Why We Shouldn't Chew Our Food and Then Spit It Out
An interesting question!
I've always chewed my food well, a silly habit I got into when I was a school kid. I liked how it felt to mash everything up super fine before swallowing. So I didn't really have much of a change when I had the WLS about chewing.
But it would seem to me that our bodies are pretty smart, and they recognize patterns. The brain might begin to notice that "Chewing for X time = Approximately Y stuff in gut" and then act accordingly. A lot about WLS is the retraining of your conscious brain, but I think it's also about training your subconscious brain too.
I've always chewed my food well, a silly habit I got into when I was a school kid. I liked how it felt to mash everything up super fine before swallowing. So I didn't really have much of a change when I had the WLS about chewing.
But it would seem to me that our bodies are pretty smart, and they recognize patterns. The brain might begin to notice that "Chewing for X time = Approximately Y stuff in gut" and then act accordingly. A lot about WLS is the retraining of your conscious brain, but I think it's also about training your subconscious brain too.
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LadyTazz:
Thanks so much for posting this article from my blog. This is something that I'm very passionate about after losing my cousin to the disease. We have to remember that WLS is really only about 10% the surgery itself.... the other 90% is getting our heads screwed on straight and finding a way to have a HEALTHY relationship with food.
I hope reposting this old blog article will help at least one person with understanding how serious the chew-n-spit thing really is.
Thanks,
Pam
Thanks so much for posting this article from my blog. This is something that I'm very passionate about after losing my cousin to the disease. We have to remember that WLS is really only about 10% the surgery itself.... the other 90% is getting our heads screwed on straight and finding a way to have a HEALTHY relationship with food.
I hope reposting this old blog article will help at least one person with understanding how serious the chew-n-spit thing really is.
Thanks,
Pam
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Visit my blog: Journey to a Healthier Me ...or my Website
The scale can measure the weight of my body but never my worth as a woman. ~Lysa TerKeurst author of Made to Crave
Thanks for bringing this up. I didn't even know this was an issue or a "real thing". I'm really astonished that people do this. The only time I've seen something like this is when I was a kid watching a Mary-Kate and Ashley show where they had a large breakfast prepared and only smelled it before going off to school. (I always thought it was strange they would show something like that as normal on a kids show).
I have spit food out post op but that's just because I knew it wasn't going to go down well or just come right back up. Or I took a giant bite.
I have spit food out post op but that's just because I knew it wasn't going to go down well or just come right back up. Or I took a giant bite.
A psychologist that I work with part time (who does WLS psych evals and treats some post ops but refers them out for long term therapy when needed) said that he is now seeing much more of the "chew and spit" than anorexia after WLS (RNY, sleeve, and band...not nearly as much with DS because they are less restricted on what they can eat because of the extreme bypass).
It is, unfortunately, very real and very dangerous.
Lora
It is, unfortunately, very real and very dangerous.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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