Agnes.. wrote on Apr 25
th, 2024 at 10:31am:
Having a dump once a day is usually the average. It all varies if you are feeling well, or you are feeling sick. And the type of food you eat will determine how well your bowel movements will be.
I happen to be the one with a reputation of drinking too much alcohol. Or even drinking too much soft drink. Drinks that dehydrate you will leave you feeling constipated the next day. On one of my hangovers, I felt the need to go to the toilet. But, even with my "coffee kickstart", I was not doing anything. I had about a litre of water to drink in the next hour. Oh boy! I nearly had to run to the toilet and struggled to get my dacks down and seated. I wish I had my phone with me at the time.
Chia seeds are good for fibre. I put the chia seeds in my fruit juice. My usual ritual at night is to have 2 oranges, a bowl of cereal (or porridge in winter), and then later on I wash that down with fruit juice and chia seeds. If that does not get you going the next morning, not much else will.
If you are on a diet, generally, you will probably be going 2 or 3 times a day. And you would normally have decent bowel movements on each of them. I have had times when I would go for a 10-minute "it's not stopping anytime soon" bowel movement, which leaves me exhausted at the end of it all. Then I would have to shower, because I could not trust the job I did wiping my arse 5 times over. And then perhaps an hour later, I would need to go back to the toilet and finish relieving what was still making its way to my colon.