Habit 3: Become a Pooping Champion

Become a Pooping Champion
Lesson
If you are already a pooping champion – you can skip this lesson. However, if that is a goal of yours, then read on and watch my flashy Pooping Champions video.

If you’re fired up to poop, but your innards are stuck or unpredictable and loose, troubleshoot it. If you’re already eating an earlier, lighter dinner and drinking your morning water, you may need more specific suggestions. Evaluate your habits for anything missing in your daily routine.

Do You:
Eat a clean, whole-foods diet with lots of non-starchy vegetables and leafy greens?
Drink water almost exclusively? Habitual caffeine and alcohol intake will dehydrate your bowels.
Eat a more liquid diet, with green smoothies, soups, and stews to keep your feces hydrated?
Are you spacing your meals with only water in between two-three meals a day?
Have fermented foods in your regular diet?
If you’ve had bowel issues for decades, the imbalance can be slow to uproot. An Ayurvedic teacher once told me for every year you’ve had an imbalance it can take a month to uproot. Extrapolating, if you’ve had elimination irregularity for a decade, it may take close to a year to shift your bowels into regularity. Cleansing or rejuvenating your colon as needed though detox, pancha karma (Ayurvedic cleansing), enemas, colonics, herbal formulas, appropriate diet for your constitution and type of digestion, and yoga can alleviate the most stubborn cases of bowel issues.

Here are some basic suggestions for constipation:
Hydrate. Sip a quart of hot water upon arising.
Use a squatting stool, like a Squatty Potty. Unkink your colon when you poop.
Eat a more liquid diet with green juices, smoothies, soups and stews. Avoid crackers, breads, and starchy foods, even starchy vegetables which require a lot of water to eliminate.
If you haven’t gone by the time you’re hungry, make a fresh juice or smoothie with beets, cucumbers, apples, celery and parsley.
Try stewed apples for dessert or for breakfast.
Eat roasted, stewed or pickled beets regularly.
Soak chia seeds in a mason jar in your fridge and add a scoop to your morning cereal or smoothie.
Switch to decaf or wean entirely from caffeine, which weakens natural peristalsis over time.
Try a magnesium supplement (like CALM) before bed.
Take Downward Flow from yogahealer.com for occasional constipation.
Take Colon Repair from yogahealer.com for chronic constipation.
Take triphala by itself or mixed with castor oil for stubborn constipation.
Here are some basic suggestions for loose stools:
Add juice from 1/2 a lime to your morning water.
Mix bilva, slippery elm, licorice root and triphala. Take before bed. Or buy Elim 2 from lifespa.com
Mix 1/4 cup of plain yogurt with the same amount of water and an 1/8 tsp.of nutmeg. Add a pinch of salt or sweetener as desired. Take after meals. Or sprinkle nutmeg on meals.
Eat under ripe bananas.
Notice what works and stick to it as you add modalities to optimize your absorption and elimination.

Flush your inner toilet on time, day after day.

P.S.
P.s. You’re off to a great start. Remember – Q1 is about learning the habits. Not doing them perfectly.

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