Pyloric Valve Info - Lots of it - FOR NEWBIES & LURKERS
On July 14, 2011 at 11:02 AM Pacific Time, MsBatt wrote:
...seems to be a widely held belief amongst VSGers that avoiding liquids with meals will help keep you full longer.This IS true, but not for the reason many people seem to think. It doesn't keep you full longer because the liquid 'dilutes' your food, or washes it through your stomach faster (as would be the case with the RNY), but because the liquid takes up space in your sleeve that you would otherwise be filling up with FOOD.
"Drinking won't "wash" your food through quicker with your pylorous intact."
I don't think that true... I found pre-op that drinking with my meals would let me eat more. I wasn't washing things through like you can with a stoma, but the food gets mushier faster so the pylorus valve opens up sooner, just like yogurt goes through us faster than chicken.
In fact, my son -- who is underweight - always gives his dad a hard time about drinking water with a meal. He tells him the only reason to do that is to fit more food in.
For me, I am not as religious about not drinking 45-60 min. after eating any more because I don't seem to need to be, especially this time of year when I'm doing hard training and struggling to eat enough. But I do find that drinking with my meals is problematic and drinking immediately after my meals is too. It actually HURTS to do this if I'm not careful. I'm almost 3 years out so it's not a newbie-only thing.
I don't think that true... I found pre-op that drinking with my meals would let me eat more. I wasn't washing things through like you can with a stoma, but the food gets mushier faster so the pylorus valve opens up sooner, just like yogurt goes through us faster than chicken.
In fact, my son -- who is underweight - always gives his dad a hard time about drinking water with a meal. He tells him the only reason to do that is to fit more food in.
For me, I am not as religious about not drinking 45-60 min. after eating any more because I don't seem to need to be, especially this time of year when I'm doing hard training and struggling to eat enough. But I do find that drinking with my meals is problematic and drinking immediately after my meals is too. It actually HURTS to do this if I'm not careful. I'm almost 3 years out so it's not a newbie-only thing.
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