Not drinking with meals hard? how faithful are u?

So I seem to be doing pretty well with not drinking water or anything with my meals and 1/2 hour before....but sometimes I'm so thirsty after I eat, it's hard to wait the thirty min... I try rinsing my mouth out, sometimes works.  I guess my concerns would be stretching out pouchie and of course food getting dumped too fast. Is it something like a year out or more that u can drink a little after or is it never with a capital N!!! LOL!!!

I am having a very hard time not drinking water before, during and after meals.  I can't seem to stop drinking the water.  I find it hard not to get all my water in if I don't drink with meals.  I have broke thos rule and I am wondering if it is doing damage.

I do pretty well, but I do always have enough water to swallow vitamins with my meal - usually one or two swallows. I am very good about not drinking after I eat and I am pretty good about not drinking before hand or if I must, then water-loading

It doesn't stretch out the pouch but early on it often makes you vomit. Also it washes the food (edit) from your pouch faster so you don't stay full as long. That becomes a problem when you are farther out and can eat more at a time. If you drink when you eat you eat more through the day often times.

Sometimes if somethinng feels stuck I take a few sips.  It was hard and I used to cheat alot in the beginning.  I am now to the point where (like Jenny said) I can eat more and I am scared to drink and wash things through.

Not drinking = staying FULL. 

I remind myself of that.  Drinking 1st is a good idea.  They never told me not to so I have a full glass of water or crystal light  before eating most of the time.

 I practiced this before the surgery and I will forever be thankful that I did because now I am in the routine of not drinking with my meals.  However, sometimes at the end of a meal I will have a few sips to wash the taste of the food out of my mouth.  

This was a biggie for me pre-op. I remember eating dinner with my mom at a restaurant and telling her - I don't think I could ever have the surgery and not drink with my meals. (As I gulped down a big ol' glass of Diet Coke!) And I have to say - at first it was very hard for me for some reason. And one time - as Jenn said - when I was early out I drank water too fast after eating and vomited afterwards. I learned quickly after that.

Now it's not that much of a big deal. I will sometimes have a sip or two during my meal, but rarely because it doesn't set well. Depending on what I eat I can usually wait 30 minutes afterwards before I drink, but if it was something salty I take a few sips to satisfy that - omg, I NEED something NOW - feeling. Most of the time I'm okay, but sometimes I wish I could down a Route 44 Sonic Diet Coke with every, single meal. I'm not going to lie.

Seven months out - it's routine now, but it's still not always easy.

I am 2 1/2 years out and I am 100% faithful about this rule, still to this day. It's something I worked on before surgery and have not failed with. I don't think it's that hard of rule to follow or get used to.
 
I have a 15/30 rule, someday's I'm counting down the 30 minutes afterward because I'm so thirsty, but I've found that if I make my last bite a piece of fruit of a veggie it really helps.

Every once in a while I slip up, but I know from experience that if I drink while I eat that I get hungry faster than if I don't.  I drink right up until the first bite and then wait 1 hr after the last bite.  As long as i do that I am able to get in all my fluid during the day.