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I've been trying to understand this, and I don't seem to quite get it. Why is it that we can't drink anything within 30 minutes before eating. I understand why we can't drink during and after eating, but it's the before that confuses me. Since Water just goes straight down the pipe, wouldn't it not be a worry to stretch the pouch if it's only before eating?

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For the same reasons you can't drink during and after Water fills you up. If you fill up with Water you won't receive the nutients you need from food.

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The way it was explained to me is that Water doesn't sit for too too long in you new stomach, but it does sit like anything else. You would get full off the liquid and not desire to eat your nutrients. I was also told that Water would help move food from the stomach into your intestines without a lengthy digestion stage in the stomach. I'm not a dr, so I just took the bariatric nurse's word on his, since I had the same question as you did.

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That always seemed contradictory to me.

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It's good to let food start digesting and let natural enzymes/stomach acids work in stomach before filling with Water.

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