Delicately wondering

[SpinSpinSugar]

Hmm.. no coffee drinkers here apparently. LOL .. Usually 1/2 way through my first cup the colon bomb goes off and off to the loo I must go. Same thing for my BF. There is only 1 bathroom in the house and sometimes it's a race to get there first

[staceysue]

LOL

I'm a nurse on afternoon shift on a rehab unit. It's referred to as the "poop shift". The patients are ALL about bowel movements, and afternoon shift is responsible for making that happen. We have stimulant laxatives, fiber laxatives, enemas, stool softeners - you name it. It's at the center of everybody's mind. These are the people who are very happy if they go 3 times a week. They're old or very sick and don't move around much, not burning very many calories, with extremely small appetites. They eat as much in a week as most cyclists probably eat in a day.

What goes in must come out! The more you burn, the more you eat, the more you keep your bowels moving. I have taken care of constipated big eaters, though - young people. Talk about a mess!

My husband and I have a big garden and try to grow as much of our own food as possible and eat lots of veggies, plus I eat a big bowl of raisin bran every morning. That + cycling = good BMs.

Happy pooping, everyone!

[Jolt]

I'm a nurse on afternoon shift on a rehab unit. It's referred to as the "poop shift". The patients are ALL about bowel movements, and afternoon shift is responsible for making that happen. We have stimulant laxatives, fiber laxatives, enemas, stool softeners - you name it. It's at the center of everybody's mind. These are the people who are very happy if they go 3 times a week. They're old or very sick and don't move around much, not burning very many calories, with extremely small appetites. They eat as much in a week as most cyclists probably eat in a day.

What goes in must come out! The more you burn, the more you eat, the more you keep your bowels moving. I have taken care of constipated big eaters, though - young people. Talk about a mess!

LOL, I can relate!! I'm also a nurse, currently working in a nursing home (trying to change that part!). We have a bowel protocol that we initiate if somebody doesn't go for three days. I always joke about our job being the only one where we get excited about somebody pooping! Speaking of poop at the nursing home, I had to deal with a real mess one day last week. A resident who had a colostomy had been constipated and therefore gotten a laxative on the shift before mine. She then went down to bingo, and came back to the floor a few minutes after I had arrived and taken report. The CNA told me she needed a new colostomy bag because hers was leaking. What an understatement--more like it had exploded!!! The laxative had had its desired effect and the bag had gotten so full that it came unstuck from her abdomen, resulting not only in a mess on the resident's pants but also in a trail of liquid stool down the hall where she had been brought in her wheelchair. Needless to say, one heck of a cleanup was necessary. "Code Brown, third floor"!

[BikingNurse]

Code Brown! Those are the days that I really think I was a smart cookie for going to the clinic. Don't miss that mess at all!

[staceysue]

LOL Gotta love nursing!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

When my mother was in a very nice nursing home for 3 years, it was little wonder to me that most of the residents had constipation as the norm. The meals had almost no roughage or whole grains or fiber in them....white rice, white bread, white cream of wheat, pale iceburg lettuce, rice crispies, white flour pasta....
i kept thinking how odd it was to systematically cause constipation with a cheap over-processed institutional diet, only to have to give stool softeners/laxatives every few days.

[Jolt]

When my mother was in a very nice nursing home for 3 years, it was little wonder to me that most of the residents had constipation as the norm. The meals had almost no roughage or whole grains or fiber in them....white rice, white bread, white cream of wheat, pale iceburg lettuce, rice crispies, white flour pasta....
i kept thinking how odd it was to systematically cause constipation with a cheap over-processed institutional diet, only to have to give stool softeners/laxatives every few days.

Very good point...the inactivity plus that diet is a recipe for constipation! Hospital food can be pretty bad too; I have a hard time understanding how places that are intended to help people get healthy can serve such garbage sometimes.

[Andrea]

Hmm.. no coffee drinkers here apparently. LOL .. Usually 1/2 way through my first cup the colon bomb goes off and off to the loo I must go. Same thing for my BF. There is only 1 bathroom in the house and sometimes it's a race to get there first

Hahahahaaaaaaaaa... that's what I was thinking when I read the OP- halfway through my morning cup of coffee, every day...

[cylegoddess]

I need some kefir.
I have been quite , well bent out of shape so to speak cos I eat large amounts of fruit and veg( allergic to EVERYTHING), alot of it raw - and well, it gets a bit bloated feeling lots of days. In fact, I look fatter!!( must be those 6 apples a day!)
Kefir sounds good.
I think its no longer being able to have coffee that makes me feel so unwieldy. It was somewhat helpful( like a atom bomb, i would say.)
I just wish that raw food did not take so much SPACE to digest. Putting on lycra really makes it look like Im in my first trimester

[Michelemarrano]

Somehow handling and folding laundry gets things moving...hmmm.

[badger]

it was mentioned here before in this thread, but coffee works for me, too. As does rubbing my belly clockwise (looking down at your belly, it would be counter clockwise if someone's looking at you, if that makes any sense?) I do it in the shower with some soap to make it slippery, and honestly, within an hour I'm "going".

[cylegoddess]

Hmm, belly massage. I will try that too Cant have coffee

[owlice]

Pumpkin bread works for me; don't know why, but it does.

And it's yummy, too.