Drinking while eating or right after

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 7/17/12 11:25 pm - OH

As someone else already said, nutrients are all absorbed in the intestine, not in the stomach, so drinking with meals does not affect that. It does, however, make you hungry sooner and, more importantly IMO, enables you to overeat since you wash some of what you had eaten down and then don't feel full so you might keep eating. Drinking with meals is one of the things that is common to MANY people *****gain becasue both of those things can lead to eating too much food.

Lora

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poet_kelly
on 7/17/12 11:48 pm - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Since you don't absorb things in your pouch but in your small intestine, drinking with meals has nothing to do with absorption. What it does, though, is make you get hungry sooner.

Kelly

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hedrider
on 7/18/12 12:45 am - Midlothian, TX

RNY on 03/29/10

You still absorb everything you put in your body if you drink during/after eating. You are just able to eat more/more often.

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H.A.L.A B.
on 7/18/12 4:11 am

RNY on 05/14/08

I only drink with meal when i can't eat enough and need to eat more.
Drinking while eating - allows a person with our anatomy to eat more.
(That was good when I had hernia and twisted intestine - I needed to make sure the food was liquid - anything more dense - would get stuck in the twisted section and really-really hurt - so for me to be able to eat - I had to drink during. And I still could not eat too much. )

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MyLady Heidi
on 7/18/12 5:49 am

I have always sipped water with my meals right from the start. If you can drink a protein drink why do you have to suffer with bone dry chicken. Seemed stupid to me. I am perfectly healthy at goal for 7+ years so it works for me.

Frances S.
on 7/18/12 6:11 am - Crystal Falls, MI

RNY on 12/07/09

I don't drink with my meals, but I also won't eat bone-dry chicken ;). There is a happy medium in there.

I choose to not drink with my meals because I also worry that the added pressure of fluids on top of food could push food through the stoma prematurely and cause the stoma to stretch. Also, I think sips for moisture is a lot different than actual drinking.

Larry Wassmann
on 7/18/12 6:39 am - Lacey, WA

RNY on 05/09/12

I would not even try to eat bone dry chicken. There are a lot of things you can do with chicken that does not make it bone dry. A chicken breast would not work for me at all. Maybe when I am years out I will drink with my meals, but now I try my best to do what my surgeory team tells me to do. I think they are smarter than I am, but others may not be as stupid as I am.