,436]

Nice edit!!