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>Soluble fiber soaks up water as it passes through your system, which helps bulk up your stool and guard against constipation and diarrhea.
actually insoluble fiber bulks up stool. Soluble is more gel-like and prevents diarrhea.

It being gel-like is the way it bulks up. The fiber alone doesnt take much space but once it absorbs water it gels like you mentioned, and then takes more space in the intestine and bulks up the stool volume.

your getting size and bulk mixed up. Soluble fiber is like glue, it's what holds the whole thing together.

Insoluble fiber is what bulks it up, as it can't be broken down by the body and instead is basically newspaper in the metaphorical paper mache.

medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002136.htm

>Don't make excuses
>Don't say "But"
>Instead, say "If I can't now, how do I tomorrow?"
>Tell yourself you can do it.

you mean, powerign trough stuff. Sometimes i do that and i feel like shit, and also fail at everything.

At your very core, you have to truly want the end result. If you give up, you don't care enough to actually put in the work and should focus your effort elsewhere.

but i tried many things and failed, it cant be that i dont want anyhting, can it?

can i change what i wnat?

giving in to 'failure' is just you giving yourself permission to give up. remember that. even if you falter temporarily, it's no reason to give up completely. just get right back on it if you stumble.
motivation gets you started, but discipline keeps you going.

I've never given in, in the sense that there are a few things in my life that i want and i've never stopped searching for em. but i keep falling because theyre so far and they look more pointless the more time passes.

for example, how nice will it be to be fit once im over 30, will it make any sense?

or playing an instrument, will it be nice to have a band at 34 or will it just make me a lone weirdo.

then try. you just have to keep your goal in mind, every hour of every day.

what I do - track everything. get MFP and count everything.

the band thing is nice even when youre older. our neighbour started playing drums in his 50s and plays in a band, must be fun.

A fit body is also great, bc u feel better when u accomplished something.