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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / March 2004Advice Please - BM
If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks JD Wheat germ, wheat bran. Either or both. A couple tablespoons spread on food or just eaten. Low carb and works like a champ and is natural Northeastern Missouri > If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I > don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks > JD Almonds, spinach, and brocolli tend to help me.  SignatureMichelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. > Almonds, spinach, and brocolli tend to help me. I never have this problem but I do eat alot of almonds or sunflower seeds in the day, a total of 3 apples a week, vegetables most nights, cereal or ezekiel bread several times a week ... * >> Almonds, spinach, and brocolli tend to help me. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > * I never have had a BM problem. The only time I did was when I ate red meat (I managed to get some grass-fed, hormone-free, free-range ground beef) and lots of hard cheeses. I eat poultry and fin/scale fish as my protein and get LOTS of green veggies, and some almonds, without any problem whatsoever with bm. CM Macadamia nuts do it for me! :-) dot If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks JD >If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I >don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Thanks >JD I grind flax and have it as a cereal ( with splenda and carb countdown milk) each night.. Helps A lot, especially when I have had a real low fiber day.. As always YMMV and this is JMO Jeanne Type 2 Diagnosed 05/28/02 194/164/120 >>If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I >>don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Jeanne Type 2 Diagnosed 05/28/02 >194/164/120 I grind flax and have it on a salad or make flax pancakes. Sometimes I make flax crackers. >I grind flax and have it as a cereal ( with splenda and carb countdown milk) >each night.. Helps A lot, especially when I have had a real low fiber day.. >As always YMMV and this is JMO >Jeanne I use flax, also. I make a cereal with it. Put it in hamburger, meatloaf, stews, pizza, shakes. Anything I can hide it in. Yvonne > If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I > don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. Salads, fibrous lowcarb cooked veggies, nuts, flax meal, psyllium. Avoid too much cheese, it tends to be binding. It is, however, normal to go somewhat less often on lowcarb, as there is less volume of waste to be processed. The medical definition of constipation is painful or difficult elimination, not a lack of going daily. Normal elimination varies from 3 times a day to 3 times a week, and "daily regularity" was a phrase made up to sell laxative. Signaturejamie (jamiemck@newsguy.com) "There's a seeker born every minute." >Salads, fibrous lowcarb cooked veggies, nuts, flax meal, psyllium. >Avoid too much cheese, it tends to be binding. And of course, if all else fails, you can eat one of those candy bars with malitol. <shudder!> LCing since 12/01/03- Me- 265/223/140 & hubby- 310/244/180 >>Salads, fibrous lowcarb cooked veggies, nuts, flax meal, psyllium. >>Avoid too much cheese, it tends to be binding. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Me- 265/223/140 >& hubby- 310/244/180 I found some sugarfree taffy that puts those candy bars to shame. Ouch. Never again. Ever. I swear, I scared the dog. I use psyllium, an orange-flavored sugar-free generic metamucil type from Walmart. It doesn't matter how much fiber I get from veggies or other sources, I have to take the psyllium or I regret it the next day. <squeamish warning> My problem isn't with constipation, it is with the consistency (peanut-buttery vs non-peanut-buttery) and the effect that consistency has on hemorrhoids. I find that without the daily psyllium the hemmies are screaming! </squeamish warning> > If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I > don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks > JD > If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I > don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks > JD A mathematician I know worked it out with a pencil! :-) Irv Signature-------------------------------------- Diagnosed Type II Diabetes March 5 2001 Beating it with diet and exercise! 297/215/210 (to be revised lower) 58"/43"(!)/44" (already lower too!) -------------------------------------- Visit my HomePage at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv/ Visit my very special website at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv4/ Visit my CFSRS/CFIOG ONLINE OLDTIMERS website at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv5/ -------------------- Irv Finkleman, Grampa/Ex-Navy/Old Fart/Ham Radio VE6BP Calgary, Alberta, Canada > A mathematician I know worked it out with a pencil! :-) > > Irv Is that where the expression "getting the lead <sp> out of your a.s" came from? :) Mark. > If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I > don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks > JD I've not had this problem. Some people are more prone to it than others it seems. Make sure you're drinking enough water, eating enough fats and getting enough fiber. If it's chronic, debilitating and doesn't respond to regular remedies then it could possibly be thyroid related. ~miette >If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I >don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Thanks >JD When I am really low carb, I go 4 or 5 days without a BM. That is always A good reminder to eat more spinach and add a little sugar-free fiber to the diet. I started taking fiber *pills* and it solved the problem for me. Because I also take Oxycodone 3 times a day, I developed a serious problem. The fiberous foods weren't enough. I use the Costco brand. Very inexpensive. SignatureBear Grrrrrrrrrrrr :o) 297/268.5/210 Highest weight 353 http://home.earthlink.net/~polarbear50/index.html > If you have trouble "going" to the bathroom, what do you find helps? I > don't really want to take an over the counter remedy. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thanks > JD |
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