drinking with food - cereal loophole??

[soniacan 0]

Hi friends

So i got home late and was not in the mood for cooking so I grabbed one of my husbands Cereal containers. figured the raisen bran crunch w/ the skim milk would work for dinner.

here i am eating my Cereal and reading posts, when i feel like i am having more cereal than i normaly eat of real food. is the milk like drinking with food? i normally dont finish a 2.8 ounce container of tuna but the same ounces of cereal and milk which i didnt measure...

hmmm.....

[mbanja 1]

That is a good question. In theory I guess it would be a no no, because the reason you cant drink with meals is cause it pushes food faster thru the band making you able to eat more and feel hungry faster. So in essence the cereal is not hanging around in your small pouch, just flowing thru to your larger pouch. But, I know alot of people on here eat cereal for b'fast. I just recently read that Kashi has made a high protien cereal that people on here are eating.

[Daisalana 33]

I eat cereal occasionally, and I put the smallest amount of Skim Milk to just moisten the cereal. I don't have liquid remaining when I finish the cereal. Cheerios keep me full a lot longer than yogurt does, so I'm not sure if it's the content or the fact it 'drains out' slower.

[anonemouse 1]

I have problems when I eat cereal with milk. For some reason, my body interprets it as drinking with food, so it almost makes me PB.

[Jachut 487]

Yes, I find cereal quite difficult to eat (very much a go slow food) and it fills me up incredibly. Its actually a great thing for me to eat - I have it most days for Breakfast becuase it sticks with me till lunch and keeps me full.

I do not at all find that I eat too much of it or it drains through but I've always found that liquids makign food go through faster thing to be completely untrue for me.

[Ambrosia 1]

I have no problem at all eating cereal with skim milk. I can't eat it in the morning however but I usually have it for dinner 2 - 3 times a week. For some reason, the food/liquid combination with cereal doesn't bother me. I love the multigrain cheerios. Yum!

[Daisalana 33]

If I drink when I eat, it's almost an instant PB.. but the milk in cereal doesn't have that effect on me.