I have like $15 for the next 5 days so I’ve been eating nuts for breakfast and brown rice with steamed carrot and tofu for dinner the last few days. It’s keeping me alive but I think I’m getting too much fibre because my shits are getting thinner and thinner. I don’t really wanna shit water for the next week, what’s the cheapest food I can use to bung myself up. I’m thinking just buy a loaf of the cheapest bread I can find and munch a few slices dry here and there. I’ll need to buy some more rice/tofu over the weekend, should have enough left for some bread.
PS. The only way I can cook rn is steaming, the only kitchenware I could afford until next payday was a rice cooker that I can steam stuff in too.
wait. maybe i misunderstood your post. water does thin it, whereas fiber does the opposite. not sure how you can have too much fiber and still have thin poop. might be not food related
I think too much fibre can result in both constipation or diarrhea under the right circumstances.
I think generally it has to do with how much water soluble fiber you're consuming vs water insoluble fiber you eat. Iirc it's insoluble fiber that will goop up and slow your digestion down.
In this case I would buy either some off brand metamucil to see if that directly solves the problem, or try something like eating a large bowl of spiced lentils (cause that always slows me way down, sometimes too much).
I guess it depends on what you're eating. You could be having too much fiber. But maybe that's not even the problem. Its actually undercooked legumes, and you are particularly weak to those. I had diarrhea until I doubled the cooking time for my beans and peas.
i didn't know that was a thing. does this apply more to dried beans than canned beans, or both?
Beans contain Phytohaemagglutinin (hilarious name) which need thorough cooking to break down otherwise they'll cause digestive upset. Canned beans are usually precooked dried beans are not and need cooking. Never heard about it for peas tho cos I've eaten peas from a pod many a time
I believe both. Beans have a chemical in them that causes indigestion and, sadly, from what I understand a lot of the traditional measures we take to lessen that effect (such as soaking them for longer) don't actually work. Some people get no gas or indigestion from legumes. Those of us who do should consider cooking them for longer.