NNicholas
Why you should not drink with meals
May 26, 2010
This is for RNYSimple explanation for most folks:
The reason for not drinking a half hour before your meal is so that there wont be water in your pouch and so that you will not get enough food in there, thus not get in all your required protein, etc.
The reason for waiting an hour after meals before drinking is to slow the passing of food to your intestines, keeping your pouch fuller longer. This also gives your brain time to process that you have eaten enough. Water with or right after a meal will wash the food through the pouch and you not only can eat more, but will be hungry, usually brain hungry, sooner.
Physics explanation for geeks:
After RNY, lacking a pyloric valve, there is no mechanism to slow or impede organic nutrients from passing the pouch, except for resistive friction. Water lubricates the pouch and thereby reduces the friction, allowing a rapid reduction in the duration of nutrient organic matter presence in the pseudo stomach, and resulting in an accelerated discharge through the stoma .
This is why, simply put:
I do not drink with my meals.
For RNY this is a valuable tool to success. Failure is not an option here.
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Oxford, MI
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