For newer users, the 3 day no poop post was an legendary asklemmy post where OP asked how they could go three days without shitting. We never found out why.

  • Doctor xNo@r.nf
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    1 year ago

    Reading these comments, I now suddenly feel weird that I only shit twice a week. I eat daily 2-3 times and my shits aren’t even painful or unusually big… Sometimes just 2 rolls and done… I also weigh around the 60kg, so I have no idea where all the food/shit goes… 🤷‍♂️

    Maybe I’m becoming like Axe Cop and my body has a higher % waste-efficiency… 😂😅

    Either way, once every 3-4 days is perfectly normal for me… Has been all my life… 🤷‍♂️

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      If i eat a slice of ham 2-3 times a day, i would shit once a month, probably. If you weigh around 60kg then i assume you dont eat very large meals.

      A while back, i weighed around 20 stone i was eating 3 meals a day (occasionally 4 if we got a cheeky late night mcdonalds) and snacks randomly through the day. I would shit once a day sometimes twice a day.

      Just for comparison.

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        1 year ago

        i eat pretty large (but healthy) meals maybe 3 or 4 times per day and deliver payloads like every day or every two days, rarely twice per day.

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        1 year ago

        I must disappoint you. Usually both my meals on my day are dinner (warm food) whichever time it usually random is; at least 85% of it is fast food like McDonald’s and alike; and to maybe give you an idea of what amount I eat in 1 meal: usually about the amount of a Maxi McDonald’s-Menu with an extra burger (sometimes 2). 😅

        Many people then usually tell me I have a “fast metabolism”, but if that were true I’d shit more than just the twice a week… 🤷‍♂️

        • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Wveryone is different.but you say 2 meals a day mostly fast food. But not 3 mealsz not snacks and not second dinner? There are many other aspects. But you might just be lucky i guess.

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            Yeah, no. I eat maximum twice a day as much as I can cause it’s hard to make time for it being a bit on the ADHD side of the spectrum. There are days I might only eat once cause I skipped one, but most days it’s 2: 1 a bit after waking up, the second usually some time before bed… I used to eat less, but that turned out to be one of the sources of migraines I used to have. Probably because I lack any reserves having almost no fat-storage…

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            1 year ago

            Second dinner? Oo
            I usually just can’t myself up to make actual dinner until late in the evening. Don’t know where I could even fit in a second dinner

            • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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              Lol. Its a concept me and my wife used to indulge in when we would make our dinner and then later we would be watching a film and order takeaway delivery. No effort involved other than answering the door. It was not a good thing and made us both chunky but we dont do it any more as we decided to lose the weight and get back on a healthier diet.

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        I used to weigh 20 stone and some, and I’m pretty close to 14 now. I shit as much or more, but they’re WAY smaller. My shits used to be monsters, now it’s like a toot with a projectile and I’m done.

        I think everyone just poops a little different

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      1 year ago

      Not an expert but a random thing I heard was: anywhere between 3 times a day, and once every 3 days is normal.

      For me it depends on how stressed I am and how much fibre I eat. What I do know is that gut health is complicated.

      • Doctor xNo@r.nf
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        1 year ago

        i do actually. Also red bull and a lot of Cola…

        If I eat too spicy though,I’ll inevitably be on the toilet the day after, but it’d not so much be because of needing to shit but instead to get rid of the burning sensation in my colon once it’s down there somewhere. 😅 Luckily I have to really overdo it to get this happening, yet I do like to occasionally overdo it anyway. I love spicy food way too much. 😅

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      My dude you either have a really slow metabolic rate or you got tape worm. I’d lean toward the former since you haven’t dided dude to malnutrition yet.

      • Doctor xNo@r.nf
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        I have already wondered the latter too, but have taken pills that would kill them a few times in my life to make sure, so either they are the Futurama self-sustaining worms immune to poison (😂) or it’s not that. 😅

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, hence why I also am no reference point for those things. I do many things you shouldn’t and avoid many things you should. I don’t eat vegetables unless the few in a hamburger or in mixed soup (the latter only happens once or twice a year or so). I only drink real Coca-Cola, Redbul, coffee, iced coffee,… I smoke both sigarets and ‘recreational sigarets’… But I still look 10 years younger than I actually am and have no real health problems (as opposed to many my age) and my cholesterol isn’t even high… 🤷‍♂️

        Anyway, as long as this lasts I’m taking advantage of it. 😅😂

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          1 year ago

          Well, I’ll raise a glass to you!

          Btw Interesting, phonetically functional spelling of cigarettes.

          Wondering what your primary language is…?

          Or if there’s somewhere that sigarets is a common spelling/usage for cigarettes (?)

          • Doctor xNo@r.nf
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            lol, I always confuse the word. In Dutch it’s called a ‘sigaret’ and I once was told that was a very “French” way of typing it, which made me think now again I used ‘cigarettes’ back then (as that’s similar in French) and used ‘sigarets’ now… My memory sucks. 😂😅

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            And as I do a search, a bunch of results for “e sigarets,” especially from AliExpress.

            Would make sense to rebrand away from the “cigarette” spelling to indicate a different method/form of ingestion/intake