If I switch to a vegetarian diet will that help me with my chronic constipation?

I'm 18 and been dealing with this since about 15?If I switch to a vegetarian diet will that help me with my chronic constipation?
Yea. Maybe you should think about going full on vegan. Just stick to hay.
Constipation has general remedy indications, but is also person-specific. Your chronic constipation could be caused by medications, illicit drugs, alcohol -- a host of different reasons. Only you know your body better than anyone else.



Switching diets doesn't stop with the diet. You have to eliminate what ails you, first. Then, little by little, incorporate the good stuff into your body or you will overcompensate within a few weeks as your body will undergo cravings. To combat this, do not shock your system and switch to an all-veggie diet while abandoning your old habits altogether. You'll be right back where you started in no time, deeming the diet a huge failure.



Plus, incorporate a lot of good fluids into your diet and a lot of movement, like exercise and walking. Movement gets the bowels going.



Hope this helps.If I switch to a vegetarian diet will that help me with my chronic constipation?
Yes, but to add to the great suggestions above, you need to eat a real variety of fruits and vegetables instead of just omitting the meat from your burger and the steak from your plate of potatoes and salad.

You need to eat real oatmeal for breakfast daily, and cooked beans such as black beans, kidney beans, garbanzo beans, and lima beans for your lunches and dinners. You need to eat brown rice instead of white, and you need to eat different kinds of lettuce besides iceberg in your salads.

You need to be sure to eat fresh fruits and vegetables daily, and especially those that "come in their own wrappers".

If you are going to start, start with the oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, and gradually begin implementing more vegetables and beans into your diet. Try a salad-bar style salad as a main lunch meal, meaning instead of just iceberg lettuce on your salad add shredded carrots, chopped cucumbers, fresh spinach, kidney beans or garbanzo beans, and fresh sugar snap peas on top. (I do - it's a meal in itself!)

And fruit smoothies for snacks instead of sodas. Those are easy: 1 cup frozen berries (you can find them in the freezers next to the ice creams at the supermarket), 1 cup orange juice, and 1 cup yogurt blended in the blender.

Just the above should help you out. Good luck.
It depends on why you are constipated and what you eat on your vegetarian diet. If you eat soy burgers, cheese and processed white bread you will continue to be constipated. Now if you had a green smoothie twice a day you would be fine vegetarian or not. Have a baked sweet potato, snack on carrot sticks. Get plenty of water. That sort of thing. If you have a medical cause for your constipation that is another thing.If I switch to a vegetarian diet will that help me with my chronic constipation?
1. Get the "Whole Body" cleansing system. They are like $20 @ Walmart. It works for that. Makes you feel lighter. I love them! It's where the Slimfast, vitamins/supplements, medicines are.

2. Or, even a colon cleanse.

3. Eat a bowl of oatmeal. It works great for elimination! It also relieves gas by passing the waste products.

4. You may also try one of the phosphorus drinks. ($1)sold in drugstores/pharmacy area of a Target/Walmart type of store where the medicines are.
More veggies are good, but fiber is the key. Try eating 2 high-fiber (13 grams each) whole-wheat tortillas and Activia yogurt everyday.



I had the same problem but with 30 grams of fiber and Activia I poop every morning like clockwork nice and easy.
It certainly will, but only because you'll be eating soooooo much more plant fiber. Fiber puts a lot of bulk into stool and helps with constipation. You could start eating Grape Nuts or taking fiber capsules, also.
Sure will.
You don't have to completely switch. Maybe try drinking lots of milk, that helps. You could try a vegetarian meal though i doubt it will work. Eat some pears, they help alot. You can buy some medication which could help, i think there's one called Fybogel.