Serious Q: When you eat and get diarrhea...

NormalSaneFLGuy
NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
edited December 27 in Food and Nutrition
how many of the calories do you add to your diary? I mean, if you ate the Waffle House Special and it passd through you in 15 minutes, there's no way you absorbed all of the calories. Furthermore, if you fight it and hold it in, are any calories absorbed through your colon? Is there possibly an equation one can use? Like TotalCalories x (time digested in minutes / (4x60) ) = NetCalories ?
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  • B_Running
    B_Running Posts: 158
    lol

    (I am of no help, but thanks for the laugh.)
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,334 Member
    how many of the calories do you add to your diary?

    All of them. Doesn't matter how they came out.....or when.
  • MisterOtter
    MisterOtter Posts: 25
    Don't eat the Waffle House Special.
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
    Serious? Log the calories. I wouldn't count 'holding in ****' as a valid exercise.....
  • deadbeatsummer
    deadbeatsummer Posts: 537 Member
    -10 for each plop
  • jshort152
    jshort152 Posts: 80
    no matter what you eat it takes hours to go through your system, you're just passing stool that is foods youve eaten previously, hope this helps!

    Jesse Short
    ISSA Certified Personal Trainer
  • fuhrmeister
    fuhrmeister Posts: 1,796 Member
    Interesting question I have no idea. But waffle house is definatly note the place to eat if you are trying to lose weight. Not that I don't love Waffle House. I am originally form Atlanta. I guess I can only suggest trying to google it.
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,334 Member
    -10 for each plop

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • LeenaRuns
    LeenaRuns Posts: 1,309 Member
    Log it and drink lots of water! Feel better :flowerforyou:
  • twaltemade
    twaltemade Posts: 68 Member
    I would be more concerned with the symptom and less concerned about the calorie count. Could be something like a response to dairy allergies causing stomach distress.
  • KitchenAbs
    KitchenAbs Posts: 75
    I went through a phase of getting diarrhea from junk foods. I just didn't log the day and spent the next day eating crackers, plain chicken and drinking sports drinks
  • cornfritter22
    cornfritter22 Posts: 230 Member
    I've seriously wondered this same thing. I DO record it, but I've considered not doing so. This doesn't happen to me like it used to though. I guess eating healthier and getting enough fiber has made a difference.
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    Count the food anyway, but don't count whatever water you drank toward your eight glasses. So in conclusion, drink more water today and avoid Waffle House from now on!
  • ravenchick
    ravenchick Posts: 345 Member
    When you eat, it is digested in your stomach before it passes through approx. 25 feet of intestines. There is no way something you ate will pass through your body in 15 min. You're disposing of food that you ate previously, not the food you just ate 15 min ago.
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    how many of the calories do you add to your diary?

    All of them. Doesn't matter how they came out.....or when.

    but why add calories if my body didn't asborb them? It's like fiber, it has calories, but since your body doesn't absorb it they put 0 cals on the label.
  • AliceKlaar
    AliceKlaar Posts: 275 Member
    ...and if you have to make a run for the loo, don't forget to log the sprint in your exercise diary.
  • danwood2
    danwood2 Posts: 291 Member
    Ok seriously thank you, I needed that laugh today
    Serious? Log the calories. I wouldn't count 'holding in ****' as a valid exercise.....

    Sometimes you can break a sweat though!! :laugh: that has got to be some kind of calorie burn!!:bigsmile:
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    WTF.jpg
  • weemawhit
    weemawhit Posts: 26 Member
    -10 for each plop

    :flowerforyou: :laugh: :laugh:
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    no matter what you eat it takes hours to go through your system, you're just passing stool that is foods youve eaten previously, hope this helps!

    Jesse Short
    ISSA Certified Personal Trainer

    You may be a personal trainer, but apparently you don't train colons. If I eat Chinese Buffet and 15minutes later I see peking duck in the toilet, it obviously passed through.
  • MorganLeighRN
    MorganLeighRN Posts: 411 Member
    First of all calories are not absorbed in the colon. They are absorbed in the stomach and small intestine. The colon absorbs water and salt from the solid foods before they are eliminated. Since the food passes through the stomach and small intestine you are absorbing the calories. It doesn't matter if it passes right or if you "hold it in".
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    I think a scale should be used in your equation. Weight of food in compared to waste out. Hope this helps.
  • mikeyboy
    mikeyboy Posts: 1,057 Member
    Well if your eating at Waffle House it would have to be a complex formula. Calories in, calories burned holding butt muscles trying to get to restroom, the arm burn from excesive wiping and waving hand in from of face, the squats you do repeatedly standing and sitting...thinking your done, and then the walk of shame after reporting the restroom damage to Waffle House staff. I say it's a calorie free meal... win / win!
  • FuneralDiner
    FuneralDiner Posts: 438 Member
    Clicked on the thread expecting a laugh and I got a science lesson too.

    Woohoo.
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,334 Member
    how many of the calories do you add to your diary?

    All of them. Doesn't matter how they came out.....or when.

    but why add calories if my body didn't asborb them? It's like fiber, it has calories, but since your body doesn't absorb it they put 0 cals on the label.

    As someone already said, the food doesnt go through you that quickly. Its your LAST meal that you are eliminating. So should you go back and remove THOSE calories? No. Because those calories were already absorbed.
  • delilah47
    delilah47 Posts: 1,658
    if it seriously went through in 15 minutes, you better see a doctor. you could have a digestive disorder, like ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    First of all calories are not absorbed in the colon. They are absorbed in the stomach and small intestine. The colon absorbs water and salt from the solid foods before they are eliminated. Since the food passes through the stomach and small intestine you are absorbing the calories. It doesn't matter if it passes right or if you "hold it in".

    B-

    Good job on the calorie absorption locations, however, you are assuming that it spends long enough in the stomach for maximum caloric absorption.

    kind of like binge eating 8000 calories in one sitting. Is your stomach REALLY absorbing all 8000 before sending the rest on its way?
  • flobeedoodle
    flobeedoodle Posts: 176 Member
    I have never heard of any such formula. I think the real issue here is frequency and intent, though. If you only get ill rarely (less than once a month, say,) and it is not intentional,you would want to eat things that don't stress your upset tummy worse, so nothing too rich: you could probably come out about even if you just don't log the saltines or plain, dry toast you eat after you are sick. If you are getting ill frequently, you should probably see a doctor to figure out why. It is my understanding that there are a number of digestive ailments that can cause frequent diarrhea, with varying implications for long term health and weight loss. If you are deliberately making yourself ill, that is considered an eating disorder. You should consider whether or not this is really a sustainable choice for you, and whether or not it leads you to the life you want to have. People have wildly different experiences with eating disorders; if you choose to stop, you may be able to simply quit, or you may choose to seek out professional help or peer support. I am sure there is a group here that can help you figure out what you would like to do if you are deliberately making yourself ill.
  • tuffytuffy1
    tuffytuffy1 Posts: 920 Member
    You guys are cracking me UP, thanks for the laughs:laugh:
  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member
    Don't eat the Waffle House Special.

    This! :laugh:
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