I could morph this to fit in almost any forumn but I thought this would be the best one for it (GB would be a real challenge). Since this is somewhat of a poling question I stuck it in here.
Well this is about pooping if you couldn’t guess. If you poop I would value your input (so to speak).
I first want to say that I poop about 2x/day usually after breakfast and either after lunch or dinner. I think most people poop 1xday. I was talking to a co-worker and she said who has the time to poop that often (referring to the 1xday). I never found out how often she poops but heard of some people who regularly poop about 1x/week. Now that brings up 3 issues:
1 Who has the time?!? - you find the time - you make the time - heck the world stops when you have to poop. you could be in a high pressure meeting and it will stop and wait for you if you have to poop. Actually I enjoy a good poop (as you poopers know not all poops are good). And maybe you can delay it be a few hrs at most but it wants to come out.
2 people who poop lets say 1x/5days or more - how? Did you teach yourself this? How big it the poop and how long do you stay in one sitting? Can you (do you?) schedule it on your calendar?
Meh. Who has the time, she asks? Is this an hour-long venture for her?
Once a day for me, and I’ve got bathroom reading a-plenty. Even so, it’s rarely more than ten minutes. If she can’t spare ten minutes to read in one of the most conducive places to reading there is, I pity her.
I usually urinate 4-5 times(if I drink it’s a different story) and poop 2-3 times, and they are all small. I rarely have large stools, and when I do I stand over the toilet and stare at it in awe for several seconds. I think I have an extremely high metabolism.
I heard that pooping habits are very different in countries with different eating habits - in East Asian countries people have 5 or 7 bowel movements a day.
Taking my cue from Sueduhnym, if I had a cat, I would poop on it sneakily about five times a day. (They’re good to wipe with, too, but you have to be careful. It’s best to have a VERY compliant cat).
I’ve heard that females “poop” less frequently than males. That they’re built differently, or something. Although, my boss told me that and he’s a bit of a chauvinist, so who can say.
But it’s definitely true that we men enjoy it more.
This is my shit timetable at the moment:
I usually have a small midmorning shit. I always have an early evening shit - as soon as I get through the door of my house, I go straight upstairs to the bathroom and have a nice big crap.
My early evening shits relax me a lot - I get that blissed out lower bowel feeling.
I absolutely cannot believe that I am posting to this thread.
OK, now that that is out of the way:
I am one of those “seldom poopers”
When I went to Europe I was embarrassed about sharing a bathroom with four other girls and I can say that I didn’t leave any of myself in Europe. I was there for seven days. I think alot of it had to do with the fact that I was eating less and exercising alot more (ungodly amounts of walking) so maybe my body used up more of the food. I don’t even know if that makes sense but it’s what I told myself at the time. I don’t hold it or anything, I just don’t feel like going except every couple of days. I only eat once a day so that probably helps.
As if this wasn’t enough TMI, it’s about to get worse. Here goes: I got the dreaded H-word during pregnancy so I try to avoid foods that will make me poo alot because it feels like giant acid-dipped rusty razors coming out of my wazoo. This also contributes to my once-every-few-days habits.
OK. I am embarrassed enough now.
Rez
A couple of years ago, I got a booklet (unsolicited) in the mail advertising a book or some pills or something I could buy to improve my colonic health. It recommended, among other things, making one poo per meal. So if you eat three times a day, your bowels should move three times a day. Until I read that I had been a once every day or two pooer, but after that I guess I concentrated more, and now I poo and eat at a 1:1 ratio.
In case you’re wondering, some of the other things it mentioned were getting de-wormed (always a good idea anyway), eating a balanced diet (duh), and using their special colonic irrigator with a mix of warm water and something, maybe baking soda and vinegar, but I don’t quite remember (wheee!). I didn’t try it.
Once every day or two. I can not go for 5 or 6 days sometimes, but I’m constipated. When it finally breaks loose, I’ll go 6 or 7 times in one day. They call it irritable bowel syndrome, and it really sucks. Drinking lots of water seems to help.
missdavis102 - how did you increase your poopage? I mean, especially if you didn’t use their “irrigator” (yuk)? I’d love to have that sheer mind power…
Every morning I do the 3 S thing (Sh*t shower and shave), so 1/day. But for some reason I always have an extra one ready on Monday evening, maybe from eating more on the weekend?
