Poop Survey??

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Most of the time, my poop is the consistency of pudding.  And it floats.  When it is somewhat semi-firm, it's very light in color.  Like a light greenish color.  When in the pudding form, it's usually brown.

Would like to take sort of a ummmmmm poop survey???  What's the consistency of everybody else's poop?  Pudding?  Firm? Floater? Sinker?  Color changes?  Just want to ensure I'm on the right track. 

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I did a little Google research regarding floating poop.  I've seen where people associate floating poops to infections, high fiber diets, gas in the stool, excess fat in stool, high fat diet, malabsorption issues and even disease of the pancreas.  

My understanding is the float is exactly normal for us (all that fat) and mine is often either floaty or sort of mounds up like Mississippi mud (depending on whether I'm in a weight loss phase or not).  Haven't had green in a long time but green means you're expressing iron, according to my pcp.  I started taking my iron with C so I absorb it better and the green went away.  Not a big deal when it's green once in a while, I don't think - just means you're body is taking care of the excess.

Krissy, i love the "mississippi mud" expression. I was not aware that this happens only in the weight loss phase?

lol - thanks.  I dunno if this is consistent for other people, but for me that is when it happens. 

Echo, the excess fat reason makes sense since we do generally eat more fat, don't you?

Hey, I loves me some good ole fat!!  As long as it's on ribs, bacon, steak, pork chops....all the good stuff LOL

Definitely those things, and I want to add chicken fat/skin too!

Krissy calls 'em Missippi mud, me... I call 'em Jabba's.  Because when mine pile in the bottom of the toilet like that it always looks like I'm looking down at Jabba the Hut!  Sometimes those Jabba's take off floating, and I call those floating Jabba's.  Since I've been maintaining for a long time now I mostly have the sinking Jabba's.  Since starting my no sugar program, the Jabba's are back to floating, OR I get what has been called "The Medusa Poops."  Floating, curly, cloudlike poops that look like medusa stuck her damned head in your toilet.  Val says these are the ones she wants to poke the toilet for survivors!  Lol! 

Think we have too much time on our hands naming our poops like this?  Lol!!!

I don't think the info you're googling can be referred to for us, like disease of the pancreas.  We have ****** up guts and really can't be lumped in with the general population on these things.  We malabsorb so we're going to have different poops.  I haven't seen a log poop like the ones of my pre-op days since before my DS.  Thinking they may never return.  (Which is a good thing)!

Oh, on the green poop...yup, it can be iron like Krissy said.  But I also get very green poops when I drink my SF Grape Koolaid or anything else purple.  Just the dye leaving your body.

Ha haa!  Medusa poops.  I get those too...floatin all over the place.  Those are the ones where I can lose like two lbs after I'm done.  Imagine dumping two lbs of sh*t!!  LOL

BTW I got my Champion protein samples in last week.  Got one choco and one vanila.  These are the meal replacements.  Do you go the shake/smoothie route or the mix in coffee route?

Since I usually go once a day, I do puddin too, however enough to make a rather large island in the toilet.  I want to claim it, put a flag on it, and build hotels.  First though, I need to poke it with a stick and check for survivors, hence the term VSP (Val's survivor poops) that the Dayton DSers call it.  The green color is likely extra iron that you're taking, or you've just been busted indulging on black jelly beans.  When not on iron, an orangey tan is pretty normal, with darker colors resulting from yesterday's eating. 

All in all, you sound perfectly normal to me.