Kind of gross question! But please read!
witcherkar
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If you eat something, and then have diarrhea, are you not going to absorb all the calories from it?
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Not sure how you would measure the food after ingesting, so I would yes to all the calories.2
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Do not think about food like this. Log it if it goes in one hole. Do not let the form of what comes out the other hole affect your logging.23
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All foods goes in one hole and they come out another hole. Either way, your body took it in. Yes, your body took in the calories.3
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It depends on where in the digestive system you are having issues. Most nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine. I would count all the calories anyways as malabsorption is not an issue most people have0
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Well I KNOW WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY IS NOT HEALTHY OR RECOMMENDED. I DO NOT DO IT, I AM JUST ASKING FOR CURIOSITY AT THIS POINT. Don't people who take laxatives loose weight? Or is that strictly water and not not absorbing calories?0
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You probably didn't absorb the nutrients, but a good rule of thumb is what everyone else said. If you ate it, log what you ate. Until Fitbit makes a poop tracker.
(This is why I hate chia seeds. 15g is 80 calories but I can tell I don't digest those little dudes. I also hate them getting stuck in my teeth. But they make cottage cheese seem a lot more cool and healthy.)0 -
It's exclusively water weight and the weight of the poop in the intestines you lose while abusing laxatives. Malabsorption occurs in diseases like Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, etc6
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singingflutelady wrote: »It's exclusively water weight and the weight of the poop in the intestines you lose while abusing laxatives. Malabsorption occurs in diseases like Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, etc
My brother has ulcerative colitis, lost boat loads of weight during the months it took them to diagnose him, has the strictest diet of anyone I've known and is in miserable pain every day of his life.
May lose part of his colon
Hello, colostomy bag
Malabsorption doesn't sound so great anymore.
I'll take diarrhea with absorption of nutrients any day over that.
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@alyssa0061 I'm in the same boat but have Crohn's not UC and am now back to normal weight. I had 10 months of 0 iron in my blood and very low ferritin and had tons of iron infusions and blood transfusions, lost most of my hair, had very low blood protein and was on TPN to totally bypass my intestines when I am in a horrible flare. I suffered tachycardia and my RHR was 140 and I had no colour and was very, very weak. It's really not fun.0
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witcherkar wrote: »Well I KNOW WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY IS NOT HEALTHY OR RECOMMENDED. I DO NOT DO IT, I AM JUST ASKING FOR CURIOSITY AT THIS POINT. Don't people who take laxatives loose weight? Or is that strictly water and not not absorbing calories?
People who take laxatives aren't losing real weight . they are losing water weight and such. Which comes right back anyway. People who abuse laxatives aren't actually losing weight like someone who is eating at a calorie deficit. Its a risky game and not worth playing just to drop a few pounds of water weight or waste.
There's no short cuts. There's no easy way out.6 -
oh and lose a lot of electrolytes which is dangerous and lose the ability to go to the bathroom without using laxatives.4
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Talk about calories out....
Diarrhea has many causes. Extra water in your poop does not make it any less digested. It just makes it messy. If this is a chronic issue you need to seek the advice of your Dr. Dysentery is not a good weight loss program.
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Please don't' do this, please don't.0
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The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....5
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For it to come out your butt, it's been processed. Unless it looks the same coming out as it did going in (I'm looking at you, corn!), it's been processed.1
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Let's just say that for me that all fruits, veggies, meat skin, etc comes out the same way it goes in but I have Crohn's so that explains the malabsorption of those things. I just don't eat them0
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witcherkar wrote: »Well I KNOW WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY IS NOT HEALTHY OR RECOMMENDED. I DO NOT DO IT, I AM JUST ASKING FOR CURIOSITY AT THIS POINT. Don't people who take laxatives loose weight? Or is that strictly water and not not absorbing calories?
You're just emptying your bowels. You will loose the weight of the actual poo which is temporary unless your dead.0 -
There's no way to be certain, for reasons others have cited.
Don't do it on purpose, though - it's not even a tiny bit healthy.0 -
booksandchocolate12 wrote: »The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....
No, I want to go to nursing school one day and have lots of medical questions that when the opportunity arises, I ask. I HATE pooping. I couldn't do it all the time. Once when I was 14, I would hold my poop in 24/7 because I think it's gross and I didn't go for a month straight and had to go to the hospital for pain and take an extreme laxative. I hated that. But seriously I was just wondering the science.1 -
witcherkar wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....
No, I want to go to nursing school one day and have lots of medical questions that when the opportunity arises, I ask. I HATE pooping. I couldn't do it all the time. Once when I was 14, I would hold my poop in 24/7 because I think it's gross and I didn't go for a month straight and had to go to the hospital for pain and take an extreme laxative. I hated that. But seriously I was just wondering the science.
If you think stools are gross, I don't think nursing is a good career choice for you.14 -
I have ibs d but have never really lost weight due to it. Just my 2 cents0
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »witcherkar wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....
No, I want to go to nursing school one day and have lots of medical questions that when the opportunity arises, I ask. I HATE pooping. I couldn't do it all the time. Once when I was 14, I would hold my poop in 24/7 because I think it's gross and I didn't go for a month straight and had to go to the hospital for pain and take an extreme laxative. I hated that. But seriously I was just wondering the science.
If you think stools are gross, I don't think nursing is a good career choice for you.
Yea.....you will have to deal with poop a lot lol1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »witcherkar wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....
No, I want to go to nursing school one day and have lots of medical questions that when the opportunity arises, I ask. I HATE pooping. I couldn't do it all the time. Once when I was 14, I would hold my poop in 24/7 because I think it's gross and I didn't go for a month straight and had to go to the hospital for pain and take an extreme laxative. I hated that. But seriously I was just wondering the science.
If you think stools are gross, I don't think nursing is a good career choice for you.
Yea.....you will have to deal with poop a lot lol
No kidding.0 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »witcherkar wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....
No, I want to go to nursing school one day and have lots of medical questions that when the opportunity arises, I ask. I HATE pooping. I couldn't do it all the time. Once when I was 14, I would hold my poop in 24/7 because I think it's gross and I didn't go for a month straight and had to go to the hospital for pain and take an extreme laxative. I hated that. But seriously I was just wondering the science.
If you think stools are gross, I don't think nursing is a good career choice for you.
Yea.....you will have to deal with poop a lot lol
And from the stories my nurse friend tells me, it's never the nice kind of poop.0 -
Basically can I eat again is what you are asking?0
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It depends how soon after you ate....
if its an hour later for example, your body will have pick up some nutrients.. (I would think)0 -
What was the famous 70's singer ... Karen Carpenter. She died from thinking she was overweight and taking too many laxatives. Scary and sad.1
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witcherkar wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »The fact that you're even curious about this concerns me....
No, I want to go to nursing school one day and have lots of medical questions that when the opportunity arises, I ask. I HATE pooping. I couldn't do it all the time. Once when I was 14, I would hold my poop in 24/7 because I think it's gross and I didn't go for a month straight and had to go to the hospital for pain and take an extreme laxative. I hated that. But seriously I was just wondering the science.
That sounds like a glorious poop.1
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