More or Less Bowel Movements? page 3

[Issabeau]

Depending on how much damage has been done to your bowels, the transit time isn't important. Don't up your veggies (which are mostly insoluble fiber and tear you a new one) because bulk will continue to stretch your colon and make bowel movements even worse over time.
Let your colon heal and shrink, this takes a long time, 1-2 years, sometimes more, depending on your age.

Fiber Menace is a good read, written by Konstantin Monastyrsky.

Important is the quality of your stools. K. Monastyrsky has a web site GutSense.org and a Bristol Stool Chart. You get bulk from friendly bacteria (the healthy way) not from insoluble cellulose which no mammal on this planet can digest, only the bacteria within the animal, even the cow!
If you up your cellulose, your indigestible fibers, your gut bacteria will ferment that crap until the end of time, giving you massive bloat and a toxic blood stream. Stick with plants that have little indigestible fibers such as cucumber, tomato (skinned), butter lettuce, squash, etc.

[Danielle5690]

I've actually noticed the opposite. My whole adult life I've had frequent, uncomfortable constipation. If I was lucky I could go once every 2-3 days. Since going primal I'm totally, predictably, once-a-day regular, and my gut feels so much better.

[Legbiter]

I have less frequent but more battleship/cruiser sized offerings to the porcelain gods since going primal.

I like it.

[Jack_B]

My experience has been that the transition from SAD to a Primal can be somewhat rough in this regard (maybe because the gut flora need time to adjust?) but after a week of eating Primally volume goes down to almost nothing. It actually drastic enough that the first time it happened I was really worried.

[PrimalJosh]

Less. Even when I was heating CW healthy I went a lot and worried something was wrong.
Now I know it was just the CW diet.
I go twice a day at most and have very little gas.
When I cheat or have my 20% now I have more BM or gas.

[Bron]

I went from once a day to once a day so, yeah, no difference for me But I was eating pretty well before, and very little in the way of artificial chemicals (I was 'failsafe')

[healthy11]

I go once every other day...sometimes everyday. It's a lot less then it used to be. I never ever have gas anymore!

[Ayla2010]

less often and less waste for me too.

[zoebird]

same as always.

[smilingjustalittlebit]

Far less for me, once every two or three days instead of every day. Wouldn't say the amount is smaller though, two flushes often needed!