Weighing yourself - before and after enemas

As mentioned in several of my posts, I have a very slow digestive cycle. My mom often referred to me as a "poop camel". My normal bowel movements are usually a few days apart. After an enema, it takes at least four days before a natural movement occurs. And yes, I get plenty of fiber and roughage in my diet but it has little impact.

When I do my "cleansing" enemas on Friday night, they are anything but erotic. They are serious business. The amount of waste from the first couple of bags is significant.

I intend start weighing myself before and after these sessions in order to find out just how much crap I'm toting around.

My question is, have any of you weighed yourselves - before and after - and what were your findings?

It isn't as much as you might think. Feces is alrgly water at least in the early part of the large intestine and water weight about 7.5 lb/gal so if you take a 2 quart enema you are taking about 4 lbs or water and if you don't retain a long time most of that will go to the toilet and generally a lesser volume of fecal matter. The longer you retain the more (temporary) weight you will gain. You either urinate that our or it's expelled through respiration and perspiration. Net Net, there isn't much weight change. If there was, enemas would be the staple diet of weight loss clinics. Over time (years) I do think that weekly enemas can help you to maintain a fairly balanced weight though.

Actually, water is 8.3 lbs/gallon.

hankb

^^^^ That is correct.

The old adage that "a pint's a pound the world around" is INCORRECT! It's close, but no cigar!

A pint of water weighs 1.0375 pounds and is also subject to changes in density at various temperatures.

Interesting subject. In my younger I would weigh myself before the enema, after the fill up, and then again after the expulsion. Why? I don't really know, but I was always a little lighter afterward.

Susie--You are correct, and I should have qualified my statement to read that I was talking about water at its maximum density, 39F.

hankb

I plan to do a pre and post enema weigh in tonight - which will represent a 72 hour span since my last session.

Next week I will abstain from enemas until I have a natural BM. I'll weigh in prior to the BM, then after the BM and a deep clean. I'll also note the time span from the previous enema.

Anyone interested in an over/under bet?

Over the years I did pass by the scales on the odd occasion...stepped on just for the hell of it...never did get back to see the diff....The Enema couldn't wait..

There were more pressing matters to get a handle on. 😁

Women are usually more sensitive about weight than you guys, and yes, I admit to weighing myself from time to time. I was most interested to see that all of the enema water had come out, or did I absorb some of it. I guess because a typical bathroom scale is not accurate enough it was inconclusive. Sometimes I would weigh a pound or so more, but 15 minutes later it would come out. The end was usually pretty much the same.

I will say that after years of fairly regular enemas that they are not effective as a weight loss item, but it probably doesn't hurt either. Nobody will lose 20 pounds by taking enemas.

For clarification, I'm not interested in weight loss. I've always been kind of scrawny.

I'm just curious as to how much waste builds up in my system before I have a bowel movement.

I'm also interested to compare it to some of the people here who have daily bowel movements.

Often times when someone mentions they've lost five pounds, my response is, "Hell, I shit more than that"! I'm just looking to confirm that 😃

Enemas will not help you lose weight. They only empty what you temporarily carry in your colon.

The real weight you lose, is fat loss and you lose that by URINATING.

I always do so. Not to measure how much I lose my weight, but to make sure the amount that I took is well expelled. Of course, it does not tell precisely, because loss of the weight includes fecal matters that I expelled, lost water through my skin and urination caused by the water that my colon absorbed. But I feel easy that my colon has a room to get following intake. It takes about at least one hour of interval between the enemas. Usually, the loss is somewhere around 100g to 300g between right before the former enema and the latter one.

Regarding the density of the water, you don't need to worry about. The specific gravity of the water is 0.99970 at 10 degree C and 0.99022 at 45 degree C. The difference within the range is only 8.48g/litter, which is 8g/US quart.

^^^^^ To many of us, what happens in the third and fourth significant figures matters! 😁 😁 😁

Susie, what do you mean? You mean when the body burns fat, the resultant waste is excreted by the kidneys? I didn't realize that.

I think that what Susie means is that many of us make significance of figures that are so far to the right of the decimal that they are not significant for practical purposes. For Instance, I doubt that many of our bathroom scales are good beyond a pound difference, and fractions of a pound are not worth bothering with.

hankb

My digital scales measure in half pound increments.

RESULT ONE 1.23.2015

BM Abstinence - 72 hours

Pre-BM weight - 178.0

Post-enema weight - 176.0

This morning's weight after a friendly hand job from wifey and going pee - 174.5

Very precise scale and stats Doug. 😄

Remember: In taking a high enema all the faeces deposed in the colon will be thrown out, but in the same time a part of the enema liquid will be absorbed by the human body. In contrast to this: In swallowing a good dose Castor Oil your bowels will be cleansed completely and nothing of the splitted Castor Oil (ricinoleic acid and glycerine) will be absorbed by the human body.

