If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would guess (without knowing for sure) that it’s because your body absorbs a part of the food, so you poop out less mass than you eat.

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Science time!

  Fast for 24 hours then use an anal douche. This should completely clear your digestive track.

  Now eat for the next 24 hours while measuring everything you eat. Every time you poop make sure to measure it, either my measuring the poop directly (poop in a bowl?) Or by measuring the difference in weight after you poop (be sure to first pee as to not measure liquids)

  Now fast for another 24 hours while continuing to measure your poop. By the end of it you should have to total weight you eat and the total weight you pooped. For most foods you can probably reduce the weight by half to account for liquids (most will be pee, some will be in your poop, this will depend on the liquidness of your poop)

  Now you will probably notice a few things:

  1. you poop a lot less mass than you consume, this is because you turn a lot of it into energy.

  2. there is a lot of water in food

  3. you probably poop more than you think (one dump can be quite big in comparison to a meal when removing liquids)

  Enjoy!

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OK, but I’m using your bowl.

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could also just measure without fasting over a full week and compare averages. Assuming your diet is consistent.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cuz we’re generally more full of shit than we like to admit.

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• rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The rectum is considerably larger than your mouth, and can hold a lot more shit.

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  • TomAwsm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You only eat a mouthful per meal?

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    • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I generally prefer to not get shit in my mouth at all but you do you.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t usually eat more than once or maybe twice a day but often still take more than one shit.

  Everyone’s bowels are bitty different.

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• betahack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  no poop knife for this guy, amiright?!

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• TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just wanted to point out that the colon is LIFO and not FIFO

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  • myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like that can’t be true, but I have nothing to disprove it

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    • TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right, I mixed it up. I feel like if it was LIFO that there would be meals that would never come out, ever.

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• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …You poop only once?

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    some people poop 3 times daily, others 3 times a week, both are considered normal.

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  • unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In fairly certain there are days I lose track of many shits I took.

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  • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ever.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Everybody gets one.

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• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How much you poop is going to vary based both on your body and your diet. Ive read anywhere from 3 times a day to once every 3 days can be normal.

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  • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This 2-4 times a day means you have a healthy digestive track. Anything less than once a day is cause for concern.

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who are you? The poop police?

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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m at every two to three days now cause I just can’t be fucked to eat much of anything

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, your colon is a poop buffer.

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• MisterNeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Once a day? You’re not eating enough fiber.

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• Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself. I’ve pooped three times before I’m even out of the house.

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  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have so many queations… Do you work mornings? Night shift? Maybe work from home?

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    • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I usually have to poop 2-3 times after I wake up, the 1st time is usually a dud, then the moment I step out of the bathroom is when things loosen up and I can actually go.

      Then sometimes a 3rd time after I’ve moved around a bit more getting ready.

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    • Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I only shit during worktme during the week. No need to waste my free time when i can get payed to shit.

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    • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, I poop when I wake up, then second time after having my coffee and third time before leaving.

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    • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe me works both morning and night shits

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just poop while you eat to save time

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who is “we”? Speak for yourself, I usually poop after most meals; if I’ve eaten a lot or very spicy or fatty things, I might even poop more than once for the same meal.

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  • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pros poop during the meal.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gotta be able to make more room for the unlimited bread sticks

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Once a day? Hahahaha

  That would save me a lot of time!

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because we store poo for later shits

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• gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe you poop only once. Everything between three times a day and every three days is in the normal range. If you find yourself within this range, congratulations, you are a boring pooper.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Important note: it’s good to be a boring pooper

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is healthier to do it more often.

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• De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is normal. It depends on how much you eat, how much of it your body can absorb, your fiber intake and some genetic variance too.

  Your intestines aren’t a conveyor belt, things don’t constantly move. There are multiple muscles acting as a valve between different sections. Based on the factors above your body decides when to push stuff to the next section up until the exit.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because we are taught by society to not poop at work.

  Naturally we poop way more often, and naturally we ate more often too.

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  • belastend@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We live in a society

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  • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because we are taught by society to not poop at work.

    LOL I must have been home sick during that lesson…

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Society must have taught me poorly because I poop at work as frequently as my body tells me to

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I shit on company time

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    • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime

      If only the inequality gap were this small…

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    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elmo boogieing on the potty is what I see in my head

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• Berttheduck@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Humans have a really good digestive tract for getting nutrients out of food. So you take a lot of the mass of the food you eat and use it in your body as energy or building material. As such your poop has significantly smaller mass because it’s made up of all the stuff you’re body can’t use after it’s pulled out so the good bits.

  As for dogs my understanding is they have a shorter digestive tract to allow them to eat the nasty stuff does seem to like without getting sick so they are probably less efficient at removing nutrients and poop more proportionally to what they eat.

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• Cooljimy84@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So my kids poop 1-2 times a day, normally lunch time then evening time My partner is once a day. I’m more like 2-3 times a day, normally morning and then just before bedtime.

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