Why No Drinking 30 Minutes Before or After Eating?

[Asdf12345 12]

What is the logic behind not drinking 30 minutes before or after a meal?

[Zane's Mom 184]

This is to make sure you are eating your food and not passing it through your sleeve easily along with the fluids. liquid makes it slide through quicker and you will eat more.

You will feel full more accurately because only solid food is present.

Lesson learned here about drinking too soon after a full meal, and it all came back up.

Others who are farther out will probably add more insight.

[par1959 470]

Drinking before a meal is no longer valid. If you dont understand drinking after a meal try it. You'll only do it once. Drinking after a meal has a different result for each surgery, but in the case of the sleeve a big gulp after eating has no place to go but back up. Some will also say that it washes down your solid food, which seems to be more in tune with the lap band.

[Pugmadkate 61]

Drinking before a meal is fine. I am finding that I need to wait 45 minutes after a meal to drink Water again, which is fine.

In very basic terms, you have a valve in the bottom of your stomach that shuts when it senses dense Protein. It's called the pyloric valve. You want what you eat to stay in your stomach for awhile to help digest and help with feeling full for longer. Once you start drinking Water, that valve can open and "wash away" what you just ate. If your food has not digested long enough, that can start a painful process plus you won't feel full for very long.

[Bob2013 326]

7 months out and I still avoid drinking at least 15 minutes before a meal. While liquids move through the stomach fast, it still takes a bit of time. If you eat too soon after drinking it has the same effect as drinking too soon after eating. If dilutes the food allowing it to pass through the stomach too quickly.

[mc1502 18]

I figured it had something to do with it washing down the food that was eaten. I find it hard to not drink while I'm eating, but I have noticed that if I drink nothing i will eat much less than if i do drink.

Thanks for the info guys.

Edited July 22, 2014 by mc1502