6 meals / day= Hi Metab = Regular?

Diamondmaker

Just wanna check with evry one here.

I have been on the " eat small and frequent routine for a year now ".

Lots of whole grains and water ( actually often tonic water! on an aside any commnnts? Im hooked on quinine....:D )

I am so regular and its a pain - but I feel better and rarely bloated etc..

Is evryone else a toilet a holic too?

Occaionally Im concerned it could be other things.........

Cheers
DM

r3nu4l

Well if it's a high fibre diet (whole grains, fruit and veg) then you should b very regular. I do my *ahem* number 2, at least once a day. I pee about 6-7 times a day too but that could be because I'm only going back to drinking a lot of water very recently.

Hanley

I drop some bombs pretty much 2x a day. Could pee anywher between 7-10x too.

Diamondmaker

I think my desk neighbours think I go off for a line of coke or something Im in and out so much!

I do bring the kids to the pool quite often too, they love to swim:D

cheers for feed back sounds all good.

G'em

Nah, always good, clean, efficient and solid- almost German in its construction:D

Cheers:)

g'em

Regular ... erm... movement is a great thing. If it stops coming out solid you might want to take note though, it should be reasonably easy to deposit and fairly robust, not smell *too* bad, and an even-ish brown colour. Any hints of green and/ or mucus is also cause for concern.

And I mean all of that in total seriousness!

Frequent peeing is nothing to worry about either, unless accompanied by a stinging sensation. Pee should be clear/ pale in colour. If it's dark yellow it means it's quite concentrated and you need to drink more fluids.

D-Generate

Remember Gillian McKeith is no doctor as you can tell jack **** from err ****.

g'em

D-Generate wrote:

Remember Gillian McKeith is no doctor as you can tell jack **** from err ****.

lol, true, she isn't!! But there is truth that your stools can give you information about how well you're eating. Discolouration, a particulalry pungent smell and softness/ liquid texture generally come about when you eat a nutrient-poor diet and a colour change in particular can come about from an infection in the gut. Obviously constipation may indicate a lack of fibre and diarrhea can indicate food tolerances (although there are many other causes of both).

hunnymonster

random poo related comment. When I moved to germany I asked someone why the toilets were a funny shape. They told me it was because they needed a shelf in the toilet so people could examine their poo.

wasabi

I've been told that to work in food service in Germany you have to have a medical which involves bringing in a stool sample.

Dragan

The doctor asked me for a stool sample.....he said "D, you need less fibre in your diet if your crapping chinese style foot stools."

hunnymonster

yep they are big into their medicals in Germany. Every 6 months we had to give our total urine output for 24 hours to them. It meant carrying around a 5 litre bottle for the full 24 hours...... It was not the day to go on a first date needless to say:D

Also in german the word poo and chair sound the same. It lead to an interesting encounter when I was only learning the language where a doc asked me for a poo sample and I siad thank you very much and sat down!