Drinking and eating

I know we're supposed to do these 30 mins apart, but I'm finding this extremely difficult! Eating makes me thirsty!  How do u do this?

also, isn't  soup drinking and eating at the same time?

Once I'm done eating, I rinse my mouth out with water, then pop in a piece of gum. 45 minutes flies by & I'm drinking again!

I did it with great difficulty. I used to drink with meals and it's habit. 

Yes, soup is eating and drinking at the same time. Don't worry about this rule when you're on liquids. Everything is going to flow through your sleeve. The 30 minute rule applies to solid food so that the pyloric valve can do its job and cause fullness.

When I am responding on a Facebook group I am in I never spell pyloric right. I always want to spell it polyoric. I am not sure why.

The longest 30 minutes in the day is the 30 minutes after a meal.  I just try to distract myself.  I find the timing the most difficult.  Supposed to eat 6 times a day so that's 6 hours I can't drink.  

You don't need to worry about the separating meals and drinking until you are past the liquid stage and eating dense protein.  The reason to separate the drinking from meals is so you can fill your tummy with dense protein, and then maximize the full sensation by not diluting it was liquids.  The dense protein causes the pyloric valve to close, keeping the food in the tummy longer, leaving you more satisfied.  

Carol 

I was instructed by my surgeon after a couple months that I can drink water up until it was time for me to eat.  I know it's difficult but it's important to no drink during meals and to wait at least 30 minutes after.  If I can help it, I wait as long as I can before I start drinking water again but that was when I was further out than you so that I kept that fuller feeling in my tummy. 

When I eat soup, I usually sip the broth first and then eat the meat & veggies after.  I had a hard time with soups like this in the beginning unless it was a pureed soup.  It's just something we have to get used to and you will.  I won't lie though, it's probably my biggest frustration with WLS but the benefits of it outweigh this one issue.

You can do it. 

I eat the meat and solids out of soup five months out.  I could save the drink for later I suppose.

I want to drink with meals too but it makes me feel bad so I have to put the drinks out of sight and force myself to wait.  I find meat something I want to wash down. It is a hard habit to break.

I tried a piece of sugar free gum, didn't work out so well. Between the air it put into my stomach and the amount of saliva it produced I became instantly ill with gas and nausea?