The poo thread.

[Dastardly]

If you expel your hard days eating and it never got a chance to digest, should you try and make up for the lost calories?

[nisora33]

If you expel your hard days eating and it never got a chance to digest, should you try and make up for the lost calories?

Your digestive tract is EXTREMELY efficient at pulling what it needs from the food you eat. If you aren't digesting a large part of what you've eaten, you probably have a medical condition.

-S.

[Sgsolberg]

If your poo is rather soon after you ate...
and comes out as some half-liquid, half chunks, and you can identify your last meal as the poo...
then, and only then, should you eat even more.

[misspelledgeoff]

should one recycle said poo?


If your poo is rather soon after you ate...
and comes out as some half-liquid, half chunks, and you can identify your last meal as the poo...
then, and only then, should you eat even more.

[Sgsolberg]

For God's sake, no... what the fuck is wrong with you?

[crc]

If you expel your hard days eating and it never got a chance to digest, should you try and make up for the lost calories?

Chew your food more, this makes a big difference. I think a lot of people wind up not doing it as thoroughly as they should when they're trying to eat a lot.

[Dastardly]

You jokers are going to make me get into details arent you?

I meant diarrhea.

For example, yesterday my most substantial calorie & protein intake came with evening and bedtime meal.

But just before bedtime I got projectile liquid diarrhea, which I felt expelled the two most significant meals of the day.

It was a training day too. And so I ended up with just my breakfast and whatever snacks I had during day that I actually digested. Which would be less than half of maintenace calories.

What to do?

I ended up having a big glass of milk and hoped it wouldnt make anything worse but was then kept awake all night by a belly ache.

This hardly felt like the most biologically efficient training.

Feel free to share your own poo stories.

[OldMike]

Shit happens.

[Marotta]

This reminds me of something I was wondering about a little while ago.

When you begin to eat alot more, does your digestive tract adapt and become more efficient/ faster at breaking down and absorbing what you eat?

[BryanM]

I'm pretty sure it goes through at the same rate. There's just more stuff that goes through, loading up the colon faster and requiring more poos.

Dast, if you SERIOUSLY are eating 4000 kcal EVERY day and you're not doing anything CRAZY energy-consuming, and you can't gain weight from ~150 lbs...

I am convinced you're doomed. Sorry.

Also: one time my ungirlfriend spent more than 20 seconds on ratemypoo rating poo. This event scared me.

[SerusMournstar]

As long as it comes out the opposite end that it went in you absorbed all the calories and nutrients from it.

[khal]

Been including lots of cheese lately which significantly increased calorie intake and made my shit so greasy I don't even have to push anymore.

Belted up for my second workset on the squat and on the third rep I shat my pants a little, I still managed to grind out the rep, did another two more and racked the bar. Jumped into the shower and changed boxers in time for my final workset. :D

[Dastardly]

thats foul Khal, just foul.

but what else would one expect from the poo thread?


All this mocking from BryanM actually got me thinking that there could be something wrong in my digestive tract that is making weight gain just so damn hard for me.

It is actually very common for me to get diarrhea, I am just so used to it that I bareley pay attention. Many days I have to go twice within a few hours but id just overlooked this whole thing.

So I went to see the doctor today. He had some trouble understanding my concerns. He weighed me and got a few details and then ruled out chances of disease because my weight had not gone down. He could not get his head around the fact that I have been actively trying to gain weight for a whole year. And that it was unusual that I hadnt gained weight.

I tried to explain that I needed to weigh 90kg (currently 70kg) to be athletic. And that I have been eating 4000kcal on average per day and doing weightlifting to increase mass, strength & sports performance.

He just didnt understand the whole thing and for the rest of the session referred to my training as bodybuilding. Saying I dont need to do bodybuilding and should focus on running. (I think his mind just auto-flipped into weight loss advice mode. He siad I was 24 on the BMI chart and that 25 would be overweight. I explained that it did not account for muscle mass, he agreed but then changed subject again arbitrarily.

The whole weight gain thing just did not compute.

But at the end I managed to get him to arrange an array of blood tests, something which I find incredibly painful and unpleasant. I have both an irrational strong phobia for needles going into my veins, plus the nurse at the practice has the worst most painful technique imaginable. But I knew it was necessary so got it booked.

It is the day after tomorrow and I am shitting myself, my heart is twitching already.

Other symptoms I noticed on myself were things possibly related to a zinc deficiency, white marks on nails and loss of smell. Zinc deficiency, I found out can be caused by diarrhea or intestinal absorbtion problems.

In the meatime the doctor simply strongly recommended more 'ruffage'

He said the oats in my diet are not enough. I must eat wholemeal bread & bran. Which is awkward when I am trying to reduce carbs. And the fact that bran based cereals are low calorie (waste of time and stomach space)

So I just stuck some of that psylium husk in my milk tonight to see what happens.

[Patrick]

As long as it comes out the opposite end that it went in you absorbed all the calories and nutrients from it.

Unless you're taking massive amounts of laxatives like those folks with eating disorders. You'll get a chapped pucker-hole from all of the wiping but I suppose it beats a Mallory-Weiss tear.

[Sgsolberg]

I read Khal's post earlier (at work) and laughed...

Problem is, I had a pretty greasy meal last night and was definitely getting the runs/gas going pretty good all day. I went to train, and half way through my first work set I knew things were getting critical.

I managed to take care of myself like an adult, but Khal's story was ringing in my mind the entire time.

[BryanM]

I have ten bux on worms. Just 'cause they're cool.

If watching House has taught me anything, the rule of kewl overrides reason or logic.