How many grams of fiber do you eat on average?

tsimblist

What are you guys eating that is high in fiber???

Legumes, avocados, oats and other whole grains, fruit and berries (raspberries and blackberries are awesome sources of fiber, both soluble and insoluble), lots of roughage (i.e. veggies).

^^^^This

willdob3

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

Mjhnbgff

I get about 35 grams per day, usually more. Seems like a lot but I don't make any serious effort to get more fiber. It's just the fruits, veggies, and whole grains I eat.

bcattoes

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

HIgh fiber diets can significantly lower your risk for stroke and heart disease.

h9dlb

Ground - Chia seeds and Flax seeds - superfoods!

Carnivor0us

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

I get maybe 16 grams a day.

Carnivor0us

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

HIgh fiber diets can significantly lower your risk for stroke and heart disease.

I wonder how that mechanism works, exactly. What's the connection between big poops and heart disease?

TBoom915

30+ fruits, veggies, beans, and whole grains

Bekahmardis

I try to average around 20 per day, but I have other gastro issues so if I have much more fiber than that, even the dogs leave the room! LOL! I eat apples and baby carrots, a vitamin supplement, Fiber supplement, and more veggies here and there.

HappyCamper5166

Wow, and here I thought I was doing pretty good eating about 25-30g per day.

katy_trail

before high protein, often between 30 and 40.
now it's prob. closer to 20, there's just not as much room
with all the protein there.

katy_trail

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

HIgh fiber diets can significantly lower your risk for stroke and heart disease.

I wonder how that mechanism works, exactly. What's the connection between big poops and heart disease?

more likely it's frequency, not size that matters. more fiber, more frequent.
it's waste, you don't want it decaying in your body for days and days.

Carnivor0us

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

HIgh fiber diets can significantly lower your risk for stroke and heart disease.

I wonder how that mechanism works, exactly. What's the connection between big poops and heart disease?

more likely it's frequency, not size that matters. more fiber, more frequent.
it's waste, you don't want it decaying in your body for days and days.

Perhaps I should be more clear. What is the connection to something you eat to clean out your bowels to your heart?

And (the large) intestines is the place wastes are designed to sit, so it doesn't make sense that it's 'decaying' in your body for days and days.

amye004

I average 50g a day with at least 1.5L water

Looking over my food journal and pretty much all the foods I seem to eat have some sort of fibre in it,at least a gram or two. I mainly use oats, veggies, fruit, avocado (1/2 of one a day, lots of fibre!), quinoa, chia seeds, whole wheat products. It all adds up pretty quickly!

bcattoes

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

HIgh fiber diets can significantly lower your risk for stroke and heart disease.

I wonder how that mechanism works, exactly. What's the connection between big poops and heart disease?

Fiber isn't all about poop, but since poop is waste, it seems logical that removing as much of it as possible would be a good thing. I'm not sure if the exact connection is known, other than the risk goes down with more fiber consumed.

CristinaL1983

I'm not getting much fiber at all- maybe 10-12g on a high veggie day. My carbs are low, under 30g. It is not important to me to get fiber.

HIgh fiber diets can significantly lower your risk for stroke and heart disease.

I wonder how that mechanism works, exactly. What's the connection between big poops and heart disease?

Fiber isn't all about poop, but since poop is waste, it seems logical that removing as much of it as possible would be a good thing. I'm not sure if the exact connection is known, other than the risk goes down with more fiber consumed.

From the VERY limited research I've done, it seems that the heart-healthy benefits of fiber are related to dietary fiber (and the foods that contain them.

It seems that the fiber supplements don't have the same heart healthy benefits as natural fiber. Diets higher in fiber tend to be healthier than those low in fiber.

I get between 20-30g fiber on average.

lsmsrbls

I'm usually between 40 and 50 grams. Sometimes a bit less and sometimes a bit more.

I eat mostly fresh fruits and vegetables.

britkip

I eat everyday 50+ grams and also 50+ grams of protein too.Fiber eats the fat right off your belly, I swear by fiber, that stuff is amazing!

bookyeti

Set my goal to a mininum of 30g of dietary fiber per day but I'm consistently over. YAY!

conniemaxwell5

How do you get that much in a day?

Fruits and veggies, whole grains, nuts