Hi Everyone !

I'm new to this forum, and this is my first post. I have done a lot of reading here as I prepare for my surgery (scheduled for Nov). I'm not sure if this should be posted in the food forum or the excersize forum .. but here goes...

I have a really stupid question:

I know you're only supposed to have small amounts of liquid (or anything for that matter) - but what happens when you're excersizing and REALLY thirsty ? Can you 'gulp' down a 24 oz bottle of Water ? How do you keep from being dehydrated ?

I think that is a great question,I have been wondering that myself. I just got my first fill and I go to the gym every other day or so I try too. Now I am paranoid about the water, I tend to go through a lot of water while I am working out??? I need to cal my nutricianist today, I'll se what she says and get back to ya'

I have problems 'gulping' anything but i can take long 'smooth' swallows as long as there is nothing sitting at the bottom of the drain, so to speak.

Hope this helps

Thanks for the replies.

So, you can have an entire bottle of Water (24 oz) as long as you drink it slowly ? I was under the impression that you could only have small amounts of liquid at a time.

yes, just make sure you drink slowly or you can stretch the pouch.

Thanks Derick! And WOW! congrats the your results!!

Thank you I have been fighting the good fight since shortly after I got out of High School. I only recently got the band because I was starting to slip back upwards in a bad way.

Thanks to the band I have reversed that trend!!!

During the 1st few weeks I could only sip also. When my pouch is empty I can chug about 8oz. of water. I was so thirsty last night I almost forgot about the band and stopped myself at around 1/2 bottle, waited a minute and continuted to dring the rest of my 20 oz bottle. No real problems. (I have 2cc in a 4cc band)

Now remember solids are way differentthan liquids. If I take too big a bite and don't chew, watch out for major sliming and it feels like someone is sitting on my chest. This pain has stayed as long as 15 minutes until it all finally went thru to my pouch.

I usually drink a 32 ounce bottle of water while I am on my treadmill. I am on anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour.

The way I understand it is that if there is nothing in the pouch, then liquid will go straight through into the stomach. I think the problem comes when you have food in your pouch and then drink lots of liquid it could potentially stretch the pouch out. I think that is some of the idea behind the waiting to drink after you eat too, not only to keep the food in the pouch and feel full longer, but to decrease the chances of stretching out the pouch.

exactly, I was just to lazy to post that much. I am NOT a morning person

I actually asked my doctor if drinking water fast matters. and i was happy with the response i received. It does not matter how fast you drink as long as you wait before and after eating. I asked if it would stretch my pouch to drink fast, and he said water goes right through it so it does not matter

You may not be able gulp it down but you can definitely drink it down slowly.

Thanks for the replies.

So, you can have an entire bottle of Water (24 oz) as long as you drink it slowly ? I was under the impression that you could only have small amounts of liquid at a time.

If you drink it over about 5 minutes you'll be fine.

yes, just make sure you drink slowly or you can stretch the pouch.

If you have food in there that would be true but with an empty pouch it will be fine.

If I haven't eaten, I can guzzle water infinitely. Goes right through! So during a workout, you should not have a problem drinking as much water as you want as long as you didn't just eat..

I don't typically drink around when I eat, but the other night after eating a sandwhich (about 20m) I drank some water and it all got stuck and came back up. So if there's food in there, like they said, don't drink!