Erm, how often do you poo?

[Mrskbpw]

I've never been regular (!) but recently have been keeping an eye on how often I go and it's averaging once every four or five days. Is this normal?! How often do you go?

I'm really struggling to lose weight at the moment and I wonder if this could be related. I feel like everything needs 'speeded up'. Any ideas of what I can do to help?

About once every other to every 2 days

For sure, it is not the norm, but I have never been the norm.
Unfortunately, after all that bouncing around, the video wouldn't download on my blog. Waste of time.
:)

I dunno, upon reflection, my time could have been better spent beating my futon.

Just out of interest when you were bouncing did you have to wear a tight leotard? I imagine a neon challenge Anneka kind of thing. Were you worried the coffee poo might just slip out? Who was filming?

You're a bit strange, Strawberry, in that you read my answers to your queries about a floppy, gaping assholes caused by colonic cleansing, when I then reply and tell you that it is still as tight as the day I was born, and yet you then continue to insinuate, with the tight leotard quip, that my bottom is floppy and gaping and cannot retain poo.

I just don't get it. We speak the same language, no?

BayPolar - those stones that appeared in your poo after you did the gallbladder flush? They weren't gallstones. They are lumps formed by a chemical reaction with the oil, lemon juice, and bile in your stomach. Gallbladder flushes/liver flushes are a load of old nonsense.

Emma
They were gallstones. My boyfriend is a respected doctor. He knows his stuff.
Gallbladder and liver flushes are only a load of old nonsense for those who prefer to stick to old fashioned, invasive, money-making for the medical companies, procedures. Rather you than me.

p.s I retrieved a gallstone from the toilet bowl and bit it. It was a stone. Not some chemically-created reactive lump.

They weren't gallstones, BayPolar. They were lumps produced from a reaction between the lemon juice and olive oil. It's a well-known very simple chemical reaction, happens in laboratory conditions all the time.

I'm surprised your boyfriend, if indeed he is medically qualified as you say, supports such quackery.

Actually, I got my maid to bite it. I didn't want to admit that though. It's a recession.

Quackery to you, gallstones expelled without the need for surgery or a visit to a clinic/hospital, to us.
You do it your way, I'll do it my way.

I am literally crying with laughter, thank you so much

And if indeed they were not gallstones, and instead were little beads of lemon and olive oil, then how come the pain that I had in my gall bladder, pre-expulsion of the chemically-reactive 'salad dressing', totally disappeared, and since then I have not had any problems with my gall bladder, but saying that, it's because I practice preventative measures now, since discovering the wonders of non-invasive gallstone expulsion, ergo, I have avoided getting to the stage where I have to come on MN to ask a zillion questions about gall bladder surgery and so on, and on, and on.

But you're not expelling gallstones, you're just doing a pointless experiment in your stomach! By all means, continue making soap stones from the long chain fatty acids in olive oil, reacting with the carboxylic acid component of lemon juice. Go right ahead, I'm sure it's a whole barrel of fun.

I aim to please, Strawberry, usually into a toilet bowl, not a bath.

Seriously, I doubt you could reliably even point out to me where your gallbladder is. Everyone gets random pains sometimes - and have you ever heard of the placebo effect? You should check it out, it is quite exciting.

Am I the only one who NEEDS to know whether BayPolar's boat is made of paper, gold or cheese?

It's on the right side of my body, just beneath the liver.
I know where all my organs are.
I'm interested in the anatomy of the body because it is what I am.

Paper, gold or cheese?
What are they teaching you in school these days over in the F.UK!
Merde!

Regarding pain, I only ever had that pain, the pain of gallstones, and since then I don't get any 'random pain', anywhere in my body (touch wood), because I practice good health by eating well, drinking well, and poo-ing well. Oh, and I ride a bike, instead of using a car.

The placebo effect.
I saw that movie, too.
It was made along the banks of that long river in Egypt.

Me too - it is interesting. I don't mean to be so dismissive, but you sound like an intelligent person and yet you seem so totally opposed to any contrary point of view to your own!

Basically, the reaction I'm describing is:

1. gastric lipases (an enzyme - a sort of biological catalyst your body produces) react with the fatty acids present in olive oil. This is the beginning of digestion.

2. the resulting product reacts with the potassium in lemon juice.

3. this produces little balls of material that look like stones, but aren't. They might well be hard, especially if they've been left to dry, but they're not gallstones.