Just exactly how much Fluid is taken in a sip?!?!? sounds like a stupid question. I know how to drink and gulp!! LOL

Lol.....i said the same thing. U sip on wine not everything else...lol but this prevents you from stretching your pouch. It gets easier as time goes by....

A sip. Annoying, isn't it!? As a water-lover, I initially felt "why bother. How do you 'sip' water?? I want to drink it!!" But...it gets better. Now I can do relatively good chugs of water/liquids; ~ 3-4 ozs, wait a bit, then another 3-4 ozs more. Hang in there!!!

I would think of it as about a tablespoon - or one swallow. Hang in - it gets easier! You will gulp again! But wait a few weeks...

Yep....about a tablespoon - just enough to say I did.

My NUT (nutritionist ) says take the cap off a water bottle and fill it... That's what she calls a SIP. seriously I don't know how as I just did yard work and chugged 20 oz of water down. It's gonna be hard.

That has been the hardest thing for me too. Sip, heck I could chug a bottle of water last week. Lol.

Think about how you would drink a glass of wine.... that is a sip.

My NUT (nutritionist ) says take the cap off a water bottle and fill it... That's what she calls a SIP. seriously I don't know how as I just did yard work and chugged 20 oz of water down. It's gonna be hard.

I agree with you! I love chugging water. Oh boy!

At one of my pre-op classes, the NUT gave us a medicine cup, you know the kind that comes with a bottle of kids cold medicine or liquid tylenol? She said we could use that and probably get 3-4 sips out of that. I just finished all my pre-op stuff yesterday and I have to say I'm beginning to hate the phrase "sip, sip, sip, chew, chew, chew" lol

My sister who also had this surgery a few years ago gave me a great tip - she told me to buy a baby sippy cup and start sipping out of it to learn how to "sip" water instead of drinking or gulping it. I've been trying it for the past few days and it isn't easy - you basically have to sip all day to not feel thirsty. But everyone says it will get easier so I hope they're right!!! Good luck!! ????

I am having a very hard time with the sipping fluid thing .between sipping the water ,lly chewing the food and me takinng lovanox can some one tell me does this get better ?????????? and im just a little over a month out of surgery.