Why no liquids with food? I forgot. I'm only on purées but it seems like it all works better with liquid. I'd never get my Water in if I took 3 hours out of the day for eating!

When I used to do holistic stuff the reasoning was that liquids dilute the digestive enzymes. I fact I took digestive enzyme supplements. I've never heard anyone taking them apres surgery. Would that be a bad or good idea?

As far as I recall its because liquids fill your stomach when you need to be getting the protein and nutrients first with food.

Sleevers have to stop drinking 30 minutes before eating and can resume drinking 30 minutes after eating. There are a couple of reasons. 1. The liquid may push the food out of your stomach, enabling you to over eat and consume too many calories leading to weight regain. 2. If you do not wait 30 minutes after drinking, your stomach may be full of liquid then there is no room for food. Different doctors have different guidelines. Some only say to wait 15 minutes. Personally I have to wait 45 minutes to resume drinking. I feel miserable if I drink too soon.

Edited December 1, 201510 yr by cindi gant

Sleevers have to stop drinking 30 minutes before eating and can resume drinking 30 minutes after eating. There are a couple of reasons. 1. The liquid may push the food out of your stomach, enabling you to over eat and consume too many calories leading to weight regain. 2. If you do not wait 30 minutes after drinking, your stomach may be full of liquid then there is no room for food. Different doctors have different guidelines. Some only say to wait 15 minutes. Personally I have to wait 45 minutes to resume drinking. I feel miserable if I drink too soon.

Follow your surgeon's plan, but these instructions are more for bypass than for sleeve. Sleever's have an intact pylori a so we don't have to worry about "washing" food out of our stomach like bypass folks do. I was advised to drink right up until the time I eat. I tend to wait a bit after so eat just because I don't have room and it's uncomfortable.

I was told that for bypass it pushes the food through your pouch too fast and for sleeve the liquid fills up your area too fast and also stretches your pouch :/ I wouldn't do it unless ur completely chocking and even then you probably aren't taking small enough bites and chewing enough this is really a practice even people without the wls should implement my whole family is doing this with me

There are multiple reasons to not drink around eating.

Drinking immediately BEFORE eating can make you feel full and you might not eat enough. This one is really only an issue very early on. Even in my earliest days I was allowed to drink right up until 5 minutes before eating. Now I will drink right up until my first bite. Liquids pass through the stomach so quickly, the chances of anything sitting in there long enough to deter you from eating are slim.

Drinking WHILE eating allows food to wash through your stomach more easily and quickly, essentially bypassing the restriction, which was the whole reason you got sleeved in the first place right? You should notice pretty early on that soft, liquidy foods like Soup and chili go down WAY easier than dryer, tougher foods. Basically, by drinking and eating at the same time, you are turning ALL of your foods into those soft, liquidy foods, making it easier to eat much more than you should.

Drinkng AFTER eating will cause you to feel unpleasantly full. Once your stomach is already full of food, putting in liquid on top of that will just make you painfully uncomfortable for a while. I find that if I eat until full, I usually have to wait a good 40 minutes or so to be able to drink comfortably afterward. If I just have a small snack that doesn't actually fill me up, I can usually drink a little sooner.

"Drinking WHILE eating allows food to wash through your stomach more easily and quickly, essentially bypassing the restriction, which was the whole reason you got sleeved in the first place right?"

I have found this to be true for me. If I drink during or immediately after eating, the restriction is much less and I can eat more food. It has been a discipline thing for me to not drink during or right after so that I stay full.

I was told that for bypass it pushes the food through your pouch too fast and for sleeve the liquid fills up your area too fast and also stretches your pouch :/ I wouldn't do it unless ur completely chocking and even then you probably aren't taking small enough bites and chewing enough this is really a practice even people without the wls should implement my whole family is doing this with me

That's true . I think if some of us had followed simple rules like this, we may not have needed the surgery to beg with, I know I don't think I would have.

I also think it's a great idea to have the rest of the family follow some of our rules too, especially if they are or are prone to gaining weight.

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