I weigh myself before an Epsom Salt and soapsuds enema to make sure I don't overdose on Epsom Salt.

ImDoug - If you're a poop camel, I don't know what to call myself. With 'normal' diet, after a clean out enema, I will go ten days without feeling that I have a colon, let alone anything in my rectum. If I take my psyllium husk in the mornings after the enema, I will feel 'just maybe..' after five days or so; but there will be no BM until the sixth day.and even then the urge is easily overlooked if there are urgent matters to attend to.

I guess I'm more of a reptile - python, say?

I have weighed myself before and after, and because of the slow colon transit, I keep a lot more of yesterday's meals in there. Greatest difference was almost 3 Kg (over 6 lb) but that was an extremely painful Epsom salts enema - I had greatly overdone the Epsom salts. Other times I did 'before and after' weighing there was seldom more than half that.

Johnny

@Eloutheros - I've had a few stretches into the ten day range, though after a week was usually when I was reaching for the fleets or suppositories. Now that I'm doing enemas, I doubt I'll ever go that long - unless it would be intentional as an experiment. Hard to let the weekend slip by without breaking out the toys.

Our scales register the fifth pound. Weighing before and after gives a good relative figure to think about. I like to know what the water weighs per quart. Weigh, take the quart in and weigh again. Expel and weigh again, to know the volume of waste gone out. Then take more and loose track of the experiment all together.

RESULT TWO 2.6.2015

BM Abstinence - 96 hours

Started with a healthy bowel movement - followed up with 2 quart baby shampoo - 2 x 2 quart clear water rinses

Pre-BM weight - 179.0 lb

Post-enema weight - 175.5 lb

Net - 3.5 lb

Provided that the bathroom scales display in small enough increments (i.e. 0.1 kg here in England) weighing yourself before and after filling is one way of checking the weight and hence volume of your enema if you haven't measured it before administration. For example if you have used the shower hose.

Weigh yourself before and after an enema? Can't say I have. To digress I once dis impacted a psych patient who was very constipated. I disposed of the load I had removed and returned to the room to find him weighing himself with glee. "I lost twenty pounds!" Right. I adjusted his Thorazine dose.

Okay folk, here's the story: Water weighs 8 lbs per gallon. A 2 Qt bag is 4 lbs. I find it interesting to weigh before starting our enema regmin, then again on my way to the toilet, then after expelling...returning to the bed for another bag and so forth. Our scale is accurate showing the 4 lbs in and out.. Good stuff.

the boxcar

I just tried this for kicks. I poured three pounds of water into a plastic pitcher sitting on my scale and it was about 1-1/2 quarts. A nice size enema for me. I weighed myself. My scale registers to 0.1 pounds. I won't tell you how much I weighed.

I took the enema and as expected I weighed exactly three pounds more. Then I let it all out. There was a normal amount of poop in the water. After I felt like I was empty, I weighed exactly the same as before the enema!!

My conclusion is my body retained a little bit of the enema that weighed the same as the small amount of poop that came out. No weight loss, but it was still fun. Now I can tell my friend (let's call her Megan) that I am NOT full of shit. LOL

I have weighed before and after enemas and gotten similar results as others where there was very little or no difference in body weight. I agree that the weight of the poop removed is offset by some absorption of water in the colon making the net change in body weight very little. I have also weighed pre and post BM and my weight drop might be at most a pound. I have regular BMs daily sometimes twice a day and the volume in poop in each session can be relatively moderate to small- at least from my point of view.

It's like weighing yourself with and without shoes. It's just not that significant.

@ImDoug,

Interesting result - thank you! For me, typical time between enemas is one week = 168 hours, during which there are no BM's. I use enough salt in my enema (ca. 2 dessertspoonsful in 5 litres of strong soap solution) to make it hypertonic. Pre-enema weight is typically about 77 Kg, so with solution retained, 83,1 or so (scale resolution 0,1 Kg). Post-enema series (cleansing plus distention rinse), this will drop to 75,5 or 75,6 Kg. So I'm very definitely full of shit before the action begins!

But before anyone cries BS, remember two things. First, I take the max dose (2 teaspoonfuls) of psyllium husk each morning. That stuff holds a lot of water, and the enema expulsion is very bulky. Secondly, I use hypertonic salt solution in the first (cleansing) enema. This extracts water from my system, being retained as long as I can manage (usually at least 10 minutes). The weight loss is therefore not solely as a result of the removal of faeces.

Johnny