Hi you all , I have been lurking around for a while. And this is my favorite place. But not sure where I belong 100 lb club, WLS , eating disorder, low carb.. I Have a question. I keep reading you can't drink for 30 or more min Before & after you eat with WLS .That it washes the food out of the stomach.
is this something that happens to everyone{Kids -Grandparents} all the time? Not just with WLS I ask because
my sister has always Not drank when eating and doesn't have a weight problem and I drink LOTS before during and after and well here I am...

I'm sorry -- I don't know the answer to your question, but we have a WLS specific forum here where your questions can be answered. http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=78

If you want to, you can post and belong to multiple forums. We have many members to post all across the boards. Just start posting everywhere, and you'll find the right place.

Typically thats what doctor want you to do with the lapband. By not drinking it keeps food in the pouch and that keeps you feeling fuller longer.

well, hi there tybee! it's nice to see you - and thanks Harpo for moving this thread.

in people who haven't had GASTRIC BYPASS, there are SOME people who say that ya shouldn't drink with your meals, but most people - professionals and such - don't buy into that.

ya see, there are lots of differences between people who've had gastric bypass and people with normal digestion. Three big ones are the fact that the stomach has some sort of grinding action to help break up the food, the shape of the stomach and the PYLORIC VALVE. in unsurgeried folks. that grinding action means that food doesn't have to be chewed to mush in order to be digested. the shape of the stomach allows food/liquid to be sort of 'stored' in the stomach, and the pyloric valve is a sort of 'meter' that gradually lets the food go into the intestines.

after the GASTRIC BYPASS or vertical gastrectomy [i think that's what it's called] [not the lapband, or duodenal switch], there's no more pyloric valve, and the stomach is about the size of a small-ish egg. the outlet to the intestines is the diameter of a nickel, so now ya gotta think of your food as a tube of toothpaste - a thick mush of well-chewed-up food pushing through a tiny whole. and THAT'S why we can't drink with meals!!!

for lapbanders, the process is sort of similar, but the difference is that there's a sort of pouch that's made at the top of the stomach, that acts like the bypass, as far as storing food and letting it into the system, but for lapbanders, the food goes from the pouch into the REST OF THE STOMACH, complete with pyloric valve.

did i confuse you even more???

It pinches a bit, kind of hurts me to drink a few mintues before and for about 20 minutes after I eat...like things are being pushed through. I had the hardest time adjusting to this particular request my surgeon asked of me, I too drank like a fish but I'm used to it now.

I think it does have some deiting usefulness, I do stay full longer.

Angela

Thank you all , The support on here in unbelievable !!! If I had grown up with this much help and support I probably wouldn't be here {and I have 7 brothers & 1 sister} LOL but then I wouldn't get to meet everyone. Again Thanks

I love it here too!

Angela