Question:
Why are we not suppose to drink with meals?
— wendylm (posted on April 18, 2006)
April 18, 2006
First off, it HURTS! I am almost 3 years out and I still have a problem
with wanting to drink at meals. When you drink and eat, you are not getting
enough food in, you only have so much space for food. If you fill up on
water, you will be hungry real quick and you are eating again. Not good!!
— lordbay
April 18, 2006
water fills you up. you need all the protein you can get from foods, so if
u drink, then 30 minutes later you will be hungry. you need to stop 30
minutes before and 30 minutes after eating
— Steve Cohen
April 18, 2006
When you add liquid to your meal you liquify it, thus causing your stomach
to wmpty too soon and then youy feel hungry to early. Take your liquid 1/2
hour before you eat and no sooner than 2 hours after and you should feel
fine.
— Lise K.
April 18, 2006
My nutritionist told me that the liquid pushes the food through the system
too fast and that you will dump.
— peacefuldaizy
April 18, 2006
I dumped from drinking with a meal and when I asked about it I was told the
same thing...that it forces the food out of your pouch too quickly.
— Lora S.
April 18, 2006
I don't know about it filling you up or causing you to dump but basically
when they create the new pouch, you no longer have the valve at the bottom
of the stomach and the water goes right through you. Think of putting food
in a funnel, it sits there. Now mix the food with water and put it in the
funnel, it goes right through. It doesn't sit in there long enough to do
you any good and you wind up eating more than you should be.
— sarahp1101
April 18, 2006
The water stretches your pouch, and it also helps the food to go through
the pouch faster so you are hungry sooner. They say people who drink with
their meals don't lose weight as well, and may also gain weight.
— wendybird
April 18, 2006
I wonder what the difference is if you drink with a meal or eat soup for as
a meal? No one has told me to avoid soups. It seems like maybe we should
avoid soups for the same reasons given above regarding drinking with a
meal. Anybody asked the dietician about this?
— jcrefasi
April 18, 2006
Jo Ann, soup is like eating and drinking at the same time and should done
rarely, sometimes there's nothing like soup when you're not feeling well.
— carlaplank
April 18, 2006
The way i understand it, the reason for not being allowed to drink with
meals is that water is very filling and even just a little water will make
it so that you cannot finish eating your food or supplements whichever
stage you are at. So if we do not have any water for a half hour before
eating, We can get our food down easier.
— angelvmine
April 19, 2006
I don't understand how water can be filling. If you drink water on an
empty stomach, it is not going to just sit there. You have a hole in both
the top and the bottom of the pouch. How can it "sit" there
making you full?? Now it does make sense that eating and drinking at the
same time will cause the food to 'flush' through the pouch too quickly
which would make you hungry again sooner. But the fullness from water just
doesn't make logical sense to me.
— Michelle_S
April 19, 2006
Michelle S, that makes a lot of sense. My question about soup still
bothers me but I assume that the dietician did not restrict soups because
there are nutrients and proteins in it so it really isn't the same as
drinking water and eating.
— jcrefasi
April 20, 2006
Hey Jo Ann....that is a good point that you never hear ppl telling you to
stay away from soup. I would imagine that a broth based soup would act
very similarly to drinking with your meal. It would flow through rather
quickly. I love Broc/Cheese soup and it does fill me up although not as
long as a regular meal would. I guess because it is a thick soup, it
wouldn't flow through so quickly. I can't imagine soup would be harmful
but definitely not something you would want to eat on a regular basis if
you are being careful about not eating and drinking together.
— Michelle_S
April 20, 2006
Actually, many of us *do* advise that soup is not good choice as regular
part of diet. We can eat way too much soup . . . not only does it wash
right thru, but the heat of soup relaxes pouch, so it's a double whammy.
Relaxed, stretchy pouch with washing thru . . . *never* get full.
— rayehawk
April 20, 2006
also you push the food through faster and get more calories than you need.
The program I went through says no liquids 30 min prior to a meal and 30-60
min after -this way you will get the correct amount of calories.
— dabby
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