Bowel Movement, yes.. pooping!

I too have had this problem for years I was lucky to poop once every 3-4 days and my Dr. knew and just suggested benefiber which did nothing ... my solution is I first purchases liquid ready fiber from healthdirect . com it really is tasteless and I even cook with it to add fiber to meals.. I also drink a cup of triple tea leaf detox tea nightly and place cucumber slices in my water bottles throughout the day... it has made an AMAZING difference!! good luck.

Hi

Hubby swears by coffee first thing in the morning to 'get you going'.

Our son also suffers (9) we give him actimel drink daily..a probiotic to keep guts healthy (also sold in pill form) and if hes very bad a couple of blocks of dark chocolate..the highest cocoa beans you can find that works a treat.

martyxxx

I don't know what you're talking about, girls don't do that :huh:

ok obviously I'm kidding, I go usually at least twice a day. Most of the time 3. I'm freakishly regular haha. do you eat a lot of cheese? are you weird about where you go? Sorry, strange questions, but my roommate has issues and she says cheese blocks her up, and she can ONLY go at home, so sometimes she holds it (especially if she's spent a couple days at her boyfriends or something) and then that completely throws her off.

Your poor roommate! If she can't bring herself to poop at his place, I hope she doesn't plan on marrying him! :embarassed:

As for the original question... I'm lucky to be pretty regular, but I've noticed when I add flaxseed to my cereal in the morning (on a continuous basis) I tend to be even more regular. There also seems to be something about caffeinated coffee. If I haven't already pooped that day, I usually need to go shorty after I've finished my first cup.

Everone is difference... The important thing is to know your body.... If I went everyday for days in a row I personaly would see that as wrong for ME.

Not everyone needs a BM everyday. After having my gall bladder removed I used to have 3-5 per day. Over the last 2 months since I started eating healthy and exercising I am 1 a day and sometimes every other day. Put it this way. If your body is using what you consume and what you consume is all natural without all the fillers and processed junk your body just doesn't make as much waste. Your body has a limit to how much it will hold and then it must evacuate, BM. Until it creates enough to reach that limit, no BM.

As long as you feel good and the BM that you do have is fairly normal your ok.

Completely not true. EVERYONE needs at least 1 bm a day. Doctors will tell you its more optimum to have 2-3 a day.
Think of it this way, whatever goes in MUST come out. If it isn't,then its sitting in your intestines and/or colon and rotting there. This can bring on health problems so you need to get it out.

Everyone needs to have a BM everyday? That's completely not true. Unless that's someone's norm, but then that's probably due to a high fiber diet.... then that must come out. I eat foods my body uses so there's less waste...I have better things to do than have 2-3 bathroom visits each day doing that duty

When I was unhealthy I used to go once or twice a week. I went to see a naturopath for what may be a related issue - acne (although I've since learned I have hormonal acne, a lot of people with acne need to look at what's going on inside the digestive system). She urged me to start drinking 1 tablespoon of Bragg's apple cider vinegar diluted in about 12 oz of water - once or twice a day. I could only tolerate that ish once a day but I tell ya what....stuff started "working" in there. It acts as enzymes in your digestive system to get things broken down and moving along. Then she suggested I do a liver/gall bladder cleanse...this was nasty (it involved epsom salts in apple cider and olive oil in grapefruit juice...and a WHOLE lot of bathroom visits for a day!)...but it tripped something up in me and I've not had stomach issues or diarrhea or pain like I used to (I was wondering if I had Chrohn's at the rate I was going - either constipated or having diarrhea - that's the only way I could "go").

Now, I'm regular (1x a day, some days 2x) and all I take are probiotics (the best I've found, and I've tried quite a few, are Sedona Labs PRO - iFlora. There is a difference between Sedona Labs and Sedona Labs PRO but either work pretty well). I purchase this in powder form and add a teaspoon to my protein shake each morning at breakfast. Usually before I've finished drinking my protein shake, I'm hitting the potty. That's not necessarily because the probiotics are doing it...but just that I've just awoke and am waking up my digestive system with a little bit o' breakfast.

I also eat 25+ grams of fiber daily...drink 70+ oz of water...and that's the trick *for me*. I'd prefer to consume my fiber in food form rather than buy metumucil/citracel/miralax, etc. I enjoy eating. ) I like Kellogg's Fiber bars (chocolate chip, yummy!) - they have 9 grams of fiber in one (120 cals). Also Thomas English Muffins - there is a 100 calorie muffin that has 8 grams of fiber. Those two items alone get ya 17 grams of fiber....and the rest can come from fruits, veggies, legumes, etc. )

And lastly, there is an organic tea by Traditional Medicinals called Smooth Moves tea (can be found in the organic section of Kroger, for instance) - there is the original variety and a "chocolate" variety. This stuff is natural (uses senna) and it WORKS.

I have taken the psyllium fiber in cran water (100% no sugar added natural cran juice...best price at trader joes...4oz + 28oz. water)in the mornings...once you get used to gulping it down, it really works. If you feel you need it, you can take it before lunch also.

The other thing that is more enjoyable is the Smooth Move tea. I think the chocolate one is the best tasting and can seem like a treat and the end of the day...and things are taken care of once you wake up the next day