Why Am I Doing This?

[allik07 29]

Ok so I've had two episodes of gagging and wanting to throw up after I eat? Why? Is it the food I'm eating? Eating too fast?

I didn't actually up chuck but I almost did... Any thoughts???? Thanks

[Heathermarie0407 67]

Probably eating to fast, taking too big of a bite, or not chewing well enough. Or a combo of all three.

It's so hard relearning how to eat! Try to put you fork down between bites and really chew well.

[allik07 29]

Yes I haven't learned how to slow down my eating and am still in my old habits. But maybe after today lesson will be learned.

[Heathermarie0407 67]

So far for me eating slowly is the hardest part of being banded!

[2012 359]

Don't feel bad, I'm still having problems eating too fast too, I wasn't paying attention yesterday at work while I was eating 2 hard boiled eggs for Breakfast and had a slight stuck episode. Fortunately no one was in the bathroom and I was able to keep burping small burps and moving around to get it through, but it wasn't fun. I definitely paid attention to what I was doing after that and I've only had 1 fill.

There was a post I just saw last night and someone was talking about an interval timer that may help train us to eat slower, I'm going to look into it, hopefully I can find something that vibrates (can't have noise going off every minute at work ), but this may help. I eat fast and get it done and have always been that way, so it will definitely be an adjustment.