More wrong guidance? Calling all Vets!
I'm not a DS, exactly. Same intestinal arrangements and dimensions, but I have a pouch.
I figure us at absorbing only 10% fats, oils, food protein
eating and drinking together for me can quadruple the volume I can eat, which is not necessarily a good thing. That's different for a DS than for me.
Straws are personal preference. They don't bother my pouch, but I feel the bubbles all the way down the tubes. Not painful, just distracting and sometimes noisy.
Ditto soda. Stick with diet for your wt loss/maintenance, keep the brown ones to a minimum (kidney stones). If you don't care, don't bother. I pretty much stick with fountain drinks. More flavor, less bubbles to feel for the next hour. LOL
THREE HOURS? Seriously? I'd only do that if you made it not possible for me to eat every 2 hrs or so. Most "diets" today prefer the lots of small meals (space between, not grazing) over the 3 larger meals. Not sure what they're thinking, but that doesn't apply to an RNY pouch either. No way a rookie can eat enough "fuel" to hold 'em 3 hrs. I pretty much alternate food/protein drink all day. 6 meals, 6 protein drinks. during the time of my illness (not related to my WLS or type of WLS), make that 8 meals, defining a meal as half a sandwich or some fruit or an artichoke (can't enough of those right now) or an actual meal with courses.
I don't like the word snack. It implies some kinda illegal eating to my aging diet-trained brain. I think of the food as my "feedings". As I said, it might be some cheese and crackers in the car on a long boring drive, or fast food, or actually cutting up the crackers, cheese fruit and putting them on the passenger seat so I can eat with one hand without having to look and select - that'd be more meal-like to me. The protein drinks are roughly 4-6 oz unless I mixed it with coffee, then bigger, cuz it's so tasty. I do not consider a protein drink either meal or snack - it's a beverage to me.
So, while I'm a hybrid, hopefully I qualified the answers so they are of use to you.
I figure us at absorbing only 10% fats, oils, food protein
eating and drinking together for me can quadruple the volume I can eat, which is not necessarily a good thing. That's different for a DS than for me.
Straws are personal preference. They don't bother my pouch, but I feel the bubbles all the way down the tubes. Not painful, just distracting and sometimes noisy.
Ditto soda. Stick with diet for your wt loss/maintenance, keep the brown ones to a minimum (kidney stones). If you don't care, don't bother. I pretty much stick with fountain drinks. More flavor, less bubbles to feel for the next hour. LOL
THREE HOURS? Seriously? I'd only do that if you made it not possible for me to eat every 2 hrs or so. Most "diets" today prefer the lots of small meals (space between, not grazing) over the 3 larger meals. Not sure what they're thinking, but that doesn't apply to an RNY pouch either. No way a rookie can eat enough "fuel" to hold 'em 3 hrs. I pretty much alternate food/protein drink all day. 6 meals, 6 protein drinks. during the time of my illness (not related to my WLS or type of WLS), make that 8 meals, defining a meal as half a sandwich or some fruit or an artichoke (can't enough of those right now) or an actual meal with courses.
I don't like the word snack. It implies some kinda illegal eating to my aging diet-trained brain. I think of the food as my "feedings". As I said, it might be some cheese and crackers in the car on a long boring drive, or fast food, or actually cutting up the crackers, cheese fruit and putting them on the passenger seat so I can eat with one hand without having to look and select - that'd be more meal-like to me. The protein drinks are roughly 4-6 oz unless I mixed it with coffee, then bigger, cuz it's so tasty. I do not consider a protein drink either meal or snack - it's a beverage to me.
So, while I'm a hybrid, hopefully I qualified the answers so they are of use to you.
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
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