:( Ive not been eating enough to have any bowel movements. It makes me so mad. When I'm eating enough I have several a day, its one of my favorite parts of being vegan.

Oh but my stools REEEEEEEEEEK now that I am vegan. Like a million times worse than when i was omni or veg. Whats the deal with that?

your poo won't necessarily smell like roses, but it shouldn't reek.  if it does, it's an issue with your diet.  maybe you're not balancing it?  

it should come out easy, be bulky (or like big vegan poo clouds, as hh said), not have a super bad odor, and shouldn't take half a roll of toilet paper to wipe clean.
(in fact, there should be very little to wipe away... sticky poo tends to be stinky poo and a sign of a diet that isn't balanced)

try eating more raw veggies and some fruits.  make sure you're getting both soluble and insoluble fiber.  also, plenty of water.

and just thought of something... how soon after your transition to vegan was this?  (this was a post from a year ago)  any major change in
your diet will result in your body having some weird reactions.  mine DEFINITELY changed when i went from vegetarian to vegan.  but then
once i got everything balanced out, everything was pretty normal.  i think it took a few months to get to that point.

brittney's family pretty much all end up getting colon cancer.  they also wouldn't recognize a vegetable unless it was a deep fried potato of some sort.  when i met brittney, she had literally never had most fruits or vegetables.  she tried to tell me she didn't like them, but it was because what little she did have in her childhood wasn't fresh... usually canned (canned veggies are icky!  i only buy canned beans and that's out of laziness!).

i introduced her to a world of fresh fruits and veggies.  she became a vegetarian eventually (on her own and her decision).

when i met her she had spent her whole life constipated.  literally.  about once a month she had to go to the doctor and they would prescribe the same super laxative that they give to patients right before surgery.  when that failed, they would have to reach in and "help" her. 
:o

she also used tons of enemas, fiber pills, suppositories, those "detox colon cleansers" laxatives... anything that would make her go.

this was for her ENTIRE life.  because of this, she was at high risk of also getting colon cancer (when we first met she had told me she knew she was going to die from cancer at an early age because "everyone in family does"), she had acne, she was ALWAYS sick, and her weight fluctuated insanely.

i told her she should eat some veggies and she'd go.  she thought i was crazy.

now she goes three times a day like a champ and tells her family they should follow my advice! 

i guess you could say i saved her life.  her skin's clear, she's rarely sick, and now she's NOT at risk for cancer.

:)>>>

i've been vegetarian my whole life.  i've really got no comparison of my own.

(god, i hope brittney doesn't read this!  she'll kill me a little!!!)
::)

eat about a pound of cherries and the fn will also begin!

I'm absolutely shocked I haven't commented on this thread yet. 

That being said, I should mention that I clogged someone's toilet when I visited them last week...  :o

"someone's"

I'm absolutely shocked I haven't commented on this thread yet.  

That being said, I should mention that I clogged someone's toilet when I visited them last week...  :o

should we even ask who's toilet???

Yes. Who is toilet?! ;)

thank you so very much for correcting me.  I feel better now  AC

I'm glad, lubes.  :-*

So rainbow, you were raised vegetarian? really? are your parents still? that is awesome! not too many of those on here!

oh, no!  my mom said i never liked meat and she fought with me to eat it.  she also doesn't feed meat to babies or toddlers, really.  and i always had an immense love for animals.  so it was no suprise to her when i was completely appalled when my dad told me where hamburgers came from and i said, "i will never eat THAT again!".

i was four.

my parents decided that it was a good reason to stop making me eat it.  plus, they probably thought it was just a phase.  (just like veganism when i was fifteen was "just a phase"!)

:D 

this is quite possibly the weirdest discussion I have ever stumbled into, but anyway, we're all friends here, so it's all good.
and now that I've noticed it, I have a story/question that quite possibly belongs here...
My brother's girlfriend had a friend staying with them a few weeks ago, and *somehow* in the three weeks she was there, she went through, on her own, eighty rolls of toilet paper. EIGHTY.  Seriously, we've all talked about it and have come to the conclusion that the only feasible answer is that either she was eating them, using a whole new roll each wipe, or using them instead of a towel after having a shower. I can't comprehend it, and the funniest thing is that after she left, she was going on a tour of the outback in Australia... ahh, yeah, that could have turned out interesting...