Fluid Intake

[mindiv 0]

Before surgery I would drink a gallon of Water a day now I can barely get 6 cups fulls down. How do you get all your fluids down with taking small sips? ANy pointers would be helpful!

[LeighaMason 19]

Did you just get your band? If so the drinking Water thing will get easier. I guess you just have to get use to the feeling. 6 cups is good. I just try and carry a bottle of water around where ever I go and sip, sip sip.......

[LeighaMason 19]

oh, I forgot to add that it is easier if I mix in the little crystal light on the go drink mixes.

[ElfiePoo 109]

Before surgery I would drink a gallon of Water a day now I can barely get 6 cups fulls down. How do you get all your fluids down with taking small sips? ANy pointers would be helpful!

Same here. Before surgery I drank so much Water I sometimes sloshed when I walked. No joke. After surgery, it was a battle just to drink any water...and not because I felt too full, but because I wasn't thirsty and didn't remember. I have 7.5cc in my band and can still gulp down water without any restriction so that's not an issue.

I carry around an 18 oz water bottle filled with crystal lite. My favorite flavor is cherry pomegranet or the green tea & honey. I find if the water is flavored, I'll sip from it more.

[shadst8 8]

I had to make it a regiment and it has gotten easier as other posters said as the days since the surgery has progressed--I have to be at work at 7am and have a 30 min commute. As as I wake up, I begin sipping so by 7:00 I am finish a 20oz bottle--I then eat my Breakfast at work around 8:00am--about 30-45 min I begin sipping on another bottle to be finished by that by 10:00 in case I want to eat a snack. I then sip some more until 45 min to my lunch--I then sip so more. Now because I work as an assistant principal, my day does not always flow like that:biggrin:--so I grab that bottle wherever I go. If that happens I drink alot more after-school and on the way home and later that evening especially if "head hunger" happens.

[homewith2 0]

I drink just as normal as I did before. I don't have to take sips. I have 7cc in my band and I think I'm at my sweet spot already! :-)