Do you wait 30mins after eating to drink Water? I'm so use to drinking after a meal.

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I think it depends on your surgery. I have heard some with sleeve say it is not as important but for bypass it is certainly extremely important. Even with sleeve, you don't want to drink with your meals (except for a rescue sip if needed) because it could take up too much space which you need to be concentrating on filling with Protein. I thought this would be one of the hardest rules and I do miss it a little but it is old habit now.

I was told that patients having sleeve surgery should not drink for 30 minutes pre and post meals. Apparently it pushes the food down too quickly and stops nutrients from being absorbed and also can cause the sleeve to stretch.

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With the band, sometimes I had to wait over an hour. Then again, I was often too tight. With the sleeve, 30 min. is one of the main rules as per my nurses/surgeon.

They often treat sleevers like by pass for no solid reason or research they can point to. Water DOES NOT make a sleeve empty like that famous You Tube applesauce clip....that's not how digestion works when you have working stomach with all its parts.

BUT....it takes up room and helps mush the food so you may have gastric emptying sooner than if you just down Protein, carbs and fat., or, you may not eat enough because you took up space with liquid.

Centers use the 30/30 rule or 30/45 typically. Research shows that ice cold water leaves an empty (full sized) stomach in 5 minutes, though.

For me....it's about nutrients, calories, scale and muscle vs fat loss...is all of that good?

I typically try to stop drinking 15 - 30 minutes before I eat and typically wait to drink for the 30 minutes...but I will have a sip or two when I eat if needed to help it down and I have started drinking if really thirsty a before the 30 min mark here and there. FOR ME...I am hitting 1100 calories at 17 weeks, my macro ratio is where I want it and I hit 100% Calcium from food (still take extra)...so for me, how _I_ am drinking water at this point is NOT impacting my nutrition or weight loss.

Did you know that cancer patients who have gatrectomies are told to limit fuild to 4 oz...not to abstain. Granted, their new stomach is probably bigger than ours (or varies)

5 weeks out just given eggs and flaky fish to eat no meat yet.. I was a huge drinker with eating but I can't. If I drink before or after to soon from eating I feel everything in my throat and get indigestion burping. So no drinking and eating for me except for one small sip after

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