So here's a novel idea I've been mulling around..... In the beginning we are told to chew chew chew our food. I get this. Our tummies are swollen, our staple line is healing, and we really want to try and slow down our eating and not fill our poor little tummies with big chunks that could cause complications.

But what about 1+ years out? Our tummies are healed, our restriction is probably lessened and yet we chew chew chew. Seems to me all this chewing actually allows the food to be digested and pass into the intestines faster. Kind of like how drinking with meals flushes the food out faster and we feel hungry sooner. So wouldn't NOT chewing be beneficial at this point? Fill our sleeves with bigger chunks of food which will take up more room, take longer to digest, and actually make us feel full longer.

Hmmmm, Just some "food" for thought......(heehee I crack myself up)

Looks like we just threw this rule out with the whole straw thing.....

Except in the case of strictures, of course.

We should start a WLS Mythbusters show.

The first person I'd like to call out on the carpet was my last NUT.

She spent all this time telling my class how much she understood us......because she was one of us....a former wls patient, too. She gives all the same textbook answers each and every time in classes an on our private fb page. Same answers....same "myths" all the time.

Her advice is hard to take for me.....for two reasons: 1) it never varies or is customized to the individual or their limitations or history 2) she must not be adhering to her own advice because she either never reached her goal......or has had significant regain.

1) It seriously slows down your eating.

2) It ensures the food is properly masticated and will go down easier.

1) It seriously slows down your eating.

2) It ensures the food is properly masticated and will go down easier.

Both of those points were valid and important in those first 12-18 months, but....

1) I'm 2 1/2 years out and know exactly how much food I need to eat to feel satisfied, but not full, so what difference does it make if I eat it in 5 min vs 20 min?

2) my anatomy/tolerance is such that a golf ball would go down just as easily as a couple tablespoons of Soup.

I am preop, scheduled for 7/28 (I just love saying that!). When they first told me about the chewing and they told me to go ahead and start practice that. I am typically a slow eater and the last to finish when we go out, and I discovered I was already chewing even more than they said.

My question is, if you are not taking long to eat, how do you handle finishing first when you are with a group of people? Are you left to twiddle your thumbs while everyone else is eating? Are you tempted to continue to nibble on your plate?

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