No solids
In my youth I did a couple of Reading festivals. Those were the days, no flags, no singing along to all the bands. Saw Nirvana before Kurt had had enough, and saw New Order the next year. Brilliant. Anyway, a friend of mine was not keen on using the toilets there, so he devised a plan to not have a dump for the entire weekend. He didn't attempt any pre-festival training of any sort, he was just going to wing it. He managed it; from Thursday lunchtime when we stopped at South Mimms services, right through to Monday afternoon, Colin passed no solids. For this Herculean David Blaine-esque example of self-control Colin achieved cult-status among his peers. To this day I don't know why he didn't use any of the department stores in town or even McDonalds early in the morning. I also would not have wanted to happen upon the cubicle he used in South Mimms on the way home either...
(mersault, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 9:05, 7 replies)

I managed an entire Glasto once
I wouldn't recommend it - the gargantuan poo that forced itself upon me once I had returned home left me with an extremely painful haemarroid (now healed, and thankfully so far the only time I've suffered from them).

Just poo, it's not worth it.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 9:10, closed)

Ha!
It wasn't a conscious desicion, but I did exactly the same thing, at the same festival, on the same year! (showing my age here)
I would not recommend doing this: I can still remember how painful the eventual poo was- it was like trying to pass concrete: I got a nosebleed from the effort. Hideous, I honestly thought I'd broken my bottom.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 9:12, closed)

I spent a couple of weeks in hospital
on constant opiates which anyone who has taken them will tell you bung you right up. When I finally gave birth to the three week build up I cried.
( Peej, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 9:31, closed)

I've done this
wasn't bad at all, just don't stuff your face all weekend.
(viciousal, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:13, closed)

I'm starting to wonder about the state of my body........
It seems like everyone else in the world craps every 6 hours or something. I quite frequently don't need to crap for 3 or 4 days at a time, even when I do it's never a gargantuan ring-splitting affair. I've been like this for as long as I remember. I eat a normal amount, twice a day. Although I eat hardly any fruit or vegetables (Maybe 2 servings a week).

What is a normal regularity of crapping? It's not the sort of thing you generally ask people in polite conversation so I don't know if I'm strange or not.
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:22, closed)

Eating fruit or vegetables only twice a week
will certainly give you a slow digestive transit time. That's less healthy than a faster one.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:36, closed)

It depends
how fat are you?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 10:44, closed)

I'm an average size - you wouldn't really identify me in a crowd as being that fat guy or that thin guy.... about 5"10 and 11ish stone with a 30-32 inch waist.
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:15, closed)

I usually have one a day
but sometimes I'll have 2, or occasionally miss a day, which usually results in some urgency the following day.

Other than in times of gastric illness, my record was 4 in a day, when I was staying for a while with a girl who was vegetarian. I ate no meat for a few days, but my system wasn't too keen on the idea, and passed four full loads in 24 hours.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:23, closed)

apparently
Anything between 3 a day and 3 a week is considered healthy...
(mersault, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:35, closed)

My friends and I call this the Brown Crown
Haing won this for several years now (including after the time I ate a whole malt loaf fro breakfast each morning) I am not doing it anymore. It hurts way too much
(Buftoon posted this on, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 11:06, closed)

Similarly ...
www.b3ta.com/questions/festivals/post442567
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:55, closed)