Why eat slow?

I'm just curious what the point of eating slowly is? I do it. In fact I use a timer to ensure my meals take at least 30 minutes. But what happens if I were to eat faster? 

The feeling of satiety sometimes takes a while to reach our brains from our pouch.   If you eat too quickly, you may well overeat and then you will be in pain and probably vomit!

If you continue to overeat dense food, your stoma may stretch over time and then it just becomes an extension to your intestines - allowing you to eat vast volumes of food and regain weight ...

 I would add to that the following:

1. If you are anything like me, food reactions happen pretty quickly. In the beginning I ate one food at a time slowly so if I reacted to something I knew WHAT it was

2. Eating fast for me = recipe for getting food stuck. It takes 2 seconds to go down, upwards of an hour to come back up!

From what I have gathered in my nutrition class;
If you eat fast(er) or not as slowly; chances are you are not thoroughly chewing your food and thereby swallowing larger pieces which may get stuck. Also it takes awhile for you to recognize the signs of fullness so if you are eating quickly you may end up eating more than you really needed and will then be terribly uncomfortable for a while. I have heard that even one bite too many can cause a lot of discomfort.

Not trying to be a smarty pants, but try not chewing your food thoroughly and just gulp it down...let me know how that works for ya!
I honestly felt so good a few weeks ago and I ate a veggie grape leaf and I did not chew, chew, chew...I swear I thought that I was going to die! Not to mention the rice sweeled up in my pouch. I literally dumped my purse on the floor of the car while my hubby was driving, I was preparing to vomit into my beautiful Louis V! When you feel as bad as I did that day...nothing else matters!

Oh no! Not Louis! I wouldn't even do that to one of my knock offs! 

If I eat too fast I puke - I don't know why but it does NOT sit well for me.

It is important especially in the beginning to ensure you've chewed the food properly.

I did concentrate on slow eating for the first year.  Now, not so much.  I measure my food, eat it (I do chew well) and that is all I get.  If I'm still hungry I have to wait 20 minutes before I get more, and I rarely ever do.  I have always been a fast eater, and still am to this day.

If you eat too fast you may also suffer the symptoms of 'dumping syndrome'.

Eating slowly is good, but not for this reason. Dumping is a very specific bodily reaction to sugars ( and I hear fats ,although that doesn't make sense to me in regards to the insulin aspect). but eating a piece of chicken fast is not going to make you dump