For newer users, the 3 day no poop post was an legendary asklemmy post where OP asked how they could go three days without shitting. We never found out why.
Two other possibilities. 1) the user did it, or 2) the user started posting some crap, got banned, and lemmy’s trash mod tools encouraged “delete all posts.” Lemmy mod tools are truly garbage.
Reading these comments, I now suddenly feel weird that I only shit twice a week. I eat daily 2-3 times and my shits aren't even painful or unusually big... Sometimes just 2 rolls and done... I also weigh around the 60kg, so I have no idea where all the food/shit goes... 🤷♂️
Maybe I'm becoming like Axe Cop and my body has a higher % waste-efficiency... 😂😅
Either way, once every 3-4 days is perfectly normal for me... Has been all my life... 🤷♂️
If i eat a slice of ham 2-3 times a day, i would shit once a month, probably. If you weigh around 60kg then i assume you dont eat very large meals.
A while back, i weighed around 20 stone i was eating 3 meals a day (occasionally 4 if we got a cheeky late night mcdonalds) and snacks randomly through the day. I would shit once a day sometimes twice a day.
I must disappoint you. Usually both my meals on my day are dinner (warm food) whichever time it usually random is; at least 85% of it is fast food like McDonald's and alike; and to maybe give you an idea of what amount I eat in 1 meal: usually about the amount of a Maxi McDonald's-Menu with an extra burger (sometimes 2). 😅
Many people then usually tell me I have a "fast metabolism", but if that were true I'd shit more than just the twice a week... 🤷♂️
I used to weigh 20 stone and some, and I'm pretty close to 14 now. I shit as much or more, but they're WAY smaller. My shits used to be monsters, now it's like a toot with a projectile and I'm done.
If I eat too spicy though,I'll inevitably be on the toilet the day after, but it'd not so much be because of needing to shit but instead to get rid of the burning sensation in my colon once it's down there somewhere. 😅 Luckily I have to really overdo it to get this happening, yet I do like to occasionally overdo it anyway. I love spicy food way too much. 😅
My dude you either have a really slow metabolic rate or you got tape worm.
I'd lean toward the former since you haven't dided dude to malnutrition yet.
I have already wondered the latter too, but have taken pills that would kill them a few times in my life to make sure, so either they are the Futurama self-sustaining worms immune to poison (😂) or it's not that. 😅
Yeah, hence why I also am no reference point for those things. I do many things you shouldn't and avoid many things you should. I don't eat vegetables unless the few in a hamburger or in mixed soup (the latter only happens once or twice a year or so). I only drink real Coca-Cola, Redbul, coffee, iced coffee,... I smoke both sigarets and 'recreational sigarets'... But I still look 10 years younger than I actually am and have no real health problems (as opposed to many my age) and my cholesterol isn't even high... 🤷♂️
Anyway, as long as this lasts I'm taking advantage of it. 😅😂
My friend's kid used to take ~1 shit a week. What happened is, he got constipated one time and had a very painful shit. Naturally, he didn't like it, who would, but was too young to understand the situation was abnormal. So, logically, in order to avoid pain while shitty he decided to avoid shitting as long as possible, which resulted in painful shits because it's a week's worth coming out at once.
Ended up being self-fulfilling. This went on for at least several months if not longer than a year.
So, to answer how not to shit for 3 days; apparently willpower is enough.
While potty training, my daughter held her poop for over a week. We had to cave and let her use a diaper, because she was at risk of permanent injuries. Then suddenly one day she decided diapers were for babies and started pooping in the toilet.
I HAVE done a three-day zero-poo adventure many times at festivals. Usually I’d just eat those heavy bars and beef sticks. Then on the way back we’d stop at whatever place has the greasiest food, order an appetizer sampler, and just destroy the place’s toilets.
Woah, I did the same thing. My parents ended up taking me to several pediatric Psychologists to help figure out what the problem was, including some quack that tried to say I was acting out in subconscious anger because my Grandfather was a Freemason! Not, you know, the fact I didn't realize that bowel movements aren't supposed to be painful. I think I made it for two weeks once although I wasn't keeping exact score. And yes, I did end up in the ER over it at least once that I can remember.
I developed the same weird irrational fear about it from a young age. I'd hold it as long as I could. Even once that embarrassed me enough to start trying to stop, I still wasn't "regular". I'd go, it would be painful, and then I wouldn't have to go again for weeks on end. My mom kept tabs on the situation, took me to all kinds of doctors, tried all different laxatives and stool softeners, got a colonoscopy done, but the answer was always "I guess that's just her body's schedule". Best lead we got was allergy testing that came back positive (mild) for pretty much everything; the worst being eggs, whey/milk, and gluten. Which wasn't realistic to cut out on our budget but we reduced as much as we could.
Then my period kind of forced me out of it. So I have a couple big shits around my period that need to be cut with a knife and that's that. My PCP still asks about it occasionally lol, says her kid had the same issue, but as far as she can tell I'm in perfect health so...
Aside from the mild embarrassment I get when the topic comes up for whatever reason, I can't say it's the worst thing to not have to go super frequently. And I guess I got pretty good control of my bowels from the whole ordeal 😅 Although in terms of people in my life knowing about it from here on, I'll probably take the entire experience and my "schedule" to my grave.
It's funny you talk about whey and dairy because this same friend also has two kids who had issues with the proteins in milk as a baby. Same symptoms, constipation. They had to get special formula to alleviate problems. Over time the kids grew out of it.
honestly i was like this for a while too, though i very much understood what was going on.
it just becomes a hard cycle to break because we're so hard-wired to avoid unpleasantness.
in my case the solution was consuming as much fibre as i possibly can, it's helped me tremendously with gut health in general. It basically just makes things behave conveniently and sensibly.
The admins do not take kindly to shitposting and satire. I joined to make shitposts but when I found out how hard everyone hates that kind of thing, now I just bitch about tech and politics
when I finally unloaded the pile I felt so much better. I had to sit on the toilet for nearly an hour, but god damn it felt good to poo after all that time.
Oh that's easy. Eat nothing but cheese until the desired outcome is achieved. You, uh, might want to have some stool softener and laxatives in your medicine cabinet for when you're done with your insane experiment though.
Have they considered eating fiber for that constipation problem? I used to eat a big bowl of oatmeal (not instant) every work morning. Regular as clockwork. Also prune juice and/or strong coffee will help move things along too. Laxatives are fine too, but they wouldn't be my first go-to to flush the system.