Exactly how often you poop is relative to the individual. The average individual poops about once a day, releasing around one ounce of excrement per 12 pounds of body weight, meaning that a 160-pound person will produce just under a pound of poop a day. Although once a day may be the
average, that does not necessarily make it the
norm.
As reported by
Live Science, gastroenterologists agree that anything in the range of
three times a day to three times a week is normal as long as the feces is neither too hard nor too loose.